“Personal sustainability — sustainability at the personal level — may be the most fundamental form of sustainability we should tackle, because without it, other forms of sustainability may become improbable or even impossible.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“When you witness a symptom or criticism toward an issue, don’t use positive thinking to downplay or deny its seriousness. Instead, use positive thinking to make the situation better.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“Inflammatory foods can be high-calorie and nutritionally skewed, and are often the by-products of food engineering that preys on your need for quick fixes.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By choosing foods that are minimally processed and that retain much of their structures, you may be able to enjoy meals that are less polluted and more nutritionally sound.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“Our modern environments are great at meeting our outer needs, but they are often conceived in a way that is hardly conducive to our inner health.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“You may even begin to see that nature is like a sanctuary — a place you can go to to restore yourself and come back more refreshed than before. It’s the place that every single human on Earth originally called home, and it’s a place you can always return to to fully realign with your root.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By wearing clothes and footwear only when they are absolutely necessary, you may be able to reclaim your sense of freedom and your connection to your surroundings.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“In fact, if you look at the way kids and animals use their voices, you may notice that they are able to use their voices to greatly enhance their well-being. This may make you realize that vocalization is really just movement — whose role may play an integral part in making us both functional and happy.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By cultivating your thermal awareness and responding to your thermal needs, you may be able to tap into your ideal temperature more consistently.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By becoming more aware of the things that are happening to you when you’re consuming food, you may be able to use those cues and signals to uplift your health and your well-being.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By channeling yourself into experiences that awaken and revitalize you, you may be able to reconnect with your essence and optimize your physiology.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“Money is just the current main medium for exchanging valuable things.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By repeatedly reminding yourself of the 'elusiveness' of money, you may begin to distinguish it from the people or the group that use it.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By routinely spending more time immersing in your thoughts, you may begin to gain clarity over matters you were previously clueless about. This may lead you to become more efficient at work and smarter with resources, and you may even gain a deeper understanding of how you should move forward.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“In fact, as you allow controlled shock to transform your life from the inside out, you may discover that it is these moments of shock that make you feel the most alive.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“If you make a habit of dismissing or catastrophizing your setbacks, you can also fall into a feedback loop that causes those reactions to magnify.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“Just as you can allow your outcomes to determine how you behave and react, you can also choose to reclaim your agency and apply it to your own circumstances. By exercising this unique right of selecting your own responses, you may turn from a victim to an agent who is more in control of your life.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By staying close to the people who are your true supporters, you may cut off many relationships that are transactional, abusive or harmful.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By brightening your beliefs and everyday reactions to things, you may make others more inclined to interact with you and see you favorably. This may make them more likely to respect your inputs and help you out, and you may even become more likely to obtain the outcomes or goals you seek.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By uncovering your principles and putting them into practice, you may become a more congruent person whose values and behaviors are in sync. This may boost your confidence and reduce your stress or inner turmoil, and you may even garner more trust or resources from those who value integrity.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By making an effort to understand people’s actions and beliefs, you may come to realize that your viewpoint is just a drop of all the perspectives. This may help you see through your personal biases and self-centeredness, and you may even strengthen your rapport with others and become people-savvy.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“If you continue to exhibit many behaviors that are burdensome to people, you can also prompt them to see you as a taker who is only in it for themselves. This may cause them to treat you as a liability that worsens their problems, and you may even become increasingly isolated and devoid of health.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By letting go of your personas that restrict what you say and do, you may find that it’s more liberating to act like you are and say what you think. This may help you express yourself better and connect with others more deeply, and you may even reduce your stress and garner more allies or support you need.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By honing your presence in each of your social encounters, you may be able to convey to them that their inputs and necessities matter. This may prompt them to open up further and confide more things to you, and you may even receive more favors that can end up improving your own condition.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By not conveying what needs to be conveyed to maintain some short-term harmony, you can also prevent others from making decisions that are informed and mature. This may cause many problems to remain unsolved or deteriorate, and you may even lose people’s trust and become less well-regarded by others.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“No matter how terrible an individual may behave, always treat them with a basic level of respect and dignity. Not only would it increase your chance of getting your message across, but it would also make them more likely to react more favorably.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“Just as you can give in to your short-term desires and let these stimulants take over you, you can also choose to stop this enslavement by making these stimulants obsolete.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“If you spend your days broadcasting your not-so-pleasant traits to others, you can also cause them to downgrade your image and form bad impression of you.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By proactively resolving relational issues without dodging or imposing, you may be able to defuse many clashes without dramas or externalities.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“In fact, by using good habits to keep your teeth away from acid, you may come to realize that doing so is better than infrequent invasive cleanings.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“Your food instinct is at work during most of your waking hours, and can provide you with many signals about what, when or how you should eat.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond