5 Tips for Improving Wellness

Vicki Brook - EXALT Holistic Wellness Guru - July 2021

Be a Rich B*tch

You’re in the right place, but maybe not quite as you think. Richness in wellness terms doesn’t mean the number in your current account, nor the size of your house nor the speed of your car.
Being rich in life is about a more fundamental richness: one that transcends the limits of transactions, the economy and money.

How many times have you been to an event and while you’re making small talk with a new acquaintance, your conversation is limited to your job, where you’re from, where you live currently… and maybe if you’re lucky you’ll discuss the weather or a sporting event. Often in these situations I find there’s a big part of me crying out to connect in a deeper way and celebrate what my mind, body and spirit can and actually does do.

We are so much more than these less meaningful parts of our identity – we are living, breathing biological forms of life with lofty dreams, physical ailments, emotional fears and bodily needs. All of these weird and wonderful aspects of our being are just that – weird and wonderful – and it’s these aspects that make us rich.

To that end, how can we infuse our life with more richness?

5 Ways to Become Richer in Wellness

1. Something to Keep You in Shape

We all know the benefits of being strong physically and eating well for our overall health (both physical and mental), life longevity, disease prevention, etc. But sometimes staying in shape can feel like a task rather than something to be enjoyed. How can you infuse your workouts with more enjoyment? Maybe try something new – join that Netball team to meet some new people, or go to a dance class you’ve always wanted to try but you’ve been worried about making a fool of yourself. One extra tip here: think more about celebrating the body than working it out – it doesn’t matter what you look like doing it!

2. Something to Keep You Creative

If you’re like me, this point leaves me thinking – huh? I’m not very creative. But, is that really true? Any time you take a picture when you’re on a walk, that’s creative. Any time you do an Instagram post or write an email, that’s creative. It’s just about bringing awareness to this creativity and infusing it with purpose. Maybe you could make an album out of your nature pictures, or start writing a blog? Maybe your office needs a new social media manager or you could create a new Facebook group for your blog. Add this creative element into your routine, give it a little bit of love; and watch it flourish.

3. Something to Build Knowledge

When we finish school and start working it’s a huge sigh of relief. No more exams, no more papers, no more lectures. Wahoo! But this means our minds can become stagnant and we start to resent doing mostly the same job every day because we stop growing. How about finding something that you’ve always wanted to learn more about and spending a few hours on it each weekend? Maybe a new language, how to scuba dive or how to play Bridge? I can guarantee it will somehow add value to your life in a way that you could never have imagined.

4. Something to Evolve your Mindset

This is my favourite one. Notice the subtle difference between knowledge and mindset – this point is about challenging yourself to think in new ways, rather than learn something new. How can you challenge the ways that you think and evolve your mindset? Meditating is a great daily tool for this, or playing a challenging sport, or doing something totally out of your comfort zone. It’s about finding ways to expand your mindset so you can start to see opportunity for growth all around you, infusing your life with possibility and positivity.

5. Something to Make you Money

The one thing we’re all probably most familiar with. Money is what makes us be able to live in society so we all need a way of making it. That being said, it doesn’t need to be made begrudgingly. It is possible to make money from doing something you’re passionate about.

I would like to challenge you to make your life richer by following the 4 steps above first and then think about how you could make your work life richer by incorporating aspects of these steps into your work life. Maybe you could teach a weekly meditation class in the office, or maybe be the new blog author for your company. Maybe you’ll lead your team to achieve their own secret goals to run a marathon, or learn a new language. The neat thing about getting rich – you can help make others rich too.

So, something physical that will evolve my mindset, keep me creative and build my knowledge…which could potentially help at work. Hmmm…I have never been climbing and I’m terrified of it – perfect, I’m going next weekend.

If you’d like some further wacky ideas for how to get ‘rich’ or book you free discovery session with Vicki, you can email her at hello@vickibrook.com or for more details you can visit her website at www.vickibrook.com.

About The Author

Vicki Brook - EXALT Holistic Wellness Guru
BA, Yale University. MSc, Alef Trust. UKHCA and IAWP Wellness Coach.

Vicki Brook is a Life & Wellness Coach with over 20 years of experience in the world of sports, from nutrition and lifestyle to mindset and psychology. As an ex-professional tennis player and the founder of her life-coaching business Mindfully, Vicki, she works with mindfulness techniques and an athlete-mindset to help clients transform their lives by discovering their true selves, overcoming anxiety & stress, and finding fulfilment.

A spiritual nerd thanks to her MSc in Consciousness & Transpersonal Psychology, a Reiki and Pause Place Practitioner, with further training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Mindfulness. Vicki gives us at EXALT clear idea of the all-important mind-body connection; the two work together and are reliant on each other, so she’s here to help us look after our minds just as much as we look after our bodies.