A healthy mind in a healthy body

I don’t know about you, but if I am not healthy, or when I have no energy, I am not doing my best mental work.  Here is a passage from “Wisdom Takes Work” by Ryan Holiday.

“Today, when we think about Socrates, we think of him as a thinker – a man with a great mind.  But his friends admired him for so much more.  They admired him for his bravery in battle.  They were impressed by his ability to withstand cold and discomfort.  It seems almost unbelievable that Socrates – a philosopher – was kind of a macho figure, but he was.

‘No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training,’ Socrates said at one point.  ‘What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.’

It’s not just a disgrace; it’s a failure of curiosity.  Don’t you want to know what you can do?  Wisdom need not condemn a person to a life of scrawny weakness or a nerdy lack of coordination.

A strong mind needs a strong body and vice versa.  In fact, the Romans considered a poorly educated person someone who hadn’t learned to read or swim.

You need both the mental and the physical.  A person is incomplete and imbalanced if they neglect one in favor of the other.”

5 Things you should not do. 5) Thinking it’s too late.

Saying I love you.  Apologizing.  Showing gratitude.  Telling the truth.  Going on an adventure (with _________ ).

Learning something new.  Visiting __________ .  And _________________ .

If you are breathing, it’s not too late.

This is your chance.  Take advantage of it.

Don’t waste time –

1) Wishing for a different life.

2) Waiting for the perfect moment.

3) Living in regret.

4) Blaming your age.

5) Thinking it’s too late.

5 Things you should not do. 4) Blaming your age.

Many blame their age for how they behave. They “act their age”.

You are not too young or too old.  

If you want to do it, then learn what you need to learn and prepare what you need to prepare, but do it.

You’re going to die.  

But not this week.

Let’s go.

5 Things you should not do. 3) Live in regret.

If you made mistakes, by doing or not doing, learn from them, but don’t regret them for the rest of your life.

Regret is self-imposed suffering.  No one else feels it – only you, because you created it.  

And what you create, you can let go of.

You can’t change the past, but you can change the future by what you do today.

5 Things you should not do. 2) Wait for the perfect moment.

Don’t waste time waiting for the perfect moment.  Years go by that way.

If you want to make a big move toward your dreams, there will never be the “perfect time”.

You make that time.  You do it.  You learn fast and save years.

When you move on your dreams, they get closer.

When.

When?