Author Jocko Willink has a famous phrase:
“Good.”
The hardened Navy SEAL instructor and leadership professional uses a tough message when people have problems. Even in his children’s books.
Having trouble at school? “Good.”
Someone giving you a hard time? “Good.”
Can’t physically do what the other kids do? “Good.”
How does this tough, battle-hardened approach help you to face challenges? And to improve your health, and healing?
It teaches that problems can be under-rated. And that there is a value in looking at the benefits of problems.
Challenges and pain can lead you to look at options and avenues that you wouldn’t normally consider.
And put you in a frame of mind that you may not normally have. Like the idea that pain, dysfunction and injury can be “good.”
It’s not the usual thought when trouble strikes. More like the opposite.
But the idea behind “good” is particularly useful when it comes to building – and protecting – your health. An area where we can be motivated most often not by being actually good but instead more motivated by pain.
“Good” is the idea that a problem is an opportunity…
And that not only is it an opportunity to work and to make things better – but that there is also an opportunity to sharpen your skills at making your life better by being ready to attack problems.
In other words, when one shows up, don’t duck and hide, or cower, or get frustrated and blame.
Instead see they are a part of life and that being ready to challenge problems right back is one of – if not the most – valuable skill there is.
This is how your own body is a great teacher. It regularly teaches you not only what it needs but also if you are a great listener it can teach you almost all the lessons life has to teach.
The originators of chiropractic figured this out early on.
While they didn’t go out of their way to celebrate problems, they fully recognized the intelligence inside the body, and pioneered the idea that the body was (and is) “smart.”
While the arrival of problems can be frustrating, it can also be a valuable lesson. Fortunately, chiropractors have been reading the language of the body (and reporting back to the rest of us) for 100+ years.
Your health can protect you from the over-commercialization of the holidays. More and more, we hear about how the holidays have turned into something different than what they used to be. Instead of the “true” meaning of Christmas and other holidays they have become about consumerization. Buying and selling and big online sales, they had taken over the season.
Your health can protect you from the over-commercialization of the holidays. More and more, we hear about how the holidays have turned into something different than what they used to be. Instead of the “true” meaning of Christmas and other holidays they have become about consumerization. Buying and selling and big online sales, they had taken over the season.
Has anyone told you you don’t need permission to be a superhero? Or that you don’t need someone to tell you it’s okay to help other people? There are some amazing stories of people that decided they didn’t want to wait to help the people around them that needed help. These were people that didn’t have advanced degrees or complicated certifications. What they did have was the sense of action and an overwhelming urgency to start making changes in the world around them.
It’s a classic phrase by Rene Descartes – one that is instantly recognizable. And it comes from a totally unrecognizable world – 1637.
Yet it is still true today. Descartes’ attempt to get to the very bedrock of what he was as a human being is worth looking at as we turn over into the new year. Especially as we examine the beginning of something new – a time when discussions turn to the entire idea of new, and what the idea of new creates – the vision of new possibilities.
Anti-aging is a trick. And like all tricks, it’s not real. We all slow down, grow old, and die. But like all tricks, when done well, they are amazing and fun. Here is how the trick of anti-aging can work for you.
Take the aging progression above and expand it all the way. From the time we are very young, we grow, get bigger, stronger, smarter and generally better at everything as we go.
Here is the solution to understanding an ever-more common anxiety-causing malady. And how the key to solving it is getting two things – knowing what it takes to get healthy – and the power of understanding how to choose the quickest line at the grocery store.
