Click below on the Self-Care dimension you want to upgrade so you can view my resource recommendations:

• Internal Self-Care
• Environmental Self-Care
• Logistical Self-Care

Key Resources for Upgrading Your Internal Self-Care

• Sleep: Simple. Get enough. Each night. If you have a sleep disturbance get appropriate professional help in diagnosing and treating its root cause source. Treat the symptoms themselves only if the root cause source cannot be found or effectively treated. One resource to check is a marvelous imagery audio by Martin Rossman, M.D., called Natural Restful Sleep. You can get it through this website: www.thehealingmind.org. While you’re there, check out the rest of his excellent resources.
  
  
• Nutrition: If you live on snacks and junk food, stop. If you “supersize” your portions, stop. Learn about the value of nutritional supplements and which ones might serve you best. One of the most useful science-based sources of information about nutritional supplements I have found is the Life Extension Foundation: www.lef.org. I will soon be listing here my favorite sources of supplements.
  
  
• Health Care: Conventional Western health care excels at controlling symptoms and acute problems such as emergencies. It is arguably far weaker than other health care approaches at preventive health care, treating chronic illness and healing the root causes of symptoms. You therefore have a responsibility to yourself to learn the truth about how to best utilize conventional Western medicine and how to best utilize other health care approaches. I provide many more resources on my website, but if you utilize no other resources for this that, at least read the following two books. They are among the most valuable resources I have found for obtaining the basic education in taking responsibility for your physical health: Life Beyond 100 by Norman Shealy, M.D. and Overdosed America by John Abramson, M.D. If you need more personal assistance in getting the upper hand on your wellness, consider working with a Wellness Coach certified through a marvelous organization called Wellcoaches®. The website page to go to is: www.wellcoaches.com/clients. If you select a Wellness Coach who has taken the classes I have provided for Wellcoaches®, you will be working with someone who is better equipped to support you in ways that are compatible with what read on this website and in my book, The New IQ, which will be released in January 2008.
  

• Energy System Balancing: I highly recommend doing daily exercises to balance your energy system, since I believe it likely that it will soon be proven that our energy system can efficiently regulate the rest of our physical and psychological systems. To learn the science behind my prediction, I strongly recommend that you read The Genie in Your Genes by Dawson Church, Ph.D. and/or The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton. Both these books are scientifically responsible, highly readable and extremely informative. You can also have my voice guide you through an energy balancing routine and more through my Energy Psychology Anywhere two-CD set. It not only takes you through a quick and enjoyable routine for balancing your energy system, but also provides you with a complete and highly portable self-help system for self-treating other issues. You will find it in the shopping cart. You will also soon find a free introductory eCourse on Energy Psychology, through the Freebies page on this website. Another valuable book on how to do basic energy system balancing is Energy Medicine by Donna Eden and David Feinstein, Ph.D.
  
  
• Soothing, Recharging and Play Habits: Refer back to the self-assessment activities you listed (in the chapter on the Self-Care WisePassion) that make you purr, restore your inner juice and/or feel like play. Do them however often you identified there that you need them. If you don’t know what soothes you, recharges you, and/or feels like play to you, this is a signal that you need to upgrade your ability to listen within. You will find information about that in the chapter in my forthcoming book, The New IQ, that explores WisePassion #3: Discernment.
  
  
• Internal Quieting Habits: Refer back to the self-assessment earlier in this chapter for the practices you listed that enable you to enter inner silence. Do them however often you identified there that you need them. If you don’t yet have a preferred internal quieting habit, try the meditation training audio by my wife, Laurie Morse, L.Ac. You can purchase it through her website, www.lauriemorse.com. She also makes available a delightfully simple and complete primer for taking charge of your basic physical health called Who Moved My Chi?

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Key Resources for Upgrading Your Environmental Self-Care

• Upgrading Your Physical Environments: Quite a number of marvelous books are now available on how to create nourishing physical spaces. Alexandra Stoddard is the queen when it comes to learning how to create them. I highly recommend her books, such as her classic, Living a Beautiful Life. I also suggest that you look through books on Feng Shui, the ancient art of energetically balancing physical spaces so they nourish all aspects of your life. Select one that resonates for you or consider doing a consultation with a Feng Shui expert at your home or office. Lastly, refer back to your self-assessment for the natural settings that nourish you. Incorporate as many features from those environments as you can into your home and work environments.
  
• People Environments: Refer back to your responses in the self-assessment. On a blank piece of paper, do the following: 1) Down the left side of the page, list approximately ten adults you are closest with in your family, socially, in your religious/spiritual community and in your work life. 2) Next to each person’s name, rate on a scale of 0-10 how much a) you truly enjoy playing with them and b) how much they support your authenticity, integrity, and development. 3) Combine the two scores for each person. 4) To the left of each person’s name, rank-order them from highest combined score to lowest total score. In other words, the person with the highest combined score is number 1 and the person with the lowest total score is number ten (assuming you list ten names). This exercise will quickly give you some clues about who you might consider developing a closer connection with and who you might consider developing a more distant relationship with. If you have very few people on your list and you scored fairly low, it’s time to expand your support system! If you don’t know how to do that, seek the assistance of a personal coach, counselor or psychotherapist who can help you identify your basic temperament and assist you in creating and implementing a plan to rebuild your support system based on your temperament.

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Key Resources for Upgrading Your Logistical Self-Care

• If you identified in the self-assessment in the Self-Care chapter of The New IQ or The New IQ Workbook (both will be released in January 2008) that you are weak in goal setting skills, implementation skills, time management skills or choices management, explore the following resources: 1) Stephen Covey’s classic book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People will give you a basic understanding of these skill sets. 2) If you are partial to paper-based systems, check out the FranklinCovey® paper system. Go to www.franklincovey.com for information. 3) If you are partial to computer-based systems, Accomplice is a software system that helps you manage all of these dimensions from your computer and/or PDA. It is the most complete software program of its kind that I have found. Go to www.accomplice.com for information.
  
  
• If you identified that you are weak in file management skills, you can learn about FreedomFiler®, the best file management system I have ever come across through this website: www.freedomfiler.com. I use it myself.
  
  
• If you identified that you are weak in streamlining skills, here is a great book for starters: Making Peace with the Things in Your Life: Why Your Papers, Books, Clothes, and Other Possessions Keep Overwhelming You and What to Do About It by Cindy Glovinsky.
  
  
• If you identified that you are weak in money management skills, here are three particularly useful books to help you develop basic financial literacy: Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Cashflow Quadrant, both by Robert Kiyosaki and The Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker.
  
  
• If you tend to be weak across the boards when it comes to Logistical Self-Care, consider working with a professional organizer and/or personal coach.