Welcome to The Ripple Effect Course!

 
 
 

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Program. We are so excited to be working with you.

Our world is facing four interrelated grand epidemics— sleeplessness, obesity, inactivity, and mental illness—that are causing people to struggle on a daily basis. Consider this:

  • We are in a global “sleeplessness epidemic” that affects close to 20% of the population.

  • Non-communicable diseases that can be caused by poor nutrition and physical inactivity such as cancer, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease are now the leading cause of death in all parts of the world except Africa.

  • Almost 60% of Canadians and 70% of Americans are now overweight or obese. These numbers are increasing worldwide.

  • The World Health Organization has identified physical inactivity as one of the greatest threats to human health.

  • One in five people will suffer from a mental illness challenge in their lifetime.

What does this mean? That billions of people are missing out on potential creativity, problem solving, ingenuity, inventiveness, and, ultimately, happiness.

Traditionally in western medicine, sleeping, moving, eating, and thinking are treated separately. If you want to lose weight, your doctor tells you to go on a diet, but not necessarily about the importance of sleep. If you want to sleep better, you’re given sleep medication, but you’re often not told to exercise during the day. If you have depression, you may not be encouraged to exercise as part of your treatment.

We are missing out on a powerful insight. This insight is that sleeping soundly, eating smarter, moving more, and thinking clearly are all interconnected—you can’t outrun a bad diet, for example, and a proper diet can’t make up for a sedentary lifestyle. These four factors are amplifiers for each other. When you put them together, you end up with much more than the sum of the individual parts. It’s when we combine sleeping, eating, moving, and thinking better that we can make incredible gains in our health and in our lives.

I call this the ripple effect.

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Over the course of the program, we will explore how you can:

  • Sleep Soundly

  • Move More

  • Eat Smarter

  • Think Clearly

There will be a module for each of these core concepts, with eight lessons in each module. Before diving into the Sleep Soundly module, the first week will focus on how to set dreams, build great habits, and to create an environment for success. During the final week, we'll bring all the concepts together to help you make this the best year of your life. Once you have completed a lesson, you can mark it as complete and move on to the next lesson. You will be notified when the next module is available.

In each lesson, I'll present you with information that will introduce core concepts and also zoom in on specific skills and techniques that you can work on. You will receive articles, podcasts, and videos to help you build the habits and skills you need to reach your potential and be extraordinary. Each of the emails will also be recorded so you can listen to them when commuting or at the gym.

The first step is to download The Ripple Effect Workbook. We encourage you to save it to your computer as a pdf or print it out. You will occasionally be prompted to complete exercises that will help guide you throughout this course. The workbook also contains space for you to write your own notes, comments, and reminders. The more you engage with the content, the more you'll get out of the Program.

You can send me your questions any time at coach@wellsperformance.com. The contact page on the website is also an option: it goes directly to my computer, so your questions and all communication between us are confidential and are only shared with my internal team.

Thank you all for being a part of the program!

Dr. Greg Wells

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Bonus Content

Click here to download my new lifestyle app, VIIVIO. VIIVIO is a great tool to have as you work your way through The Ripple Effect, as it tracks your sleep, exercise, nutrition, and mental well-being to optimize your health. Learn more about VIIVIO here!

Unfortunately, this is only available for iOS at this time. We’re hoping to make it available to android users in the future.

More Bonus Content

Thanks for joining The Ripple Effect course! We are really excited about working with you. As a little welcome bonus I wanted to share this 20 minute keynote I gave a few years ago about The Ripple Effect that will give you a preview about what is coming up later in the course!

Thanks again! Remember - anything is possible,

 
 
 
 

The information and advice provided in this program is intended to assist you with improving your performance, as well as your general health. It is not intended and should not be used in place of advice from your own physician or for treatment or diagnosis of any specific health issue. By participating in this program you acknowledge that undertaking any new health, diet and/or exercise regime involves certain inherent risks, that you assume such risks, and that you release Wells Performance Inc. from any responsibility or claim relating to such participation.

 
 
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