Jacqueline Gikow

Dashing Dudes Jacqueline Gikow

Dashing Dudes: A 5-Step Guide to Wellness, offers a start to a healthier lifestyle that inspires a healthy, active, and vital life now and tomorrow. In other words, in five easy to follow steps, it will help the reader create an active, personal journey. Here are five questions that you can ask yourself for each wellness area described in Dashing Dudes, A 5-Step Guide to Wellness.1. Define it: When it comes to your health and wellness, what do you wish were true?2. Discover your strengths: What conditions would allow you to generate change?3. Dream it: What would be your wildest positive solution to achieving wellness?4. Design it: What can you commit to for each day make the changes you want?5. Your destiny: What would you like to happen?In A 5-Step Guide to Wellness, you can apply the questions to each of the following steps: Chapter 1. Step 1: Get Active - Get HealthyThe first step to wellness is a call to action. I know getting healthy isn't easy! But start now and you'll notice a difference right away. Become fit and you improve your endurance, flexibility and strength. Chapter 2. Step 2: Manage Your Weight by Eating WellOh yeah, your food. Whether we're happy with our weight or not food is always on our minds. Enjoying what we eat is part of what will keep us motivated. We won't get there by beating ourselves up every time we get off track. We get there by being kind to ourselves, having fun and learning along the way. Chapter 3. Step 3: Build Balance and FlexibilityIn the United States, one in three adults, aged 65 and older falls each year. They may suffer moderate to severe injuries, or increase their risk of early death. Taking control of your health to lower your risk of falling. Improve your balance, which tends to decline as we get older. Chapter 4. Step 4: Mood Modifiers - Choose to be HappierChoose to be happier means to make a conscious choice to boost your level of happiness. Research reports that we are happier as we get older. But many people don't realize that happiness is a choice. Once you decide to be happier, you can choose strategies for achieving happiness. Chapter 5. Step 5: Habit and Rituals - Finding Magic in the MundaneThe final step may be the key to achieving the first four. Think about the insignificant decisions you make each day that you take for granted. What if small tweaks to your decisions and actions enhances your life