Summary
Wellbeing is a process. We can set goals to pursue wellbeing. Goals should be SMART. For 2025, let’s set goals for peace and harmony in our world. Happy New Year 2025.
Wellbeing for 2025 and Beyond
Wellbeing is a process, not an outcome. We can pursue a future of wellbeing, with a little planning. Let’s explore wellbeing for 2025 and beyond.
Setting SMART Resolutions
Recall my previous posts and the SMART goal model.
Setting goals is admirable. Establishing goals requires planning. Otherwise, disappointment can ensue when the goals are not achieved.
Goals should be SMART.
S: Specific
M: Measurable
A: Achievable
R: Relevant
T: Timely.
Set yourself up for success by using SMART goals.
Wellbeing in 2025: We Can Do It
Hope and intentional actions can incite a transformation of our world. Let’s aim high and make 2025 a year of positivity, charity, generosity, and deliberate engagement to ameliorate the world.
We can do it.
Social connectedness. Gratitude. Compassion. Generosity. Awareness of self and others.
And, Peace.
Holidays: Actions to Promote Wellbeing
Not to be a party pooper but let’s look at some facts.
During the holidays, people spend time with each other. In close quarters. Sharing food and air.
Do not forget to wash your hands and stay home if you are sick.
The Centers for Disease Control released data on the increasing number of influenza infections and the increasing number of COVID 19 infections. The data do not speak to the severity of symptoms. Nevertheless, which one of you wants to get any symptoms, even if they are not severe in nature?
Silence. Because none of us wants to get sick.
Let me share a video from Hip Hop Public Health, produced at the height of the COVID 19 Pandemic. It is timeless, like the “NO SPITTING” signs in the NYC Metro. Yes, please do not spit in public. Spitting in public can pose a health hazard.
Hip Hop Public Health: Behind the Mask
https://www.hhph.org/work/learning-studio/behind-the-mask
Never outdated.
While you are on the Hip Hop Public Health website, check out the wealth of learning resources.
I still wear the mask when I see clients out of respect to them. Any of the people who have contact with me can share an infection in the office and then I can share it with everyone who comes into the office, particularly if I harbour the infection after exposure. I have no qualms about wearing the mask to protect fellow human beings. To protect my brothers and sisters, all members of the human race.
Unity and Peace in 2025
Remember Berenike.
Let’s make certain we act as stewards of our world to ensure that, for another millennium or two or more, the human race can live in harmony, with each other and with other living organisms.
Listen to the beautiful harmonies created by Kings Return:
Kings Return: The King’s Nutcracker Suite
Promoting Wellbeing for 2025
I have only one wish for 2025, a wish that I have had for as long as I can remember, since I was aware of myself in connection to other people. A wish that was instilled in me by my family and my community, as if genetically.
Peace on Earth.
We can achieve this wish, if we set our minds on the process. Recall, wellbeing is a process not an endpoint.
Let’s stop the nonsense. Stop the oneupmanship. No one, no one is better than anyone else.
We all belong to the human race.
Peace to all of you. Put it into practice and our world will thank you for it.
Take a moment to hear the message as only Maroon 5 can deliver it:
Maroon 5: Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
Happy New Year 2025 to everyone.
Selected References:
Centers for Disease Control (December 20, 2024). CFA Modeling and Forecasting. Current Epidemic Trends (Based on Rt) for States. Accessed online on December 22, 2024, at https://www.cdc.gov/cfa-modeling-and-forecasting/rt-estimates/index.html#:~:text=influenza%2C%20and%20RSV.-,COVID%2D19,not%20changing%20in%2011%20states.
Marchant, J. (July/August 2024). A Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals the Hidden Connections between Distant Civilizations. Accessed online on November 8, 2024, at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hidden-ancient-egyptian-port-reveals-180984485/
Disclaimer: This post is not meant to substitute for a consultation with your mental health professional team.
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