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.
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.
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.
So I’ve been in Orlando (well technically Lake Buena Vista) for just under a week now. I’ve spent most of the time here at the Sheraton Orlando Lake Buena Vista Resort as this is both where I’m staying and where the training is being held.
There are a lot of options for feeding myself around here and I’ve gotten to them just by walking there. The weather has been most agreeable to walking from place to place. I’ve also walked down to the local Winn Dixie to obtain stuff I’ve needed.
Now I’m still relatively new here so I’m still occasionally getting mixed up about what direction I’m headed. This morning after trying a different place to eat (the Black Angus Steakhouse nearby had a wonderful breakfast buffet I wanted to try) I needed to go to the Winn Dixie to get some heavy cream for my coffee. So I started walking and when I got to Palm Parkway I turned left and headed toward the Winn Dixie.
I was walking down the road when I realized it didn’t feel right. I stopped, looked around, and realized I had gone the wrong way. Realizing my mistake I kept going down the wrong path, farther and farther away from the my destination.
Of course that’s not really what I did. Upon realizing my mistake I turned back around and when I got back to the intersection I went the correct way. It’s only common sense. And yet when it comes to our life’s direction we seem oddly content to do what I had suggested I did.
We are creatures of habit and even when we know that the direction we are metaphorically headed is moving us away from the place we want to be in life, for some reason we just keep walking down the same path. How do we do that? We associate with the same people who led us to where we are in life. We engage in the same activities that have not gotten us the results we want. We think the same thoughts about ourselves that have led to the devaluation of worth we feel towards ourselves.
So think about this. If you’d feel silly continuing to walk down a physical path that you know doesn’t lead to the physical location you want to be, why are you content to stay on a life path taking you from the life you want?
Look at the life path you are on. Do your friends help you get to the life you want? If you answered no, maybe they aren’t the friends you need. Do you engage in activities which move you closer to the life you want? If you don’t, figure out the activities that do. You only have 24 hours a day. Fill those hours with activities that create the life you should know you deserve.
Do your thoughts move you forward on your life path? They should. If they don’t start paying attention to your self talk. When thoughts creep in that have you taking the wrong turn at an intersection, get your bearing and replace them with the thoughts that have you moving down the correct path.
Don’t settle for less in walking your life path than you would walking a physical path. Being on the wrong physical path just wastes your time. Being on the wrong life path wastes something a lot more valuable. Hope you have a great week walking the path taking you to the life of your dreams. 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.
Here is this week’s weigh in. Gained a smidge this week. I know why, and I’m ok with the why. I explain in the video. Also an employment update. Check it out. Like the video if enjoy it. Leave a comment here or there letting me know what you think or how I can be better. Subscribe and click the bell if you want to be immediately notified every time I post a video to YouTube. Have a great week. Peace
The weekly weigh in video is up on YouTube. Good results this week and some great news to get to share with you all. Watch the video to find out. Leave a comment here or there telling me what you think or if you have suggestions on how I can improve the videos or myself. Leave a Like if you enjoyed the video. Subscribe and click the notification bell if you’d like to be immediately notified every time I put up a video. Have a great week. Peace.
Here are the results of this week’s weigh in. Let me know what you think. Like if you enjoy the video. Leave a comment letting me know how I did, or how I could do better. Subscribe and click the bell if you want to be immediately notified every time I upload a video to my YouTube channel. Have a great week. Peace.
I have not one, but two videos this week. The first is my weekly update. The second is a thank you video. I’ll put them both below. Great progress this week and I’m grateful to be over 500 views now. Thank you all so much for that. Leave a like and a comment on the video to let me know how I’m doing. Subscribe and click the notification bell if you want to be immediately notified every time I upload a video. I hope you’re week went as well as mine and I’ll see you next week for the next check in. Peace.
Have you ever scheduled a gym session in for the day and by day’s end it just didn’t happen? Did you ever plan on meditating to start your day but by the time you got to work you realized that instead of clearing your mind first thing it actually just slipped your mind?
We have a lot of rationalizations for these scheduling shortcomings. You got out of work late so you didn’t have time to stop by the gym on the way home. Or you got home and now you have other things to do so you just don’t think you’ll be able to squeeze time in for meditating. Or there are a backlog of other obligations you need to attend to and the gym and meditation room just aren’t high enough on the list to make the cut.
You really believe that you want to do these activities, if only there was time. But try as you might you just don’t seem to be able to find any room in your schedule to accommodate these activities. If only there were more time in the day.
Is that really true though? Is it absolutely impossible to work in anything more to your schedule?
Ask yourself this. What if, instead of meditating for half an hour, you were told that you’d be put in a room with your favorite celebrity for that same amount of time? I bet your schedule would be empty enough to fit that in.
Or if your hour of gym time, that you couldn’t possibly make today because your booked, suddenly become an hour alone with your fantasy crush. Would you text your crush to tell them that you just can’t spare the time? Probably not.
In reality we know that we could make the time for the activities if we were truly motivated to do so, we just aren’t. If you allow yourself to be fooled by the excuse that you just can’t find the time then you never look hard enough to find the real reason you don’ t do these beneficial activities.
So spend a little time considering why you can’t make that time. There are many reasons why people can’t find the time, but the only one that matters is the reason you’re not finding it. When you get your reason take out a piece of paper and draw a line down the center. On one side list the ways this reason is benefiting you, and on the other a list of how it’s hurting you. Keep the list with you and when you find that you “don’t have the time” to meditate or go to the gym take out your list and read it. I’m guessing the list of benefits won’t take much of any time to read, but the list of hurts will.
Hopefully when you’ve had a moment to see how your “reason” is affecting your life you’ll be motivated to get to the gym or clear some time to clear your mind. Do this often enough and you’ll get into the habit of going to the gym and meditating. And once it’s a habit you’ll easily find the time for it, no matter how busy your schedule really becomes. Have a great day. Peace.
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