What is health? What is stress?

Health is where everything is operating in harmony. You feel good. You think good. You have valuable deep relationships in your life. You have a relationship with yourself. A positive one. You have a purpose. And you operate in alignment with that purpose.

Stress is the opposite. Stress is you feel like crap. You think like crap. You have relationships that are a mile wide and an inch thick. You have no clue who you are. You don’t enjoy hanging out with yourself. You wake up everyday dreading the day you are about to have. And your system is so dysfunctional that you can’t even fathom what purpose could even mean.

So what is purpose? And what are the action steps towards achieving the above?

Purpose is knowing why you are on this Earth thus governing your everyday behavior. There’s a deeper meaning to whatever you just thought of now. And if you don’t know what your purpose is, thats totally fine too. I didn’t know for a long time. I just always knew what was next.

Purpose is knowing the macro governance of self. Having the thought of “okay this is what I am dedicating my life to”. Notice the use of what not why. What is more potent than why. Why just provides context. But utilizing what is telling you what you need to lean into and do more of.

My mom states her purpose is being the family historian. How does she embody that? She catalogs photos from trips, makes photo albums, spends time working on our family tree, makes her parents calendars every year from what happened in that year.

But what does she do to make sure that she can sustain that output? She needs to feel good. She needs to think good. She needs to have valuable relationship with her purpose but also those involved in her purpose. She has a relationship with herself and genuinely enjoys providing that service.

In other words, better health means better fulfillment of purpose. If your goal is to walk in your purpose daily, you need to what? Feel good, think good, interact with people you care about, hang out with yourself, take inventory of yourself to allow yourself the opportunity to operate within your purpose.

Daily.

My purpose is to facilitate myself and others towards being the pilot of our lives and health, not the passengers to our body and mind.

What’s yours?