“Geography is destiny in medicine” Jack Lord, MD
Have you ever thought about how where you live can have an effect on your health?
I was watching a TED presentation by Bill Davenhall today, the topic: “Your health depends on where you live”. It is just under ten minutes long and well worth watching:
By design if I wanted to have a heart attack I lived in the perfect places
This is the conclusion that Bill comes to part way through the video after mapping out his geographical location over the course of his life. Watching this video started up the gears in my brain (special thanks to Andrea Lee and Thomas Leonard as well), as TED talks generally do, and got me to thinking:
If physical geography has such a huge impact on my health, how does my overall personal geography affect my life and my success?
Forming an idea: Personal geography
I love to talk about environmental design and how it affects the success that we have in our lives. So, what if I took Bill Davenhall’s idea of environment affecting health and applied it to a review of my own personal geography. Instead of limiting the question to how does this personal geography affect my health, expand the question to how does personal geography affect all aspects of my life.
What does the physical space of my home look like? My office? My car?
How much time am I spending in the natural world?
Am I taking care of my body?
What important relationships do I have?
How does my job/business affect me?
What am I reading? Watching? Listening to?
How are each of these different environments, which build up my personal geography, affecting my success?
How is my personal geography helping me to live the life I dream about?
How is my personal geography holding me back? Pulling me forward?
Mind moving fast
Admittedly, this is not the most cohesive blog post in the history of blog posts, but that is all right. I am excited. My mind is activated. I am just trying to get the ideas out and on “paper” so I can start to work on them.
And I could use everyone’s help. As I start to develop this idea of personal geography I would love feedback and comments from all of you. Let’s start with:
What is your first impression of the idea of having a personal geography (personal life geography?)?
Jeremie,
seems you were highly successful in clashing two worlds.
Could this be your Thought Leader topic?
Wishing you a fun time while developing the idea of personal geography.
Looking at my personal geography right now, I could use some environmental action. LOL.
Best:
Judit
Judit,
Yes, this is shaping up to be my Thought Leader topic and I am now madly working on it in preparation for the March event.
I am interested in your comment on your own environments. Have you tried scanning one of your environments to see what may be missing or need adjusting?
Jeremie
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