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We all know that we need to be able to take good care of ourselves, yet it’s not always that easy to know how you’re going to do it. These days, there’s just so much conflicting information out there, and you’re not always going to know what’s best for you personally. You may speak to your doctor, read information online, or even find yourself asking friends for advice. But when you’re trying to work on your own personal health and fitness, it’s just so important for you to be able to get it right, on your own terms. This is why we all need to have our own personal focus’ – and tailor our attempts to what our minds and bodies need the most. But we don’t always know the best way to approach that. So, is there a secret?

Well, in short, no there’s not. There’s no quick fix or secret sauce that will allow you to be healthier. At all! Instead, you need to make sure that you’re aware of what you can do, that you absorb information, that you know yourself, and then you handpick which different options are going to work best for you. But before you do that, you need to know what you’re working for. Do you want to improve your health in general, lose weight, remedy a specific confirm, get fit? No matter what you want to do for your own health, you need to keep that in mind and then choose your key focus from there. Let’s take a look at what you can do.

Sleep

To begin with, you may find that you need to focus on having better sleep. This is one of the areas that is very easy to overlook – but crucial for your health and wellbeing. We heal when we sleep. So if you’re not sleeping enough, or not getting a good enough quality of sleep, it could be harmful for you. This may be why you need to make better sleep your focus for the time being.

Nutrition

The next crucial point that you may want to focus on, is nutrition. It’s easy to think of food as a source of enjoyment – or even a concern if you’re worried about your weight. But it’s an energy source first and foremost. So if you want to be your healthiest self, then you need to be focusing on your nutrition and the types of food you eat. This can affect your energy levels, your wellbeing, strength, and all-around health.

Hydration

From here, the next thing that you should make a focus because it’s a simple way to feel your best, is hydration. Like sleep, being properly hydrated is amazing for your body. So if you aren’t feeling your best, you might want to think about drinking more water, and what you can do to  boost your overall health in this way.

Exercise

Next up, we need to talk about exercise. Because you know you need to be doing it – even if you hate it. When you can stay active and move your body more, it’s always going to help your health. So, what kind of exercise can you add to your agenda this year?

Weight Management

Now, if you know that you need to master your weight management a lot better, this could be the optimum focus for you. And this isn’t about being skinny or losing weight at all – instead, it’s about finding your ideal weight. The right weight for you. This could be putting on weight – or losing it. But, you’ll want to make sure that you are considering how your body weight can harm your health – rather than it just being a vanity thing!

Lifestyle Choices

Next up, it may be the case that you need to be able to make much healthier lifestyle choices. Sometimes, you may find that there are some things that you’re doing in life, or opting to do, that harms your health. But, if you can aim to make the healthiest choices, it may actually help you to improve your health and how you feel in general. Not smoking, reducing alcohol consumption, avoiding toxins, and of course incorporating some of the above pints can be really useful here. If you feel you need support in breaking bad lifestyle habits, you should look into Cigna Insurance drug and alcohol rehab to help you retain control of your health and life.

Specialist Treatment

But sometimes, it’s not always going to be a focus on those general health areas that work for you. You may find that there are health specifics that you need to be working on. If you have a particular ailment, maybe now is the time to work on it? Perhaps you want to look for a stress-free type of tinnitus treatment, or another specific treatment? It could be time to do some research, or speak to a specialist doctor.

Mental Health

You also need to make sure that you’re aware of your mental health and stress too. Because health is more than just your body. So, do you need to slow down or get some help? What do you need to do for your  mental health this year?

Balance

As a step on from that, one thing that you may especially be interested in here, is having a balance. Because in this day and age, it’s really easy to get wrapped up in work and being busy, and this can cause you to become incredibly stressed! However, you need to be able to manage your to-do list better and enjoy much more of a balance throughout your life if you’re going to find the optimum levels of health.

Happiness

Now, we don’t always see happiness as something that affects our health – but it does! It’s one of those things that can drastically affect your mental health and have repercussions on your physical health too. As we know, you can have physical manifestations of stress and other mental ailments. And so, you need to be very cautious. Aiming to find happiness, look for gratitude and live well can really help you here. And this is something that we should all hope for.

*contributed post*

 If you know me or have been around the blog for even a little bit of time than you know that one of my passions is keeping the stories of the Holocaust alive so that we can educate the next generation about this time period. I have talked here on the blog about discovering information about the Lodz Ghetto a couple of years ago and how some of the stories from that time period influenced a book I have been writing for several years now. 

I recently discovered this book, Rywka's Diary, which is the newly discovered diary of a Polish teenager who lived in the Lodz Ghetto during World War II. This was originally published by the Jewish Family & Children's Services, but has since been updated. One of the things about this book was that it really introduces the reader to so many ordinary and extraordinary people whose lives were forever changed by the Holocaust. Similar to The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto (that I have mentioned on the blog before), Rywka's Diary introduces the reader to the many individuals and happenings of the ghetto, but this time from Rywka Lipszyc's perspective. It is incredibly hard to read (especially the reality that she lost her parents and her siblings), as she discusses the issues of poverty, hunger and malnutrition. The diary takes place between October 1943 and April 1944 and horrifyingly ends literally in mid-sentence.