I Always Thought That If You Have Your Health You will have everything

I Always Thought That If You Have Your Health You will have everything

Now I'm seventy and have bad knees, a bad back, my shoulder hurts and a neck that will only turn thirty degrees. Sooo, you might assume that I don't have everything. That's not true. My heart is in great shape, my brain is fantastic (although I sometimes have CRS (Can't Remember Shit) and my mental outlook on life is the best it's ever been.

I know way too many people who have great health and are not happy with their life. Sooo, it takes much more than fantastic health to have everything. If you're not enjoying your life now, good health won't make it better. However, if life sucks now, bad health will only make it worse.

On the other hand, if you love your life now and you have good health, you have the best of both worlds. Some of us are easily disrupted when our good health turns to shit. You forget all the good stuff in your life and begin to focus on the aches and pains. That's a death spiral toward an unhappy life.

You can't keep getting older and avoid some health problems. It's how you handle them that will determine if you can live with them and still have a happy life or let them bring them down. 

Getting Cancer is no longer a death issue (unless you're already in stage four). You can let the Cancer make you miserable or you can live the best life you can while fighting to the death to prevent the Cancer from taking you away.

Let me restate a story I wrote in my first book "Never Buy A Hat If Your Feet Are Cold - Taking Charge Of Your Career And Your Life:"

"A guy, in Africa, is being chased by tigers. He's running like hell to get away from the tigers when he finds himself at the edge of a cliff. The tigers are coming at him. He looks down the cliff and sees a vine that goes from the top to the bottom. He starts to shimmy his way down the vine. He gets half way down, looks up and there are those tigers sitting there waiting for him. Then he looks down and, guess what, more tigers down below.

There he is, mid-way down the cliff. He has tigers up above and more tigers down below. He looks straight ahead and sees a strawberry bush growing right out of the cliff. He plucks one of the strawberries and eats it. It is the best strawberry he has ever had."

If your life is tigers up above and tigers down below, always remember there are strawberries right in front of you that are delicious."

Your health should never determine your happiness. Your health should never determine your love of life. It's great when it's good, but life can still be great even if your health is bad. Remember:

There Are Many, Many Great Tasting Strawberries In Your Life. Make The Time To Enjoy Them Today.