Improve Your Financial Health for Better Overall Wellness, with Madeleine Shaw
🧘 Madeleine Shaw is a leading voice in the wellness industry: a bestselling author, nutritional therapist, and mother. Madeleine is passionate about helping her followers get their glow back through eating well, moving more and making time for what makes them happy.
💸 But since our health is made up of more than just what we eat, Madeleine also believes that finances should be included in our overall wellness. Money is often an afterthought in our lives, yet with the right mindset, we can all build healthier money habits for a more balanced and fulfilling life.
💥 Today on The Wallet:
1️⃣ Madeleine discusses the “wellness toolkit” she uses to reconnect to her body, relax, and feel happy, and why having an outlet can be key to feeling good.
2️⃣ We look at the healthy money habits that Madeleine has adopted, which include reaching her financial goals by avoiding impulse purchases and opting for a slower, more sustainable outlook on life and consumption.
3️⃣ With social media being such an integral part of our lives, it’s harder than ever to stop comparing ourselves or our businesses to others online, so Madeleine offers helpful tips to help us look after our wellbeing online.
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1.use a Wellness Toolkit
The core pillar of your wellbeing is sleep. Prioritise sleep as much as you can: take it seriously, rather than expecting it to just happen. Winding down before you go to bed by avoiding technology and having calming rituals helps improve the quality of your sleep.
Have balanced meals throughout the day. It’s all about crowding in, instead of cutting out: try not to see it as sacrificing food, rather, that you’re adding extra nutrition.
Learn how to have breaks from work, and take it seriously. Take a breath, and reclaim your lunch break!
A wellness toolkit can be extremely helpful in helping you reconnect to your body. Madeleine, for example, uses nature, meditation, and setting strict boundaries at work as part of her wellness toolkit.
Your toolkit can be anything: running, drawing, rock climbing, listening to music — any outlet that gets you away from your head and reconnects you to your body, and lets you escape.
“The little moments every day can sometimes be more important than the big, one hour thing that we do. It’s about knowing what feels good for you, and trying to fit that in every day. ”
2. Build Healthy Money Habits
Talk about money as openly as you can, as soon as you can. Having open conversations really helps you take ownership of your financial position.
Figure out your priorities and what you value in life: these will help you set goals.
Once you’ve set your goals, calculate how much you’ll need to save to achieve them, and for how long. For Madeleine, because she doesn’t have a fixed income, she sets how much she needs to save on a quarterly basis.
Be organised and keep track of your income and expenses.
Have honest conversations with yourself. Saving requires discipline, so don’t jeopardise your number one goal for little things along the way.
Having multiple accounts for the different areas of life you want to save up for is helpful in staying organised.
Focus on sustainability. Learning how to reel in your emotional spending habits and shop more sustainably helps save you money in the long run and, over time, you will train yourself to spend less impulsively.
3. look after your wellbeing online
Stop comparing yourself to others online and instead, try to celebrate other people’s wins. This can be hard, especially when you feel like someone is doing better than you, but in the end, you’d want people to celebrate your wins, too.
Keep in mind that everyone’s life is bumpy. Just because someone has bought a house or gotten married doesn’t mean their entire life is perfect, we just don’t see the flawed parts.
Set social media boundaries. For example, Madeleine doesn’t post on the weekend and doesn’t share anything about her family online, which helps her switch off.
If you’re able to have a work phone and a non-work phone, this can really help enforce your boundaries and spend less time online.
RESOURCES:
You can follow and connect with Maddy at:
Website: www.madeleineshaw.com
Other resources:
Homethings: www.gethomethings.com
Farmdrop: www.farmdrop.com