Giving Back Version

To find Total Balance in your life, all areas must be healthy. The Giving Back “Basics” are principles to live by that will help you achieve Total Balance as a result of being charitable and giving back to those around you, feeling rested, eating right, getting enough exercise, focusing on your relationships, managing stress, improving habits, managing your finances and setting goals. The key is to remember what works best for you in each area and remind yourself that they are all interconnected.

The Giving Back version of The Basics has, as its core and ninth foundation block, the Giving Back “Basics.” This version would be for individuals who believe the values of a charitable, giving lifestyle should be an important part of their lives. When you give more than you expect to receive, you ultimately get back so much more in return personally that it enhances your life and gives you additional strength to achieve balance in the other eight areas of life such as eating right, feeling rested and even financial stability.

We illustrate the importance of serving others on a daily basis and how, as long as we keep it a focal point in our lives, the act of giving back to those around us will keep our foundation strong, upheld by the good deeds we perform without expecting something in return.

The Giving Back book can also be used as an ideal, beneficial product in corporate, work settings in which employees—and their employer—can take part in a wellness program that brings together all nine major aspects of their life into one simple, resourceful product. In addition to this book, the program includes quarterly newsletters, program presentations for employees and other personal interactions with individuals in order to keep each participant active and interested in their well-being and overall health.

Achieving balance with the Giving Back version of The Basics will allow you to evolve into a healthy, balanced individual while bringing you closer to one of life’s greatest purposes: to serve others.

The Basics provides you with principles and guidelines for the nine key areas of life in a bullet-point format which allows for easy review and reference. In addition to the simple principles presented, there are reflective and thorough introductions at the beginning of each of the nine chapters as well as deeper explanations of each Basic within the “Deeper Look” sections in every chapter. In order for The Basics to be fully effective, it must also be personalized. There are sections in the book where you can fill in the challenges you are facing and identify changes you want to make in your life.

As the current circumstances in your life will change, The Basics encourages you to reconsider the areas of your life that need the most immediate attention without sacrificing the quality of your life in other areas. As you progress, the book provides you with opportunities to review your history of transformation into a Totally Balanced person.

The Basics' advice along with your personalized plan will help you achieve and maintain your goals. The book will help you confront the negatives that are holding you back and embrace the positives that encourage your personal transformation.

The Basics will help you get to the heart of the matter, discover the root of each problem in your life, decide how to overcome them, and help you to avoid future problems so that you can experience an improved quality of life.