Preparing for the Future – Plan!

Welcome to the last post of this Health and Wellbeing Boot Camp.

The very first quote I offered in the opening post of this Health and Wellbeing Boot Camp Blog was from Ariane de Bonvoisin, and in this last post I am returning to her Principles, specifically number 8:

“People who successfully navigate change are not alone; they surround themselves with people who can help, who have the right beliefs and skills. And they create an environment that supports their change. One of our biggest flaws as human beings is that we keep thinking we are alone. Whatever the situation, there is always, always someone who can help.”

I know that to be true, whether the ‘someone’ is a person in your life, the author of a book, or maybe even the writer of a blog!

Ariane’s Principles about ‘change’ are very inspiring and encouragingly simply to apply. You will find all nine on one of the downloads I’m adding to the Resources page to accompany you after the ‘Boot Camp’ part of the Blog has finished.

You’ll find the download here.

I have also included a special download for you called ‘Golden Rules for Healthy Living’ which will give you easy and accessible steps to incorporate into your daily routine and further enhance your healthy lifestyle.

Plan Ahead

Across the whole Health and Wellbeing Boot Camp Blog, I hope I have managed to convey the message that being awake and conscious is the key to a happy and successful life.

When you are awake, you understand the possibilities available to you; you can plan your future, and visualise your goals. Your plan need not be fixed in stone, nor constrain or bind you – make it a flexible and supportive framework that moves you ever in the direction that you, with your conscious, and awakened mind, body and soul, choose to move in.

As everybody’s journey is different, there is no fixed plan ‘template’ that will suit everyone – one size fits just the one! However, every post in this Blog has offered something that can contribute to help you map your individual way forward. The best way to stay on track is to continually ask yourself key questions, and pay attention to what resonates – take notice of your ‘self’ for you know the answers.

I found this exercise from Brian Tracy, which gives you some great key questions to ask. In fact keep them handy for ongoing use!

Task – Sharpen your Focus

“Here are several additional questions that you should ask and answer regularly as part of your personal strategic planning:

• If you could wave a magic wand and have whatever you wished for in any part of your life, what would it be?
• If you could design your perfect lifestyle… what would it look like?
• How would you change your life if you received $1 million cash, tax free, today? What is the first thing you would do?
• What parts of your work do you enjoy the most and do the best? Where do you excel? What sorts of activities make you the happiest?
• What would you do, how would you spend your time, if you learned today that you had only six months left to live?
• What one great thing would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail? If you were absolutely guaranteed success in any one goal, small or large, short term or long term, what would it be?”
Brian Tracy – Focal Point

Use your Journal, a diary or a notebook to build your ‘plan’. Include all the tools that have worked for you in Boot Camp Blog, and keep asking yourself those key questions.

Change for Life

However much, or however little of the Blog you have read, you have opened a door – you have taken at least a step in the direction of being the best version of yourself. By reading this Blog you have demonstrated that you are open-minded and inquiring, and that you are not afraid to look in the mirror – well done you! I really mean that too – many people talk the talk, how many people walk the walk?

As another wise old Greek philosopher once said:

“No person ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and they’re not the same person.” Heraclitus

Life, like water, flows on, and you do continue grow and change. I first read that quote when someone used it to illustrate why they felt it was valuable to keep reading good books and good inspirations over and over again – you get different results, better results, each time because your experience changes each time.

If you go back and work through the Boot Camp Blog again in the light of what you have discovered up until now, your journey will be different every time, and almost certainly richer for it!

Even though this is called the ‘Health and Wellbeing’ Boot Camp Blog, the ‘wellbeing’ part is about so much more – it’s key to every life scenario – whether it’s to lose weight, quit smoking, leave an unhealthy relationship, change jobs – whatever your ‘it’ is, it’s about your wellbeing. All of the tools supplied to you in this Boot Camp Blog can be applied to anything you need them for. Just as a carpenter has his toolbox, these are some of the best tools of life – so use them to support yourself. We make it so hard for ourselves when we blindly fight through something. Now, you can make better and more informed choices in your thoughts and actions, and achieve successful outcomes. It doesn’t get better than that!

Thank you so much for participating in this Health and Wellbeing Boot Camp Blog – I’ve so enjoyed researching and pulling together the information and the quotes from all those inspiring, and frankly, amazing people, and sharing them with you.

Some of the material I’ve quoted was brought to my attention by the fantastic ‘Philosophers Notes’ which is run by Brian Johnson – he has read and summarised 100 amazing books. I highly recommend ‘Philosophers Notes’ as it’s quick, easy, and inspirational wisdom from 100 authors in audio and PDF format. Check out the link, which you’ll find in the right hand column on this page.

Although the ‘Boot Camp’ part of the Blog is now finished, the site is going to remain up, with all the posts available for some time, and I’ll be returning every week or so with fresh inspirations, ideas and experiences to share. There may even be the odd extra download – so please stay subscribed and keep checking back.

Meanwhile, I will be sending you a short questionnaire next week as your feedback is really valuable. It’s your feedback that can help me to improve this Boot Camp Blog. Plus I genuinely would love to know how you’ve got on.

Lastly, I want to share with you one final quote, whether you believe in God, Source, a vibrational Universe or just in yourself, I hope this speaks to your heart as powerfully as it does mine!

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us most.
We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?’
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in all of us.
And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Marianne Williamson – Return to Love

With love, light and the best of wishes

Dawn xx

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