Skeptic: Cynic, disbeliever, doubter, Doubting Thomas. That’s the dictionary definition.

I find skepticism to be a unique, doubled edged sword. One side quickly cuts through the BS and the other side is butter knife dull and can’t cut into to what’s possible.

The difficulty is that we generally only see ourselves as only using the sharp side of skepticism. We deem ourselves the ever present authority of what others miss.

Having been a world class skeptic myself, I can tell you that skeptics have a penchant for judging things in their head. That means they get in the habit of being right without sufficient evidence to back up their belief.

Skeptics miss a lot. We are so busy being right, that we often miss out on something that’s cutting edge.

Such was the case for me and vitamins. I was so sure that I could get everything I needed from the foods I ate that I didn’t need anything else. That may be true if I lived on a diet of plants, grains, water, nuts and seeds. That’s just not the case.

Then there was my evidence. I had tried high doses of Vitamin C about 30 years ago and got a kidney stone. Then I took more than the recommended daily requirement for Vitamin E and my hair began to fall out. I now had stories to back up my skepticism.

Skeptics not only anoint themselves as being right, they metaphorically put on a collar and begin to preach. I would tell my stories to anyone that would listen and would haughtily dismiss those that had other stories about vitamins as having the most expensive urine in town.

Older is also a double edged sword. It can mean wiser OR more set in your ways. It’s a choice we get to make. Set in your ways usually keeps skepticism in place keeping you from learning something new.

I got my skeptic’s cage rattled when I met Dr. David Lee. I had heard about Dr. Lee from our seminar coordinator, Hali. She would tell me lots of stories about Dr. Lee over the years that I thought were interesting but it was a comment she made in passing that caught my attention. She said that 80% of the patients that Dr. Lee sees have been told to get their affair in order by their physicians and are sent home to die. A number of these patients have gone on to live vibrant lives after experiencing Dr. Lee.

Being a skeptic, I had to go see for myself. I had to meet this person, in person, and look them in the eye. I also charged up the batteries of my BS detector for the trip.

I was blown away. Dr. Lee was the real deal and a real person. He was a Navy medic in the Vietnam War and afterward, came home and began his studies. During our time together, he told me that he never treats disease. He only treats the patient. He uses a multi-pronged approach – one of those prongs being a nutrient regiment that he’s been using successfully for years – both personally and professionally. I liked him already because he practiced what he preached.

My skepticism melted even more when Dr. Lee prescribed to take nothing he said on faith. He invited me to take home his daily vitamin packet and use it for 30 days. He said, “Let your body judge the results, not your head.”

The first thing I noticed after about a week was an increase in energy. Then I noticed that my nails were growing back more quickly. Then I noticed being more alert, especially during the parts of the day where I became somewhat drowsy in the past. These new found feelings and occurrences snuck up on me and I feel absolutely great!

Like Dr. Lee, I recommend that you don’t take what I say on faith. Investigate for yourself. I encourage you to read more about my experience with Dr. Lee and the great opportunity that came out of that meeting for all who visit my website. I request that you log on now to find out how healthy you can be with the assistance of Dr. Lee.

Click on the link below or copy it into your browser and find out what I did – that with the right formula even a skeptic can become healthier.

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All the best,

John

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Here are 3 attitudes to take into the weekend with you.

Remember, “Attitude” is an aeronautical term which means “Angle of Approach.”

• Approach forgiveness with the attitude of a dog.
• Share laughter as though it was as plentiful as autumn acorns.
• Be kind to your body. It truly is your best friend.

All the best,

John

P.S. I have been waiting for 2 months to make the exciting announcement I will make here on Monday. Be sure to come back and find out the answer to the question, “How Healthy Can You Really Be?”

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Did you expect to be doing better at this stage in life? Me too.

There’s an old song by Creedence Clearwater Revival that addresses the topic of expectation so well. It’s called “Lodi.”

Just about a year ago,
I set out on the road,
Seeking my fame and fortune,
Looking for a pot of gold.
Things got bad, and things got worse,
I guess you will know the tune.
Oh ! Lord, Stuck in Lodi again.

If I only had a dollar, for ev’ry song I’ve sung.
And ev’ry time I’ve had to play
While people sat there drunk.
You know, I’d catch the next train back to where I live.
Oh ! Lord, I’m stuck in Lodi again.
Oh ! Lord, I’m stuck in Lodi again.

We all get stuck somewhere. Some of us learn to like it, or at least claim we do because we fear there is no alternative. Our main problem is our expectation.

“Shoot for the moon” is the carrot and stick philosophy we seem to follow. I’m sure that approach has worked for some to reach their expectations but most of us have come up short.

“She had such great potential” is what we often hear when we witness her fall on her rear. Not living up to expectations is a mental game that we play and it is one that’s played for us by others.

Expectation starts out as foresight but its sting is mainly felt in hindsight.

Expectation ignores the moment. It suggests that we should be somewhere where we’re not, whether looking forward or looking back.

No one ever taught us to expect to be where we are at any given moment. It’s the strategy that pulls out the stinger of expectation.

This by no means suggests that you give up on your dreams, just don’t attempt to live them by expectation. Expectation is entitlement by a different name. The only thing we are entitled to is the moment we’re in.

Making the most of the current moment is the real dream builder, not the diversion of expectation.

My wife from another life had this observation: “Fathers tend to tell their children what they can be and mothers accept them for who they are.” I’m sure the roles are reversed in some families but the premise of expectation, high or low, starts at home. We seem to all play the role of “Stage Mother” somewhere in our parenting – projecting onto them what was projected onto us – expectation.

When we don’t live up to that expectation, something seems to be missing. What’s missing is the life and opportunities the present moment brings. They’re sacrificed for expectations.

The building blocks for anyone’s future can only be found right here and right now. The only place you can start from is right now. When you slip into the world of expectation, you slip out of the only time you can accomplish something – right now.

Expecting and doing run on different tracks. One is a path to nowhere and the other is a pathway to your dreams.

Here is my suggestion: Go for your dreams, just don’t let expectation get in the way.

All the best,

John

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I was taught a lesson in reality last night while watching a football game – the difference between giving up and giving in.

I had given up on my team but the good news is they didn’t get my memo. They didn’t give in to what many fans like me may have felt – that time was too short to get a win.

I’m sure glad Thomas Edison didn’t give up. I’m sure other inventors had thrown in the towel much earlier in the process. They didn’t see the light that he saw.

Giving up is a state of mind; giving in is an action.

I think those that win more often than others have given up the notion of giving in while there is still time on the clock.

Some take a setback as the end of the game. That’s a losing strategy. That’s giving up.

Giving in only happens when reality physically surfaces. When the final whistle blows and your opponent is ahead, it’s time to give in. That’s called acceptance.

If the players on my team last night had adopted my give up attitude, we wouldn’t have won. There is no guarantee that your attitude gets you a win, it just increases the odds.

This is not a rose colored glasses approach. This is a reality based strategy. Optimism creates options. Negativity closes doors.

This is more than the trite maxim of “Think Positive.” That’s a directive with no instructions. The instructions are these:

Learn the difference between perceived reality and reality itself. Perception is never reality. Perception causes us to give up well before the game is over. Odds don’t win games; people do.

Remember this: If your parents’ reproductive cells had listened to the odds makers, you would have never been born.

I’ve given in to the fact that giving up has no basis in reality.

All the best,

John

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The Grasshopper visited over the weekend and left this definition:

WEAKNESS: Thinking you can outsmart your vices.

How profound, how universal, and how stupid.

The first sign of weakness being a weakness is denying our vice. We may artfully lump it into the category of “everyone does it,” but we never examine that explanation further. We never assess our degree of involvement. We fail to notice that everyone that does it to the degree we do, suffers.

Reminds me of a story . . .

Frank Layden, former coach of the Utah Jazz was a great motivator of people. He also weighed well over 300lbs. He had heard the speech from his doctor many times that he was endangering himself by carrying all that excess weight, especially in his mid 60’s. The logic never registered with him until . . .

Finally on one visit his doctor said, “Frank, I want you to go look for men over 300lbs that are your age when you leave here today.” Frank couldn’t find any. That became the motivation for him to finally get healthy.

Outsmarting your vices is called kidding yourself, but the jokes on you because no one is laughing.

Here’s a hint that your vice needs to be addressed: When you have a story at the ready to defend it. That indicates you’re neck deep in it.

Here’s another hint: When you say, “it’s none of your business,” especially to a friend or close family member who’s concerned.

My personal favorite is when we shift the onus to the worried person who points out our dilemma. “You have issues too.” The hope is they will go on to defend themselves about their issues so we can get the focus off of us.

There’s a reason Michael Jordan was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. It’s not that he didn’t have weaknesses, we all do. He just chose to identify his and go to work on them so he could be the best he could be.

People who decide to go to work on a weakness, don’t make excuses. They realize that only action works.

Our vices are patterns that need to be outgrown, not outsmarted. Every time you think of a creative way to defend what you do, you just add another glob of glue.

Weakness and Smartness is a deadly combination – one that lets stupid people outlive you.

All the best,

John

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Seems like Friday is just about everyone’s favorite weekday. More songs have been written about other days of the week, but Friday seems to be the hands down winner.

It’s easy to see why. Friday is the doorway to the weekend – the time when time is your time.

So the special thing about Friday is the wonderful anticipation it brings. Friday is a feeling!

What if we could isolate that feeling in our body and catalog it? Then we could literally Google that feeling any day of the week, even on a “Blue Monday.”

What does Friday feel like? It will be different for every-body, but quite useful to zero in on. What goes on in your body when you’re in a Friday frame of mind? Find out by taking time to notice.

Most will agree that good thoughts produce good feelings but not as much attention has been given to the corollary – good feelings produce good thoughts. Feelings last longer and so do the thoughts associated with them.

Think of thoughts as precision sports cars that can turn on a dime and dart away. Then think of feelings as cruise ships that take much longer to make a full turn and stay in place much longer.

If you pay attention to the feeling, you can get the full experience of the moment. The best news is you can recreate that moment when “hump day” seems like it will never end.

Most people know Abraham Lincoln’s observation that “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” They may not know there is another strategy – “Most folks are as happy as they feel in their body.”

Here’s a wacky suggestion: Make Friday “feel day.” Get to know what Friday feels like in your body. Then when you’re mentally having a “Terrible Tuesday” or a “Trying Thursday,” ask your body to serve up a slice of Friday.

This only seems silly until you do it. Did you ever notice that experience wipes out all debate?

Experience Friday!

All the best,

John

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Did you ever notice people have different working styles?

It occurred to me that working and dancing are alike. They both have a conclusion but that’s not their real purpose.

The purpose of a dance is to dance and not get to the end of the song – unless, of course, you don’t particularly like whom you’re dancing with.

Your working style has to bring you some amount of joy otherwise your method for reaching your objective is devoid of juice and will keep you drained.

This is more than the ever present suggestion to “Enjoy your work.” This is more about noticing your working style and where your focus lies.

If your working style’s sole purpose is in getting the job done, you miss the richness and aliveness of each stepping stone on your path to completion. You’ve only got the goal in focus. Yes, you may get the job done but you cheat yourself out of rewarding moments that make up the whole.

In the past, my working style was always geared towards getting the job done. That left me little time to appreciate the process. I would look at others who weren’t as focused on results as I was and deem them to be lazy or incompetent. They were neither.

They were taking time to enjoy the ride. Work was not a place where they left their personality home. We’ve all heard the comment, “You should see her outside the office; she’s a totally different person.”

It would be beneficial for all to get to see that person at work. Our working style often gets in the way of missing the moment while solely focused on not missing the deadline. This robs us of countless joy.

A dance has more than a beginning and an end. The middle part is where we spend most of our time. If we’re not focused there, we miss synching with the rhythm of life.

The old saying that more business gets done on the golf course than in the boardroom applies here. That simply means to bring a more relaxed approach to what you do and two things will happen:

1. You’ll get more accomplished.
2. You’ll get to eat the middle of the Oreo Cookie first.

Take a moment to look at your working style. You may find that it’s standing in the way of you achieving so much more by keeping you off the dance floor.

All the best,

John

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Please fill in the blank. The most important thing in my life is ______________.

There is no right answer so don’t spend too much time coming up with one.

Now there is something I’d like you to notice. If you are like most people, the thing that’s deemed most important to you doesn’t get most of your attention. In fact, it probably doesn’t even make your Top 10.

How did it get to be this way? I’m not certain, but I have a guess.

Taking things for granted immediately pops to mind. How often do we take as a given something that’s so important to us? The more we assume this position of entitlement, the quicker what we think we’re entitled to erodes.

Notice how quickly people will focus on something essential that was taken for granted, once lost. Health comes to mind.

Most people have health near the top of their important list, but neglect it. The pain they will go through to attempt to recapture what they took for granted is a universal occurrence. We’ve all heard the old axiom “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” but we regularly ignore its wisdom.

We generate all sorts of effort after the fact, where it has the least effect. I’m just wondering if we can STOP, just for a moment, and put what’s important to us in proper perspective.

The bald truth is, we are entitled to nothing, and nothing is what we wind up with when our focus remains on the unimportant.

Again, let me ask the question: “What’s the most important thing in your life?” Now that you have an answer, you’re out of excuses for ignoring it.

“Pay me now or pay me later” is another expression we’ve all heard, but we’ve never really considered the price tag until it’s too late.

I haven’t a clue what’s important to you, but this much I know from personal experience – you’ve probably got it on your “B” list.

Get in the habit of taking a brief moment out of your day to consider what’s most important to you. This regular focusing of attention will automatically cause a shift in priorities and bring “most important” back to the top of your list.

All the best,

John

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As we head into Labor Day Weekend, the unofficial end of summer, I offer you a quote from The Grasshopper. It came during an early walk of Snuffy the black nosed beagle. He said,

“May The Fruits Of Your Labor Be Edible.”

I’ll be digesting it over the weekend.

Be easy on yourself.

Happy Labor Day!

John

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The way to a man’s heart is through his . . .

If you responded, “through his thoracic cavity,” perhaps you’re a surgeon. If you said, “stomach,” you’re probably old fashioned. Your strategy is based on your angle of approach.

When looking at something through our own eyes, we only get one perspective. Most often we label it “right.” Watch Tiger Woods on the putting green. When he has a putt of any length, he looks at it from lots of angles before he commits to his strategy. He’s “right” more often than most golfers because he considers different perspectives.

We often insulate ourselves by not looking at our position from multiple perspectives. What’s the old yard sale expression? – “One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.”

A position that we’ve trashed in the past may be just the angle that will garner us treasure in this particular instance.

To take full advantage of your options, it’s helpful to imagine that you live on a circle that has 360 positions. If you continue to stay glued to your position, you’re ignoring 359 other ways of looking at your situation.

I know this seems silly and it works. Stand on an arc of an imaginary circle that you deem is the “right” angle. Next, physically move yourself to the opposite side of the circle and just notice the feelings in your body from this different perspective. If you pay careful attention, you will notice different feelings. Keep moving yourself to different points on the circle and simply notice and calibrate the corresponding feelings in your body.

There may be a better angle but you’re not going to find it by assessing it in your head. You’ve got to move there to feel it. We make all decisions with our feelings first and then we rationalize them in our head. I’m suggesting we mirror that natural approach to decision making by exploring our feelings.

If we don’t explore how something feels, we cheat ourselves out of our best barometer. Fully exploring your feelings about something means you have to move off your standard angle of view and calibrate. Seeing something from a different angle and noticing the different feelings, engenders empathy and insight.

You begin to appreciate your feeling sense more and you begin making better decisions.

I wonder, what’s the percentage of men who have actually ridden in the back seat of their own car? Sometimes it’s helpful to get the feel of something from a different perspective. It may just keep you from driving to the same dead end again.

All the best,

John

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