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Obviously, exercise and eating healthy food is good for the body. But healthy food won’t cause you to lose weight. Neither will exercise. Those actions will cause you to be healthier. Sure, losing weight has the side effect of being healthier, but losing weight is really about living longer and looking a lot better. [2019 research does implicate processed foods in weight gain. We need to see replicated data but the first round is fairly impressive and has my B.S. Detectors current acceptance.
Overwhelm Trumps Resolutions
Focusing on too many outcomes can overwhelm tiny conscious minds and cause people to stop their New Year’s Resolution on January 3.
People are well-intentioned to do right for themselves, more often than not … but when it comes to locking in changes and making them permanent … well, that’s another story.
Imagine: You write a book in the first quarter of 2020. The book is published, if good fortune is on your side, at the end of 2020 or early 2021. Then your first royalties arrive another year later, in 2022.
But, you finished writing the book in March 2020!
And no money ’til June 2022?!?!?!
And those early royalty checks are teeny tiny.
The first screw up people make is doing something like writing a book and then hallucinating that the bucks will soon be rolling in.
The reality is that ANYONE can write a book. There is no special intelligence for stringing words together.
GETTING PUBLISHED in 2019 is also quite EASY.
Getting a major publisher, however, is no simple task. And whether you want to get published or get published with a major publisher, the REAL SUCCESS/FAILURE is all about what happens in 2020 AFTER the book is in the bookstore and at amazon.
Birth happens NINE MONTHS after conception.
Conception is typically FUN! In most situations, conception is EASY if not a project that needs frequent replication.
Then it all changes on day one … when the baby doesn’t sleep…night after night after night after night after night. Choosing the cool, good thing … brings a package of challenges that will last … decades while bringing dramatic rewards.
That’s how the real world works.
Making babies requires no brain power. Being a quality parent of said baby is an entirely different story.
The good news is that it’s a lot easier to move along a success path in 2019 than it was in 2010 or 2000.
The world has changed. Technology has evolved. Jobs that mattered in 1995 are often irrelevant in 2019. The average everyday person can create stuff only big companies could make 20 years ago.
The computer you use everyday is magnitudes more powerful than the computer that powered rockets to the moon. (Really)
You have advantages people a generation ago only dreamed of.
But even with all the cool tech and knowledge of 2019, you still have to BE someone and DO something.
Some behaviors are predictably rewarded and others are not.
The math of success at the big picture level is not going to change.
There will be 1 President. There will be 100 Senators. There will be millions of government workers. The pyramid will NEVER change.
Where YOU stand on the pyramid of LIFE WILL be determined mostly …by you.
