The Optimal Health Mindset

Probably the single most important step you can take to reclaim Optimal Health for yourself and family is to adopt the right mindset. It is your mindset that you have got already that has brought you this far – to be actually reading this BluePrint. It is your mindset that will determine what action steps you actually take. It is your mindset that will determine how easy or difficult each action step will be to implement. And finally, it is your mindset that will determine whether you will stick with the changes you make or progressively slip back into destructive habits. In other words, it is your mindset that allows you to leverage the knowledge I am giving you into the reality of Optimal Health and that is the sole purpose of Optimal Health Works. There is nothing more important.

The 7 key steps to achieving Optimal Health:

1. Establish your core life values
2. Know who you are being healthy for
3. Desire
4. Faith
5. Specialised Knowledge
6. Action Steps
7. Action

While I spend most of my time talking to you about steps 5 to 7, you can see that steps 1 through 4 must come first if you are to get any result. These four steps are the four parts of the mindset for Optimal Health. Let’s consider each in turn.

What are your core life values?

Have you taken the time in your life to write down your most essential values? If you are living your life in alignment with your own core values, you will have a life of fulfilment, joy and reward. You will be operating from your strengths. Since most people have never done this, most people have taken on the values of others pushed upon them by TV and magazines. Some of these values are totally spiritually bereft. Others are just not yours so trying to live by them will make you weak. If you are going to live a life in your strength, achieve what you want and be fulfilled, you need to first be clear on what your core life values are. Let’s do that now. You’ll need a pen and paper. I want you to come up with a list of words that resonate deep within your spirit; that represent what you truly value. You will end up with a list containing typically between 5 and 10 words. Maybe you can just write them down straight from your heart but most of us need a little more help to work out what they are. I’ll tell you the easiest way. On your piece of paper, write down a list of the people you most admire in the world. They may be alive or dead. You may have met them, seen them on TV or just read about them in a book. They may be real or fictitious – even a cartoon character! It doesn’t matter, just write them all down. Don’t worry if any of them seem silly. That’s OK too. Now, next to each name, write the one word that describes what it is about that person that makes you resonate with them. These are your core values. Easy huh? Spend a little time reviewing and re-adjusting your list then stick it up where you will see it every day. Keep a pen handy and review your list a few times per day. You will find that some of them are just different ways of saying the same thing. Work out which words have the most power for you and strike out the duplicates. Check to see if you can think of different words that may mean more to you than the ones you wrote down first. As you go through your day, consider if you may have missed any. Over the course of a few days to a few weeks, you will get a final list that you will find will remain largely if not entirely unchanged for the rest of your life. These are your true core values. Now you know what they are, you need to live your life according to them. While sometimes that will mean extra work, you will always be renewed of spirit afterwards which will give you the drive and energy to live a fulfilled life. Now I want you to spend a moment and choose which of these core values underpin the importance of being healthy. You will probably find it is all of them. While being healthy is not on most people’s list of core values, being healthy is essential to living true to any core value. So if you want to be true to the core of what God made you to be, Optimal Health underpins that success.

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