Elevate into 2025, harnessing 12 elite strategies tailored for every warrior — from the fit to the challenged, the plus-sized to those battling chronic conditions — unlocking your unique potential to thrive, adapt and conquer your personal health frontier.

How you’ll reach elite-level health

Here’s how we’ll tackle this health revolution, one part of your healthy lifestyle at a time.

1. Clean and organize your home, auto, garage, storage, and workspace.
2. Detoxify the body’s major systems.
3. Source the cleanest water available to you.
4. Learn how to choose healthy, chemical-free foods. Hint: Read the ingredients. We’ll teach you what to avoid.
5. Learn how to find the highest-quality vitamins, minerals, and supplements. Hint: Read the ingredients. We'll teach you what a quality supplement is.
6. Fix your head game! Mental clarity, mood stability, grit, bravery, confidence, enough sleep, processing past trauma, and developing resiliency and adaptability.
7. Connect, reconnect, or deepen your connection to nature’s healing and nutritional power.
8. Get social! Connect or reconnect to family, friends, or a partner. And make new friends and meet potential partners in real life.
9. Get moving! Lose weight. Build muscle. Improve your flexibility, mobility, and stability. Start a daily fitness routine. Learn an outdoor sport.
10. Find paid or volunteer work that you’re passionate about.
11. Get prepared for anything! Natural disasters, illness or injury, job loss, World War III, or ‘Disease X’ might be just around the corner. Elevate your chances of survival with preparedness.
12. Give back to your community. Help someone start their health revolution or volunteer in your community. Helping others can improve your self-esteem and boost your mood.

Now that you know the 12 elite health and lifestyle changes you’ll make this year, let’s ensure your environment supports your new healthy lifestyle and is clean of things that could make you sick.

Decluttering 101 for better health

Successful people don’t waste time looking for misplaced items like keys or phones when everything has its place. This practice goes beyond time management; it’s about preventing what’s known as “Sick Home Syndrome.”

Sick Home Syndrome happens through a combination of factors in a living or working space that can lead to harmful health effects.

These factors include poor air quality from too little ventilation, which traps pollutants like dust, mold spores, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from household products and building materials.

Biological contaminants like bacteria, viruses, and allergens from dust mites or pet dander can hang out in damp or dusty environments.

Chemical pollutants from cleaning products, pesticides, or tobacco smoke, along with physical factors like poor lighting or temperature control, can also contribute to symptoms like headaches, dizziness, irritation of the eyes, nose, or throat, and respiratory problems, especially when staying indoors a lot.

Having a messy environment can lead to wasted time and increased stress. A cluttered space can cloud your mind, reducing productivity and creativity.

By decluttering, you reduce health risks and promote a sense of control and achievement.

A clean environment reduces stress and anxiety, providing mental clarity for better decision-making.

Physically, organizing your spaces makes daily tasks smoother. For instance, knowing exactly where each cooking utensil is in your kitchen saves time and reduces frustration. In the workspace, a neat desk can enhance focus, as there’s less visual noise to distract you.

Here are the steps to effectively declutter your living space, whether it’s a single room, an apartment, or an entire house:

12 Steps to declutter your living space for good health

Download the 12 Steps to declutter your living space here.

1. Set Your Goals: Define what you want to achieve with decluttering. Is it to create more space, reduce stress, or get more done faster.
2. Break It Down into Manageable Tasks: Tackle decluttering one area at a time to avoid overwhelm. You might start with one room or even one drawer or shelf. As you’re decluttering your living space, auto, and workspace, you’ll need to clean EVERYTHING!
   • Be sure to deep clean by dusting from ceiling to floor, including all lights, fans, HVAC vents, baseboards, walls and furniture. I recommend starting with your bedroom, decluttering, and cleaning the entire room before moving to the next area.
   • Think about efficiency. For example, group together everything you need for at-home, outdoor, or gym workouts and recreation. You’ll be ready to quickly grab your gear and go — to work, school, or a workout.
3. Gather Supplies: Prepare bins, bags, or boxes labeled “Keep,” “Donate,” “Sell,” and “Trash.” This categorization helps in making quick decisions on where each item belongs.
4. Sort Items: Pick up each item and ask yourself: Do I use this? Do I love this? Does it have a specific purpose or sentimental value? If you answer “no” to these questions, consider donating, selling, or throwing it away.
5. Implement the “One-Year Rule”: If you haven’t used an item in the last year (except for seasonal items), it’s probably time to let it go. Make exceptions for sentimental items, but consider if storage is worth the space.
6. Designate a Place for Each Item: Decide where each item you keep should live. Everything should have a home, making it easier to maintain organization.
7. Organize What You Keep: Use storage solutions like shelves, bins, drawer organizers, or closet systems to keep your items in order. Label where appropriate to help maintain order.
8. Handle Paper Clutter: Create systems for mail, bills, and documents. Immediately sort paper into “file,” “act on,” or “trash or recycle.” Go digital where possible to reduce physical clutter.
9. Set Up a Donation System: Have a designated spot for items to be donated. Once you’ve decided something is for donation, move it there immediately to avoid second-guessing.
10. Maintain Your Space:
11. Incorporate decluttering and a daily, weekly and monthly cleaning routine into your schedule. Spend a few minutes each day or set aside time weekly to put things back where they belong, and reassess your space periodically to prevent re-accumulation of clutter.
12. Celebrate and Reflect: Once you’ve decluttered an area, take a moment to appreciate the space and how it makes you feel. Reflect on what worked and what didn’t for future decluttering sessions.
13. Consider Emotional Attachments: Find a small, dedicated space for items with emotional value but no practical use. This way, you honor the memory without the physical clutter.

By following these steps, you’ll declutter your space and create a system that makes maintaining an organized environment much easier.

By maintaining an organized and clean environment across your home, car, garage, and storage spaces, you’re not just making your life look better; you’re taking care of your health, saving time, and making everything you do much simpler. It’s like giving yourself a daily boost towards happiness and productivity.

Why good health matters:

As always, you can download an information sheet and step-by-step ways to put what you’ve learned into your daily routine.

The human body is like an amazing team, a marvel of biological engineering, where every part has a special job. Many different systems, like your heart, lungs, and stomach, are all working together to keep you healthy and strong. Each system is super important, contributing to our overall health and well-being. Whether it’s helping you breathe, eat, or run around.

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