Sunday Story...You are in Charge

Your health care is up to you.
What you eat is up to you.
How you spend your time is up to you.
Who you spend your time with is up to you.
What you put in your mind is up to you.
Your fitness is up to you.

Self control says that we are in charge of what we think, say and do. And we are, except when we abdicate our responsibility. Which way too many of have done way too often over the course of our lives.

Somewhere along the way someone started piling on “shoulds” onto our lives. Somewhere we thought we could get a magic pill to be skinny, fit, funny, and rich. There is no magic pill. There is no magic formula, no secret that is going to make you millions of dollars if you just think or say a certain thing. There is no expert who, if you just do exactly what he/she says all your prayers will be answered and your life will perfect from now on forward.

Too often we want to give up our self-control and just take the easy way out. Let someone else be responsible for once, let them tell us what to do and let them take the blame when it doesn’t work. This is not good for you. This is not a recipe for success. This is not a way to have the life you want to have. This is the way to try and live someone else’s life. This is the road to frustration and unhappiness and this road is paved with good intentions, shoulds, and the broken shards of other lives.

Do want to be healthy? Do you want to lose weight? Do you want to get off your medications? Then start taking responsibility for the way you look and feel right now. Fat is not genetic. Sure you can be heavy and healthy and you can be skinny and sick. But health is best measured by fitness. Your physician is in charge of your sick care. You are in charge of your health care. You are in charge of your fitness. You don’t have to be an Olympian, unless you want to be an Olympian, that is. But, honestly, you should be able to lift things over your head, pick stuff off the ground, not be afraid to fall down (because you can’t get up), and you should be able to walk for an hour or two without thinking you are going to die.

The facts are pretty simple…you are the most important person in your life. To put it in another way…in the movie of your life you are the star not a bit player. Your doctor is not the star, you kids can be very important but they aren’t the stars of your movie, they have their own movies to star in! Take responsibility for what your life looks like right now. You have made it what it is at this very moment. For better or worse it was all your doing. You don’t have to, though. You can blame your parents, your doctor, your employer, your spouse, your kids, your dog, your whatever or you can say wait a minute I am in charge of this thing and I am going to make it right.

Listen up…if what you have been doing isn’t working…CHANGE IT! Why do think that if you keep doing the same thing over and over and over again you will get a different result? You have just defined insanity. You have been going to the gym 5 day a week for years and you still are as unfit as ever? Gee...maybe you need to do something else…YOU THINK? You have tried every diet known to man and nothing ever works a permanent solution? Maybe you need a different food LIFESTYLE! You doctor says you must be on this pill or that pill even though your symptoms have abated? Why? Because he knows you have not changed the thing that caused the symptoms!!!! Once you change that you won’t need the pills anymore! But that is up to you not him or me or anyone else.

If you want what you have never had…you must do what you have never done. You Must Do What You Have Never Done to Get What You have Never Had. Simple but it does require a quantum shift in your perspective. A shift of epic proportions, maybe, but a shift nonetheless.
Let’s get busy and be the star of our own movie!

Namaste
John
“Teaching Focus, Inspiring Transformation”
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