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"If you want to change the world, start by making your bed."

This was a really great quote from a commencement speech given by a Navy Seal Captain that made the rounds on the internet a few years ago.

What does this have to do with your health? Well, maybe sort of nothing, but also maybe sort of a lot.... Maintaining your health is both simple and complicated. We "know" that there are things that we can do to start improving our situation, but it can sometimes start to become overwhelming when we try to figure out where to start.

The first few pages of the US Army Survival Manual (FM 21-76) refers to the cultivation of a "survival attitude" as the most important factor in making it through a compromised situation. It further identifies the "desire for comfort" and the "passive outlook" as the two biggest general dangers one must overcome. Make note that the two most dangerous things they identify are NOT external factors.

Most of the things that we can control that poorly affect our health are a result of those exact same two internal dangers. If we find that there are habits that we want to change, it can be helpful to consider if we are engaged in one or both, possibly without even realizing it.

Back to making your bed... the importance of this is in cultivating a "survival attitude." When you can't control everything, you need to start with "something" and it can make sense for that to be the most immediate, simplest, and obvious thing you encounter. It's the assertion of will in a chaotic universe... the white dot in the black half of the yin/yang symbol.

Obviously it won't literally be your bed when we're talking about your health, but the principle remains the same. Start with a simple action that you can easily repeat every day and do that until you master it and can maintain it without much thought or effort... then apply what you learn to the next thing. Diet, exercise, sleep, stress, etc. can all be approached this way.
You don't need to move mountains, you just need to chip them away a little every day.

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"If you want to change the world, start by making your bed." This was a really great quote from a commencement speech given by a Navy Seal Captain that made the rounds on the internet a few years ago. What does this have to do with your health? Well, maybe sort of nothing, but also maybe sort of a lot.... Maintaining your health is both simple and complicated. We "know" that there are things that we can do to start improving our situation, but it can sometimes start to become overwhelming when we try to figure out where to start. The first few pages of the US Army Survival Manual (FM 21-76) refers to the cultivation of a "survival attitude" as the most important factor in making it through a compromised situation. It further identifies the "desire for comfort" and the "passive outlook" as the two biggest general dangers one must overcome. Make note that the two most dangerous things they identify are NOT external factors. Most of the things that we can control that poorly affect our health are a result of those exact same two internal dangers. If we find that there are habits that we want to change, it can be helpful to consider if we are engaged in one or both, possibly without even realizing it. Back to making your bed... the importance of this is in cultivating a "survival attitude." When you can't control everything, you need to start with "something" and it can make sense for that to be the most immediate, simplest, and obvious thing you encounter. It's the assertion of will in a chaotic universe... the white dot in the black half of the yin/yang symbol. Obviously it won't literally be your bed when we're talking about your health, but the principle remains the same. Start with a simple action that you can easily repeat every day and do that until you master it and can maintain it without much thought or effort... then apply what you learn to the next thing. Diet, exercise, sleep, stress, etc. can all be approached this way. You don't need to move mountains, you just need to chip them away a little every day.

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