The world is in pain.
The world needs help.
When we look out at most modern societies we do not see a pretty picture. We don’t see vibrantly healthy people living vibrantly healthy lives. We don’t see great works of achievement, art, and love. We don’t see strength, we don’t see wisdom, and we don’t see beauty. They may be out there but they are like candles in a maelstrom.
The light is dim.
Because of the sickness of modern society, the people coming up in that society also often end up sick. Raise a plant in tainted soil and that plant will also be tainted. But, unlike the plant, we can change. We can heal ourselves and others and live the lives that we were supposed to live. The lives that we would live in a healthier society.
It’s just a hell of a lot harder.
I Never Thought I’d Be A Coach
I never thought I was the most patient person, nor did I feel like I really had a knack for teaching others. However, through strange circumstance, through my life more and more have I found myself in the mentoring role in various capacities in my life. It’s been a gradual change, something that seems to pick up as the years go by. Perhaps people naturally look to you for guidance as you age.
But the strange thing is this has happened in areas where people do not know my age, such as this site here.
I honestly think the biggest thing has been my business training. Through my business training I was always taught to find a need and then fulfill that need. And right now what I think the world needs more than anything is guidance. Is men holding a light to help illuminate the way for others.
The way I’ve always thought about it is a man holding out a lantern on a treacherous and foggy path that represents life. I feel that’s just about all we can do to help others. Show them the way then it’s up to them. Do everything possible to facilitate them taking the right path and the rest is up to them.
Anyways through my coaching I’ve had the opportunity to work with hundreds of people in various walks of life. From 70 year old women trying to stay out of the nursing home to 16 year old kids wondering what they are going to do with their life. It’s been a trip and there is something that I wanted to share that I think will help everyone.
Where You Should Start On This Journey
Change requires willpower, discipline, and desire, along with plenty of other things. But those three things are certainly key. And frankly for people whose lives are a mess, those are three things that are hard to come by. The biggest mistake I see people make, who are trying to change their lives, is that they try to do one hundred things at once and therefore end up accomplishing nothing. I always recommend take one bad habit and one good habit.
Only one.
And work on those. Get those dialed in before going to another.
But that’s not the secret.
Most people have hundreds of things that they’d like to change in their lives. Hundreds of things that are keeping them from the life that they want to live. Physical, mental, spiritual. Everyone wants to work out more, sleep better, spend more time with loved ones, doing a hobby, reading more, praying more, and so on and so forth.
Where to start.
The Foundation To Start With
The number one thing I recommend for people is to start eating healthy. But not dieting. Let me explain what I mean. I’m a big fan of eating for micronutrition over macro or calorie counting. What I mean by that is focusing your eating habits on eating as much of nutrient dense foods as possible. So eating red meats, organ meats, full fat dairy, eggs, and things of that nature. Weston A. Price offers good general guidelines for these. Paleo and carnivore move people in the right direction as well and with slight modifications I think work great.
Diet is the foundation of so much in life. How we feel, even what we think. If every man started his day with six eggs, steak, and a glass of full fat milk so many issues would be cleared up. They’d be more motivated, feel better, get better sleep, be happier, and so much more. Because diets effect on the brain and the body is profound. With most my clients I usually say don’t even worry about not eating crap at first. Just eat some eggs every morning.
What they find is that the desire and cravings for crap naturally go down the more good and wholesome foods that they get in. Same with motivation. When you have good fats, protein, and cholesterol going into your system motivation naturally goes up as does testosterone, hormonal balance, and so many other things.
You start to get your body working for you and for your goals instead of against you. Imagine having tons of energy to accomplish the tasks that are set before you. Change is hard enough so when you start with diet you are getting things to work for you and be easier down the road.
Which is why I recommend starting here. Because it makes the difference for everything else.
Start Here, Then Proceed
Not long after I usually include fitness of some sort, depending on the clients needs and goals. And then reading of some sort as well, if we’re talking about total life change. That’d probably be the top three things with diet being the number one thing I’d start with.
So…
- Diet.
- Exercise.
- Reading.
Maybe meditation in there as well. Those would be the top things.
But it starts with eating right. You don’t have to have a strict diet, just start including good foods. Diet, as in what you eat, is the foundation of health. Physical health but any more I’d almost say mental health as well. Who knows in a few years time I might be saying its the foundation of spiritual health as well.
Regardless, it’s something to pay attention too.
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-Charles Sledge
