I hope while you are all recovering this morning, watching football, or taking a nap, or whatever your New Year?s Day ritual is, that you take the time to reflect on what the New Year is really all about.
It?s not about getting to the health club three times a week, or cutting out all your carbs so you can look good by the Spring, or doing something along those lines to make yourself a ?better? person. Physical fitness and nutrition will certainly help you look better, and feel better as well, but the real challenge of the New Year is actually trying to be better, which is a tricky thing to achieve since most resolutions, superficial as they may be, fail in about 3 weeks.
Everyone has their own concept of being better than they were before, and everyone has their own plan to achieve it, but too often, the problem with most people is not that they set the bar too high, they actually set the bar too low, focusing on things that are superficial, like they way they eat and how much they work out.
I believe diet and exercise are important. Let me be absolutely clear about that. Your physical health is a groundwork for your mental well-being and your overall happiness, and preventable chronic illness should be something you strive to avoid through lifestyle choices. It is an important responsibility to do this for your sake, and for the sake of those you love, but the fact is, eating well and exercising are neither necessary or sufficient, to achieve long term, lasting happiness.
There are plenty of people who are physically infirm or frail who are much happier than the most physically fit people with the best diets. Likewise, having a great diet is not always linked with happiness and fulfillment either.
If it were that easy, then people would simply eat their way to their goals, but it?s not that easy. And in fact, food and exercise are simply surrogates for money. That is, people think that if they buy good food or buy an expensive piece of exercise equipment that it will make them happy. It won?t. It takes a conscientious amount work and effort to get this done, and even if you do happen to eat well and exercise, it is not always enough.
I have always believed there is always a much deeper goal that needs to attained in our lives, through actions, words, and deeds, and this goal can not be attained through simply ?eating right? and ?exercising three times a week? (or even blogging about it regularly!). This is one of the reasons that I approach all that I do in regards to Plastic Surgery and my passion for nutrition (and natural solutions) with the underlying premise that real beauty always begins within.
And the irony of this statement is that real beauty actually has to do with all the people around you that make your life meaningful and valuable, both personally and professionally. It begins with cherishing them and serving them. Every time you do this, it refreshes and renews you, and that is the real meaning of the New Year resolution.
I look forward to having an exciting year with you in 2013, and once again, I thank you for your readership and your comments, because your interaction is one of the things that is meaningful and valuable to me, and refreshes and renews me.
And on a more serious note?what is your pick for the Notre Dame/Alabama game??what?s the score, and are you going over or under?
Have a great day everyone!
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