This week’s weigh in is up on YouTube. Great gains (or losses I guess) made this week. Last week my weight had gone up quite a bit, and I did manage to lose most of it again this week. Made some gains in happiness, too. Figured some issues out I was having with exercise. All around a pretty good week. Let me know what you think of it with a comment here or there. If you enjoyed the video please leave a Like. Subscribe and click the notification bell if you want to be immediately notified every time I post a video to YouTube. Thanks for all the support. I hope you’re having a great week. Peace.
Still adjusting to the new schedule so I allowed the vlog posting to get delayed. Things I’m working on this week, prioritizing! So here is last Wednesday’s vlog because I do want to have a vlog up for every week, even if it’s posted a little late. It’s on word choice and how words matter. The words you choose to describe a situation can change the meaning to your mind significantly. Specifically it can change something from a moment in time to an immutable character trait. So it’s important to watch your word choice because words matter. Leave a Like if you enjoy the video. Subscribe and click the notification bell if you want to be immediately notified every time I upload a video to YouTube. If you have suggestions, criticisms, ways I can improve, please leave a comment down below or on my YouTube page. Hope you’re having a great day. I know I am. Peace.
Tax day if you live in the United States of America. I, thankfully, got mine done a while ago so I wasn’t rushing at the last minute to get it in. And you don’t want to miss the deadline, at least not without getting an extension. Miss the deadline and not only do you get to pay the taxes you get to pay a fine as well.
And nobody really wants to pay the fine. It’s probably safe to say that nobody really wants to pay the taxes. It’s just an accepted part of living in America. But if America could run tax-free, I’m guessing that nobody would be taking a portion of their paycheck and sending it to Uncle Sam just because they can.
Even though nobody would pay a tax to the government that they didn’t have to, so many people on a regular basis willingly pay a “tax” they could avoid without so much as a complaint. What tax is this?
It’s the tax we put on our bodies by the actions we take each day. Whether it be the foods we eat, the mindset we keep, or what we regularly do to our bodies.
When you eat foods that are bad for you it makes your body run inefficiently. Processed foods that are devoid of any real nutrition just don’t burn cleanly in the body and cause free radical damage. Think of it like bad gasoline. It makes the motor run horribly and can clog up the fuel lines. We’d never willingly do that to our car but we do it all the time to our bodies when we don’t eat clean.
How about that mindset? When we fill our minds with negative thoughts that creates stress. When we believe that our life is terrible that creates depression. When we don’t see a bright future we create apathy. All of these emotions are negative. And negative emotions, especially over the long haul, have a detrimental effect on the body.
And what about our bodies? If you had a great car but left it in the garage all the time, parked in one place never to be moved, that great car will go bad over time. Just like a car needs to be driven, so does your body. Sitting around watching tv or being on the internet is sedentary and will create issues with your body over time. Or what about all the chemicals we take in using the products we choose to? Some people even go the extra tax mile by smoking and doing drugs. Alcohol, other than in moderate amounts, isn’t doing you any favors either.
Eating poorly, thinking poorly, and exercising poorly are all bad for the body. They, in effect, tax your body. The difference between that tax and the one you, hopefully, paid by today is that you don’t have to pay the tax on your body. In fact, unlike the tax you owe the treasury, you don’t get punished for failure to pay. You instead receive a benefit.
So think about the actions you take each day. Are they a tax on your body? If so, just choose not to pay the tax. Are they a savings? Then build up the health account for your body so that when you’re older you’ll be able to live a healthy and active life. The choice is yours. Have a great day. Peace.
You’ve been on the keto diet for several months. You enjoy posting pics of your favorite keto meals on Instagram. Last night’s dinner was especially photogenic so you posted a couple of pics, one for each course. You’re happy as a clam when you see that your pics have netted you some comments. “That looks yummy.” “Bet that hit the spot.” “Wish I was eating that good.” And you read down a little farther and come across the comment you hate to see. “That’s not keto.”
Those three words strike at your soul. You’ve just received the word on high from the self-appointed keto police. This is no good. You just can’t let this one go. But take a minute and think before you reply.
The keto police’s comment may have been unsolicited, but it was well-intentioned. They’re just trying to help. So there are many better ways to respond than “you’re not the boss of me!”
You could thank them for their input. After all they were trying to improve your keto game. Leave it at a simple thank you and move on. No argument required, even if you’re sure they’re wrong.
If you believe they are the one in error, start a polite discussion. Who knows, they might actually be right and now you know more. They could be wrong and by discussing it amicably now they know more. Either way the situation is substantially better for both you. Certainly much better than if you had replied “shut your mouth, keto cop.”
Finally, you could just ignore it. That’s right you can just not respond. Not every comment needs to be replied to, so take the opportunity here to run silent. Just let it go.
While I agree that the keto police can be challenging on the patience it’s helpful to remember that while they may not employ the best methods, their hearts are in the right place. So be kind and respond in kind. Have a great day. Peace.
Here is this week’s weigh in. Numbers are a bit up. I did decide to go off keto for the tail end of the class and that did result in a bit of weight gain. And I’m ok with that. I made a decision and I’m willing to live with the consequences. There were some lessons learned as well. Leave a Like if you enjoy the video. Subscribe and click the bell if you want to be immediately notified every time I post a video to YouTube. Leave a comment here or there letting me know what you think about this week’s weigh in. Hope you’re having a great week. Peace.
This morning I wanted to try a place for breakfast that would have taken almost an hour to walk to. And then of course almost another hour walking back. So instead I decided I’d just take an Uber. When my driver arrived I hopped into the front seat and off we went.
She asked me how my day was going and I told her it was going great. We then spent the 10 minute drive having a wonderful conversation. I got out of the car and wished her a good day, with her stating she hoped I had one as well. I then went in and had a great breakfast. Of course on the way back I got another Uber, but this time it was a different driver.
He smiled politely as I entered the car but didn’t talk. I asked him how his day was and he replied “Good, you?” I said “good” and left it at that. He gave the appearance of someone not wanting to talk a lot. We drove quietly for the 10 minute ride back to the hotel. As I got out he wished me a nice day, and I wished him one in return.
The first one was very nice and sociable. Outgoing and chatty. The second one was also nice, just not chatty. And there’s nothing wrong with that. He wasn’t rude because he didn’t talk or entertain me. That isn’t his job. His job is to get me from one location to the next.
It’s easy to view one as positive and one as negative because as humans we love to rate things. But there’s another way to handle it, and that’s to accept each person as they are. No need to judge them at all, good or bad.
If someone is nice to you, be nice back. If they want to chat, enjoy the conversation. On the other hand if they don’t want to chat, just respect that enjoy the quiet.
But here’s the tough one. What if they’re mean or rude? Leave it at they’re behaving in a way you don’t want to interact with. You don’t have to rate their behavior as bad. You don’t have to rate them as bad. You just have to decide what you want to do. Which in that case may be to stop interacting with that person.
Why do it this way? Because it reminds you that you’re in charge. When you assign the label of bad to them you’re reacting to their behavior. Because they were bad you don’t wish to associate with them. Their action determined your behavior. They were in charge. When you decide to not associate with them without labeling them the decision is based off of you and your desires. You’re in control of your life as you should be.
Let me know what you think. Agree or disagree? I hope you enjoyed this quick thought. See you again soon. Peace.
This week’s vlog is up on YouTube. It’s about worry and what you can do about it. Hope you enjoy it. Leave a Like if you do. If you agree, or even if you disagree, leave a comment here or there. Subscribe and click the bell if you want to be immediately notified every time I post a video to YouTube. Hope you’re having a great day. Peace.
This week’s vlog is up and running. It’s on fasting. It covers the different ways to fast and the different time frames for a fast. Let me know what you think. If you enjoyed the video please leave a Like on YouTube for me. If you have an agreement, or disagreement, with the video, please leave a comment here or there. Subscribe and click the bell on YouTube if you want to be immediately notified every time I post a video to YouTube. Have a great week. Peace.
Here is my weekly weigh in video. Very happy with this week’s results. Also happy with a new product I’m trying. Watch the video to get the low down on how things went this past week. If you enjoy the video please leave a Like. Subscribe and click the notification bell on YouTube if you’re interested in being immediately notified every time I upload a video to YouTube. Hope you’re having a great day and a great week. Peace.
A long time ago I used to go to college. This was the late 90’s early 2000’s. Because the university I went to was in a city 150 miles from where I graduated I opted to live in student housing. I also worked for the university in a few different positions, including the front desk of the hall I lived in.
One of the better parts of the job was getting to greet almost all the residents. I say almost all because there were those dedicated few who just didn’t want to socialize and would go so far as to ignore people who talked to them. I respected their right to solitude and quickly learned the few and would only look up to see if they were walking by or up to the desk. If they were clearly walking by I’d look back at what I was doing, usually studying, and leave them be.
And then there was the other end of the spectrum. The super sociable who loved to be greeted back home each time they walked in the door. My favorite being a guy named John. He’d say the same thing every time you greeted him with a “how are you doing today?”
“Peachy keen as always,” was the response every time. Sunny day, “peachy keen as always.” Rainy day, same thing. At the beginning of the fall semester when it was still nice and warm outside he was “peachy keen as always.” Then at the end of the semester when it was freezing cold and dark most of the day, same response. There just wasn’t a time this guy wasn’t “peachy keen as always.”
We used to wonder if there was something wrong with him. How could you be happy all the time? It’s not natural, right? I mean there had to be some events going on in this guy’s life that were not good. Tragedy, in some form, befalls everyone. How could he truly be “peachy keen as always?”
I get now what he got then. He was always that way because he chose to be. He decided that no matter what came his way he’d take it with a smile on his face. Even the bad stuff.
We all have that choice. We can’t decide what will or won’t happen to us, but we can decide how we’ll react. Whether events rule us or we rule them. When we decide to rule them our life truly can be grateful at all times, if that’s what we want.
It took me a while but I learned his lesson. So the other day when I went to Starbucks in Athens, Alabama the barista asked me how I was doing. And with great pleasure I responded, “peachy keen as always.” I hope you come to feel that way too. Have a great day. Peace.
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