A series where I curate the latest news in health and wellness from around the web into actionable insights, so you can become a powerful wellness architect, and help your team perform at their best and thrive.

After sharing the first issue of the weekly wellness digest, a few people contacted me to let me know that they loved the conciseness of the report, and how it's geared to helping us facilitate taking action. Based off of the good feedback, that means I'm back with another issue.

Look, it's difficult to find positive information these days. We can find ourselves doomscrolling through the news lately. And when we do find great content, it's usually scattered over multiple platforms, and I personally don't enjoy having to go through my social media to collect information through a cluttered newsfeed.

Let's face it: Social media platforms are designed to keep our eyes glued to their respective pages. It turns out that short, fragmented content works well for that. But it doesn't serve as a valuable tool to get the deeper insights of the specific topics we enjoy, all without the distraction.

That's why I find these executive summary reports so valuable. They help you navigate many different topics in one place. You can dive deeper into areas that interest you, or you could just focus on taking immediate action in the call to action section below. The other benefit, more selfishly, is that I can use these as my own personal archives for reading I wish to refer to in the future. Pretty cool, right? Alright, you don't really care about that so let's move on.

How to navigate this report

Information: Your weekly archive of the newest wellness content. You will learn about a wide-array of health and wellness topics, respecting the Deep Health Model.

Comprehension: A quick glance at the information worth observing and contemplating more. This is highly subjective as these are my takeaways, but I simply aim to extract the most relevant materials that most of us can apply.

Transformation: Where the magic happens. Your call to action, and some suggested steps to leverage these new findings to better influence the health of yourself and those around you.

After reading this issue, feel free to share content in your social media, with your family and friends, in your company wellness newsletter, or, just use it to take some small healthy action today!

Let’s dive in.

Information: Your curated wellness archive update

Pick a couple of pieces to read whenever you have a chance, or read it all!

Estimated reading time for all materials: 50 - 60 minutes

Organizational Well-being / Workplace Wellness

Why the Manager is One of the Most Important Roles in Ensuring a Thriving Wellness Culture (Article)

Adam Grant on how jobs, bosses, firms may improve after the crisis (Article)

Work from anywhere: Workforce trends expected in 2021 (Article)

Sleep Health

5 reasons to prioritize better sleep in 2021 (Article)

Why Sleep Matters (Article)

Physical Well-being / Fitness / Nutrition

Long Term Athletic Development: The approach to maximizing athletic potential in children (Article)

Women will avoid gyms, seek other plans to fitness in 2021, study finds (Article)

Gyms aren't coming back, here's how you'll work out in the future (Article)

Set Your Exercise Goals High, But Not Too High (Article)

Social-Relational Well-being / Diversity and Inclusion / Culture

The Future of Business Leadership: Old-School Micromanagers Need Not Apply (Article)

Color of Hockey: NHL hopeful co-authors children's hockey book (Article)

Linsday-Rae Mcintyre on the evolution of diversity and inclusion in the workplace (Podcast)

"Neuroscience shows us that feeling excluded activates the same parts of our brain that we sense physical pain."

Mental & Emotional Well-being / Mindfulness / Creativity

Yale Insights: Advice For a Better 2021-According to the Research (Article)

6 Ways to Find Joy During This Dreary Winter, According to A Happiness Expert (Article)

Worker, Interrupted: The Cost of Task Switching (Article)

8 Daily Habits to Help Keep You Calm & Centred (Article)

5 Ways to Kick Start Your Productivity 2021 (Article)

How to stop comparing yourself to others physically (Article)

Time to Reinvent: 5 Tips for Boosting Creativity and Innovation (Article)

Embrace Happiness (Article)

"Technically, emotions can be organized along two dimensions: intensity (how strong they are) and hedonic valence (how good they feel). Tranquility, for example, has low intensity but can feel really really good, a profound inner peace."

Existential Well-being / Purpose and Meaning

Scientists Publish the First Human Psychological Aging Clock Using Artificial Intelligence (Article + Research)

"The authors of the study verified the SubjAge on large independent datasets to discover that higher SubjAge is very predictive of all-cause mortality. More specifically, a person whose SubjAge is five years greater than the subjective age he or she reported is twice as likely to die as a person with normal age perception.

The authors also point out how SubjAge can be manipulated therapeutically to make patients feel younger and thus reduce their mortality risk. For example, developing openness to new experiences can reduce SubjAge prediction by seven years.Keeping the bar high, being productive and not backing away from difficult-to-reach goals will take another four years off of a person’s psychological aging clock."

Environment / Climate Change / Nature

Biological diversity evokes human happiness (Article)

Many Scientists Now Say Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly After Emissions Go to Zero (Article)

Comprehension: The Key 3

Highlights worth contemplating this week

The modern workplace is changing beneath our feet, and it's crucial that we establish healthy systems which are resilient to this disruption. Managers and team leaders play a crucial role in this adaptation. Launching any initiative - wellness or otherwise - needs to have all of the managers' hands on deck. They must also aim to nurture an inclusive environment that ensures a sense of belonging. Click to Tweet

How we choose to mentally respond to events has a big impact on our health. We need to establish daily stress management/reduction practices that fit into our lifestyle. By actively practicing these techniques, we learn how to better respond to the world around us. Click to Tweet

Exercise doesn't revolve around solely going to the gym. It's about expressing our ability to move in many different environments, and ultimately that's what we are designed to do. Working out at home, getting involved in recreational sports, or participating in more activities outdoors are going to become more commonplace. It's about the integration of intentional movement into each of our daily routines. Click to Tweet

Transformation: Your Call to Action

What to do today

Leverage your self-discovery/guiding question to make yourself one percent better.

Which of my thoughts or actions might unknowingly or unintentionally be contributing to poor health habits of my team?

What to do this week

Practice conversations, not just sending surveys. Figure out ways to get make your initiatives more inclusive. Get on calls with your team to hear them out and understand what they are looking for.

Get outside. Do something in nature. Your mind and body will thank you.

Try out this new wellness practice. Feel free to save this image and print off so you can track your hydration practice.

Please let me know if you enjoyed this issue, and if you followed through on any of your call to action items!

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