Do One Thing Feel Better\Live Better

INTRODUCTION Through my 15 years in practice, I know that health and well-being are a by-product of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual vitality and balance. After working with hundreds of clients, I understand there is no one formula for everyone. Instead, each person must find their unique and exclusive path to wellness based on their lifestyle, preferences, and genetic makeup. I found that although I impart quite a bit of information during my consultations, not everyone can immediately undertake all that may be necessary for them to achieve their goals. In follow-up consultations, I learned that although not all my suggestions were utilized, making even just one change, or “doing one thing,” brought benefit. In these follow-up consultations, I also learned that some people felt overwhelmed and therefore made no changes. When I asked, “Could you pick one thing and work with that?” clients agreed, and by the next appointment, they had already noticed benefits. Hence, the birth of the “Do One Thing” concept. This book is to be used as a tool to help in any area that prevents you from experiencing your highest level of vitality and well-being. Some of the tips may already be a part of your lifestyle. If so, there is no need to fix what isn’t broken. These 31 tips can serve as a guide to “do one thing” just one day a month, assessing your results each day. Alternatively, each tip can be used independently, for a day, a week, a month, or a lifetime, for all the improvement it can bring uniquely to you. You may wish to add one tip at a time, until it becomes a part of your ongoing good habits, before moving on to another tip. There is no set time frame. This is not a multi-week wellness program where you are told what to do each week. These tips are to be used at your discretion, as often as, or for as long as, you wish. But the process and the choice to continue or not are always at your discretion, based on your specific needs and your health status. Some tips may not be feasible or practical on a continual daily basis, but they are certainly workable whenever and however you can incorporate them. Other tips are seeds for thought for you to expand upon, as you see fit. Whatever you choose, whenever and how you choose it, always base your decisions on doing your best. And we know our best changes from day to day. I know as you continue to work with these tips that you will experience the benefits intended, both in your short- and long-term wellness goals. Now I challenge you to just “Do One Thing” and witness the positive changes in your life. Julia Scalise, DN, PhD