Personal Meditation no. 217

“That’s just too much work.”

Embrace the Within.

It’s a lot of work. Waking up daily and working out is too much work. Eating real food is a lot of work. Growing your own food is a lot of work. Drinking a gallon of water is a lot of work. Raising livestock is a lot of work. Raising children is a lot of work. Having a partner is a lot of work. Being friends is a lot of work. Working a job is a lot of work. Being a Christian is a lot of work. Doing the right thing is a lot of work. Being alive is a lot of work. And if you are like me and you want to change and be better every day, what you are noticing is what makes all the difference is your life is putting in the work. When you put in the work, you will see results.

If you think things are too much work, then you are correct. We make time for what we value. Our actions are what we believe. I could sit over here all day telling you what I think BUT if I never went out there and planted seeds, if I never went out there and changed my routine, if I never went out there and changed my life, then what’s the use? Why even get up and pretend? Whe even sit here and type every day? I could be laying in bed hitting the snooze button. I could be drinking a pot of coffee to get going. I could be eating something chock full of sugar to get me energy. I could be grumbling my way out the door for a lengthy commute. I could be in a horrible mood and in terrible health. I can choose that just as easily as you can choose that mind set, that journey, that existence. Because it is simply existing with very little joy.

BUT I enjoy putting in the work because I enjoy feeling alive. I used to be a victim of everything around me. I could blame Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, my neighbor, or anyone else for my problems. There are plenty of places to point fingers because there are plenty of folks doing the wrong thing. Billions of folks out there making the world miserable. Billions of folks out there living a sucky life. Billions of folks that could be happy. Billions of folks that could find meaning. Billions of folks that are not ready to put in the work.

BUT I am ready to put in the work. You are ready to put in the work. And that is all that is important. It doesn’t matter that inflation is out of control. It doesn’t matter that the world is a mess. It doesn’t matter that a new disease is out there looking to kill you. It doesn’t matter that folks are making new laws. It doesn’t matter that the world is against you. What matters is that you and I are ready to put in the work. We are ready to make the change. We are ungovernable. We have no limits. We want to live abundantly and joyfully despite what the world wants for us. We want to change. And all we need to do is commit to the change and work the plan.

Living the life you want to live is a lot of work. It’s not going to be easy. It’s work. BUT if you want something, if you really believe something, if something is important to you, then you make the time for that. You change your schedule to accommodate that. You change your life to incorporate that. Your actions will show what you value.

Bless your heart. Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

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Personal Meditation no. 216

“Don’t lose your saltiness.”

Be the Change.

Being salty is tossed around in the vernacular these days. Folks like to equivocate saltiness with bitterness and jealousy and anger. BUT salt was once a valued commodity. It wasn’t a part of the diet of most folks. It wasn’t a source of evil. It wasn’t prevalent.

I get strange looks when I tell folks that I drink a gallon of salt water a day because they believe that I should be dead. I assure them that since I have been drinking salt water for over two years, I am quite sure it isn’t as dangerous as they believe. And that is because folks simply don’t understand that when you strip away a lot of the sugar from things they eat and drink, and there is a lot of syrup and fructose and sucrose to strip away from a western diet, the other additive that remains is some sort of preservative. And rather than using a preservative that was created in a laboratory with a seven syllable name that is hardly pronounceable, I tend to recommend using something natural like salt. Real salt is important for getting electricity to flow in your body. Like Brawndo, it’s all about the electrolytes.

BUT before salt became such a common and ordinary thing, it was important for preserving foods. If you have ever had an old ham in St. Mary’s County, you will understand the great process it takes to get that saltiness out of a cured ham that has been hanging for years. Salt is also one of those main taste centers that our brain craves. We love the salt and sweet and savory connection and companies work on hitting the right combinations of marketing those flavors to our pleasure centers in the brain. And we live in an over-salted society.

As a child of the 1980s, I remember a concerted war against table salt and salt in home kitchens. Salt was the enemy. And we have generations of folks that have abandoned home cooking, natural ingredients, and real foods for things created in a lab. We have a society that has faith that science is better than nature. I always thought that the purpose of science was to understand and help nature. BUT science has gone off the rails. And now we are living in an age where plastic is becoming part of our body BUT nature, salt, and God are the enemies?

Bless your heart. Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain #BeTheChange