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Someone You know Is Having The Worst Day Of Their Life TODAY!

9/29/2018

Someone you know is having the best or worst day of their life TODAY. Do we really want to know?

The phone rings and you see a Category 3 contact, former work colleague, low value client and decide in the moment to ignore. Perhaps you receive a text message from a category 3 and decide they're not worthy of a 10 second reply. We share business cards, meet people at functions, workmates departure events and warmly declare ' let's stay in touch' then we ghost them.

We convince ourselves that we're busy and our 24 hours a day doesn't allow for interactions with a Tier 3 contact. One day our turn shows up. We're hurting, feeling raw, craving a little validation, our mojo having gone missing in action and we reach out, and no one's listening.

Acknowledgement has a profound ripple effect. Victim behaviour can be an unhealthy habit, but mostly in times of turmoil we reach out to reclaim our balance, not out of neediness.

I like to remind myself that someone I know, is today having the best or worst day of their life, maybe it's you and for all of us those two days will come. When someone reaches put pause before you hit reject, or revisit when a spare moment frees up.

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Luck Has A Numerical Value.

9/29/2018

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There's a 1 in 4 million chance of meeting your demise if you were to take 4 million commercial flights. So if you take 1 flight per day for the next 11,000 years one of those flights will be unlucky for you. A lotto ticket purchased every day for 2500 years should produce 1 lucky win.

We"re not good at processing what we call luck. We start businesses and get bent out of shape when interest rates go up, someone sues us, a client screams at us, the economy crucifies us. We fear the risk of sickness, bankruptcy, divorce, rejection, humiliation...and yet.

Our fears out weigh their likelihood of manifesting. Most sick people get better. Many of the world's leading entrepreneurs had to crawl out of an abyss of failure before their success showed up. Divorce is rarely terminal and usually positive in the long run.

Rejection is a trick of context and humiliation is something we do to ourselves. The odds of luck favouring us are massively skewed in our favour IF we adapt, respond, and expect that the Universe will generally aid us in the direction of our compulsive focus.

The odds of luck favouring you are evidenced everyday when that most unlikely occurrence repeats and you wake up, yet again.

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Escaping The Clutches Of Sugar

9/23/2018

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Thought I'd share my thoughts on this curious journey post chocolate and sugar in general, you might be curious, so I'll be the guinea pig.

No addict believes they're an addict. A few drinks a week turn into more than a few a day, but it's not a problem. A few kilos around the waist turns into 20-30K's, not a problem can lose it any time. My best friend for 40+ years was a combination of coffee and sugar, sugar in the guise of cakes, biscuits, chocolate accompanied for many years by highly processed inoffensive fast food meals courtesy 20 years Hungry Jacks. No problem, it's all under control, I'm not obese and pretty fit, it's all innocent fun...but.

Out of the corner of my eye I'd catch a visual info byte referencing sugar as poison, and research slamming the myth that carbohydrates are our friend and that low-fat foods are precursors to pre-diabetes and a multitude of health issues.

I'd avoid ingesting this information, I might not like what I hear, perhaps I'll cut back a bit on my admittedly bad habit. Except that's not how addiction works, you don't cut your cigarettes back from 40 a day to 20, or reduce your heroin habit. It's either burn the bridge and say good riddance or accept the journey you're on.

Anyway thought I'd 'just do it', half expecting I'd be locked in a room, with cold sweats craving my sugar drug, and yet that's not been my experience.

It's always useful to replace a habit with something distracting. Alcohol with going to the gym, food with taking up triathlons, or whatever.

I thought I'd tune in to the research about healthy eating and it wasn't what I expected. The first avenue I pursued was 'time-restricted eating', sounds crazy but hey I'm looking for a distraction.

Basically, skip breakfast and my sacred toast and marmalade. 15-18 hours between my last meal of the day and first next day. Meals move from 40% carbs to 15%, nutrition inclusive the old arch enemy fat in the form of butter, eggs, avocado and upping my protein with meat and fish.

I used to feel my blood sugar levels dip 3-4 hours after eating, sorted with a bar of chocolate, caramel slice etc, surely 18 hours without food would leave me a wreck.

Conclusion after two weeks. I'm proven wrong. Sugar cravings are zero. Reducing my carbs by 70% manifests in virtually no hunger pangs as I head to brunch around midday. Don't get me wrong my two meals are as enjoyable as ever though a little larger.

Also interesting to me, is that I can exercise pre-eating (16-18 hours after my previous meal) and feel energised. Weight loss was not really the goal, though 2.5 kilos has evaporated, the real buzz is knowing that exiting something as addictive as sugar doesn't have to come at a withdrawal price.

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Someone You know Is Having The Worst Day Of Their Life TODAY!

Luck Has A Numerical Value.

Escaping The Clutches Of Sugar

Kiaran Finn

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