Sunday Story...Health, Wealth, and Purpose

Sunday Story....Health, Wealth, and Purpose

This triumvirate can create a life designed by you for you if you will embrace them. I have been
fortunate to have spent some time recently with some highly motivated people who have embraced this trio in all their lives.

Here is my take on it!

Health
If you don't have your health you have a serious problem. All the money in the world won't fix bad health. Whether you caused poor health through poor life style choices, it was foisted upon by genetics, or you were in the wrong place at the wrong time you will realize the value of it once it has been gone for a moment or two.

You can't fix bad genes. You can mitigate some of the effects through proper diet and nutrition. You can work on having the “bad” genes not express themselves but only if you are aware of them. Fortunately this is only about 35% or your aging process. Granted it is an important 35% but it is still only 35%.

Finding yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time is an unfortunate accident. Sort of. On one hand if you ascribe to the radical responsibility theory (as I do) then you are responsible. But that theory is at the upper reaches of consciousness. So lets assume a very small percentage of your health woes may be accidental...an environmental exposure, an automobile accident, or some other unforeseen occurrence.

So the bad news or the good news, depending on how you look at it is that your health is largely in your hands. You can choose to exercise...or not. You can choose to eat healthy...or not. You can choose how you experience the aging process. Because no matter how old you are today, you will be older tomorrow. You will create 300 billion new cells in the next 24 hours whether you like it or not. How healthy those cells are is really up to you. And do not doubt that those cells will affect, whether you like it or not, how you experience life.

So let me give you the simple formulas:

Move. Often. Slowly and deliberately. Move heavy weight long distances quickly. Work on your balance and flexibilty daily. Maintain a strong core by using highly varied functional movements. Regularly learn and play new sports and physical games.

Eat natural food...mostly plants. Avoid processed foods, drinks, and other edible non-food products. Eat lean meat and green vegetatables, seeds and nuts, some fruit, littlie starch and no sugar. Eat in quantities that will support exerces, movement and work, but won't contribute to fat storage.

If you are over 30 years old, you may need supplementation to achieve optimum fitness and health. Your body has already peaked and now you need to re-achieve those optimumcellular and hormonal levels you enjoyed in your mid-twenties.

Your health is paramount...get to work on it now.

Wealth
Wealth means different things to different people. Maybe it's monetary for you...a million dollars or 100k a year in income, or just the ability to spend your time how and where you choose. Maybe you measure wealth in your relationships with the people around you. You get to decide what and how much. For the sake of this article I am going to say wealth is related to money...having enough to do what you want when you want...whatever those things are...to live life on your own terms rather than be dictated by your financial circumstances.

Your wealth is necessary to help relieve the stress of this modern life. Your wealth needs to be controlled by you and not outside influences and should have a number of ways of making it to you. Your monetary wealth will help you be healthier...since you can eat in certain ways with money that you will be unable to without money.

You need to be able to generate and improve your financial situation based upon your own efforts and not rely on others to do it for you. Get to work on this...open your own business, get some passive income and some residual income. Find multiple streams of income.

Purpose

Once we have taken care of health and wealth we can look for purpose. What drives you. What creates passion inside of you. For many of us the concept of service or “seva” is closely tied to purpose. We have talked about this a number of times...finding your purpose. Creating a vision for your life, a mission for you to act upon.


Working for something greater than yourself, helping others with their lives is part and parcel of who we are as humans. It is one of the reasons we become parents, teachers, volunteers. We feel better when we give.


Here is the cement that will hold this building up...Gratitude. Gratitude is the glue that we can put our health wealth and purpose together with. Gratitude exists for us when and where we want it to because we choose gratitude.

You should have gratitude for your health no matter how good or how bad it may be...if you are reading this t could be worse. Be grateful for the health you have today. Be grateful for the ability to improve it even if it is just a little, a small bit of improvement.

You should be grateful for the wealth you have today. It could be worse, much much worse. Start living in a land of abundance, not scarcity. You have much. And be grateful for the ability to do something about it...even if it is as simple as changing your attitude.

You should be grateful that you can look for purpose. What will give your life meaning? What are you doing right now on purpose? Are you living with passion? If you don't know try some gratitude that you can ask the questions and start you search for the answers.


Health, Wealth and Purpose with an Attitude of Gratitude. Sounds like a life I want to be part of...Care to join me?

Namaste
John
“Teaching Focus, Inspiring Transformation”
www.martialartsnevada.com
 
Follow me at:
Twitter --- http://m.twitter.com/jmariotti
FaceBook --- John Mariotti
Blog Spots…John Mariotti 
 http://feel-good-friday.blogspot.com/
http://sunday-stories.blogspot.com/