The effects of a bad hair day for both women and men can ripple far beyond the mirror in your bathroom. As a matter of fact much can ripple off the reflection peering back at you. The way that you view yourself, “good or bad”, affects your own attitude and your ability to impact your friends, family, and complete strangers. This is why it is important for you to maintain a respectful and realistic view of who you actually are. God says in the Bible that the best way to live is to love each other. However, until we truly understand what it means to love ourselves we can’t fully love others like Jesus did.
PHYSICAL FITNESS AND SPIRITUAL WELLNESS ALL IN A GREAT HAIRSTYLE
When you take care of yourself you honor God and celebrate or give glory to his creation. By keeping ourselves pleasing and holy unto God we have opportunity to be an example. It is much like having a nice car and keeping it clean and polished. People won’t just observe that you take good care of your car they’ll also admire the beauty of the car. Christians talk a lot about being pleasing and holy unto God as if they are one in the same. Being spiritually holy means to have a unique character and being devoted to serve God. Pleasing on the other hand means to be pleasant, gratifying and satisfying. These are much more physical characteristics rather than spiritual. By making that distinction we can understand the important relationship God intends to exist between who we our physically and spiritually.
Do you want to have a positive impact on those around you? If so, then consider the care for your hair, skin, hands, feet and more to be an integral part of your physical fitness. Good physical wellness doesn’t happen by being passive. You have to put some vision, focus and effort into it.
So, how can you strengthen the relationship between your physical and spiritual and make the most of your ability to impact others? Begin by going back to that bad hair day. What happened, why did it happen and how can you fix it? For most of us a bad hair day is just that – a doo that just won’t do.
A combination of external factors and internal frustrations give not only your hair but also your nerves the frizzes. Yet a bad hair day is much more. It can also be a mixture of any of our physical traits that aren’t appealing to us. Things like dry skin, unruly eyebrows, or even a broken nail (yep, guys have ‘em too)! Upon discovery of such horrors in the morning you have two choices: you can move on through the day and accept it or you can throw your head back and scream why!? Asking yourself this question at 6:30 on a Monday morning it is highly unlikely that you’re going to give yourself a realistic answer.
TAKE A STEP BACK NOW AND THINK ABOUT IT
Bad hair days can start the night before. We go to bed late, don’t sleep well and have a rough start the next morning. Instead, you need to set yourself up for success. Maybe you are simply not giving yourself enough time to get ready. Perhaps you’ve allotted plenty of time, but you’re trying something new and you just don’t’ have the hang of those new products yet. Luckily there is a reason why and a way to fix it. As long as during your morning meltdown you didn’t whip out the kitchen shears and start choppin’.
Instead, start with your calendar book. Set aside a more generous amount of time and reserve a slot on your calendar once a month that includes visiting your salon and spa. Prior to your reservation take some time to do a personal evaluation.
First simply decide what aspects you really like about yourself. If you’ve never done this it may seam like a silly exercise in self-praise. However, identifying perceptions, values, strengths and even good feelings is an important process regularly done by the most successful businesses. It is a practice you should apply to your own life as well. Secondly, identify what is bothering you about you. With this list you and your stylist can focus on the “good”, pinpoint the “bad” and create a style regimen that is organized and defined exactly for you. Also you can use these monthly lists to keep track of what worked, what didn’t work, and ideas and suggestions to be discussed.
DOES YOUR STYLIST KNOW YOU OR JUST CUT HAIR?
Three Tips For Finding A Personal Stylist That Works With You
- Research – You’re looking for someone that is obviously licensed and certified. Beyond that, a good stylist has developed solid knowledge and skills, is naturally gifted and listens well.
- Identify Expectations – A stylist who is a creative and proactive thinker will be most inclined to assume the greater role you would like for her or him to have in your overall physical fitness. Much like a doctor focuses on health and a personal trainer focuses on customized exercise goals, your personal stylist can work with you to maintain and enhance your hygiene, individual style, stress management and physical wellness.
- Spiritually Sensitive – Your personal stylist may or may not share common faith perspectives with you. However, you should find a stylist that can be supportive of your goals, respect your social causes and recognizes that he or she plays an important ongoing role in the execution of your personal mission. In some instances your stylist may even join with you in prayer as part of your physical and spiritual preparation.
THE PLAN
Life is lived day by day. I know we all think about and plan for the future but it is helpful to also find peace and rest in the Bible wisdom of not worrying about tomorrow.
Give yourself a plan that includes the following four key health and wellness factors:
- enough sleep
- plenty of exercise
- healthy food
- time
Setting aside time once a month to focus solely on you is the primary reason to do the once-a-month update. It is more than a maintenance activity. It is a personal lifestyle shift toward spiritual wellness and physical wholeness. Your career, personal and professional relationships, walk with God and your own personal perspective on life will all benefit. Remember that too much or too little of anything can be a bad thing. The key is to seek balance. You will be much happier by achieving a smaller goal rather than fighting yourself for something that is not true to you.
