Im the CEO of my body

Day 1, I am not sure which day it was exactly, nothing special had made it any different from any other day, it was also not a day I had planned on being day 1 but I just knew it was day 1. There were so many things going on in my life and I was trying desperately to get control of them or fix them, high flying on some aspects of my life and low flying on others. I wanted the low aspects of my life to be better, I had tried a thousand different ways to fix them but nothing had worked, little improvements here and there but not a single one had a long term effect.

Why not! Did I need to accept that my life has great aspects and bad aspects to it.

Editors Note: No Jon and nor do any of you.

What  do you think makes up a successful business person? Is it just good business acumen and being professional or do you also think they also need to be fit & healthy, have a good marriage, good relationship with their children, good friends & social life, well off, charitable, morale,  etc etc etc. In 2007 I had some of them but not enough of them to make me happy or even feel successful. It then hit me, I needed to stop trying to improve on the bad aspects I had to radically change each one of them, I needed understand it, the effect it had on other aspects of my life and then I had to put the time and effort into that change.

But where to start, I was already so busy and I had no free time. Okay I need to start by making more hours in the day! Not possible, no super powers!!! What next, I need to drop something in my life, great idea but what. “Work”, No, I need to work to pay the bills and keep a roof over my head. “Family”, No can do, I love my kids too much. “Wife”, Yes great idea she can go, most of the fun has gone anyway. After an hour I began to think that might not possible, it will cost me a lot of $$$ and who else would love a chubby middle age businessman. Okay I can’t drop anything!!!

New brainwave, I don’t need to improve on the bad aspects of my life, I need to find out what causes me to make those aspects bad. What are my poisons?

Editors Note – Good boy Jon, take responsibility for your life.

Poisons, what are my poisons? Well I eat and drink too much, I procrastinate, I always try to help everybody else, I trust that people will be do as they say, I’m not completing tasks properly, I worry so much…Oh my god there are so many!!! Okay now pick 1 and start. So I went for a walk, I needed to stop worrying about so many things, I had to stop and focus. That was it, my eureka moment, focus on the poisons. It was at this point that I knew day 1 had started.

More next week

Jon