Probably the top thing affecting your health is stress.
The top stress in most American lives is money or should I say the lack of it.
Everyone thinks they want more when in reality they just want what it brings, like power, prestige and stuff.
How you get it isn't by working harder.
How you get more isn't by working for someone else.
You will achieve your goals by changing the way you think.
You will have a paradigm shift.
You wouldn't be reading this if you were satisfied with your wealth or your health.
If you continue to live as most American's, you will die sick and you will die broke.
Whats the answer? Listen to people whom are more healthy at 70 or 80 than you are, or were, at 25 or 30.
Especially those not selling something.
You want more money? listen to people whom are wealthy, and not the ones whom must sell books and advice.
We are out there.
( I have an E-book for sale but my life will not change if you don't buy it.
) According to The Employee Benefit Institute if you retired in 2009 you will need an additional $ 800,000 beyond what insurance will provide.
If you plan on retiring in 2019 you will need an additional $1,400,000 just to keep up with rising health care costs.
No problem.
Just save up right? Anyone suggesting an IRA or other financial device is playing with the numbers.
The old ways of acquiring wealth no longer work.
The new millionaires are being created by selling information.
Content is King, however its information and 'how to' now, not stuff.
You know things that I don't.
I will likely pay you for what you know.
We all have become information junkies.
We want to know 'how to' everything.
We can't use all that we learn but we trade with other people for what they know.
It has become the new social game plan.
What do you know that I can use or forward and impress others in exchange? Everyone wants to be the expert, and that's O.
K.
Also it's said that every one has a book in them.
Think about that.
There is a ton of advice on how to write.
Don't discount this.
The very site you're on is exceptional at this.
We all rave about what we have bought on sale or have found at an exceptionally lowered price.
We are addicted to sales and the advertising that brought us there.
The reasoning being that is if we buy enough stuff cheaply enough we get ahead.
Not true.
You will never spend your way to prosperity.
This is one reason your broke.
(Your broke if you can't quit work for a year and be OK with that.
) You are the exact reproduction of your decisions, your choices.
Your current situation is your responsibility.
Don't whine about the 'breaks' or what someone else has done to you.
You have made every decision (or let others) that caused you to be in exactly the position and condition you find yourself in today.
Go to my web site and read the article on 'recreating you'.
It will give you a system for understanding and possibly changing your paradigm.
Its free and no obligation.
If you are not wealthy by now you have made every decision keeping you from it.
At no time in history are there so many opportunities to be truly healthy and wealthy.
Its your decision.
Its your choice.
Remember the movie 'The Secret'.
The missing link was action.
You can daydream all you want, that bicycle is never going to manifest on your front porch.
The Secret never told you to do something.
Your actions create.
Get off the couch and give thanks everyday for the ability to do so.
If you don't have a job, sweep the floor, rake the leaves.
Stop waiting for the lottery.
Do something today for cash.
Anything (legal).
It will lead you to something.
Make a plan.
Write down every day what you are going to do that day.
The real Secret is to concentrate on where or what you want to go or be, not where you've been.
Yesterday is gone.
You get zero effect in dwelling on it.
The news media concentrates on what has already happened.
Get off the news.
It has never created a positive attitude or enriched anyone except those that sell it.
I'll admit it was harder than quitting smoking.
Its extremely additive and even hypnotic.
It builds stress and is killing you.
To strong? Have you ever felt wonderful after the news? Try being without it for some period and see how you feel.
Do some research on Bio-feedback and Homeopathy.
Those two words meant nothing to me until my life was saved from cancer and a badly damaged leg healed.
I couldn't get around without a fancy brace that caught on things and caused me to fall.
Today, no brace and I'm back jogging again when ever I choose.
The story is on my web site.
Health care is killing us financially.
There are alternatives.
You don't own your health care system.
Others own it and you pay the premium without any control on rising costs.
You are renting a system you can't control.
Can you sell your plan? The trick came when they began calling it 'your plan'.
If its yours, you should have some control.
What you own you can sell.
Stop paying and its gone.
POOF.
Create your own music and stop dancing to the "Health Casino" tune.
Of course if you have already given up your autonomy and depend on others to take care of you (i.
e.
: social programs that now eat up more than half of our national budget) you may not have much freedom remaining in controlling your life.
At least, if that is the case, think about your children.
Just a passing thought as I leave for now.
Who was the wise guy (politician) that came up with the word "Health Care"? For me those two words are opposed to each other.
If you have health, why would you need care? My motto is: Those that say it can't be done are not allowed to talk to those doing it.