Longevity Health Guide

The Truth About Resolutions and Your Personal Longevity Solution

by Eric Walker

Everyone in life gets their “Musts.” We don’t always get our “Shoulds.”

I must wake and eat because I’m hungry. I should get up from the computer and workout.

I must pay rent or mortgage to keep my home. I should look for another job other than the one I have because I hate it.

Do you get my point about the musts and the shoulds.

When you decide something is an absolute “Must,” the standard gets raised. We find a way.

Reflect upon the “Musts” and “Shoulds” in your life.

I did. Instead of making a New Year’s Resolution that reads more like a wish list, I thought long and hard about my “Musts” and “Shoulds.”

I took a moment to think about the word “Resolve.”

When you resolve, ‘this is how it’s going to be,’ that’s when you cut off any possibility except the thing you’ve committed to.

It’s a matter of having a decided heart. Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. “Should” I? “Should” I not?

When Confronted with a Challenge, the Committed Heart will Search for a Solution. The Undecided Heart Searches for an Escape.

Is there an area in your life where something was a “Should,” but something shifted, and it became a “Must?”

It has happened to me. That’s why I’m writing this article for you. You should care because we all have our “Shoulds” that can transform to a “Must.”

When that happens, the “Must” becomes a part of our identity. Human beings follow through on who they think they are. Absolutely they do!

We act consistent with who we think we are. It’s our identity.

Think about the big giant elephant at the circus. Those big elephants with such a small rope around their neck… staked to the ground as if that could really hold the elephant in place… as if the elephant couldn’t easily rip away and trample down the entire circus tent with its strength.

But it doesn’t happen. The elephant doesn’t struggle or try to break away. That’s because the elephant was trained as a baby, and conditioned to think it’s not capable pulling out that stake. They don’t even try anymore, and that is the way it is.

Now ask yourself when you decided to adapt to the limitations that hold you back in life.

We live who we believe we are.

For the previous year and a half, I have done little to nothing to meet the standard I have for myself. I define myself as an athlete. I define myself as healthy.

I said I “Should” go workout, but I didn’t have time.

It dawned on me that when I see another person who is really fit, they don’t necessarily have more time than I do, but they have made fitness a MUST for them.

Wants don’t get met consistently. Standards do.

I have decided that I must feel younger, not older; stronger, not weaker; more vibrant than ever before.

It’s become a must.

This month, this next 90 days, this year …whatever it takes, I’m going to transform my body and take on a new challenge. I’m going to reframe my thinking of myself to feel the way I have always envisioned myself to be.

My reason is because I want the energy to really make my life work. I have made considerable changes in my life to become the new vision of success I have for myself over the last two years. It’s been a successful endeavor.

But in the process, my body has become dormant. Now it’s time to revitalize.

Let’s face facts, it’s a tough world that keeps getting tougher, and I not only want to be at my strongest, I feel it’s a must.

So I’m moving myself to another level just like I’ve done in business.

I have remained somewhat healthy on a generic level healthy, but I’ve fallen below my standards. It’s time for me to raise them again, and it’s time that I own up to the change I must be.

And that is what this corner of the healthbecomesyou blog will be about: one person’s journey from mediocre health to superb health.

Join me on this journey. Consider me an accountability partner. You will learn from me.

How to Design Your Longevity Solution

When you become a regular reader of this blog, and integrate what you learn into your own life, you will gain in three distinct areas:

1.    Insight about fitness (whether returning to the gym or designing a proper home workout).

2.    Insight about diet. Not starvation-only-eat-broccoli diet (we get too hungry for that), but nutrition that stimulates our body and mind to be at its peak condition.

3.    And finally, our food system just doesn’t supply enough of what we need to be completely healthy, so I will introduce you to the right supplements that make all the difference.

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