Healthy Living 101

[Vegas69]

"Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job" -Jim Rohn

While this philosophy may sound like pie in the sky to the casual onlooker, it's made a huge difference in the quality of my life. For the last 7 months I've spent 30-60 minutes everyday expanding my knowledge through books, magazines, CD's. Philosophy, Leadership, Health, Excercise, Nutrition, Attitude, and the list goes on.... I've employed new disciplines with a complete diet change and work out routine.

I'm in the best physical and mental condition of my life and people are noticing. The owner/broker of my company recently offered me a very good opportunity that came from the top to lead 4 more agents and increase my income substantially. He had 75 agents to pick from. In the same week, an outside company called and offered me a great opportunity to take on a bunch of new business. My team has taken notice and our cohesion has gone through the roof. They see my consistency, attitude, and work ethic and it's rubbing off and improving their production, attitude, and work ethic.

"You attract the things you have by the person you become" -Jim Rohn

If you want a better life, you must change through personal development. Every discipline effects the rest of your life. Every bad habit effects the rest of your life. New knowledge breeds confidence, new disciplines practiced everyday improve your attitude.

It doesn't happen overnight. It's really the compound effect at work. It's just like compound interest. At first you notice small improvements and depending on your hard your work at it, it won't be long until the results speak for themself.

"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. " -Jim Rohn

[Vegas69]

One mile run tonight: 6:30

[Stuart Adams]

Great Todd, I'm proud of you big boy. I've been working out for 7 years now, nothing crazy, every other day. It really makes a difference physically and even more mentally.

[Vegas69]

Originally Posted by Stuart Adams

Great Todd, I'm proud of you big boy. I've been working out for 7 years now, nothing crazy, every other day. It really makes a difference physically and even more mentally.

Thanks buddy. It's good to hear you are taking care of yourself.

The mental side of this thread hasn't been very popular since I started posting. The truth of the matter is that my new philospophy, disciplines, and attitude have made a bigger change in the quality of my life than getting in optimal physical condition. You can change the way you think through personal development. It's no different than getting in peak physical condition, it takes labor, consistency, and time but the payoff is monumental.

[sik68]

Nice job Todd! 6:30 is killin it!

I'm nursing a tight IT band right now (foam rolling an IT band looks like this --> ), but hopefully I will come off this rest time ready to have another breakthrough myself.


As far as the mental side of things, I appreciate all of your commentary...it's reinforcing everything I am learning in my own 'quest'.

[Vegas69]

Steven, you should chime in on your ideals. Who, what, and how. For starters....

[hifi875]

6:30 is great todd!! even though your 5k times are good, 6:30 is a good barometer of how good of shape you have gotten your self back in to. Only a runner can understand how fast that is. Great job!

[sik68]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

Steven, you should chime in on your ideals. Who, what, and how. For starters....

The best way I can explain my change is by describing a life-changing challenge that I am undertaking. Through it, it will show you how every day-to-day situation that used to bring out negative emotions, can be viewed with an equally compelling set of positive emotions. Just by changing your perspective, moments of frustration are equally viewed as moments of opportunity, moments of rushing/panic are equally viewed as moments to learn, moments of jealousy are equally viewed as moments of admiration.

It's really easy, but is a very conscious process. Simply, every sentence you utter, ONLY say it with positive phrasing. For example, a really easy one is, "I don't want to be late." Mentally, this is very different from saying the equivalent of "I want to be on time." Studying the two sentences, you can see how the second one opens up more opportunities for you mentally.

Another example is, "I don't want to do the dishes." For this, you could say, "I want to do the dishes tomorrow." Lo and behold, the next morning you are much more mentally accepting of the pile of dishes.

There's a million examples, but, essentially, pay attention to how you phrase sentences, and spin as many of them positively as possible. Chip away at it, and you will find yourself happier with yourself, people will like you more, and you will be more influential and empowered.

Cheers!
S