12 Practices to Build Wellbeing in 2024

12 Simple Things for a Sustainable Wellbeing Boost

🎉 Happy New Year! 🥳

Sure, it’s an arbitrary date set by some Roman rulers with no tangible astronomical meaning; but who cares!? It’s natural to want both something to celebrate and an opportunity to pull back, take stock, and hit a bit of a reset button.

I’m a big fan of all of that.
Perhaps you are, too.

BUT we’re also in a world that often feels overwhelming & I’m hearing from all corners of my life that people feel tired and a bit fried.

What’s a well intentioned wellbeing-minded person to do?

Here are 12 simple steps (in order) that you might want to consider as you’re looking to build wellbeing in 2024:

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Getting Clear on Our Challenges

IMHO, effective stock-taking begins with realistically looking at the problems we fact. So here are a few quick stats on how much of us are doing:

• 1 in 3 American adults report not having had enough sleep in the last 24 hours on any given day (source)

• 40% of American adults say they fell asleep unintentionally (a sign of being under slept) in the last month (source)

• 10% of Americans eat enough vegetables (source)

• 30% of Americans have metabolic syndrome (often a product of not moving enough, being under-rested, and eating a highly processed diet) (source)

• UNC Chapel Hill’s research asserts only 12% of American adults are fully metabolically health (source)

• Widespread loneliness is affecting most Americans (though there isn’t consensus about how many of us) (source)

The stats aren’t to scare you, only clarify the problem.

Public health discourse is often super prescriptive about how these problems get solved - and it’s often with complicated programs that most people don’t know how to sustain.

Instead, I’d like to offer you 12 steps (okay, 16 if you count the top line) to support your embodied wellbeing in 2024

Ready for some sustainable wellbeing in 2024?
Here’s my recommended Back To Basics Tick List:

1. Dial in your circadian rhythm

   1. Get you sleep schedule right

   2. Have a savory breakfast

   3. Consistent meal times every day
      

2. Eat to nourish yourself

   1. Tell diet culture to eff off

   2. 20+ g protein every time you eat

   3. Titrate up the veggies (start with cruciferous)
      

3. Move your body

   1. start simple - just get moving

   2. build up your steps

   3. get strong in your body; makes you strong in your self
      

4. Make meaningful connection

   1. go out of your way to build relationship

   2. learn how to really listen AND feed the conversation

   3. be authentic with those you're closest with (easier said than done)
      

Yes, these sound simple. Some remarkably so. But in 2024 I think it’s time to get back to some basics - like, our foundational human needs. You’re going to be hearing a lot of that from me in the coming weeks.

Let’s go, 2024!

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