Genetic testing. You’ve seen the ads. You’ve been enticed by the nifty color coded charts. You want to improve your health, so you wonder: Should I send a faceless organization my personal information so they can sell it back to me? Are genetic tests a good idea?
Losing 30 lbs is an achievement…the first time. The 5th time it feels like the harbinger of doom. You look in the mirror, but instead of feeling proud of your accomplishment,you feel dread. And then the weight creeps back. Why does this keep happening to you? How do you escape this cycle?
What is the best education you can get? Do you get it from books? Classes? Research? Life lessons? What does a guy with a PhD have to say on the subject? What does scientific research say? What did Albert Einstein say? Let’s have a look.
Resilience. Are you born with it? Do you learn it? Do tough times make you resilient or is it the resilient people who make it through tough times? More importantly, is there anything you can do to get it? The answer is YES. Here are 10 things you can do TODAY.
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” Does it? Really? Let’s take a critical-ish look.
It’s early. You can’t sleep. You groggily step on the scale. The number you see shocks you awake.
How the heck did you gain 6 pounds overnight?!?!?! All you ate for dinner was a giant bowl of cabbage! You even worked out for the first time in ages! Everything feels pointless. You throw your scale out the window. There must be goblins making you fat overnight! It might be goblins. It’s probably something else. Let’s take a look.
Everyone knows you have to have GOALS. But you know what? Dr. Kashey HATES Goals. So how does he get anything done? Find out what he does instead.
If I’m tired, I drink coffee→ And the tiredness goes away. If I’m anxious, I drink wine→ And the anxiety goes away. If I’m sad, I eat→ And the sadness goes away. These actions seem like medicine. Food and drink to make the pain go away. But what is actually happening? And what does any of it have to do with Raindancing?
It will all make sense in the end.
Maybe.
Or maybe we will rewrite history for our own peace of mind.
When we immediately make sense of the outcome of a decision, we miss our chance to learn from it.
So what can we do about it?
Let’s take a look.
Self esteem is a disease.
It’s a sickness that:
drains you of your life force,
sabotages all your achievements, and
traps you in a vicious loop.
What’s the cure?
RESPECT