Healthy Magazine Holidays Issue 2018

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CHOICE.
Maybe it's all this talk about voting, politics
and working /non-working websites, and
covering healthcare, getting healthy or
making un-healthy choices, but I've been thinking
a lot about the choices we make and how they
relate to success in life, at all levels.
Consider the American diet. If we really want to
improve the health of Americans, why is it that
healthier foods are so much more expensive, and junk
foods so much more prevalent? I'll admit, my eating
choices have been squarely in the un-healthy category
lately. My diet has failed and I'm up ten pounds in
2013. Yet, I've made progress in a number of other
areas. So, I've come to realize that failure can be an
educational step, and success is a choice. Ponder
that for a moment. We can choose to succeed, and
conversely, failure is a choice—a decision we make.
Success is optional—literally an ‘option’ for us to
select. We can choose failure, or success.
I love the classic Tony Robbins question:
“What would you attempt to do if you
knew that you couldn’t fail?”
The obvious answer is that if you knew you couldn’t
fail, you’d do almost anything—and everything.
If that's true, the logical next question is, why
don’t we? If failure is optional, why don’t we
simply choose success? If you say you’d do almost
anything, then just go do it. If you set up the right
‘rules’ and habits, if you're willing to pay the price,
it’s virtually impossible for you to fail. In sports, not
every play scores. In fact, plays in sports are often
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JOHN A. ANDERSON,
EDITOR IN CHIEF
EDITOR'S
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unsuccessful. You ran a play. It didn’t work. But
as long as you’re on the field and the time is still
ticking (or your heart, for the purposes of this
magazine), then you’re still in the game. Keep
playing, and drawing up new plays. Try something
else, change your approach, and eventually you’ll
succeed. Remember the classic Babe Ruth quote
when asked what he thought about after he’d
strike out – “I think about hitting home runs.”
It all sounds great, but is it practical? Is it possible
to simply ‘choose’ to change? I’ve had close friends
say it’s too simplistic; that this positive stuff might
work in parenting and relationships, but not for
teams, business endeavors or other measurable
applications. However, countless success
stories and marked turnarounds (individual and
corporate) began with a moment of decision and
positive inertia. The Law of Attraction states that
we eventually become what we want—what we
think about. We literally attract what we want and
ponder—positive and negative.
Clearly, a first step towards healthy change is a
basic desire to change, and then the visualization
of achieving the success. Breaking free in any
venture starts by answering the question for
yourself – “If you knew you couldn’t fail, what would
you attempt?” Sometimes we never ask that
question because we are so afraid of failure. And
sometimes we don’t answer it because we are
afraid of success.
I feel strongly that success in any endeavor is
based on the belief that the past does not equal
the future. Since failure is simply persisting in
doing something that doesn’t work, success
begins by changing your state, your physiology,
and in many cases, your psychology. What you’ve
done your whole life—all last month, all day
yesterday—doesn’t matter half as much as what
are you going to do now. Today. And tomorrow.
We’ve got to learn how to let go of the negative
luggage we carry around. Set it down and move
on. Simple to say, I know, but you’ve first got to
choose to move on. You’ve got to link ‘pleasure’
with making the change. Then you’ve got to
calculate the cost of not changing and moving
on. You’ve got to link ‘pain’ with not changing.
That acts as leverage to keep you moving forward
towards success. Either way, it’s your choice.
I hope this gets you thinking and hopefully helps you
take stock of where you’ve been, and where you plan
to be this time next year. Remember, it’s impossible
to fail unless we give up. Choose to succeed.
Healthy
HOLIDAYS 2018
VOLUME XVIII, 6
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