A Leading Cause of Death

Deaths from car crashes, drug overdoses and firearms – together they don’t kill 1/3 as many people as this one – FOOD.

Many of us a digging our graves with our teeth every day.

I know – food is so good!  I LOVE ice cream!  I love lots of bad things.  I am tempted, and give in sometimes.  I have to do better.  If I didn’t work out and work outside so much, I’d have a bigger problem.

Our ancestors fought starvation.  Our bodies are made to store energy in the form of fat to use later when food is scarce.  The problem is it’s never scarce now.

Sitting for long times the body shuts down metabolically.  Some people, including teens, spend 8 hours a day sitting, looking at a screen.

This is what is happening.  Be aware now – and be responsible for your body every day; because one day it may be too late.

Today, eat well and eat less.  Feel a little hungrier?  That’s you getting better, switching over from burning sugar to burning stored fat.  Drink a full glass of water and wait 40 minutes.  Learn to love that feeling. (Ok, at least endure it!)

Focus and Faith

Focus on one thing – that most important thing.  

Have faith – “not messin’ around” faith.

Faith raises your frequency. 

You shift from doubt and fear to positive expectation – you see things you didn’t before.

Whatever it is, focus and faith, mixed with positive action, is the combination you need.

Who are you?

“To understand the mind of a person look at what they have already achieved, and what they aspire to do.”

What have you achieved? 

What do you actively aspire to do?

If you were someone else, looking at what you have done in the past and what you aspire to do now, what would they know about you?

Ask better questions

“If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.” – Suzanne K. Langer

If you are not making progress but swear you are giving the right answers, it’s time to ask some different and better questions.

What are the most important issues in your life right now?  What is not going well?

What are some different questions you should ask about these issues?

If you’ve been asking questions of others and not getting satisfaction, what questions should you ask of yourself instead?

What have you become?

“In the last analysis what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.” – Stephen Covey

All your thinking and all your actions based on that thinking all these years – what has it led to?

What have you become?

Friends

“This communicating of a man’s self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.” – Francis Bacon

Having great friends is part of living a long satisfying life.  I don’t mean the friends you party with, or the ones you see here and there.  I mean the ones who you have a deep trusting relationship with, who will do anything for you if you needed it.  Ones who care enough to call you out a bit when you need a course correction.  Ones who are there for the high points in your life, and the low ones too.

You don’t need two dozen friends like this, a small handful will do.

Who are your friends like this?

If you need a few more here’s how to get them – be a friend like this first.

Communication

“Once a human being arrives on this earth, communication is the single factor determining what kind of relationships she or he makes with others and what happens to them in the world.” – Virginia Satir

Communication is an art and a skill.  It’s how we tell the world who we are and what our intentions and expectations are.  It’s how we receive others and take in the world and its information.

If we are good communicators – face to face, using our voice – transmitting our energies and will, we shall have better lives than if we had many other skills and lacked this one.

Are you good at communication?

Living on Purpose

Many people just live according to the circumstances around them.  They just go day to day responding to what happens and what other people do.

This is very different than living “on purpose”.  People that do this make things happen; the things they want.  They start where they are and overcome circumstances with determined purposeful action.

Would you say you are more of the first group, or will you wind up somewhere “on purpose”?

When it worked out because it didn't

That time you were rejected…that time it didn’t work out….it allowed something else to happen that was great/better.

We can all look back and say that there are times when it didn’t work out and that is a GOOD thing!

We couldn’t see it at the time, but we can now!  

What didn’t work out for you, that was a GOOD thing?

Initiative

Most people are in avoidance mode. They can’t be bothered, or they are lazy, or don’t want to go out of their way.

People that take initiative will ride to the top.  They call out problems and look for solutions.  They roll up their sleeves and do something about it.  They can’t stand by and watch things around them circle the drain.

People that take initiative are in high demand and rise to positions of leadership.

Is that you?