🌎 World Domination Newsletter #6

Published: Tue, 11/30/21

WORLD DOMINATION

BY JOE

11/30/21

The day when inspiration, motivation and availability collided.

Stay Healthy—Our Lives Depend On It

What do you think of the importance of your health? Is it important enough to do something about it?

What does “health” mean to you though? Most people think of physical health when they consider improving their health. After all, it is the season of New Year’s resolutions. Right? Is that all that really means though?

Obesity has been a serious problem in the US for decades. During Covid, childhood obesity has escalated at an alarming rate.

To make matters worse, obesity induces cardiovascular complications so Covid is more deadly.

Our health is more than just physical health though. Intellectual, spiritual, emotional and what I call relationship health all contribute to our overall health.

Are we preoccupied with the opinions of others or do we give others room to be themselves, even if we disagree with others’ opinions?

Do we worry about life being fair or do we understand that we can only control what we have control over?

Do we worry unnecessarily? Do we consider ourselves happy?

Our overall health is dependent upon the interactions of all of those elements of our humanness.

How we handle our emotions depends on our mental state. Are we preoccupied with how we feel and the opinions of others? Do we feel healthy when our emotional state is substantively negative?

Keeping our minds active testifies to the importance of the mind body connection, Being in contact with our spiritual state of mind and soul and body also clearly affects our health. Depression is well documented to affect our physical health.

Finally, a healthy mind and body affects our internal outlook on life, which is apparent and clear to others.

For each of these health-related elements of our lives, we need to take action in order to make changes. And, this is going to take habits changing.

OUTSTANDING QUOTES

“If you achieve all kinds of things in the material world, but you lose your health or your peace of mind, you get little or no pleasure from your other accomplishments.”
— Brian Tracy, Maximum Achievement Graduation Quotes

"A number of factors . . . affect our wellness, including fitness, nutrition, and finance. Although I am not an expert in these fields, I have observed time and time again how these areas are affected for better or for worse by our psychological health."
—Tonya Armstrong, Blossoming Hope

"Exercise itself, which tends to be highly repetitive when engaged in regularly, is a major driver of neuroplastic changes in the brain, which is why physical exercise is one of the most important factors in restoring and maintaining mental as well as physical health across the life span, starting from the moment one begins such a program."
— Bob Stahl, A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook

"Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Art Therapy … Uses the creative process of art-making and client-reflection to improve and enhance mental, physical and emotional well-being of individuals.”
— David Edwards, Art Therapy

NUGGET OF WISDOM

“Your life today is essentially the sum of your habits” — James Clear

James Clear maps out habits in a Cue, Craving, Response, Reward model.

However, our habits and the rewards for those habits must be self-reinforcing. When they are not, we experience conflict. That conflict can not be maintained. We cannot push or pull ourselves in different directions.

We can’t establish habits that result in rewards that are inconsistent and lead us in conflicting directions. For example, we can’t pick and choose which elements of a moral code we choose to live by. We can’t help the poor as part of an altruistic code of conduct during the day and cheat on our wives in the evening. This conflict can not be maintained.

Our habits and the rewards must be mutually reinforcing,

So, if our lives are the sum of our habits, then if those habits are not consistent, then we will be unable to sacrifice (a key element of habits) the “rewards” that cause that inconsistency.

Nurture your creative side when considering your intellectual health. Don’t just give your brain a workout with your “wor.k” Learn a new language, start painting, take a class.

(If you are single, this might help out and improve your “relationship” health!)

FUN, FUN, FUN

This one is simple. Improve your mindset, physical health, your attitude and self-image.

GET outside.
LISTEN to the birds.
FEEL the wind on your face (especially the cool, fall breezes.)
SEE the change in colors.
WATCH the children play in the leaves.
Then WATCH a good movie and go to SLEEP early.

INSPIRATIONAL VIDEO

I started this idea of a newsletter, well not really as a classical idea of what a newsletter is. I thought of it also as NOT just a dissertation of my current role in life as an educator. (As if I ever had a single role in my life ever.)

No, I want to share … me. What, how and why. And, it changes, by the way, sometimes every day.

I love Professor Feynman for everything he was. This short video tells in a very simple way, who he was and if anything he was never single-dimensional.

READ THIS

Our minds are (obviously) part of our physical bodies. Our brain needs nourishment, as does any of our organs. Our brains need “exercise” in terms of consistent stimulation, Numerous studies have established a clear correlation between physical and mental health as well as the need for mental stimulation.

This is an excellent article that delves into the mind-body relationship from an emotional health point of view, including the role of stress in our mind body health.

The WORST thing we do is place limits on ourselves and our health. No, I am not talking about “believe you can do and poof, it can happen.” No, that is, as they say “false doctrine.” Sure, believing that you can accomplish a goal is probably a very good first step. But, the bottom line is DOING IT.

Please take the time to read these two links. I struggle with understanding the role of motivation vs. habits. Maybe they are two sides of the same coin. What do you think after reading these two stories of two extraordinarily special people?

He always wanted a Ph.D. in physics. He finally earned it at 89

79-Year-Old Graduates From Law School, Begins Career in Elder Law

I can not add anything further to how these articles, actually people, have affected me. These are more than just stretching our minds, although it is a big part of that.

Wouldn’t you agree however, that pursuing and accomplishing what they have would have a palpable effect on their health, self-image and inspiration to others?

EXPERT ADVICE

From Joe:

Learn a foreign language.
Go visit that country.
Stay for an extended time.
Meet and get to know the people.

I took my family to Russia a number of years ago, I knew enough of the language to struggle! It was during the New Year/Christmas season (They celebrate Christmas on the Orthodox version of the holiday.)

I will never forget being up all night on Christmas Eve attempting to exchange stories with friends of our children’s piano teacher’s mom who lived in St. Petersburg, where we stayed.

I don’t think they ever really met an American before. We talked about the misconceptions that our peoples had of each other. They couldn’t believe an American would try and be conversant in their mother tongue and would try to get to know them.

I will never forget them,

#learnalanguage #travelthere #makelifelongfriends

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