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Yesterday I checked out a forum on another website (sorry). The discussion I took a peek at was basically a bunch of pro and anti Law-of-Attraction people taking swipes at each other; trading insults and running down each other's respective beliefs, opinions and philosophies. Overall, pretty uplifting stuff. Not. They got kind of nasty and pretty personal. Abusive even. It makes me laugh when people who are (supposedly) all about self-improvement and changing the world, stoop to name-calling and trading insults. Morons.
Just kidding.
It amazes me how closed-minded some open-minded people are. Reading the discussion (a.k.a. slanging match) on the forum, a few thoughts and questions occurred to me:
1.The truth about truth
At what point do we recognise that we've become arrogant and self-righteous in our beliefs and ideas? For example, if we believe that we're absolutely right about a certain issue (in a not-up-for-discussion kind of way), then don't we close ourselves off to the possibility of gaining some new insight or learning another truth? Or perhaps learning the real truth? After all, is there any chance that we could be wrong and someone else right? Crazy thought I know but apparently it can happen. If, for example, you strongly believe in evolution or creation (either one - doesn't really matter for this discussion) and you know that you're right (you won't consider another view - "talk to the hand"), doesn't that make you somewhat arrogant? With some things we can't really know (with absolute certainty), we can only know what we think we know. If you know what I mean. Perhaps we believe what we're comfortable to believe? Perhaps we believe what we've been told we should believe. Perhaps we believe what our parents believe - because it's easy and we tend to avoid hard. If we look at the various religions of the world, unless I'm mistaken, the whole basis of faith is believing in something that we can't prove. If we could prove it then we wouldn't need faith because we would have knowledge. With me? Then how can we be so arrogant, self-righteous and judgmental about something that we can't prove? Something we don't know for sure. We seem to find a way.
2.The (non)thinker
Something else occurred to me as I read the forum: many people don't really think for themselves or truly search for, or discover, their own truths, beliefs and values. They simply adopt the thoughts, ideas and beliefs of others, becoming parrots who memorise and recite the mantras of their friends, gurus, teachers, parents, preachers and idols. They mindlessly adopt someone else's thinking and language. "I'm not sure what I think, what do you think I should think?" While it's (mostly) wise to listen to, consider and respect other people, it's also good to think independently and to discover your own truth. To step away from the influences of others and explore for yourself. Or maybe, explore yourself. Away from the dominating and controlling parents or partner, away from the religious indoctrination and emotion, and away from the pressure placed upon you by so many different forces to think, believe and do things in a particular way. Imagine that you - yes the exact same you (same DNA) - grew up in a different culture, with different parents, different schooling, different friends and completely different influences. Would you have the same 'absolute' beliefs, ideas, values and knowledge that you do sitting in that chair right now? Absolutely not. It's possible that alternativeyou could be arguing with current you (the person you are now) on an Internet forum from the other side of the world about your erroneous and stupid beliefs!
3.Cost-effective cloning
Simply adopting someone else's ideas and beliefs isn't learning; it's laziness, apathy, indifference and perhaps even weakness. A cheap version of human cloning. Real learning and understanding comes from personal exploration and revelation. Agreeing with someone else is fine but not just because you like or respect them. Agree with them because you've considered and explored their thoughts and beliefs and you've learned the same truth for yourself. I have many friends and colleagues whom I respect immensely but disagree with often. I like them but I don't necessarily like all of their ideas or agree with all of their beliefs. And that's fine. I like it that we disagree. I like it that they challenge and teach me. Part of the human experience is to be comfortable being different, being wrong and making mistakes. I'm happy to have people challenge me (and they do often) as long as those people come from a good place; a place of logical thinking, humility and honesty. A place of mutual respect and integrity. I won't discuss an issue with someone who is clearly emotional, irrational, defensive or reactive; someone who wants to ram their opinion down my throat at any cost. I am wrong often, I have made many mistakes and will undoubtedly make many more. I'm fine with that. It's a pretty fundamental part of the human experience. When I stop making mistakes then I'm really in trouble because I'm dead. I choose to take risks, choose to seek my own truth, choose to share my ideas and thoughts (with willing readers) and am infinitely aware of my fallibility, my humanity and my numerous flaws. To me it's tragic that so many people feel compelled to 'believe what they're told' rather than being comfortable to learn and express their own truth. Blindly following someone doesn't make you a student or a free-thinker, it makes you a cult-member or a sheep. "Baaah". Explore the definition of a cult and you'll realise that I'm not being facetious or provocative when I say that many programs, organisations, churches and even businesses are thinly disguised cults. They want compliance, obedience, commitment and of course, your money. And not too much independent thought.
But then again... I could be wrong
Even with what I write, don't believe me because you like or respect me as a teacher or writer. Perhaps my truth is not yours. Maybe I'm wrong. But if you do agree with me, then do so because you have considered, explored and tested my thoughts and ideas and discovered them to be true for you. Think for yourself. Learn for yourself. Respect and listen to others but be you, not some nasty-ass replica.
And just think, all of that came from five minutes of reading a forum - good thing I wasn't on there for an hour. Jeeez it's busy in my head. Love your thoughts on this post and this topic.
Ciao.
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Hi Guys, hope you had a fun weekend. I had a great time in Sydney, met some awesome craigharperdotcom folk (scored a cheesecake - thanks Asma) and my presentations went well. Thanks for your well wishes. You may wanna get yourself a coffee and a comfy chair for today's post. I got a little carried away and lost track of time. When I write I fall into a time void. Anyway, on with the show... Living large.
Imagine you have just landed your first full-time job, just moved to the big smoke and you're earning the enormous salary of five hundred dollars per week. Yep, you're living large. Fat City. Five hundred bucks to run your life. All of it: petrol, food, rent, clothes, car loan, insurances, household bills and if you're lucky, the odd social outing. You're single and you've cleverly snagged yourself a luxury one bedroom mansion overlooking a very attractive second-hand car dealership for the bargain price (never to be repeated, once in a lifetime deal) of two hundred dollars per week. Well it's not so much one bedroom as it is 'one room'. Anyway, it's space efficient, it's conveniently located (according to the agent) and it's all yours. Okay, yours and the roaches.
Things get interesting.
So the rent means you're down to three hundred bucks per week straight away. And then of course you need to factor in the payments on your 'brand new' eleven year-old Toyota Corolla, complete with the window-mounted Garfield and the not-very-professional purple window tint - that's gonna set you back an additional seventy smackers each week. Let's really hope that piece of motoring history doesn't fall apart any time soon - repairs are expensive. By the time you put some petrol in that bad boy and pay for some registration and insurance, you're down to about one eighty per week. Hmmm. Things are getting interesting.
Where did that money go?
Being as you're human, you may also need to eat at some stage. Let's see... maybe twenty bucks per day for food should cover it. Now your enormous weekly income has been reduced to about forty dollars to pay bills, buy some clothes, entertain house guests (or should I say, guest - the mansion has a capacity of two), see a movie (annually perhaps) and of course, put some left-over in the bank.
Good luck with that last one.
What tax?
You survive week one of your new job and you're proud of yourself. You've done well. It's Friday and you stride triumphantly from work with your first weeks' wage in your hand. As you make your way to your car, you excitedly remove the contents from the company envelope. All four hundred and thirty dollars of it! What! "Frickin' Tax Man", you mumble to yourself. Okay, looks like you might be down to ten dollars per day for the food thing. Unperturbed, you head to the shopping mall with a smile on your face - you're about to invest some of your hard-earned dollars.
So much money and so little time
Walking towards the supermarket to stock up on essentials, you pass an electronics store displaying a sexy compact stereo in the window; the perfect accessory for your cosy living situation. It's small, it's been reduced to half price and you don't have a sound system for the mansion, so you treat yourself. You figure you deserve it and see the half-price sticker as some kind of cosmic sign. The fact that you can't afford it and it's a stupid way to invest your limited resources doesn't really occur to you. However, way back in the dark recesses of your brain there's a tiny little voice protesting the decision, but you figure it's just your parents annoying you telepathically. "Always spend your money on what you need and put it where you'll get the best return on that investment" your father told you not even a week ago.
A few little treats
Instantly, you've just reduced the contents of your envelope to under three hundred bucks. You arrive at the supermarket and you're excited. You shop up a storm. As well as spending twice what you should on groceries, you also treat yourself to a new digital clock (a necessity), chocolate biscuits for the visitors (must be a good host), some expensive fluffy towels (they last longer and feel good on your skin), a heart-rate monitor (you're about to take up running any day) and some half-priced sunglasses (clearly a great saving).
You proceed to the register, pay the bill and your four hundred and thirty bucks is now down to less than seven. What!! You haven't paid rent (due Monday), you still need to put petrol in the car (the needle is on 'E'), and somehow, you need to repay your friend that thousand bucks she loaned you to get yourself established. Oops.
Runnin' on empty
You drive home with the petrol light flashing and the car coughs and splutters it's way up to the curb outside your place. You're officially on empty - in more ways than one. You carry all your unnecessary and expensive acquisitions into the apartment and sit in the dark feeling sorry for yourself. You have made some stupid decisions and you have not invested wisely. You certainly haven't got the best return on what you had. Not even close. Now you're under real pressure. The elation and excitement have made way for anxiety, misery and the reality of your situation.
An expensive habit
Amazingly, this destructive and illogical pattern of spending continues for months (with the help of your newly-acquired credit cards) and pretty soon you find yourself in a seemingly hopeless and desperate situation. You slip into a depressive state as the gravity of your dilemma hits home. You don't sleep. You tell lies to cover your tracks. You don't answer your phone because you're scared of who's chasing money on the other end and you become incredibly lonely, miserable, pessimistic and anxious.
The only thing that gives you a momentary reprieve from your misery is more shopping. Of course. So you continue to shop with money you don't have and continue to dig yourself into a deeper and deeper hole.
You've wasted what you had and invested poorly.
Now...
Imagine that this (much longer than intended) story is a metaphor for how and where we invest our emotional dollars (emotional energy). How we spend what we have. How we waste and misuse our emotional assets. And as crazy and as unlikely as the above story might seem to some of you (although it's actually pretty common), in many ways it parallels how many of us manage (or don't manage) our emotions.
Wasting our emotional dollars
The truth is that many of us waste our emotional dollars every single day. We are constantly making withdrawals from our emotional bank account and investing that currency without thinking or planning. We are reactive, self-destructive and irrational, and we spend those emotional dollars on things (people, situations, conversations, problems, arguments, relationships) which not only give us a poor return, but ultimately make our life an unproductive, frustrating misery.
Finding the bad
We get angry, we blame, we criticise, we judge, we resent, we envy and we even hate, all the while having an enormous capacity and potential for love, joy, kindness and generosity. We major in minors. We focus on one or two negatives while being surrounded by hundreds of positives. We find the bad when there is so much good. When others see opportunities and lessons, we only see problems. While others are moving on, we're stewing and brooding. Plotting, planning and scheming revenge and retribution. Making ourselves sick, wasting our potential, hurting others and getting deeper and deeper into emotional debt ourselves.
And all for what? Does giving ourselves over to those negative emotions help in any way? Nope. Is there a positive outcome? Never.
Investment and return
Let's pretend for a moment that you have a finite amount of emotional currency to spend each week (just like the wage in the above story) and that you need to invest those dollars wisely to ensure the best possible return, to manage your emotional health (stay happy, content and productive) and to improve the quality of your life and hopefully the lives of others. Of course, we could argue back and forth about the notion of having a finite amount of emotional dollars to spend each day or week, but I think we can safely say that our emotional bank account is not some bottomless pit. It can run out from time to time. And for many people it does - sometimes for months or years at a time. I think we all know people who have invested their emotional dollars poorly and have suffered the consequences of living on or below the emotional poverty line.
Emotional beings
At our core we are all emotional beings. Virtually every decision, reaction and behaviour comes (on some level) from an emotional need or trigger, and while we love to see ourselves as essentially logical, rational, pragmatic creatures, the truth is, so often we're not. For the most part, we are overwhelmingly emotional beings. This can be good and bad. Amazing and terrifying. Positive and destructive. And at it's most extreme, life and death.
Every day, consciously or not, we're investing our emotional dollars somewhere; sometimes wisely, sometimes not so much. And while anger, resentment, jealousy, bitterness and even hatred all seem to make perfect 'sense' (a logical investment) at the time (as did the clock, the stereo, the towels, etc. in the above story), the sad reality is that they only ever lead to emotional bankruptcy, pain and destruction. Destruction of physical health, relationships, businesses and ultimately, lives.
We all want the same thing
When we dumb down the whole personal development thing and bring this particular discussion back to what we all want - happiness, peace, fulfillment, meaning and love - it becomes apparent that real success is far more about how and where we invest our emotional dollars than it is about what we can accumulate in a financial or commercial sense. Show me a millionaire who doesn't spend her emotional dollars wisely and I'll show you someone who's miserable and wanting more. Living a life she really doesn't enjoy.
And no, being financially and emotionally wealthy do not need to be mutually exclusive. We don't need to choose one or the other, but if it's real happiness and joy we seek then we should invest heavily into our emotional portfolio.
Postscript:
* Over the last two weeks I have watched with both interest and despair the enormous human tragedy unfolding in Burma and China in the wake of their respective natural disasters. Watching a broadcast last night brought a tear to my eye; a mother draped over her lifeless child, wailing in uncontrollable emotional pain and looking to the sky in absolute despair. Humanity at it's rawest. As the camera drew back from the woman and panned across the landscape, the magnitude of the devastation and suffering became apparent. At that moment sitting there on my comfortable couch, in my comfortable house I truly became aware that I have no real problems. And that if I can get out of my own way, stop sabotaging myself and do good despite my (numerous) issues, then maybe I can be part of the change in the world that Gandhi spoke of.
While we all have our individual challenges, the truth is that you and I are privileged and have much to celebrate. Even though we might not always feel like it. If you're using a computer now, then you're rich compared to the majority of our six billion brothers and sisters. If you have food, shelter and education then you're in the global minority.
If we want to find our way back to misery we can.
I choose not.
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Good morning (afternoon, evening) Team. Yeah I know, the title is a little blunt but hey, maybe that's what we need today. If not you personally, then perhaps someone you know. You might wanna anonymously slip this post into their pigeon hole or letter box. Or be brave and simply put it in their hand. Staple it to their forehead maybe. Anyway, try not to use the words "hereyago Fatty" as you hand it over. I was gonna come up with some wacky, clever, creative name for today's installment on me-dot-com but sometimes blunt and clear is more effective and productive than witty and amusing.
So why this post? To be honest, I have written way too many posts (magazine articles etc.) over the years on this topic or similar but the truth is:
1. We (the society) still miss the point. 2. We still make the same stupid mistakes. 3. We're still frickin' fat (take a look around). 4. I still get asked (emailed) all the same questions. Constantly.
While I would prefer to be writing something a little more philosophical and thought-provoking today, I thought it timely and appropriate for me to share the top ten reasons why we don't get in shape and stay that way (according to me). My observations and recent experiences tell me that plenty of us still need this lesson. Each of the following ten points will be self-explanatory and brief. There should be no need for lengthy discussion or further explanation. Just compliance. The whole fat thing ain't that complex but we seem to have made it that way. It's in some people's best (financial) interest to do so.
It amuses and amazes me that with the wealth of information, education, inspiration and research we all have available at our finger tips, we still find new and creative ways to be fat. As I've said many times, the difference between fat and fit ain't information or education (not a popular thing for an educator to say!) - it's you. You're the answer and the problem. Always have been, always will be. Your attitude, your behaviour and your choices will determine your results.
Here we go:
1. We start things we won't maintain. Yep, we are models of inconsistency. We have almost been doing things for years. We have an amazing ability to start and stop fifteen new programs/diets (etc.) every year. For many of us the biggest barrier to permanent results is simply the reality that we don't finish what we start. It's that complex. Gyms owners can rely on the fact that the vast majority of people who sign up for a twelve month membership won't turn up too often, if at all.
2. We react emotionally rather than plan and behave logically. When it comes to exercise, diet, lifestyle and our body in general, we are reactive, emotional creatures. But you know that. If only we'd throw a little logic into the picture, we might see some better results.
3. Generic exercise programs. If we all had the same genetics, the same goals, the same medical issues, the same (current) fitness level and were all the same age, then generic exercise programs would be fabbo. Fortunately we're all different. Our exercise programs should be too. The program you ripped out of the fitness mag ain't gonna be your best chance of success - no matter what the beefcake or the bimbo in the advertisement said.
4. We're soft. Yep, we're big babies. Many of us simply don't train hard enough to get results. We go through the motions and have been for a long time. We're maintaining rather than progressing. The objective of exercise is to stimulate our body physically (stress it) so that it will need to adapt (get fitter, leaner, bigger, smaller, faster, more flexible). The problem is that we need to get uncomfortable to adapt and many of us have an aversion to discomfort. Bummer. Don't do what's comfortable, do what works. Look for effective not easy.
5. No variety in our workouts. If we always train the same, we'll always look the same. And we do. On both accounts. So many of us are creatures of habit. When it comes to our exercise program we should be creatures of variety if we want to keep our body changing and the results coming. Try a completely different workout and you'll discover how fit you aren't (if you know what I mean).
6. Too much fuel in the tank. I know we all know this but it would be remiss of me not too mention the fact that we simply eat too much. Waaaaaaaaaaay too much. We're fat because we eat food we don't need. Constantly. If the only piece of dietary advice we took any notice of was to reduce our food intake by 30%(ish) we'd have next to zero obesity. Sadly, that seems too complex for some people. Better try another five hundred-page diet book.
7. We get in shape for events. Yep, we get in shape for weddings, birthdays, parties, reunions and even seasons (summer), if only we'd get in shape for life. We're good at getting our head around behavioural change for four to six weeks, now we need to try four to six decades. How dare I be so practical.
8. We talk crap. When it comes to the state of our body, we talk crap. We just do. We constantly rationalise, justify, explain and blame away our fat selves. If only we'd be honest, responsible, accountable, proactive and consistent - then we'd get in shape and stay that way. Again, this stuff ain't rocket science.
9. Optional behaviours. As I said recently in TheNon-Optional Stuff as long as we make certain behaviours (optimal eating, exercising and living) optional then we'll never reach our goals and we'll forever be on and off the weight-loss merry-go-round.
10. Attitude. Yeah I know, this is a very Craig Harper thing to say but I can't help myself. It's a fact Jack - it is what it is. Some people simply make the getting-in-shape process a nightmare because they are nightmares themselves. When I talk to people in my role as an exercise science bloke, I'm actually more interested in their attitude than I am their genetics or their physical potential. Experience has taught me that when it comes to creating life-long change, psychology plays much more of a role than physiology.
See you (interested and willing) Sydneysiders at the Novotel (Darling Harbour) tonight at 7.30 for some chat, a few laughs and possibly some cheesecake. We'll meet in the foyer and figure it out from there. Too easy. Enjoy your day.
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Hi Guys! Take a look at book review 20 The Diet Delusions (UK title) or Good Calorie Bad Calorie (USA title) by Kris Rollag here. Feel free to comment on the reviewed book, to encourage Kris, or just say hi and add your thoughts. Sydneysiders, don't forget I'm in town tomorrow night for a casual catch-up on Darling Harbour (see yesterdays post). Enjoy your day Groovers.
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Hi Guys. I will be in Sydney this Thursday speaking at the MFAA Convention and then up to the Central Coast on Friday to speak at a Conference for Westpac. I will be staying at the Novatel on Darling Harbour on Thursday night and as I have some free time, I thought that some of you might wanna hook up for a chat and a coffee. Possibly a feed. Maybe some arm wrestling. Anyway, I will be in the foyer of the Novatel at 7.30 sharp this Thursday night (15th) if any of you would like to hang out with me for an hour or two. There could be twenty of us - or just you and me. Or maybe just me! I look forward to meeting you if you can make it along. I will be the tall, athletic, incredibly good looking, humble one in the corner.
Also... a few years ago I read a book called Catch Me If You Can - you've probably seen the film with Leonardo DiCaprio. I was so interested in the true story and the man who wrote it (Frank Abagnale) that I read the book four or five times. It's probably a boy thing but I found his experiences to be utterly fascinating.So anyway, guess who else is speaking at the MFAA gig I'm doing? Big Frank that's who! How excited am I?He probably doesn't wanna meet me but he's going to anyway! On with today's post..
I don't like you.
Four words we hate to hear. For some reason, we all like to be liked. No revelation there. It's how we're wired. We hate it when people don't like us - even people we don't really know. Some of us will do almost anything to be liked. We love to please, even at the expense of our own happiness, values, beliefs and standards. We compromise ourselves a hundred ways and turn ourselves inside-out trying to make others like us, but in that approval-seeking process we often forget who we are and wind up being disliked by the one person whose opinion should matter the most; us.
Newsflash 1: Some people aren't gonna like you. Newsflash 2: That's okay.
That's right - life ain't fair and even though you may very well be a fantastic human being, some people will find a reason to dislike you no matter what you do or how fabulous you are. Chances are it's more about their issues than anything you have or haven't done. There are people who don't like me who have never actually met me or had a conversation with me. That's fine with me. I won't invest emotional energy into things I can't change. I will endeavour to be the best Craig Harper I can be and if my best still generates critics and people who find reason to dislike me (which it will), that's okay. The only person I can change is me, so I'll focus on improving, educating and developing myself rather than trying to create a fan club or convince people to like me.
While it's normal and very human to have the desire to be needed, liked, loved and important to others, it's also crucial for our development to get clear about who we are and what we stand for, and to live a life consistent with those values - to like ourselves. Otherwise we simply become frustrated People Pleasers.
Newsflash 3: It's okay to disagree with people. Even people you like and respect.
Newsflash 4: Some people's overwhelming need to be liked is the very thing that makes them hard to like (there's some irony for you).
Newsflash 5: For many people, their need to be liked is actually a significant barrier to their personal and professional growth.
When it comes to this issue, you might want to ask yourself these questions:
1. Do I speak the truth (while still exercising care, wisdom and understanding) even if it's not popular to do so? 2. Do I live a life which is consistent with my core values? 3. Do I operate with integrity? 4. Do I believe that my motives are good? 5. Is it my goal to be a positive influence in the lives of others? 6. Am I happy to disagree with people I like? 7. Do I (really) like me?
If you answered yes to all of the above then you're doing pretty well. If there were more crosses than ticks then you may want to make a few changes. Soon. Some short-term pain for some long-term gain.
If you really want to be liked, then stop trying to be liked and start being you.
*Don't forget, if you're in the vicinity of Darling Harbour this Thursday night come and have a weak, decaf, skim, soy latte with me. Or six beers and some pizza.
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