Is Health a Major factor in your Lifestyle?
- Naomi Carmona-Morshead
- Feb 4, 2022
- 3 min read
For Those Who Don’t Have Time to Read, Click ⏭ for 31 second video recap.
Mom, Dads, Aunts, Uncles, Godparents and Grandparents, the big question:
Did you know your health is your wealth?
Individually, we can choose how to live, what to eat, how much sleep, etc. Actually they are eight factors that determine your health.
At the end of this blog is a free resource that you can download to self-evaluate. I call it the Superhero Health Quiz. That name, Superhero, is a strong indication of how I feel about a healthy body.
In 1999, my Cuban husband died after living with diabetes for 40 years. In 2002, Don's first wife passed from breast cancer which metastasized to her brain. It was not the 6 and 7 years of caregiving though that can be exhausting. What hurt so deeply was watching the person we love the most disappear in front of our eyes.
Don and I decided we will not die from disease. We made health a major layer of our foundation of life (God is the primary layer). Health is one of the first considerations of all the lifestyle decisions we make.
What decision have you made about your health?
Do you surround yourself with people making healthy choices?
This is 2022 and we needed to look forward. With the physical challenges of life and Don's cancer in 2020-21, we set a goal for returning to climb. Both of us got clearance from our doctors. My cardiologist said "Yes!" to climb high altitude mountains. Don's cancer number had dropped significantly!
Climbing high altitude mountains means we are sleeping at 15,000 feet (4,572.0 meters) in a hut, training for 2 or 3 days and then climbing up to 18,000 feet (5,486.4 meters) , 19,000 feet (5,791.2 meters), depending on the mountain.
We acclimatize by the mountaineering saying: "Climb High, Sleep Low" in order to achieve those altitudes.
What are the basic needs you have in your home?
What are the basic needs you have in your business?
What are the basic needs you have in your physical activities to reach a higher level of health?
Do you have a reason to move physically, mentally or spiritually?
Is your reason to reach higher a mental challenge?
How would you reach higher in your spiritual well-being?
You know that Don and I both lost our spouses to disease after 30 and 20 years of marriage. When we married in 2003, we decided to make our health a priority.
Our Priority list is:
God
Health
US
Family
What would you list as your top three health goals today?
We called our guide with great excitement! Then we found that Ecuador had COVID restrictions that required quarantining in the hotel for ten nights. When you are living in Quito at 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) you can acclimatize easily from 1,200 feet (365.76 meters), the altitude where we live in southern California. BUT imagine 10 days indoors, not being allowed outside before you can go climb even the mountains above Quito? We would need to add 15 days of travel and 3 or 4 glacier - covered volcanoes. That would create an entire month of semi - climbing mountains. That did not sit well with us.
We needed to re-evaluate our goals. What else can we climb? What country wants tourism to come back to semi-normal? We only had about six weeks until our climbing season. That is life.
Right now, think of your goal/s and ask yourself these questions. Comment below what is an obstacle you need to overcome.
>> What is the next step to climb over that obstacle? |
>> What are Options B, C and maybe even D? |
>> IF everything went backwards, how can you find success? |
>> What measures success with this goal in mind? |
I’ll share how we chose a different mountain in a different country and what we learned from overcoming this obstacle.
Grab your Superhero Health Quiz here:
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