Archives for November 2014

SMARTtarget (DOM) POLITICALfitness Nov-2014

November 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment

To get an “A” you must be a registered voter, vote 90% of the time, and write a letter to one of your political representatives.

As we are upon an election this is a good time to focus on political fitness. In reality your interest in politics should not end with an election, it’s really the beginning.

You are encouraged to write to your political leadership and thank them for something that they have done/said that you like, as we tend to get more of what we focus on, or give our attention to.

In this section post the people/principles, products, and practices that help you get an “A” in this category.

Filed Under: 3 Political Fitness, 4 Social Fitness, SMARTplace, SMARTtarget

SMARTtarget (DOM) Nutritional Fitness – Nov 2014

November 17, 2014 by 4 Comments

Please post in this discussion the people/principles, products, and practices that help you eat better. You can get some starter information from SMARTsteps posted at www.BetterME.us. The general goals; appropriate calories, whole foods plant based diet, with adequate Vit D and minerals, limited hydrogenated oils and sugar.

Filed Under: 2 Nutritional Fitness, SMARTplace, SMARTtarget

SMARTmessage (DOM) 11/2/14

November 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment

We are now up to 104 likes on the SMARTplace page. This number needs to be matched by the number of report cards that are filled out at www.BetterME.us. If you have trouble completing this please email me. Please do this as this is how we are tracking our effort and can tell whether or not we are improving.

To get the most out of the SMARTplace effort, please commit to trying or posting one entry (or more) each week.
Summaries recommendations for targets mental fitness and family direction have been posted. Feel free to add to the mental fitness and family vision TARGETS if you find things of value. Also try out as many of the recommendations as you can and comment on whether you find it helpful. This is how we whether it represents a universal “truth” vs just helping the person who posted it.
Will be changing to nutritional fitness, so look for the people, products, and, practices that help you improve you eating. You can get some directions by downloading steps 4,5, and 6 from the SMARTsteps program at www.BetterME.us under the about tab.

The second target will be political fitness. To get an A, you must be a registered voter, vote in 90% of the elections, and write a letter to a political official. It is good time for political fitness as an election is right around the corner. It is suggested that you write to your officials early and than them for something that they are doing that you like (because what we focus on tends to grow).

Pastor Kelly endorsed the imagery at night before going to sleep posting. She does find this helpful.

Filed Under: SMARTmessage, SMARTplace

SMARTsummary (DOM) October 2014

November 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment

Hear are all of the recommendations to improve mental fitness that surfaced at Dunamis for the month of October for the Targets 1) Mental Fitness and 2) Family Vision:

Mental Fitness:

People
-Andy Stanley – Making Decisions: mentions four questions that will lead you to better choices and less regrets http://yourmove.is/watch/your-move/1

-John Kabat-Zinn video on Mindfulness: this video has over a 2 million views and serves as a good introduction to mindfulness meditation. http://youtu.be/3nwwKbM_vJc

-Jeff Lliff video on the importance of sleep: interesting discussion on the purpose of sleep. It will become clear why we should get the sleep we need. http://youtu.be/MJK-dMlATmM

-Dr Andrew Weil video on breathing: discussed 4-7-8 breathing, a very good technique to calm your spirit and improve your well-being. Takes less than 5 minutes a day.  http://youtu.be/SclZwqr5xpE. http://youtu.be/_Wg-UAYGa2A

Products
-IPhone sleep monitoring app: monitoring you sleep will give you insights as to the quality of your sleep and activities that help or hurt.

-Magnet Words: a recommendation from SMARTsteps as a way to control some of your subconscious behavior. And it works in the background.

Practice
-10 minutes of mindful meditation

-4-7-8 breathing: recommended and taught by Dr. Andrew Weil

-8 hours of sleep per night: recommended in SMARTsteps. There is much science to support this, though a 7 hour target may also work.

-Gratitude journaling: recommended in SMARTsteps. Based on work by Dr. Emmons. Scripture also suggests that you get more of what you focus on.

-Emotional Audit: suggested in SMARTsteps, most become aware of the amount of time spent in negativity, and this awareness is a part of the healing process.

-60 minutes of silence per day: recommended in SMARTsteps and helps to avoid brain fatigue, which supports better decision making.

Family Direction
People
-Adam Leipzig on purpose: Discusses five questions to help you figure out and describe your life’s purpose in 5 minutes.
http://youtu.be/vVsXO9brK7M

-Josh Kaufman TED talk on getting good in 20 hours
Much of the wisdom out there suggest that it take 10,000 to master a subject. But this is mastery, not beings good. Being good only takes 20 hours of targeted practice. Realize that everyday you are getting good at something, make sure it’s something helpful. http://youtu.be/5MgBikgcWnY now at 2million views.

-Martin Grunberg discussing the importance of habits: Note that you are strengthening habits everyday. Better to strengthen those that help you achieve you purpose/priority. http://youtu.be/ThjFnvEENRw

-Andy Stanly video on Future Family: discusses one question that can dramatically change the family dynamics http://yourmove.is/watch/future-family/1

-Lissa Rankin TEDx talk on what is important for health
http://youtu.be/7tu9nJmr4Xs
Very interesting talk that disease is just that dis-ease with your inner self. If you want to be healthy there are targets other than rest, nutrition, and physical activity. Really health comes from health relationships with others and our environment, wow social fitness.

-Book: Steven Covey: seven habits of highly effective families

-Quote: Mark Twain – “the two most important days of your life are when you were born and when you find out why”

Products
-Habit Factor App: encourages you to identify the habits that support a goal. Makes it easy to track and give you feedback, especially if the habit does not have to be done daily.

Practices
-Vision as a recurring task on phone: if you make your vision a recurring task you can be reminded at regular intervals what it is. May also help to write and reflect whether you have been living consistent with the vision since the last alarm.

-Vision board: Placing a vision board in the bedroom, helps to keep one focused on the road ahead before sleep and first thing in the morning.

-Nighttime imagery: Using imagery just before sleep, of the one or two tasks that should occur in the next day. May be helpful to construct a constructive morning. Try to make the image as real as possible, imagining all senses, and then smile to add some emotion.

Filed Under: News, SMARTplace, SMARTsummary

SMARTmessage DOM 9/27/14

November 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment

Dunamis Outreach Ministries (DOM) is the first community to become a SMARTplace, thanks to all those who have filled our their Citizen Report Card. Going forward, we will be filling this out online at www.BetterME.us. That being said, a couple of comments:

– prayer is not the same as mindfulness, prayer is more like talking and mindfulness is more like listening.
– don’t let the BMI upset you. It is important to pay attention to this number and get this below 30 and even better if below 27. There are some circumstances were people are being rated based on their BMI (like with some insurances).
– your responses will be kept confidential so there is no need to skip responses : )

 

Dunamis

Filed Under: SMARTmessage, SMARTplace