What drives your life energy?
In my previous blog relating to diet and exercise, I ended with a handful of questions that I will start to address in this blog. The first question is a rhetorical question that really is asking what drives us every day to get out of bed and live life?
To answer this question, there are two sets of factors one external and the other internal. Externally, there is your job, relationships and the basic need for food. Internally, there are your personal goals and aspirations. Satisfying either of these two factors takes a conscious effort. For example, you must get up and buy food if you want food or you must call your friends if you want to have friends. If you have a personal goal, you must do the work to reach that goal. If these are the things that drive your life energy, then what are you doing to improve your chances of success?
I will suggest that the basis for your life energy goes one step deeper and that is your health. It is not just the things that you must do or that you would like to do that drives you through life, but it is your daily approach to your physical fitness. What are you doing on a daily basis to ensure that you have the energy to live your life and pursue your goals? If you are like most Americans, you are not doing enough for your health, yet you push your body to the limits to satisfy your daily needs and to reach your personal goals.
When you are young, it is easy to get away with less focus on your health and more focus on your life needs and pursuits. What happens if you reach your goals and you no longer have your health? The answer is simple, you have nothing, unless health does not matter and the satisfaction of reaching your goals is your only pursuit. The irony is that you could have had both and you could have perhaps even achieved higher goals, if you had balanced your health along with the desire to achieve.
Taking care of your health will drive your life energy. The results are both immediate and long term. It will make it possible for you to strive for all of your life goals and ambitions and then enjoy that for which you worked so hard to achieve.