The Wellness Puzzle: Creating optimal Well-being, one piece at a time - Softcover

Jobling, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1925682811 ISBN 13: 9781925682816

Verlag: Rockpool Publishing, 2021

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With the high demands of life and the rush of fast-paced living, our bodies and minds are filled with deadlines, stress, anxiety and nervous energy.
You can make order out of the chaos of your life.

The Wellness Puzzle outlines seven core pieces of life’s puzzle to promote real change and create a longer, happier, healthier version of life, along with sharing powerful messages of motivation.
 
Through the right thinking, positive emotions, deliberate actions and healthy habits, optimal well-being is more than just a hope  ?  it is an exciting reality for anyone who is willing to make it happen.

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"Andrew Jobling is an athlete, an author, and a true believer that anything is possible no matter how improbable or unbelievable it may seem. He played senior-level professional football with the St Kilda Football Club for seven years and has worked passionately in a fifteen-year career as a personal trainer and café owner. His first two best-selling books, Eat Chocolate, Drink Alcohol and Be Lean & Healthy and Simply Strength, sold over 100,000 copies. To date he has written nine books, which have sold in excess of 200,000 copies. Andrew now spends his time writing, speaking and mentoring to share his powerful message with children, teens and adults – that anything is possible when you follow a considered plan, no matter how unlikely it may seem."

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The Wellness Puzzle

Creating Optimal Well-Being, One Piece at a Time

By Andrew Jobling

Rockpool Publishing Pty Ltd

Copyright © 2019 Andrew Jobling
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-925682-81-6

Contents

Foreword, 
Introduction, 
Earning the right: why would you listen to me?, 
A body out of balance, 
An evolution of wisdom, 
Putting together a puzzle, 
1. Find your purpose, 
2. Protect your mental and emotional spaces, 
3. Breathe easy, 
4. Something is in the water, 
5. The power of whole food, 
Get the metabolic fire burning, 
Cellular health: protect your unit of life, 
Go with your gut, 
Let food be thy medicine, 
Nature provides everything we need, 
All food is good!, 
6. Have faith in what you cannot see, 
7. Move your body, 
One step at a time, 
Stepping it up, 
Getting the complete picture, 
About the author, 

CHAPTER 1

Find your purpose

Unless we identify our purpose and stay deliberately focused on it every day, the negative forces of life will take hold and push us down a path we don't want to go, but one we will eventually accept.

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Imagine receiving 1,000 pieces of a jigsaw puzzle in a plastic bag: no box, and no picture of what the puzzle is meant to create. How would you go? There may be a marginal chance you could put it together but, if you are anything like me, you'd give up way before that could be a possibility. Honestly, without a clear picture the task of putting together a large jigsaw puzzle is almost a futile one – just as success in life and optimal well-being will be pointless without a clear picture of what you're working towards. You must have a clear and powerful purpose in life.

My tertiary education was something I had to do. At the time I was told I needed to make a decision about the path my career and life would take; I was a clueless 16 year old who could only see, think about and dream of a successful professional football career. When my parents told me to choose a course, they suggested a commerce, science or economics degree in order for me to keep my options open. My response was: 'Why would I want to do that? I'm going to be a professional footballer.' While I did eventually agree I should get a tertiary education, I didn't over-think it and I chose physical education. Why? Because it sounded like the closest thing to sport to me.

After somehow successfully fumbling my way through this four-year degree I accidentally became a school teacher. Why accidentally? Because when I chose the degree, so indifferent was I about it I didn't even know it was a teaching degree until the third year when I was told to arrange teaching rounds. So, at the age of 22 I started teaching physical education and mathematics to teenagers. It wasn't a passion, it wasn't my purpose and it certainly wasn't fun. In fact, it was simply something I had to do to earn money.

When my alarm went off, all I felt was anxiety. I would hit the snooze button as often as possible until I had no other choice but to drag myself out of bed and transition out of my dream time into my nightmare. I just didn't enjoy teaching teenagers who were there because they had to be, not because they wanted to be. I hated trying to force them to listen to me. I despised the discipline side of the job. I just felt sick to my stomach from the time I got up to the time I went to bed. I was thinking, 'This can't be good for me.'

I became a cranky and impatient person and often not fun to be around. Up until that time I had been a fun-loving, even slightly crazy kid, but I had changed. This job I was forcing myself to endure was changing my personality, and not for the better. I was drinking more than I should have because I needed to do something to dull the pain. I was eating poorly and my motivation to exercise just wasn't there any more. My energy levels were non-existent and my health was suffering. I had no passion and no purpose.

It finally got to the point where I could no longer force myself to accept this stressful scenario. I didn't enjoy my life, I didn't like the person I had become, and I certainly wasn't excited about my underwhelming income. I decided to quit teaching and move into the health and fitness industry.

I had dabbled over the previous year or so and worked a couple of evenings per week, after my teaching day was complete, in a gym. I really enjoyed it, so I thought this was the answer to my full-time career puzzle. I was wrong! I resigned from my teaching job and started working full time in the gym, where I lasted less than six months. I loved the job, but I couldn't relate to my boss. He was negative and critical, he was a bully and, to me, he was toxic!

I started to experience the same feelings of anxiety I had as a teacher. What was even worse was that I had taken a pay cut and so, in addition to having to endure a bully for a boss, I was now making even less money. This was another source of my stress. It didn't take me long to learn the lesson this time, and I discovered something about myself: I will not accept doing something I do not love. This boss made a critical and sarcastic comment to me one day that was the straw that broke the camel's back. It was the last insult I was prepared to take from him. I walked up to him, removed my staff shirt, handed it to him and told him exactly what he could do with his job!

I drove away that day feeling cold with no top on and uncertain about my next step, but relieved to be free from that toxic and unhealthy environment. I was excited about what my next step might be, and with that I made a few calls and soon I had another job in another gym. Not long after that I launched my personal training career.

Here is absolute evidence of the power of passion and a purpose. I went from working 8 am to 4 pm with 12 weeks per year paid holidays as a teacher, which was stressful and crappy, to working 5 am to 9 pm with no paid holidays as a personal trainer and I loved it! I bounced out of bed at 5 am, then powered through the day until 9 pm and I could have kept going. Passion gave me energy to burn. My purpose was to help people create positive change with their health and well-being. I had found my place, I had discovered my passion and I was living my purpose ... or so I thought.

What I love most about life is that it's always providing lessons. There are times it even contradicts centuries of so-called wisdom. It has been said, and often credited to Confucius although unsubstantiated, that if you 'do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life'. This needs to have one small disclaimer added: 'unless you're doing it for money'. I can tell you that for the first few years of my personal training career I agreed with the statement: I truly loved it and thought I could do it forever.

However, after 15 years of getting up at 5 am and working 12 to 15 hours per day, six and sometimes seven days per week, things changed. What started out as a passion and purpose was, over time, reduced to a painful chore that had to be done to earn an income to pay for a lifestyle I had become accustomed to. Every dollar I earned was reliant on me getting up and being at work whether I felt like it or not, was healthy or not, enjoyed it or not. If I chose not to work or I couldn't work, I did not make one dollar.

I felt that stress and anxiety returning. I dreaded going to bed at night because I knew that in just a few short hours I would be forced to get up again to put up with many stinky and...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rockpool Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1925682811
• ISBN 13: 9781925682816
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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