“Long term subscribers might remember this report mentioned in the newsletter awhile back. It once was a paid-only special report, that was offered to a select handful of Juicing Tips subscribers for a period of about 24 hours. My friend, Robert McMackey has entrusted me with this information and resource, and we both have agreed it does no good, if it doesn’t get read. Since, it was sold, Robert has decided to shut down his own health site, because the time investment was simply too much to bear.
Remember the book not read is the book that will not help you – in other words, spelled out in simple words, HERE are they major, KEY components to lead a healthy life and practicing a healthy lifestyle, naturally. But none of this information means jack squat, if you don’t TAKE ACTION and implement the wisdom shared below…”
Joe
How To Lead A Healthy Life
If you could become healthier in an instant, without the dread of having to give up all the temptations and desires that seemingly have prevented you from actively participating in healthy living, would you choose to be more healthy or less?
The most common stumbling blocks for people who want to be more healthy, yet have had difficulty making such a decision “stick” for the long term, often are misunderstood sticky points that carry much more weight than deserved. Despite common beliefs, becoming healthier does not mean giving up all the things you love, living without sinful flavors, being bored, or turning life’s routine into a chore.
You are one hundred percent capable of taking part in healthy living, and can pro-actively seek it, debunking the myths and giant hair-ball of misinformation that has plagued the internet, adding to droves of innocent, good intentioned individuals constantly seeking improvement and who want to feel better. You are in control and have been gifted with the one thing needed to achieve such a healthy, idealistic outcome. You possess it now.
That gift is the freedom to decide IF you want to be healthier or less healthy.
I’m afraid too many folks, often with the hidden agenda of lining their pockets with your misdirection, have convinced and conditioned you that to become healthy is a complicated task. The fact is it’s not. If you have the smidgen of will power it takes to answer just, one little question, a yes or no decision at that, you have what it takes to be healthier. You decide which you want. Choose to be healthier and I’ll give you the roads map how to get there.
The even better news is that this is not rocket science. Once you make the decision to feel better and be better, simple tweaks in your lifestyle is all it takes to get on the cumulative, self replicating path that continues to reward you the longer you stay on it. And the even better news is that it does get easier.
Specifically, the journey of 1000 miles begins with just one step. Thus, if you have to convince or motivate yourself to stick to it, one day at a time. Then do that. Before you know it, a week will have passed. Then two weeks. And then the magic occurs. At 21 days all those little tiny steps have transformed themselves into what your brain now defines as a habit, literally. You’ve broken through your brain’s resistance to change, and it now knows what you’ve been doing for the last 20 days is part of the “norm”. And from the point on, what you did those 20 previous days just got a whole lot easier, because you don’t have to convince your brain that that’s what you gotta do (it already knows).
How To Lead A Healthy Life:
Eight VITAL Components of Living Healthy
Now, allow me to remove one of the mental obstacles for most wanting to live healthy, but unsure exactly how to get there. In other words, as crystal clearly as I can state this, just do this.
I’ve eliminated your need to think about how to do it anymore.
Simply apply small positive changes. Tiny steps in the right direction add up to big steps in the right direction. Remember, if you want to change the world, you don’t have to solve world hunger overnight – just one decision, one person can impact the entire world. Imagine, what YOU can do, just for yourself.
Decide now to improve just a little bit. Having a healthy life can be narrowed down to handful of key components. Focus on these foundational factors, and track your noticeable improvements. Adjust what doesn’t work and make it better.
Put Your Energy Into These Vital Ingredients If You Want To Successfully Lead A Healthy Life
Eat healthier.
Consume more living foods. Raw, natural fruits and vegetables. Notice I didn’t just say eat more fruits and vegetables – - that’s a cop-out. You’re only fooling yourself if you think eating say, peaches from a can, drowning in high fructose to retard spoiling and create a shelf life that can out-last a nuclear blast is getting a serving of fruit for the day. Serious individuals, who really want to be healthier, will recognize the obvious difference. Fresh, locally grown, produce from a farmer’s market often offers the most leverage on your money.
Weight management.
There’s nothing healthy about being fat. You know that. You sure as heck need not be a toothpick-inspired runway model, by any means, and you can be plus-sized and still be healthy. But, your body is a machine. The more efficient it runs, the longer it will go. Like a car, loaded down with too much junk in the trunk, climbing a hill in the slow lane, surging and wheezing as bicyclists pass it by, keeping your body running smoothly, will not only add longevity to all that you do, but you’ll be able to perform your tasks with greater ease. Ultimately, resulting in greater, measurable results for all your effort. More money. More success. More of everything you love.
Move more.
There are two things that make people cringe. One, is fingernails digging into a chalkboard; the other is just one word. Exercise. It’s like a “morning person” trying to convince a “night owl” to switch their schedule 180 degrees. You’re either one way or the other (slight generalization, but allow me a little latitude). You either hear the word exercise and get revved up, or you cringe.
The misunderstanding about exercise is that nobody is dictating that “working out” must be a chore, or considered work. But, movement is key. “Chair dancing” is not a legitimate form of exercise, I’m afraid, nor is watching cardio workouts on television, from your couch. Movement. Increasing your heart rate above what’s normal for you. Move more. The beauty of exercising is to pick an activity that is so FUN to you, that you forget all limiting definitions of that dreaded word.
Ballroom dancing. Running. Window Shopping. Hiking. Biking. Walking your neighborhood. Boxing. Gardening. Woodworking. Fixing up a house. Sledding with your kids. Chasing your dog around your living room. Move more, and often, everyday ideally.
Avoid toxins.
Seems an obvious point to even mention that poison might be bad for you. And yet, how many individuals cough, gag, and turn green when they try their first cigarette. Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down. Though obvious, and your body’s best attempt to scream at you, not to do that again, smokers are everywhere, despite those obvious warnings and internal red flags. But toxins are not just found in products you smoke.
Toxins can be environmental, such as smog, or breathing contaminated air while you sit in traffic. It can be found in the food you eat: pesticides. Your microwave oven. Anabolic steroids. Industry related chemicals in your workplace. Fumes. The build-up of overly processed (junk) food in the walls of your intestines. Mad cow disease infested meat. On the surface, each of us might agree that toxins should be avoided logically, and yet exposure to them on a daily basis, completely contradicts that same human logic. Avoid toxins like you would avoid a punch square in the nose.
Prevention.
The cheapest health insurance known to man is prevention, but often completely overlooked. Do the right things to keep you healthy. Bullet-proof immune systems don’t get sick. There’s a “joke” that dates back generations before me, about a fellow who goes to his doctor, jiggles his arm violently in the air, and says: “Doctor, it hurts when I do this.” The diagnosis? Don’t do that. And so is true with the art of prevention. The odds are greatly stacked in your favor that you can completely avoid trouble in life (and of course this stretches beyond the topic of your health), by never putting yourself in a position that ensures your waist-deep in the middle of it. Avoid the things that will put you in harm’s way.
Again, makes perfect sense logically. And yet, throughout the world people die much too early, and cheat themselves of all the riches that they wholeheartedly deserve. Countries whose inhabitants find themselves wallowing in legitimate regret, wishing they would have done things differently. “Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda” woes and regret on one’s deathbed are much too common. Your actions, all them have consequences. They can be great consequences or disastrous ones. Prevention has a dramatic impact on the latter.
Manage Stress.
It took me literally about 26 years to fully understand what I am about to tell you. And I utter these words from a long ancestral line of proven “control freaks”, myself included. Quit worrying about things you cannot control. Stress and worry will eat you from the inside and the price you pay can be staggering. The fear of something happening is often imagined to be devastatingly worse than the reality of that fear. And yet, much of the panic your mind creates is overrated and can easily be controlled.
Treat yourself well.
Excessive indulgence can be unhealthy, but by no means does living healthy mean sacrificing all the things you love. Reward good behavior. Abusing the idea of self-indulgence, such as deciding (again, your choice – you are in control) that a reward might be having your favorite potato chips as a snack, but defining that snack as an entire, family-size bag of potato chips consumed in one sitting will ruin your previous healthy intentions.
Humor.
Keeping your sense of humor is key. It can literally perform miracles. People who have been sick and declared helpless and beyond hope by conventional doctors, prescribing “rest” while their patients wait for their allotted, best guessed, time to run out, have had complete recoveries, simply by adjusting their attitude. More than just positive mental attitude mumbo jumbo, scientific studies that have tracked sick people turning better, often have no medical explanation, despite the living, breathing, vibrant life standing before them as absolute proof. The missing ingredient was laughter.
Personally, I know somebody who was one of those “diagnosed to die” folks who was just lying in a hospital bed ticking time away – - but was supplied with “Candida Camera” videos just to make the time pass. Then, something strange happened. Nurses began remarking about the laughter bellowing from his room. And THEIR attitude shifted. And patients first complained, then began visiting to see what all the noise was about, and guess what THEIR outlook began to change for the better too. Final word: “He ain’t in no hospital bed anymore, Jack!”
Laughing and smiling seems too easy to be considered important. And that’s why many look right past humor, like racing to the middle of a book wanting to see where the little known, highly prized secrets are. It is a powerful influence on its own, capable of reversing terminally diagnosed disease. But, so few believe in its power, and opt for more difficult answers that one might spend an entire lifetime hoping to find. Smile. Laugh. Tickle yourself.
Embrace the choices you make today.
Remember each decision, including those in the moment seem insignificant, but has consequences. It is up to you to feel better, or feel worse. Have you come to a conclusion? Do you want to live and be healthy?
This list could be longer, but few have the fundamental, foundational healthy choices that living (and ultimately benefiting from) a healthy lifestyle demands. But, as you can see, YOU CAN DO THIS!
I’m here if you need me,
Big Joe
