What does holistic wellness look like for you in the context of your career? Your holistic wellness depicts how healthy you are across all areas of your life because our bodies, minds, relationships, communities, and environments are all interconnected. Your health directly impacts your ability to perform at your best at any given time.
There are many interconnected and related aspects of your holistic health – body, mind, spirit, relationships, environment – that you should consider to be at your best in your career, at home, or in your community.
The modern athlete takes care of their most valuable asset – themselves – by hiring coaches, nutritionists, sports psychologists, and trainers. LeBron James sees his health as an investment. He allegedly spends 1.5 million dollars annually on care to stay in tip-top shape in all spheres of his life. He’s right to consider his holistic wellness as an investment, not just an asset, since he makes more than 48 million dollars a year in salary to play basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers and can only play at the elite level as long as he remains healthy.
Athletes must do the work to take care of their holistic health. This daily effort and intention mean they’re ready to win on game day, determining if they might win a championship that season. Some say you win the game in practice. You simply pick up the medal at the game.
In comparison, we can begin to understand how little time and effort most of us take to care for ourselves so we can be our best to perform well.
Your ability to succeed in your career starts with taking care of your holistic health with effort and intention. In that way, you practice winning. You do this to have clarity and energy to develop new areas of your mastery that enable you to win each day. When you show up on purpose daily, you continuously improve and increase your value to your team, company, and the broader market.
This is not a vague, abstract idea but a reality of maximizing the outcomes of your career through Mastery, Freedom, and Legacy.
Four steps in the CareerTruth Career Management Process help you to:
- Know yourself well.
- Organize all of the essential attributes and assets of your career.
- Develop actionable plans to meet your goals.
- Accelerate your career with ongoing accountability.
Not only will you get very clear on the current state of your career health, but you will also be able to decide where to focus on improving for better outcomes.
While we all know there are ways we need to improve, CareerTruth also wants you to consider what you may need to stop doing and seek Freedom from those actions that hold us back or create holistic health problems.
Regarding your holistic health, you can target your physical health related to your sleep, weight, blood pressure, or any other area you may want to improve.
You learn about your energy and analyze your energy each day to build awareness of how you feel and impact others. You will have access to the Hogan Leadership Assessment consulting session to get a deeper look at who you are and what drives you.
CareerTruthCareerTruth also provides a forum to invite and interact with your personal Board of advisors – your chosen advisors for each portion of your holistic health you want to help you be your best and hold you accountable to the change required to meet your goals.
We must take care of our body, mind, and soul. It is not something we can delegate or outsource. The more we know ourselves and make the changes to be our best – even if we need to go through hard change – the lower our stress and the more people we will positively impact.