These are notes from a writers’ symposium called Life the Universe and Everything. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

– Identify your purpose.
– To see your long-term success, you need to create an action plan.
– Often we don’t have boundaries
– When your body is under distress your body won’t function. You can lose your creativity.
– You are your business. It is not selfish to do self-care.
– Self-care is none onetime actions, it has to be repeated on a daily basis. Taking enough water, watching a movie. Playing a game. It is paying attention to your intention.
– Self-care needs 3 things.
– Needs to be personal. Has to start with self-awareness. What do you want, what do you need.
– It needs to be purposeful.
– Practical to do actives that fulfill you.
– To find out what is personal to you have to check in yourself.
– You are in control of how you face daily challenges.
– Trying to do things that everyone else wants you to do can put you in a state of depression.
– Great awareness of wants and needs has long-term success.
What causes burn out or to find a red flag.
– Cause by unrealistic high expectations.
– Long hours
– Limited resource
– Competing responsibilities
– Personal prelateships.
– Limited time
– Loss of appetite
– Insomnia
– Increased mood swings
– Unable to cope
– Difficulty to concentrate
– Confusion.
– Snapping over very small stress.
Self-care is the power tool to address burn out.
– Maybe create unhealthy habits to address stress. Substance abuse. Bindging media.
– Going through the actions but not making progress.
– Wasting time due to lack of motivation you lose business
– For self-care defense pay attention to things that make you feel loved.
– Begin with a start where you are. Start with the person. If you identify yourself not by the job but what are your passions. What do you do for yourself that makes you happy?
– Become more comfortable with yourself
– Ask where you want to achieve in work or personal life.
– Can’t be effective in changing your life you must first identify your problems. You need to define what is not working.
Health and vitality:
– The mood is influenced by how much exercise, walks, fresh air, your nutrition choices quality of sleep. Satisfied with your fitness?
Thoughts and emotions:
– What is the quality of emotions you get from our life? How satisfied with mental health, how satisfied are you’re with your spirituality?
Family and Friend:
– How fulfilled with the quality of relationships in your life.
– Are you happy with your role in your family or friends?
– How is your communication?
– Are your family and friends supportive?
– Are you supportive of your family and friends?
Love and partnership:
– Are you free from past blame?
– Who are your sources of support or you support your growth?
– How open are you to finding a significant other.
Productive and performance:
– Do you create high quality in your workplace?
– Are you improving in your ability in your safe place?
– Do you have enough time for self-development?
– Do you love what you are becoming?
– Do you engage in actives that improve yourself?
Business career:
– Are you happy with what you do with a living?
– Do you enjoy those you work with?
– Are you making progress with your financial goals?
– Is your financial future sustainable? The wheel of life forms has health at the top.
– After you identify your areas of weakness. Your next goal is to round out the wheel. Wheel of life as a circle. On the rim of the circle is are headers at the edge and 1-10
– Suggest activities that can round out your wheel.
Physical health:
– Walk every day. Walking increases your creativity. Corporations such as Microsoft and Google will have a walking meeting and helps your creativity.
– Get 8 hrs. of good sleep
– Eating less sugar what you eat triggers your emotions.
– Drink enough water
– Eat wholesome food i.e. fruits and vegetables.
Thoughts and emotion:
– Consume spiritual content
– Attend theaters or concerts.
– Spend more time in nature. Hearing the sound of water. Nature has a positive influence on your brain.
– Playing a music instrument
– Learn to say no to some things so you can say yes to other things. Say yes to others say no to your own goals.
– Meditate
– Listen to ted talks.
Relationship with family and friends
– Take the family out to eat
– Do a thing to help someone
– Be in a book club. Hiking clubs
– Make a romantic dinner.
– Help with your partner
– Go somewhere new with your partner.
Header:
– Set realist goals
– Scheduled times to unwind
– Work hard and play hard.
– Increase your skills
– Pay off bills
– Learn how to budget
Personal growth:
– Read a new book
– Watch lectures
– Take classes or training, workshop
– Learn a new hobby or another creativity task.
– Underline things you need to do and start them this week.
Ideas to help with self-health:
– Watch comedy
– Thoughts and emotions: doing yoga.
– 30 min of meditation a day.
– Getting dressed and leave the house once a day.
– Seeing a therapist.
– Put away technology at times of self-care
– Doing an act of service for other people that lets you see another world
– Ted talk: is slow multitasking. Einstein published 6 papers. If you get stuck on one project he’ll work on others. Brandon Sanderson has multiple books so if you get bored work on another project.
– The artist book: read it
Family and friends:
– Families can be friends of choice.
Love and partnership:
– The Five love languages. Book
– You can find out how people feel love and for yourself.
Productivity:
– Smart goals (I googled it. https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/smart-goals.htm
– If we are in good health, have plenty of sleep and exercise we are more productive.
– The scale of the wheel and the intensity of your experiences depicts the values in our life. Make sure you do things that add value to your life.
– Self-care is not selfish it is your responsibility.
– Ask yourself what brings you joy. Movies, food, a good book. Hot bubble batch, favorite drink, music.
– Make a list of 20 things you love doing or having.
– Once a week treat yourself to one of the things you enjoy. It needs to be something that lifts your spirit.
– Think of yourself as an investment.
– Petting an animals’ fur can calm a lot of people.
– Travailing to a new place. Could include you can be a tourist where you live.
– Notice the beauty of the world around you and taking the time to appreciate it.