Wellness Wednesday - Take Care Of You

This is a textual version of components from the August 5 Wellness Wednesday show. The full show is archived for your listening pleasure at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/PeterPocklington

ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE

Thank You to my Wellness team at Market America, both the Corporate staff who are always on the look-out to improve the training and the products, and my local crack team - Anita Trump, Melanie Vicker, Sharon Lawrence and Renee White.

Thank you to the fellow practitioners in the wellness industry - the chiropractors, alternative medicine practitioners, fitness clubs, fitness trainers, nutrition specialists, educators and developers, weight management practitioners and everyone who is involved in proactively increasing the health wealth supply as opposed to reactively "managing sickness" - which is the traditional role of the so-called health care industry.

A great thank you today to my guest Lucy DelSarto.

INTERVIEW WITH LUCY DELSARTO

Peter: My guest today is luminescent Lucy DelSarto. Lucy is the CEO of TCOY (tecoy) Wellness - that's "Take Care of You". Hi Lucy.

Lucy: Hi Peter.

Peter: Lucy has many accomplishments. I could go on for the whole program just listing them all. She was ranked in the World Top 16 in the heyday of womens' racquetball. She coached at Stanford University and took her team to a third place finish in the inter-collegiate nationals. But, probably not the least of her accomplishments - she is the survivor of a ten child family (all of the same parents, I might add) and she is the Mom to one teenager and two older step-daughters.

Hey, Lucy. You are so accomplished but let me start. As you know the mission of the empowerment network is to promote people who promote others. I'm curious, what is your passion?

Lucy: Well Peter - thank you for having me on the show - it's quite an honor. I have many passions but I believe one of my biggest ones would be - life! I'm very passionate about life and making a difference while I'm here.

I'm here to mentor and assist others on improving their quality of life - to be a leader by example.

Peter: Absolutely. And I know that this could just as easily be a Spiritual Sunday call. I know that you know that Jesus led by example, for example. And it is for us to take his example and lead others.

Lucy: Absolutely. I consider him my pilot and I'm just the co-pilot.

Peter: Co-pilot and pilot of the airplane 'Wellness'.

Lucy: That's right. Well, of life in general, to be honest with you. He can lead me anywhere and everywhere I want to go.

Peter: Absolutely. Now you have a major cause - Wellness - which is today's topic. What specifically made you take up wellness as a cause?

Lucy: Well. I've been aware of wellness my whole life - but inspiration or desperation really gets your attention to change. My motivation was to be there for my daughter. Once you have a child, you know you have a legacy and you want to give it the best you possibly can. So it heightened my awareness. I also don't look at sickness as an option. That's a failure if you ask me. So my goal is to do everything you can to be the best you can, and take care of yourself. My goal is WELLNESS.

Peter: Your goal is Wellness, and failure is not an option!

Lucy: Yes. Not at all.

Peter: Failure is actually a lack of attention to detail, possibly?

Lucy: Exactly.

Peter: You are a wellness coach, I saw in your resumee. Thinking about the role of coaches and what I've heard of how people try to 'do it themselves'. There is the old truism that people who go to the gym regularly avoid gyms in January - becaus ethat's when the 'New Years Resolutionists' show up - and theyre going to be gone by February.

As a coach have you any tips how people who really want to get it done - they didn't join a Gym for no reason - can avoid this drop-off?

Lucy: Absolutely. THe 'New Tears Resolutionists' is a perfect example. People believe that a certain day of the year is going to change everyting. It's not one day of the year. You can do it on August 1st. You can do it on September 30th - whatever day. Make it happen.

But my two biggest things I would emphasize are:

* Forget the word exercize and just think of movement. Movement - it's fun - it can be walking, it can be exercizing, it can be competing, it can be numerous different topics for yourself. But think of movement.

* And along with that make it FUN. If you are having fun doing something you are going to do it. Which is what racquetball was to me. It's a no-brainer. I go there when I want to get rid of stress, when I want to have a good intense work-out. If it's not racquetball for you, find something that's fun.



And right in there with that, find somebody to engage in it with you. Have a buddy system. Accountability. A friendship. When you walk in find somebody at the gym, a co-worker, a family member. If you are doing it with somebody else ou are more accountable.

You know, it's easy to say "It's raining today. I'm not going to go for a walk. It won't matter." But if it's fun and you have a partner to do it with you are more likely to stick with it.

Peter: Yup. That is so true. SO then, having fun is what its all about! We tend, I've noticed,back to your coaching experiences, that people tend to look on it as a displeasurable thing that they 'have' to do, not a fun thing that they 'want' to do because it increases their capacity to live.

Lucy: Right. You don't have to do anything in life. You choose to do it. ANd what those choices are will come about to show what your life is about. ARe you choosing to do it because you want to be healthy or because you have to - and then it is a negative.

Peter: Choose to do it. THe words you choose depend on what you do really.

Lucy: Absolutely.

Peter: So, OK. Now we've got to the point. Choose. Use good words. Movement rather than exercise. I love that concept, I really have to train my mind in terms of more movement. Because every time I move I'm actually, technically, exercizing.

Lucy: Uh, huh.

Peter: OK. So talk to myself, move around, have fun.

Now inertia tends to stop people from doing things. ANd most people just have trouble getting started. They like the idea, but ....

What about getting started. Any advice you can give the listeners here?

Lucy: Yes I have. I think fear keeps people back a lot. They think "Well I'm not in great shape so I'm not going to go to the club because a lot of people are already in shape that are there"

But, you know, everybody starts somewhere. You have got to look at any professional in any area of your life. They started somewhere.

You just need to start!

The little things that you build on, over time, will make you more confident, and those little things will matter.

There is a great book out there that I use in my presentations. It's called "The Slight Edge" - Jeff Olson is the author. "The Slight Edge" by Jeff Olson. Basically he is saying "it's easy to do, but it's also easy not to do"

I mean, it's easy to walk a little bit - that's not going to kill you. But if you don't do it over a number of years it's going to show up. As you get into your 40s, 50s and 60s it shows up.

So, easy to do, easy not to do. SO just go do it. Just get started. ANd don't put some huge goal out there.

Again, that's the New Years Resolution. People want to lose so much weight. Or they want to do this or that.

Make it a realistic goal and see past the goal. Attach it with an emotion. Create a dream board and visualize yourself living it before you are there. You have to be there mentally before you can get there physically.

Peter: Um, OK. So little things take you beyond what you think you can be. So think about what you want to be. Take little steps to get there and its amazing how quickly one can get there. Is that what I'm hearing?

Lucy: Absolutely. And I would recommend doing a journal. Doing a wellness journal so that you can see the progress. Because when its the little things you think its insignificant and it doesn't matter. But it does matter. And you keep doing it and doing it.

Look at a toddler. When they're learning to walk. How many hundreds of times they fall, but they keep getting up. They keep getting up and eventually they are walking. That's what you want to do. Just realize, just keep getting up. And if you are going to fall, fall forward because you just made six feet. Now you're closer to your goal. Just keep going. It's OK.

Peter: Oh, wow! You have so many great word pictures. I guess I need to call you and have you coach me. Tiger Woods has an even better coach. The top people have the top coaches. I'm going to have to get your services.

Hey, I love that word picture of the little child. I happen to know, as we said going on, that children mean a lot to you. That the obesity epidemic, the problems we are having with sports programs being cut, all of those types of things.

I'd love you to share a little advice with regards to children. The example we are setting for children. And your thoughts on children and wellness.

Lucy: Oh, there is so much I could go into with that. One thing I would like to stress. Even having been a professional athlete, and I love sports, I think that schools need to focus on P.E. - Physical Education - versus Sports.

Because when you do just sports there is only a few people who will make the team. And how many go on to College. And how many will play professionally.

We need to make it a mindset, a lifestyle, for every child in school. We need to think physical exercise - not winning or losing. Because you are a winner if you are exercising. That's one aspect.

And acting as a role model to every child out there. They are a sponge. They are soaking up what you are doing. So you want to do habits that will increase their likelihood.

So what are you doing? What are you eating? How are you exercising? How do you handle stress? All those things are pigments that they are soaking up. And they are watching you. If you are sedentary they are going to be sedentary.

If you are drinking sodas - which are ridiculously high in sugar content - it impacts them. Their attitudes and energy levels are affected by that. That's going to affect them!

Stress levels - same thing. If you are woring out you are releasing those endorphins. Get the kids to join you. It's a huge thing. I love it and I want to emphasize we are human be-ings.

Peter: What a great thought!

Lucy: We don't need to 'do' 24 x 7. We are on an adrenalin rush all the time. Be a human be-ing and enjoy what God gave us, every minute of every day.

Peter: Yep. We are all beings and we are designed to be well beings.

Lucy: Absolutely, the body wants to be well.

Peter: Yep. I guess I could go on forever. I am enjoying so much the advice. But in the interests of time we should probably schedule a follow-up show, Lucy. You bring out the creativity in me. So let's just finish with the important message

Let's all BE well BEINGS.

Hey, Lucy, how can people stay in touch with you?

Lucy: There are a couple of ways. They can get on my website, which is www.tcoywellness.com [Take Care Of You]

or I have a blog - tcoyfocus.co.cc

I write a newsletter every month with little inspirational tidbits and some good wellness information. Go into my website, send me an e-mail. Go into my blog, send me an email. See some past newsletters.

I'd be more than happy to use social media.

Peter: O.K. everybody. So we know know how to learn from Lucy. Hopefully today's program has given you some encouragement to start moving yourself.

For myself,

I am Peter Pocklington
I am a Good News Merchant
I am a purveyor of prosperity, and
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for listening

Invest in yourself, YOU ARE SO WORTH IT.

GOD BLESS!