Get rid of inhibitions that constrain and disguise your fullest possibilities as a highly evolved human. Doing so will get you in shape for the real challenge -- overcoming the norms and customs that reinforce mediocre levels of health, happiness and freedom. I have five proposals to guide you in this quest.
Five Questions: Before describing my five proposals, please consider these five questions:
1. Are you normal? Yes or no.
2. What is your weight and height? Make a note -- and show what you wrote to the person next to you.
3. What do you suppose is nature's most powerful medicine or semi-panacea? One word should be sufficient. (Show the person next to you what you wrote.)
4. Ever been on a diet? Yes or no. Did it work? Did you lose weight AND keep it off? Yes or no.
5. What comes to mind when I ask, "What are the best of times?" How often each day do you say, or think, something like, "Wow. I am one fortunate person. This is so sweet. This is the best of times."
The Five Proposals: And now, five suggestions, aided by a few visuals, to set you on your way to advanced levels of health, happiness and freedom.
1. Don't be normal
2. Be realistic - set modest expectations
3. Become addicted to nature's wonder drug -- exercise
4. Try my new diet -- the Exercise Diet or "TED"
5. Seek 23 DBRU equivalents daily.
Conclusion and Parting Words
There you have it -- the five suggestions. I hope they put you in a good mood and motivate you to try to prove that you can do it. It won't be easy but then, nothing worthwhile ever is.
Maybe the time has come to resolve to go out there and celebrate life more than you already do, to seek DBRU equivalents and ways to become more fit, play more, have more fun. And, as suggested, seek new levels of health, happiness and freedom.
As my daughter said to me not so long ago during her high school days, "Dad, may all your dead rhinos be like totally bloated on this lovely day." Thank you and be well.
Expand wellness programs beyond a prevention and medical management orientation. How and why to address preseentism and boost personal and organizational effectiveness with five strategies:
1. Teach critical thinking skills;
2. Introduce positive psychology about human happiness;
3. Promote new discoveries about meaning and purpose;
4. Assist employees better understand science while stimulating their sense of wonder, gratitude and commitment to reason and free inquiry; and
5. Raise interest in ethics and the nature, sources and applications of common decencies.
The talk describes obstacles to a gradual shift of worksite wellness to REAL wellness for quality of life enhancement.
Some topics should be avoided in polite society, but not these three!
"Those of us gathered here tonight have been called to govern in extraordinary times. It is a tremendous burden, but also a great privilege, one that has been entrusted to few generations of Americans, for in our hands lies the ability to shape our world, for good or for ill."
President Barack Obama, Address to joint session of Congress, February 24, 2009.
It is true today as it has been throughout human history that the most extraordinary times for the individual, as opposed to the nation or community, is the time he or she has. No matter how "extraordinary" another age or historical period might have been, nothing that took place during the Stone Age, the Copper Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age or any more recent age since matters as much, to you living now, as the choices you make. For each of us, the present time is the most extraordinary time - no matter what events and developments went before over the course of human experience. Living in a manner that boosts your chances for happiness, health, meaning, exuberance and a life of reason with love given and received - that is both a burden and a privilege to pursue. These and so many other opportunities are entrusted to you, now. In your hands at this time, while you live, lies the ability to shape a small part of the world - the part you inhabit, for good or for ill. A REAL wellness lifestyle is something you owe to yourself. I believe President Obama would add that you owe it, as well, to your family, your community and last but not least your country. Choose REAL wellness.
Dr. Donald B. Ardell will describe REAL wellness is and show how you can enjoy a high quality of life based on shaping a personal plan to fit with the president's three priorities of energy, health care and education.
