Our health issue naturally makes us think of changing the lifestyle.
Today it is super easy to get the information about health tips – diet, exercise, meditation and more. Quickly you can find ‘7 Foods You Should Eat’, ’10 Healthiest Foods’ and ’20 Superfoods’ by googling it. There are TV shows and magazine articles about healthy eating. Children learn the food groups and balanced diet at school. Everyone knows vegetables are good for you.
But knowing what to eat and really eating it are two different stories.
Okay, you don’t feel great. You have a hard time to motivate yourself. To fix the problem, you try to change something. You want to adapt a new habit.
But here is the challenging reality. It usually takes around 3 weeks to develop a new habit. 3 weeks. 20 days. This means for this time period you need to keep motivating yourself to establish your new habit, then it is supposed to improve your condition.
Do you see the paradox? You don’t have the motivation to begin with. And, to improve the situation, you need to be motivated to survive for 3 weeks.
It’s like telling a man who has no money in the bank account to invest $10,000 up front to make money. If I could do, I wouldn’t be in the current situation in the first place. This is how poor stays poor.
But, is that really so? Does the poor have to stay poor?
No, it shouldn’t be!
If you are resistant to this hopeless statement, you can actually change it.
To make it happen, you need to understand the fundamental problem. The very bottom line is people should know the purpose of life.
Many take an action so carelessly just because they feel like so. The loser mentality comes from the accumulation of such spontaneous, temporary, short-sighted activities. The each activity goes toward different direction, your energy and time are spent dispersively. When you are young, it is forgiving. It’s the time for tryouts. You explore and learn from experiences. But as you get older, the stamina starts declining, you start feeling something is wrong.
It’s simple. You get tired eventually before you reach anywhere if you keep running back and forth aimlessly. If you don’t know where you are heading in the middle of a forest, you either stop at a point and feel lost forever or running anyway just to make yourself feel you are doing something.
If you want to get out of this going-nowhere syndrome, step number 1, think where you want to go before you make another move blindly.
It is not so easy though. You can find what you want to eat for dinner or where you want to go for the next vacation, but when it comes to the purpose of life (ta da-), many people have no clue. They feel it’s so vague and far from their daily life. Then your baby screams, toilet leaks and car breaks down. You need to deal with such things rather than think about a big topic like the purpose of life.
Their time and energy are chewed up again by such less important but urgent matters, and they go back to the old routine, running aimlessly without knowing where to go.
There is no easy way unfortunately. You need to work one way or another to get the reward.
However, there is the more enjoyable way than others. I’d like to discuss farther about it in the next blog.