Wellbeing Canvas

Essential wellbeing practices for resiliency and performance in challenging times

In 2010, after facing professional and personal challenges stemming from the Great Recession, I began a deep exploration into mindfulness and wellbeing practices, by doing silent meditation retreats and studying with global leaders to understand the science, skills and practices that drive human wellbeing and performance.

The Wellbeing Canvas is a milestone in that journey and captures the key elements of wellbeing in a simple reference and one-pager worksheet that can be used to plan and execute on your wellbeing goals and is based on the essential wellbeing practices supported by science.

The Wellbeing Canvas includes elements for both body and mind and ensures we balance stress and recovery. The canvas increases wellbeing awareness, choices and results and is most effective when used on a regular basis.

Download the Wellbeing Canvas worksheet here

Transformation

What’s the human cost of 12-18 month enterprise transformation projects? These are uniquely grueling assignments that bring together professionals with a diverse range of backgrounds and skills.

They are on a roller coaster ride that will require resiliency from both the team as well as the individual.

Change happens when individuals change. Large-scale change happens as the relationships between individuals change. If you skip the relationship part, you make it much harder to effect change.

The relationship shifts must start WITHIN the team that is driving the transformation efforts.

Some of the questions new transformation teams should tackle in their formation stages include:

—How am I personally being asked to change and grow?
—What are the most substantive things my colleagues should know about me? How can others support me?
—How can I best understand and empathize with people who are different from me? How can I support them?
—How does our team seek to interact with each other? What does it mean to be “us”?
—What practices support living our team values when the going gets tough?

When you start with the relationship aspects of a new team, you increase the odds of that team succeeding.

Achievement Triangle

“Most athletes are ready to make an effort in a race. Few are ready to carry their efforts through months or years of training and racing.”

So says coach Joe Vigil, who has been inducted into 11 Halls of Fame after coaching incredibly successful track and field athletes.

Most people want to be comfortable. They want success, but not necessarily the sacrifice that creates it. This, more than anything else, is what limits our success. Not talent or desire, but our unwillingness to step out of our comfort zone.

This includes me. I have been deep inside my comfort zone for too long.

This doesn’t necessarily mean you have to run a marathon once a week. It might be as simple as putting yourself out there in a much bolder way.

In 2020, watch for me to do just that.

Image credit: Coach Joe Vigil