When you truly decide you want a thriving body of maximum
health, you must then refine and/or possibly relinquish desires that no longer
contribute to your full potential.
Remember, you’re very likely going to have lingering desires
from a time when you valued money more than health, or status or approval from
your parents more than happiness, or taste of food more than amount of
nutrients it has.
This doesn’t mean you are going to have to give up eating
tasty food all the time. This just means that eventually, you will care so much
about your health that, for the most part, you will not eat something tasty
unless it is also healthy. So if you have a work environment with no healthy
food around, this means you value your health so much that you prepare
your food the night before and bring health wherever you go. Now, you can have health while eating unhealthy
food, you just have to make sure that the scale is tipped MORE towards the side
that you want. I stay more towards 80% healthy, and the rest is for play,
desserts, snacks, and “soul food” so to speak :)
Mental health is just as important. If you were a person who
valued their health more than or at least just as much as money, you
wouldn’t hold yourself back with proving
something or credentials or feeling like you worked SO hard for where you are
now that to throw it away is unacceptable!
The bottom line is, if you hate where you are or it is such an unhealthy
environment because of negative people or a mean manager, it’s time for change.
If what you are doing just isn’t what
you feel deep down inside that you are here on this planet to do, you must
either 1) gain clarity as to how your present position is leading you to what
you ultimately want to do and keep focused on that fact throughout your day,
bringing a sense of purpose and growth to your daily activities, or 2) QUIT!
If you have trouble with CHOOSING health, yet you know you want to, this is where guidance comes in handy. When you are stuck in the trap of "I do, but I don't" you don't move anywhere, taking one step forward and one step back, unsure of why you can't get yourself to truly want to go to work or want to eat that healthy food or want to do that workout, etc.
This is all transformed through the understanding of what is really going on, and the courage, perseverance and consistent refinement of your intent and actions.
To end this post on an insightful note: Ask yourself this question, What would you do, be, or have, if you knew nothing could stop you? Once you answer this question, you will have a good sense of your true self. Your unlimited inheritance that has been covered up by fear, lack, worry, limitations, and so on. Write your answer down somewhere special so that you can return to and refine it often. As long as you keep stayed on it, and exterminate all obstacles, you will live your dream sure enough.
Join me in later blogs to find out just how to create the life you really want, rather than the life that is easily accessible.
To live fully, is to live harmoniously, purposefully, and sincerely.