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Trying to set yourself up for a good year can be overwhelming, and if you’ve tried and failed in the past, it can be really disheartening. Much of the marketing around this time can really play into feelings of guilt of not being fit / thin / sexy / successful enough.

But – you don’t need a “new you” for the new year. There’s nothing “not enough” about you.

You are unique. Your healthy is unique to you. Set yourself up for success in a way that works with, not against, your uniqueness.

You already have the tools for success. Your own personal set of gifts and strengths, your genius. Each of the Health Types has a unique way of achieving success, a foundational aspect of your life that everything else builds on.

Diplomats, your success flows from feeling secure in your time and space. Creating the conditions that make you feel safe, steady and in control of what matters to you will allow your mind and body to flow into its healthiest state.

Of course, you cannot control everything. But you can influence many of your epigenetic factors to work in your favour. This will trigger your genes to respond with health and vitality, and to switch off stress responses in your body and mind.

When you’re feeling ready, try out some of these ideas and see how you respond…

– Craft a gentle morning ritual. Even if work or family commitments put pressures on your time, use your powerfully creative mind to plan a routine that gives you the feeling of starting slow, in your own time and space. Meditation, deep breathing, stretching, a soothing warm drink, and time in nature will all help establish a supportive epigenetic environment as you wake up gently.

– Plan to face known higher intensity tasks in the afternoon. Both your body and mind are at their peak later in the day, so influence your schedule as much as you can to move anything that is a stress or pressure to this time e.g strong exercise, or important meetings.

– Delegate and ask for help. As is your natural gift, you probably carry a lot for your family, friends and colleagues. But it can take a toll. Share your wishes to regain more of your own time & space, allow yourself that assertiveness, and set up ways of sharing the load. Those who have received so much from you will be glad to give back in return.

– Make your home your beautiful sanctuary. Redecorate, bring in plants, meaningful objects, pleasurable aromas and physical comforts. Remove anything that has been niggling at you, or inconveniencing you. Make your space somewhere that gives you pleasure, where you can release any tension.

– Start when you’re ready. You don’t have to jump into new plans all at once. Start with what feels good – maybe you’re feeling really confident about a Personalised Detox with all its group support, but haven’t found an exercise class you’re comfortable in yet. That’s ok. Your body responds when your mind is on board, and your mind gets on board when you’re feeling good about it.

Not sure some of these are right for you, or want more details? The most personalised and precise advice you will get is in your ph360 profile. It’s tailored to your complete uniqueness, far beyond just your Health Type.

Spend some time exploring your profile, even if you have before (as you might find fascinating changes). Start with Place, in your Lifestyle section, to find the most relevant explanations of your ideal epigenetic environment, and specific tips for implementing it.

A personalised health coach can be a huge help in guiding you through your profile, and assisting you to implement strategies in your daily life without overwhelm. They can give you the time and attention you deserve, especially if you encounter challenges along the way.

Whatever you choose to do this year, do it on your terms. Do it because you want to, because it makes you feel good. Live your unique health in your unique way, and experience the deep strength and vitality of your mind and body.

I hope you have the wonderful and rewarding year that you desire!

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Want to feel stronger, lighter, more energised and satisfied this year? Want to really see and feel changes in your body and mind?

With all the diets and classes and fads out there, trying to set yourself up for a good year can be overwhelming, and if you’ve tried and failed in the past, it can be really disheartening.

You are unique. Set yourself up for success in a way that works with, not against, your uniqueness. Your gift.

Guardians, you ARE a gift to us all, our communities, our family. Your hack for success is in being that – the strong & steady, grounding, nurturing presence for the ones you love.

When you nurture and take care of others, it stimulates the production of the hormone prolactin. Your mind and body is designed to absolutely flourish from this hormone. The more of it you have, the more response you’ll see and feel from following your ideal food and fitness recommendations. If you’re not getting enough of it, it’s likely you’ll be unsatisfied with your efforts, making it easy to give up.

Setting yourself up for success as a guardian, means setting up conditions that will stimulate feelings of nurturing, of meaningful connection with loved ones, and of being truly motivated by how much your efforts are going to serve the ones you love.

Consider some of these this year…

– How can you spend more quality time with loved ones this year? Face to face is best, so you can really feel the connection, but if time or distance is an issue, set up weekly calls and connections to ensure you’re always feeling part of your family – blood and chosen!

– Share your goals with those closest to you, and let them know you’re doing it for them. The flood of support from your family and friends will carry you through.

– Share your experiences with loved ones. Invite family and friends to be part of a class, or to share in your new eating plan, or make friends in the class or group you join. The group support in the Personalised Detox is wonderful, and will help you feel like you’ve got a whole family (the ph360 phamily!) right with you.

– One step at a time. It might be switching out one less optimal meal for a better one, or adding an extra walk into your week. Slow and steady really is your motto.

– Spend time with nature, especially the greenery of forests and mountains. Long, strong walks outdoors are excellent for your body. And of course, sharing the journey is even better!

– Remember, when the going gets tough, who are you doing this for? Don’t be hard on yourself, and don’t forget what really matters most to you. Reach out for love and support when you need it.

Trying some of these ideas will help make changes easier for you, and you’ll see the results in the sheer strength and incredible adaptability of your body when it’s getting what it loves.

You’re not alone. Find someone you trust who will keep you motivated, like a personalised coach, who will affirm you of your strength and progress. They can help you understand the personalised recommendations in your profile and set you up to steadily implement them into your life.

Just as you nurture others, allow yourself to be nurtured too. That is the strongest thing you can do.

You will achieve even the toughest goal or biggest challenge when you are doing it not for yourself, but for how it will nurture others for you to be your healthiest version of you.

Have a wonderful new year, and to quote our phamily guardian – embrace your pace!

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Want to have an incredible year? Want to feel more vibrant, more alive and more excited about life than ever?

Yes!

But how do you do that? There’s so many programs and suggestions and tips … how can you know what will work?

It can be really hard to choose what to try, or what to focus on. You want results, and to feel good, but not sure on the path to get you there. To help you take the path that will be right for you, that will make you feel alive, tap into your superpower …

Connectors, you have that name for a reason – you connect! It really is your special gift, your superpower. It is your hack for success!

You’re designed to connect – not just people, but you also connect ideas in wonderfully creative ways, as you don’t just stick inside the box. The more you live your gift, your genius, by creating connections with people and ideas, the more all the other aspects of happiness in your life will follow. This is the foundation for your physical fitness, your best eating habits, your best relationships, career and overall well-being. So if you want to feel better in any of these areas, start with your best gift and let it flourish!

You’re a star, and you should know it. You bring people together, you bring out the fun and the joy when you live in the moment. The more you do this, the more it will spread to everyone around you, and you’ll see it reflected back at you, keeping you shining bright all year – in your body, heart and mind!

Bring more sparkle to the year! Have fun trying these ideas!

– Join new groups or classes – try a creative one and an active one for variety. If there are none around – start one up with friends or colleagues!

– Host themed parties or games nights- break up any dull weeks and get together with your friends and family in new, fun ways.

– Sign up for events that need the energy of people like you to make them happen – be part of community or charity events, or causes that you really love.

– Invite others to join you, for anything you like – meals, classes, outings!

– Share your great ideas to inspire and excite others – join brainstorming groups at work or in the community to help spark new ways of thinking and doing things

– If there’s a shortage of face-to-face connections in your life, use social media more to connect – have fun with sharing yourself and the things you love this year

If you’re not sure what kinds of groups or activities to try – check out your ph360 profile. In your Lifestyle sections you’ll find all sorts of tips on what kinds of activities you’re gifted at, with great suggestions for how you can unlock them even more and share them with the world. And don’t try to box yourself into one activity, one class, or one group for the whole year – that’s not how you’re designed. Things need to be fresh and engaging, so if they’re not anymore, start something new again!

Whether you’re concerned about your fitness, weight, energy, stress … the best thing for you is to work on your goals with others. Have the enjoyment and motivation of people who love and believe in you – whether it’s an exercise group, a catch up healthy eating group, a games group… whatever it is you want to feel better about in your life, you’ll achieve the best results if you share it!

A personalised health coach can give you the motivation and guidance to keep you excited and on track, and can listen to you if ever the going gets tough. A Personalised Detox can bring you this too, through the dedicated online community of people just like you who are having a real go at living their healthiest, happiest version of themselves.

So whatever you do this year, do it with joy, do it with enthusiasm, and do it with others. You’ll shine so bright in your success that you’ll bring such a sparkle to everyone else too!

Have a beautiful year!

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You want to have an awesome year. You want to feel better than ever. But there are hundreds of suggestions and plans and programs out there. What will work for you?

You are already built for success. Capitalise on this, on your unique design, and the rest will follow for you.

Activators, your hack for success is your fitness.

Get your body moving at the right times, in the right ways, and you’ll be winning at life.

So much of your genius, and success, in all aspects of your life, flows from your physical fitness. Challenging and invigorating your body will sharpen your mind, improve your relationships and enormously increase your feelings of success. The more energy you express through well timed bursts of activity, the more energy you’ll actually have for things like mental and emotional focus, and the better quality rest and recharge you’ll get.

Your body is your foundation for everything – get it feeling good, and everything else can be built on that. You don’t want to waste your time trying other things if you’re not set up physically. Set yourself up to win – your body is absolutely built for it.

How many of these can you conquer this year?

– Early to bed, early to rise. Just do it if you aren’t already – see the results for yourself.

– Intensify your mornings – start your days with a movement burst, even just 15 minutes

– Start, or ramp up, your outdoor fitness – mountain runs, rafting, parkour

– Get competitive – do an event like an obstacle course, join a sports team, or keep beating your own PB in your workouts

– Try out more creative, agile fitness programs – like martial arts, aerial arts or gymnastics

Not convinced all of these ideas are right for you? Maybe they’re not. You are more than just “an activator.” You are you. To feel really sure that you’re doing the right types of fitness activities in the right way for you, the best place to go is your Fitness section of your ph360 profile. This is where you will gain the most personalised advice that considers all of you, beyond just your Health Type.

– Check out your Fitness Overview to see your personalised daily schedule. Go to the Detailed Schedule to find out how and why living your day this way is going to really boost you. If you’re not convinced by a suggestion – just try it. See how your body responds. That will be your best measure.

– Try out new routines from the Strength, Cardio and Flexibility sections to get more variety into your workouts – knowing that you’re moving in the best way for your body

Putting your personalised recommendations into action means you won’t be wasting any time or energy on something that’s not a winning fit for you.

If you want even more motivation, bring in the added energy of a personalised health coach. They can challenge you and keep you on your toes, and pump you up for all your wins along the way.

You could also try a Personalised Detox – don’t worry, it’s not a “diet” so you won’t go hungry. It’s personalised to you completely, so it gives your body exactly what it needs to get an excellent boost to kick start your year.

No matter what you choose to act on this year, just jump in, try it, and then keep mixing it up with more variety.

Live in your body, and live now. Have an epic year!

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You probably already have a list of desired outcomes and improvements for this year. But, some of them may seem overwhelming, especially if you’ve been tackling them for some time but are not satisfied that you’ve fully achieved them yet.

Some simple redirection of your energy can help you achieve your desired successes with even greater efficiency.

Sensors, your mind is your powerhouse. With it, you can achieve anything you direct your attention to. But like any powerful machine, if it’s left to idle too long, or if it’s pushed to overdrive, it can burn itself out. This usually manifests as not just mental burn out, but physical burn out.

If you have any goals around your energy, digestion, stress, sleep, immunity – all of these have to be built on the foundation of getting your mind into a good place. It runs the show. So if you’ve been trying to improve anything physical and not getting your desired results, it’s highly probable that a key factor needs to addressed – your mind.

The sensor’s mind is a powerful creative force. When directed purposefully and precisely, it is capable of incredible feats. But when left to its own devices, or not nurtured, it can use that power to turn on itself.

Here are some detailed pointers for directing your mind’s power:

– Follow your chronobiology. There are four personalised schedules in your ph360 profile: Food, Fitness, Lifestyle and Genius. To really focus on using your mind in your favour, primarily use your Genius schedule, and blend this with your Lifestyle schedule. This will establish an efficient and effective daily flow that meets the natural rhythms of your neurochemistry and energy levels. This will allow you to be precise and directed with your mental energy, which will support your physical and emotional states. In principle, your mornings need to maintain calm and balance, so you can be highly mentally active through your day, then allow plenty of time to wind down of an evening.

– Write to release. Journaling gets thoughts out of your head and into words – whether on a page or in a video. Writing by hand further reinforces a mind-body connection creating an additional feedback loop to trigger release. Your mind is constantly processing and assessing, so if you don’t clear it out regularly it can get seriously clogged. If some kind of journaling isn’t already part of your regular practice, work it in.

– Create. Ideally, create what you want, whether it’s something you keep private, or something you choose to share, maybe professionally. Create art, food, the written word, dance, programs, anything. Your Mind & Genius sections will have the most precise suggestions for what you are designed for.

– Learn. Stimulate your mind with a new project of discovery – a language, an artform, a new skill, an online course. It can be for purely personal application or be functional in your professional aspirations as well. Just keep rewarding your mind with what turns it on.

– Write lists. Prevent overwhelm or the fear of missing anything important, and keep plenty of lists, so you can logically categorise and prioritise them. Revel in the satisfaction of ticking tasks off the list. (And yes, writing something you’ve already done onto the list just so you can cross it off is completely legit – it triggers a huge reward response in your brain.)

– Schedule time and space to recharge. This is critical. Your mind, at the core of your central nervous system, absolutely has to desensitise and detach in order to reset your whole body. Intentionally include practices like yoga, meditation, warm baths, aromatherapy, massage and time away from the stimulation of people, lights, sounds and stressors. This will prevent mental & physical burnout, and that awfully fatiguing and exasperating experience of being “tired but wired.”

Whether it’s a personal or professional goal, an internal or an external result or product that you’re creating – use your mind’s power to logically, attentively and intentionally make it happen. This will bring success for your goals for your body, relationships, career and wellbeing.

If you’re open for additional pointers, the Personalised Detox program, or a personalised coach, can be highly effective to help laser your focus and bring your attention to factors that you may not have yet considered for your overall health and wellbeing. You can utilise either on your terms with minimal fuss.

However you live it, and whatever you create, have an exceptional year.

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Crusaders, it is essential that you live on purpose. Your success hack is hosted by your mind – the machine running your show.

Your mind needs to be driven towards a clear purpose in everything you do. If anything in your life is pointless, aimless or isn’t giving you a sense of achievement – get rid of it, replace it, or reframe it. Direct all your energy purposefully.

The key reason: your dopamine response. Your Health Type is wired to be driven towards dopamine release. This neurotransmitter produces a reward response in the brain, which then generates motivation towards repeated efforts. It comes from making achievements.

If you haven’t got a clear mission or purpose, you need one. You need a point to everything you do. You need goals. You need markers of success to tick off. You don’t ‘go with the flow’ and ‘surrender to the now.’ You, possibly more than any other type, must have clear, specific, actionable and measurable goals. They can be personal or professional, public or private achievements – but they have to be yours.

I’m not going to tell you what to do or what goals to set. That’s your job, which you’re more than capable of. But, I will provide some brief suggestions for maximising on your efforts towards achieving your objectives.

Strategies to enhance your mental efficacy and productivity:

– Focus your attention. While you can manage many projects and responsibilities, your mind is far more effective when you use a laser focus to attend to one at a time. You may be able to do it in bursts, but switching between too many tasks ultimately slows down your processing.

As such, you need to:

– Prioritise and compartmentalise. Be logical and precise in your processes. Delete extraneous distractions when you are on task – turn off notifications, shut the door, put headphones in. Practice effective ways of letting others know that when you’re on task, that is your priority. Then, when it’s time, move to the compartment that might be ‘social’ or ‘fitness’ or ‘eating’. (Create compartments for all of these – otherwise you risk not attending to them as needed.)

– Schedule time for your body’s needs: healthy eating, exercising and sleeping. Set alarms to ensure it happens. While you can push harder than some, it ultimately reduces your productivity if you’re not attending to your physical needs.

Key points:

– Sleep: In principle, don’t stay up past midnight, rise earlier instead for morning productivity. Wind down before you sleep. List tomorrow’s priorities, then leave them. Switch off your notifications.

– Eat: Fuel the brain with complex carbohydrates. Consume nutrient dense cooked foods regularly – slow cookers save time. Minimise your intake of toxins e.g. alcohol, caffeine, refined sugars. Your brain has a higher predisposition towards storing these toxins, and your mental drive may make these quick fixes attractive. Don’t fall for short term hits at the expense of long term productivity.

– Exercise: Clear your head with long distance, repetitive, solo activities like running or cycling, ideally in the afternoon. Start mornings with activity that gets you breathing deeply and circulating but does not expend essential energy too soon.

For the most precise and personalised data, access your ph360 profile. Identify what you are going to action when, and track your progress in their implementation.

To amplify your mental & physical energy, a Personalised Detox will provide you with a complete, brief and efficient program to implement at home. To extend, employing the expertise of a personalised coach will further build your toolkit of strategies for maximising your success.

Whatever your objectives, have a highly successful year.

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