This is long, but PLEASE read it. If I can help every person I encounter understand this, I will feel like a success. PS. You should read this book too... Do you know anyone who would eat a quart of Crisco or a pound of butter a day? Does anyone say, Hmm, my cholesterols down to 239, I need to get it up over 400. There are still a few arteries flowing--better make sure I get those clogged, too? Of course not. Then why do we act like we do? You know what youre supposed to eat. We all do. Fresh fruits and vegetables, complex carbs, salads, whole grains, lean meats, more fish and poultry and less beef... You know it, I know it, we all know it. So why do so many of us still go out and chow down cheeseburgers and fries every day? Ill tell you why: because it wont kill us. Not today. If you ate a cheeseburger and immediately suffered a near-fatal heart attack, would you ever go near a cheeseburger again? I doubt it. It may take twenty or thirty years, but when you add up the compounded interest on all that high-fat, artery-clogging dietary mayhem, eventually your poor overworked heart just quits, stops dead. And so do you. Its easy to eat well. But its also easy not to, and to go on eating the food that will eventually kill us, because it wont kill us today. Its not the one junk-food meal; its the thousands, over time. Eating the burger is just a simple error in judgement. Not eating it, a simple positive action. The thing is, eating it wont kill you.....today. Compounded over time, it can and will--but not at first. And NOT eating it wont transform your health and save your life, at least not today. Compounded over time, it can and will. But thats an event thats tucked invisibly over the horizon of the future, so we dont see it. Why do you walk past the exercise bike? Because its easy. If you dont exercise today, will that kill you? No, of course not. You know what you need to do to stay healthy and feel fit and live a long life. Get your heart rate up, a little over normal, for twenty minutes, three times a week. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. And its easy to do. But its also easy not to do. And if you dont do it today, or tomorrow, or the next day, you wont suddenly drop dead, and you wont suddenly put on twenty pounds, and you wont suddenly lose all your muscle tone. That simple error in judgement, compounded over time, will ruin your health--but not immediately. Jim Olson The Slight Edge Never believe that the small things you do dont matter. They DO. The question is: are those small things you are doing bringing about positive change in your life and the lives around you, or bringing you and those around you down? Its SO hard when we dont see immediate results! We are an instant-gratification generation. We plant small seeds and those seeds take TIME to grow strong! Just be patient and keep taking care of them! If you need HELP being patient like me, let me know! I would LOVE to help encourage you by getting you in a FREE group of people who will do just that. This is not something done easily alone.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 02:48:49 +0000
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