5 Easy Ways to Embrace a Sustainable Lifestyle
So much has changed since the start of the industrial revolution.
If you were to compare what the media, advertising and the world had been selling you for a so-called happier life with today’s trend it almost contradicts.
What has the opportunity costs been for these lies?
Today you know that true fulfillment comes from within only.
Happiness is the new rich with inner peace being the new success and health the ultimate wealth.
You have no control as disruptive innovation is changing the way you live and work.
In an age of radical transparency, you have more information readily available to make better decisions.
What about creating your own sustainable lifestyle?
Sustainability is the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld and confirmed.
Further definitions state sustainable lifestyles as attempts to reduce your use of natural and personal resources in equilibrium.
Avid followers will tell you the key is holistic natural balance.
This aligns with where true fulfillment comes from.
The Grand Canyon is a good example to illustrate balance.
Life isn’t perfect and you will always have some canyon.
The narrower the canyon, the closer to your personal balance you are.
The wider, the further.
To get from one side to the other might mean a small jump or maybe building a bridge.
For self-sustainability you want to need less resources and depend on yourself – the narrow canyon therefore your aim!
The most important decision you can make is to find your balance.
Guard it with everything you have and live it daily.
The 5 foundations defining you is your best start.
SPIRIT
Your compass, purpose and source of strength.
What do you need to do to have your spirit aligned to create a sustainable lifestyle that honors you?
BODY
Your engine room.
What fuel works best to feed this engine for your personal journey and destination?
Health can’t be bought.
When your body isn’t working optimally everything else will be affected.
How much thought is going into the fuel you put in your body based on your exact engine needs?
SELF
Your unique blueprint.
Apart from your own loss of enjoyment in living your true self, what will the world loose out on if you don’t honor your gifts, talents, interests and experiences?
RELATIONSHIPS
Your main source of happiness (75-year-old Harvard-Study-of-Adult-Development proof).
You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.
What do you need to do sustainably to be the highest average that honors your true self?
CAREER
The vehicle that makes the other four possible.
Estimates show that by 2030 50% of the world will be self-employed again.
The reason: your need to self-express and enjoy life.
What are you doing to create the career that honors you?
Your sustainable plan:
Blank canvas exercise.
Sometimes when you have too many goals you never even start as the challenge seems to big.
Maybe this time have 1 goal for the next 6 months under each of the 5 foundations.
Make sure it is tangible and measurable to know when you have achieved it.
If you feel your goal needs a strategy and actions, get that sorted.
If you need a soundboard to bounce ideas work with a coach or mentor.
Now hit hard at creating your sustainable lifestyle.
Life is not about the destinations only but about the journey getting there.
Enjoy and learn from your journey.
To sustainable lifestyles forever!
Edited, as published in leading business journal ASA December 2017.