Final updates:
- Trying new forms of moving and exercising
- Ice skating with my team at work tomorrow
- I turned down a rock climbing invite last week, but I do plan to go before the end of 2014. I've heard good things.
- 2015 we'll work towards consistency... eventually my body/health is going to catch up with my lack of movement.
- Cooking for one (beyond pasta and eggs)
- Turns out you can buy really delicious things like wild mushroom ravioli (which I understand is still pasta) and Bear Creek soup mix that add variety to your diet AND are easy to cook.
- Next step is balanced nutrition - distant goal.
- Practicing self-care
- Oaxaca, Mexico was a completely selfish and delightful vacation
- Massage
- Sleeping in a few days
- Mixing different friend groups/life circles
- Another Ecolab/Shapers connection made
- Mercy/Ecolab mutual friends... which I never saw coming
- Spent a decent amount of time with coworkers outside of work, which is new and felt like they were working into a new life circle
- Using paid time off
- Oaxaca... so good.
- Enjoying performance arts
- Comedy
- Skyway carolers
- Live music at a food festival in Oaxaca, and various events
- Achieving airline status
- Excited to enjoy my status perks for 2015 travel
- Activating human drives
- Inspired and motivated to think about a life of possibilities after spending time with some crazy awesome women that are 70+
- Feeling purpose and unique value add in my work again
- Keeping plants alive
- Verna still doesn't have new soil, but she's alive and well!
- Listening to music instead of watching TV
- Pentatonix Holiday is back for the season
- Thinking critically for fun
- 180 from last month, no more GMAT. GRE is in my future
- Fun reads on the trip to Mexico
- Living values through time allocation
- Feeling really good about this - lots of social time and reconnecting with family/friends over the holiday and working a manageable amount (still a lot, but much better than the thick of fall recruiting)
I think for 2015, rather than a list... I'm choosing a theme. Theme for the year is wellness. I feel a little all over the place (quite literally sometimes) and I really want to spend the next year being intentional and focusing on what makes me well, rather than simply reacting and overloading my schedule until I crash.
According to: http://wellness.ucr.edu/seven_dimensions.html
Wellness is much more than merely physical health, exercise or nutrition. It is the full integration of states of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. The model used by our campus includes social, emotional, spiritual, environmental, occupational, intellectual and physical wellness. Each of these seven dimensions act and interact in a way that contributes to our own quality of life.
Social Wellness is the ability to relate to and connect with other people in our world. Our ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with family, friends and co-workers contributes to our Social Wellness.
Emotional Wellness is the ability to understand ourselves and cope with the challenges life can bring. The ability to acknowledge and share feelings of anger, fear, sadness or stress; hope, love, joy and happiness in a productive manner contributes to our Emotional Wellness.
Spiritual Wellness is the ability to establish peace and harmony in our lives. The ability to develop congruency between values and actions and to realize a common purpose that binds creation together contributes to our Spiritual Wellness.
Environmental Wellness is the ability to recognize our own responsibility for the quality of the air, the water and the land that surrounds us. The ability to make a positive impact on the quality of our environment, be it our homes, our communities or our planet contributes to our Environmental Wellness.
Occupational Wellness is the ability to get personal fulfillment from our jobs or our chosen career fields while still maintaining balance in our lives. Our desire to contribute in our careers to make a positive impact on the organizations we work in and to society as a whole leads to Occupational Wellness.
Intellectual Wellness is the ability to open our minds to new ideas and experiences that can be applied to personal decisions, group interaction and community betterment. The desire to learn new concepts, improve skills and seek challenges in pursuit of lifelong learning contributes to our Intellectual Wellness.
Physical Wellness is the ability to maintain a healthy quality of life that allows us to get through our daily activities without undue fatigue or physical stress. The ability to recognize that our behaviors have a significant impact on our wellness and adopting healthful habits (routine check ups, a balanced diet, exercise, etc.) while avoiding destructive habits (tobacco, drugs, alcohol, etc.) will lead to optimal Physical Wellness.
