Written by: Anna Letitia Cook, Executive Contributor
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Do you consider yourself successful? What do you think helps to be a success? Apart from skills, talents, and knowledge what is the key to being able to perform and do well, achieve your objectives, and have even better results? The absolute fundamental, can’t-do-without, essential is good mind-body health!
Just think about the following and rate them in relation to you now and over a few weeks to see your current norm… How do you feel today? Right now? Both in your personal, and particularly, your professional life…
Happy or neutral
Full of energy or tired
Interested or drifting through just doing what is needed
Slim, fit and healthy or lethargic and possibly with a few extra kilos or slightly high body fats
Serene and stress-free or anxious, worried and with definite stress points…
Sleeping well, and enough, waking refreshed and enthusiastic or troubled and/or unrefreshing sleep patterns
All of this makes an enormous difference to how we go through life, and particularly on how we feel, react and succeed at work. I am willing to bet that those of you that feel all the positives eat healthily and not too much, exercise regularly (this doesn’t mean having to go to a gym), enjoy enough refreshing sleep and have a positive, serene mindset and mental outlook. This should be considered an inherent requirement for optimal performance. We are happier, more successful and definitely more productive when we fuel our body and brain by eating the right food for energy, both physically and mentally; as well as being at our fitness peak, on the lean side of slim, doing regular extensive natural daily exercise. Not only does this promote our overall wellness, serenity and physical health but it improves our brain power, resistance, stress management, objectivity, focus, ability, creativity, production and performance. Living a slim and fit life has great personal benefits and professionally optimises performance, career and business results.
'To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear..' — Buddha
ACTION: What are the first steps?
It is essential to focus on, prioritize and implement really good mind-body health to succeed. Here are some tips to just become more aware of your current state: Keep a mind-body health journal for the next 3 weeks. Don’t try and make any changes or realignments, just record your usual habits.
Record exactly what you eat and at what time, and how you feel just before and after you eat…
Do the same for exercise – any sport, stretching, walking you did however little or much and what circumstances led you to do it
Note down your sleep pattern, the time you went to bed, the time you went to sleep, what you were doing just before, did you woke during the night, what time you got up in the morning – your feelings before going to sleep and on waking up.
Write down your mindset and mental outlook – whether positive or negative, levels of stress and what thought, action, or situation preceded them
My gift to you – if you send me your completed journal after 3 weeks (email anna@annaletitiacook.com), I will look through it and give you personal feedback on the areas you can improve and what to focus on first…
Follow me on LinkedIn, Twitter, and my website for more info, and listen to my podcasts on Youtube and Spotify.
Anna Letitia Cook, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Anna Letitia Cook is an international career development and wellness coach, author, speaker, radio/tv presenter, passionate about helping clients find clarity, energy and fulfilment in their life choices ‒ their holistic success.
She created her first company in the entertainment industry at age 32 before switching industry and moving into international real estate. Midlife approaching, hungry for a dynamic change, she refocused her experience, founding her current business to help professionals shape and energise their own future.
Creator of the 'SCOPE' and '4Fs' processes for career, fulfilment and holistic success and author of ‘Unstoppable Goddess: Every Women’s Guide to Freedom, Fulfilment and Success’, Anna was awarded United Nations Women's 2016-2017 Global Champion for Change @ Empower Women.
Anna is the presenter of the radio tv shows WomenUP 'Inspired Women' and 'Beyond the Bottomline.
Her motto: Living life holistically – Career and wellness together!
