The Right Way, The Wrong Way, The Smart Way

There are three ways to go about taking care of yourself. Now you might think that because you’ve done a bit of research and identified the general rules of health that your in the clear. Now it’s just up to you to follow through with these rules of guidelines that you’ve discovered. Wrong. There are three ways to take care of your body, the right way, the wrong way, and the smart way.

I’ll start with the right way. Basically as I just described, you’ve done your homework or research and know or at least have a general idea on what road you should take. There’s just one small problem with that. The “right” way isn’t always applicable because general rules and guidelines of health don’t always work and apply to the individual. It would be like saying every human being alive has an identical body with an identical physique, metabolic rate, caloric intake ratio, etc etc etc… Just remember, we are all different so yeah take some general advice here and there from your doctor or your mother. But ultimately, you know whats best for yourself out of everyone because its your body, and yours alone.

The wrong way is obvious and I won’t have to go into great detail here. Procrastination is a big killer in this department and can lead you down a road disappointment. Putting off exercise or starting a new diet I’ve seen one too many times in my life and its frustrating just to watch the person pathologically deceive themselves time and time again. For now, I’ll leave you with procrastination as one example of a road block to be weary about, and maybe in a future post I’ll talk more about this.

Now onto the coup de grâce. The smart way. Listen carefully now. Simply put, in a nutshell, its about factoring in two variables. The first being your individual health, what you excel at physically, what you love to eat that’s healthy, and what you could see yourself in the future excelling at and what you could come to love eating by experimentation with new dishes and recipes. The second piece is taking what you’ve absorbed from others with a grain of salt. Getting as much feedback as you can from friends and family. Take note of what’s working for how others are doing things. Then try these things out and see for yourself. Get a bunch of recommendations from people you know and trust, and take note of them for the future.

And there you have it. The right, the wrong, and the alpha of the group, the smart. As long as you remind yourself that these three exist, you’ll eventually gravitate towards one way of doing things. Hmm, I wonder which one?