Doctors Are Trained To Treat Patients

Doctors are trained to treat patients, not to prevent them from ever getting sick. Gadgets, automation, instant communications on a global scale, and home entertainment eliminated what few healthful activities remained. Yet appetite has not decreased since the time of the hearty farmer’s breakfast. From the school yard to the comfort of your home, advertising, packaging, and instant food delivered to your door provide relentless stimulation, offering countless food choices rich in salt, sugar, and fat that further trigger brain appetite centers. Though the quality of medical care is better than ever, its cost is becoming prohibitive. The solution is to motivate the return of healthy lifestyle practices. But the medical system often stands in the way. But no course in preventive health care is offered in medical school, and a master’s degree in public health is the closest we come to preventive health care education. Healthy people are neglected by our medical system and often penalized for not using doctors’ services. They pay the same premiums, but, unlike the sick, get no tax break on medical expenses if they do not exceed a minimum threshold. There are no financial incentives to remain healthy. So how can the unhealthy be motivated to return to good health? If the poor health epidemic of today is due to lifestyle, then our present dire situation should be reversible by a change in that lifestyle.

As You Lean Into The Light

The Space Age gave us many of the modern technologies that encourage a sedentary lifestyle resulting in obesity and poor health, but it also revealed the problem’s cause as well as its solution. We cannot return to our old ways, abolish technology, and give up modern conveniences. But we can choose to use gravity or let it drag us down. This is the secret that living in the weightlessness of space revealed. When correctly used, the gravity vector is a great healer. It’s a great source of fun! Look at a child playing and you will note that every fun game, every position, challenges the gravity vector. So be a child again. If you want to remain healthy and strong for life on Earth, keep doing things, a variety of things, all day, 365 days a year. Success is a question of attitude, and attitude that should be based on the desire to be healthy. Why wait to get sick before you decide to be healthy? Congratulations on taking this time to invest in yourself. How well do you feel in terms of your health at this moment? When do you have the most energy? How satisfied are you with your looks? How would you rate your eating habits? How much water do you drink per day? How well do you manage your weight? How well do you manage your stress? How well do you manage your time? How would you describe your sleep? How would you describe your level of activity? How would you describe your support network? How would you describe your balance? In an average weekday how much time are you devoting to yourself? Which profile best describes your alcoholic drinking habits? How many cigarettes do you smoke per day? You are making wise decisions today which are an investment in your lifelong vitality and independence. You are making sound health investments.

A Brand New Day

Small improvements in the way you manage your health today can result in a longer, more energetic and independent future. Your health investments could use some attention. There are small but important steps you can take to make a difference right away, as well as better invest in your future. Your state of health is compromised. You would benefit from learning how to make adjustments to your daily habits. Your state of health is poor. If you are 55 or younger, the choices you are making are compromising your health today as well as your future ability to remain independent. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Use of this work is subject to these terms. Your right to use the work may be terminated if you fail to comply with these terms. This limitation of liability shall apply to any claim or cause whatsoever whether such claim or cause arises in contract, tort or otherwise. Don’t stick a label on it! Think your problem is managing time? Are you really happy? The Bard had it right! The scientist who cheated.

Beyond Beautiful

There are no mechanisms! How big is your pile? Quiet the tumultuous horde! The question itself is irrelevant! Is anything for real? Beware the stories you tell and the company you keep! Where does your journey take you? I believe that his great thoughts may be able to help you in the same way. What can people do to achieve more meaning and happiness in their lives? What a joy it is to know that Srikumar and I are on similar paths in our writing and our lives! For much of my career as an executive coach, I have defined my mission as helping my clients achieve positive changes in their interpersonal behavior. Though this mission hasn’t changed, I am now focusing more on our internal workings and on personal definitions of meaning and happiness. The stories, examples, suggestions, and teachings that Srikumar sets forth in Happiness at Work are highly supportive of this mission and have expanded my thinking on the subject altogether. Srikumar delivers on this promise. It will take a little practice and even a little work, but if you follow Srikumar’s instructions you will enjoy the journey to having more happiness and meaning in your life, no matter what! Life can do that sometimes. But now it seems to be happening more often and the terrier has more muscular jaws and greater tenacity? It’s often said that the only constant is change, and stuff will come at you from left field.