April 8, 2025 • 62 mins
Your occupation doesn't just fund your lifestyle—it fundamentally shapes your metabolic health. For the 90,000 hours we spend working during our lifetime, our body's chemistry responds directly to our sense of purpose and alignment. When we drag ourselves to jobs that drain rather than fulfill us, our stress hormones surge, blood sugars spike, and insulin resistance takes root.
While many of us diligently count carbs and monitor glucose levels, we often overlook how powerfully our job satisfaction (or lack thereof) drives our metabolic outcomes. The science is clear: chronic workplace stress triggers a cascade of hormonal disruptions that directly undermine diabetes management. Cortisol—our primary stress hormone—doesn't just make us feel anxious; it actively raises blood sugar, promotes visceral fat accumulation, and sabotages insulin sensitivity.
The transformational framework of rhythm, alignment, and structure offers a revolutionary approach to occupational health. Your rhythm represents your North Star—your core purpose that guides all decisions. Alignment ensures your daily work activities reflect this deeper purpose, while structure creates systems that automate healthy behaviors when motivation inevitably wanes. This framework doesn't necessarily require changing careers; often, job crafting—intentionally reshaping aspects of your current role to better match your strengths and values—can dramatically reduce metabolic stress.
Many listeners may find themselves in transitional jobs or retirement, wondering how this applies to them. The critical question remains: are your current activities aligned with your stated purpose and health goals? Whether employed, between jobs, or retired, alignment between your actions and deeper values directly impacts hormonal balance and metabolic function. Nothing happens to us without our involvement, and we always retain the power to make choices that support rather than undermine our health.
Take the challenge to evaluate your occupational health today. Identify one small shift that enhances purpose in your daily activities and watch how your body responds with improved blood sugars, decreased inflammation, and renewed energy. Your health isn't a luxury—it's your most important job, and you have the power to create alignment that fuels rather than drains your metabolic wellness.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What if your job isn't just about paying the
bills?
What if the work that you doeach day directly impacts your
blood sugar, your metabolism,your sleep and even your ability
to reverse your diabetes?
Tonight, we're diving into theworld of occupational health.
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We're exploring how alignmentbetween your job and your true
purpose can be the hidden key tounlocking metabolic health and
reversing diabetes.
If you've ever felt stressed,if you've ever felt stuck, if
you've ever felt burned out orjust unsure about your career,
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about what you're currentlydoing, and is it really
affecting your health, then thisepisode is for you.
Get ready, because tonightwe're exploring purpose-driven
health, how your work affectsyour metabolism.
If you're new to me, I'm DrDwayne Wood.
That's Wood with an E the Estands for endocrinology.
Here on the channel, I educate,I empower and I encourage you to
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take charge of your channel.
I educate, I empower and Iencourage you to take charge of
your health, your life, avoidcomplications and go to the next
level.
We're creating the life we'vealways wanted.
One of the things that we'retalking about in our, one of the
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concepts that we're using inour walk that we're doing, is
this idea of, is this idea ofkeystone principles, and
keystone principles are thosethings that are fundamental to
all that we do, and thisconversation is a very
fundamental conversation, asyou'll see, we'll kind of tie it
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into some other things.
So, yeah, so fundamental towhat we're doing, fundamental to
the conversations that we arehaving, and that's why the
domains of health are veryimportant to us and we've been
spending some time kind ofwalking through this mini series
as we've been doing here.
So, thank you for that,cornelia, and let's see.
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So Steve is in the house, y'all.
Let's go back and let's sayhello.
Um, so, theresa saying hi, pamsteve.
Jennifer steve is saying helloto everybody.
Hi, steve from pam cornelia.
Hey, steve.
Uh, sherry demper, yeah, goodevening from brooklyn, new york,
in the house, y'all.
Oh good, hand clap and somemusic for you.
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Sh, sherry, that's my oldstomping ground, that's my place
right there.
Brooklyn.
I went to Brooklyn Tech.
I went to Andrews Huddy, 256,269.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, all up EmpireBoulevard and New York Avenue,
spent a lot of time on Nostrand,going up and down at the
Junction, kings Plaza, downtownBrooklyn.
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That's my place.
Park Slope, brooklyn, academyof Music.
Spent a lot of time in thatarea with friends.
So, hey, sherry, and I used towork at the Dime Savings Bank.
I don't know if I've said thatto anybody before, but, yeah,
that was one of my very firstjobs, right next door to
cheesecake, right next door toJunior's Cheesecake, okay.
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So anyway, pamela saying hi toSherry and Cornelio saying hi,
sherry.
Jennifer Nebraska is saying hey, howdy, steve and Sherry.
Sherry said thank you for thehand clap, all right, all
rightry said thank you for thehand clap, all right, all right.
She said I'm close to boys andgirls.
I know where that is.
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Yeah, yeah, boys and girls.
So we went to let's see if Ithink about my family.
We went to Brooklyn Tech, boysand Girls, sheepshead Bay,
erasmus.
This is not a high school, butI have some people who went to
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Lefferts, no, people who went toClara Barton, westinghouse,
grady, anyway, and I can go onand on and on and on.
Alright.
So Teresa is saying hi, steveand Cherry, so, alright.
So now we've looked at thenumbers, we see where we are and
everybody.
Once again, I want you tounderstand that what we are
doing, the benefits that you'reseeing, the things that you're
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having, that are happening inyour life, are simply side
effects of the process thatwe're on, the journey that we've
been on.
Limitless living is not adestination per se, but it is a
framework that we're using toimprove our dysfunctional
metabolism, and so dysfunctionalmetabolism is the underlying
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problem that leads to all of thedownstream difficulties that we
talk about.
When we talk about metabolicdisease, we talk about high
blood pressure, about metabolicdisease.
We talk about high bloodpressure, high cholesterol,
diabetes, prediabetes, fattyliver, polycystic ovarian
syndrome.
All of those are built ondysfunctional metabolism and the
culprit that underlines all ofthat is hyperinsulinemia, as
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we've kind of gone throughbefore.
So if you've not done so, makesure you go back and look at our
discussion on what disruptsmetabolism when we did in the
beginning of this series.
And so now what we've beendoing, based on our Limitless
Living Inventory that wedesigned and we talked about and
we implemented, we are lookingat the domains of health and
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we've been walking through thoseon this mini series that we're
currently doing, and we are nowtalking about our occupational
health, how our work andalignment or misalignment in our
work can affect the things thatwe do and how this works right.
So let's hop in, let's talk.
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So most of us, as we work, wespend about a third of our lives
working, that's nearly 90,000hours.
And guess what?
Those hours can profoundlyshape our metabolism, our blood
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sugar and our ability, as we'vebeen working on, to reverse our
diabetes.
Time, stress and even jobsatisfaction can secretly drive
your hormones, drive your eatinghabits, drive your sleep
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quality and overall, yourdiabetes management.
Yeah, so have you ever feltdrained at the end of the day?
And I'm not talking aboutdrained as in man, this is just
exciting stuff and I'm justspending all my time there.
I'm talking about drained whereyou are just really trying to
get through the day because whatyou're doing doesn't seem to be
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providing satisfaction.
You seem stuck, you seem asthough you're kind of going
through the motions, kind oflike that hamster on the wheel,
and so it's not just emotionalbut it's also physical.
And that's not just exhaustion,that's the metabolism reacting
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to stress, stress from careermisalignment, stress from time
pressures and all the thingsthat come along with not being
aligned in our purpose with thething that we're doing.
So when your job doesn't alignwith your sense of purpose, it's
not simply frustrating, it'sphysically disruptive.
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So we talk about those threewords.
You've heard me say them overand over and over again.
I'm saying them again.
Right.
We're dissatisfied and we arenot able to really decrease the
friction that goes on in ourlives.
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That causes dissatisfaction,and so chronic dissatisfaction
triggers your body's stressresponse.
It floods your system withcortisol, and cortisol isn't
just a stress hormone.
It directly raises blood sugar,it encourages insulin
resistance and it promotes fatstorage around your midsection.
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Often we have people who are puton steroids for whatever reason
.
They have COPD, they may havebronchitis, they may have some
other things going on, and sowhat happens is they get what's
called a cushingoid features,they get fat pad behind their
neck, their jaws become big,they have thinning extremities
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and they have mid-abdominalobesity.
It's almost like looking at aPillsbury Doughboy, the amount
of weight that they put on,particularly in the midsection.
And we've already said that thevisceral fat, not just the
abdominal fat, the fat thataccumulates on the inside, is
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disruptive to our metabolism.
And so when that happens, thenwe run into the problem that we
see when we talk about ourdysfunctional metabolism.
And so as we move through thatspace, let's go ahead and let's
do a quick recap of where we'vebeen.
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So we are in the process ofdiscussing the domains of our
health, and we have talked aboutthe limitless living inventory
which allows us to look at allthese aspects of our life, which
we're calling domains, and seeare there places where we need
to become more aligned?
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The domains represent the wheelthat is taking us through our
lives and you'll see that calledlots of different things If you
Google on the internet, if youread books.
They talk about the wheel oflife, right.
So these are the domains ofhealth, these are the different
things that we are looking atand these are the things really
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that are kind of taking usthrough life.
And when that wheel issymmetrical, when the things are
working, when they are doingthe things that they're supposed
to do, when there is alignment,then that wheel is smooth and
we're going through our lives ina smooth fashion, then that
wheel is smooth and we're goingthrough our lives in a smooth
fashion.
But if there is a part of thatwheel that is broken, damaged,
bent, then what happens is, aswe're trying to get through life
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, then we have kind of thisdisordered, dysfunctional, rocky
transit through our days,through our weeks, through our
months and ultimately, throughthe course of our lives.
So if we're going to besuccessful, if we want to make
sure that we are doing what weneed to do and make sure that we
are putting things in order.
We want to look at that wheeland make sure the wheel is well
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symmetrical, and so we've beenwalking through, now, the
domains of health.
We've been walking through eachof those and we are tonight
talking about our work and ouroccupational health, and that's
why this is coming up in ourdiscussion.
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So here's the science, here'sthe science behind the domains.
The science says that whenpeople are dissatisfied with
their jobs, when they'reconsistently having disordered
thoughts, they show up justbecause, oh, I got to.
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When there's not fulfillmentthere, then they have higher
cortisol level.
The cortisol level driveshigher blood sugars Because,
remember, cortisol is the stresshormone that actually gets the
energy in the form of sugar.
So there are two main stresshormones it's epinephrine and
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cortisol.
And epinephrine prepares thebody for stress or prefers the
body to function and to respondto stress.
You see a tiger and you need torun.
The muscles are all gearedbecause the brain has sent the
signal to the muscles to moveand cortisol now goes out and
finds the energy and dumps thatenergy into the muscles.
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So move and cortisol now goesout and finds the energy and
dumps that energy into themuscles so you can run.
So there's the yin and yang.
But cortisol is that stresshormone that goes out and finds
energy.
So whenever you are chronicallystressed then you have higher
cortisol levels.
Higher cortisol levelstranslates into higher blood
sugars.
Higher blood sugars requireinsulin to come out to regulate
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those blood sugars, because,after all, we don't want blood
sugars.
We said earlier that a normalblood sugar is anywhere between
100, sorry, 70 to 99.
Normal blood sugar is 70 to 99.
And we've told our patientsthat they can have blood sugars
between 100 and 120 for securityor safety reasons.
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So that insulin that comes outis going to help to regulate the
blood sugar so that it doesn'tremain high.
And once that insulin iselevated and I want you to get
this point because this is avery important point Once the
insulin is elevated, thatinsulin now causes the
downstream issues that we see inmetabolism.
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Insulin is not bad becauseinsulin does the job that it's
supposed to do in the body, butchronically elevated insulin
above normal is where theproblem comes in.
So when we talk about managingdiabetes, often I give the
analogy that your blood sugarsare elevated up here and your
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body's ability to manage.
It is here, and our goal isremember, one of the pillars of
reversing diabetes our goal isto reduce sugar to the point
where the body's ability tomanage it matches what the
glucose level is.
If that happens, medications goaway.
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And so here in this instance,having chronic stress that comes
from job dissatisfaction causescortisol.
Cortisol causes high bloodsugar.
High blood sugar requiresinsulin to come out.
We have higher A1Cs, insulinresistance goes up and, of
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course, the long-termmisalignment elevates cortisol
chronically and that contributesto metabolic syndrome, obesity,
high blood pressure, diabetesand cardiovascular disease All
of those things along themetabolic spectrum.
And then there's time stress,the feeling that you're always
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running out of time at work,which happens for people who are
not aligned with what they'redoing.
So this persistent sense ofurgency activates your fight or
flight system, driving insulinresistance and further
disrupting hunger hormones.
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Right, because when we'restressed we also find ourselves
eating.
Cortisol disrupts ghrelin andleptin, which are the hunger and
satiety hormones, and you feelhungry more and more.
You feel less satisfied.
When you eat, your blood sugarsare elevated and insulin comes
out that drives cravings.
You eat, your blood sugars areelevated and insulin comes out
that drives cravings, and thecycle just continues, going on
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and on and on and that becomestough to break.
The bottom line is that if youare unhappy at work, your
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metabolism feels it and themetabolism responds with all the
things that we talk about.
So sometimes people will say,man, I'm just hungry all the
time, I'm fatigued all the timeI'm putting on all this weight,
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I just am not comfortable in mybody Restless, irritable and
discontent.
Restless, irritable anddiscontent.
And so if we are not aligned,if we're not satisfied, then
that causes those downstreamissues for us.
So job satisfaction, motivationand metabolic health On the
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flip side, when we are satisfied, it's like medicine for your
metabolism, right?
You've heard us talk about foodas medicine.
How about this Job satisfactionas medicine?
When your work aligns with yourpurpose and with your values,
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your brain releases feel-goodhormones like dopamine,
serotonin, oxytocin and we'vetalked about oxytocin as that
bonding hormone.
Dopamine and serotonin arethose feel-good hormones and
dopamine really is thatanticipatory hormone.
It's like you are so excitedabout work and the things you're
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doing and the fulfillment thatyou get is you get a burst of
dopamine simply by thinkingabout going to work.
Wow, when I have my huddle wedo a huddle at my job and I sit
around or stand around with myteam, I tell them that I want
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you, in your personal life, tobe like in nirvana.
I want you to be so excitedabout your life at home and
outside of the job that when youcome to work, I simply, at the
job, I get the overflow of allthe stuff that's happening in
your life.
Because if I get that overflow,man, that is like the bomb.
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And so I want my folks to enjoywhat they do.
We have some folks that we'vetold before hey, we love that
you're here, but is this whereyou need to be?
And not that they were doingpoorly, but we knew that there
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were other things that theywanted to do in their lives.
So go do that.
We're excited that you're here.
Come out.
They not only improve your mood, but they directly enhance
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insulin sensitivity, metabolicfunction and your body's ability
to regulate sugars.
Imagine, imagine this you wakeup energized, looking forward to
the day ahead because you findfulfillment in your work.
You're naturally more motivatedto care about yourself.
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You eat better, you show upbetter, you carry yourselves
better, you move better.
You're able to stickconsistently to your diabetes
management plan, to your healthplan.
We're doing a 100-day walk toconsistency and health in the
morning.
You're more able to do thatwhen you are satisfied.
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Now I'm going to make a plughere.
Right, because I said thatwe're talking specifically here
about occupational health.
But when we look at thosedomains, when we talk about the
limitless living inventory, wedraw them and we talk about them
in isolation, as though there'sthis little compartment over
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here, over there and over there.
But the truth is that they allinteract, they cross into each
other.
Your personal relationshipcrosses into your occupational
health.
Your social health crosses intoyour physical health.
Your physical health crossesinto your emotional health and
they all are intertwined healthand they all are intertwined.
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When I transition to work thatfully aligned with my values and
purpose, like what I'm doinghere, and I've said to you guys,
when I get off air, when Ileave this space, when I hit the
button, the show turns off.
You can take a plug and plug itinto me and it would light.
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Why?
Because this is my alignment,what I do, love doing it, and so
if I can regulate all of mydomains, can you imagine what
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that's like?
So career satisfaction isn't aluxury Because we say oh yeah,
this is what I'm doing.
It is what it is, it's not aluxury.
Oh yeah, this is what I'm doing.
It is what it is.
It's not a luxury.
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It is an essential part of yourmetabolic health.
So let's talk a little bit aboutburnout and diabetes management
.
So let's move into specificallyblood sugars, because burnout
isn't just about feeling tired,it's a metabolic crisis.
Burnout means emotionalexhaustion, a sense of
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detachment from your work andfeeling ineffective.
You're doing the things you'regoing and I just feel like it's
I don't know.
From a metabolic standpoint,burnout consistently elevates
cortisol level, it weakensinsulin sensitivity, it raises
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inflammation and can eventrigger autoimmune responses.
And can even trigger autoimmuneresponses when you feel chronic
stress.
Then we have the inflammation,we have the abdominal obesity,
we have the cortisol level, andwe've said that those things
themselves decrease your immunesystem.
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You get sicker, you get moresicker.
Often it's like why am I alwayssick?
Why am I always catching a cold?
Why am I having all these otherthings happening?
It is because there'smisalignment.
So burnout shows up for lots ofpeople in different ways.
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But here's some ideas.
You skip your glucose checks oryou skip taking your insulin
because you're overwhelmed.
I can't think of just another.
If another person says anythingto me about blood sugar, I'm
just going to lose it.
If I have to think one moretime about the things that I'm
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eating, If I have to look at mymenu, if I've got to go look at
my carbs, if I've got to talk,if another person tells me that
I need to exercise, I'm justgoing to have it.
You start eating emotionallybecause you're unable, you don't
have the capacity in yourpersonal space, in your social
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space, in your relational space,in your mental space those are
all the domains, by the way.
You don't have capacity anymoreto handle those things because
you're putting all of yourenergy into just getting through
the day at the job, and so yourbrain doesn't want to make any
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more decisions.
We've talked about exhaustionand decision fatigue, and so the
natural thing to do is to takethe easiest route.
So if I see it and I see it,and I think it's going to help
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me be comforted I don't have tomake a decision.
I'm going to have it.
So you're driving down thehighway and you see the sign
that says whatever the sign says, and okay, there goes the car
and you show up at your housewith 18 Cadbury chocolate bars.
I'm not sure who that happenedto, but I'm just saying Right,
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you start eating emotionallyComfort foods that have high
sugar, high fat.
Right, they're not nutrientdense, they're very calorie
dense.
Exercise feels like it'simpossible because you're
drained, you're, I can't moveanother muscle.
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In other words, burnout severelyundermines your ability to
manage diabetes effectively andthat leads directly to poor
glucose control and increaseddiabetes-related complications.
So can you recognize some ofthese Red flags?
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These are red flags.
You feel chronically fatiguedand detached at work.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, how about that?
Your diabetes care habits slipbecause you're too exhausted.
I can't think about it anymore.
I can't check my blood sugar, Idon't even want to put on a
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monitor, I just want to eat andgo to sleep.
I'm not taking any insulin, I'mnot taking any medication.
I can't do anything else.
You notice worsening bloodsugars, despite your best
intentions.
You're doing all the thingsthat you've been told.
You've cut back on the food,but something just doesn't seem
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right and most people willdouble down on the food.
I'm decreasing my food whenit's not a food issue, it's the
fact that you are chronicallystressed.
So the bottom line there isthat burnout at work isn't just
emotional.
It directly interferes withyour diabetes care?
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Yep, yep, it does.
So what are some practical stepsfor aligning your work and your
health?
Some practical steps.
So what can you do?
How does that work?
Is it possible to manage it?
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So, get a pencil, get a pen,let's write it down.
Here we go.
Number one you want to evaluateyour career alignment.
Ask yourself does my currentjob align with my core values
and purpose, the things that I'mdoing?
Does it really align with whatI'm doing?
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Do I feel fulfilled by thetasks that I'm performing?
And hold on a second Does italign?
Do I feel like I'm fulfilled inthe task I'm doing, the things
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I'm doing on a daily basis?
Now let me pause and let medrop this in here.
There are times when we aregoing to have to do some things
that do not directly align withwhat we say we want, and when we
say directly align, I guess.
Let me change that, becausethat's not really true, because
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if you are doing a job right now, that is not going to be the
ultimate job that you do and youare simply doing that because
you have got to make money to beable to do the things you want
to do, then guess what that jobaligns with what you're going to
do.
But often we do one of twothings.
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We are in a job that is reallynot the position that we want
because of whatever the reason,we are going through a
transition in our lives.
We need finances.
Right now We've taken on asecond job to help out, whatever
it is, because that time ishelping us to move and to pivot
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and to go in a differentdirection.
And that's temporary and wedemonize that position.
We say, oh man, this is no, itis part of the process, it is
part of the journey, it is partof alignment, because it is
helping you go to the place youwant to go.
So that's one Either we arethere and it's a transitional
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space, but we demonize it and wedon't appreciate it, or two, we
stay in the transition spacetoo long.
Ah, ah, ah, you're not supposedto be there.
Until now, it was supposed tobe a stepping stone, it was
supposed to be a jumping offpoint, but you stayed there too
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long and now it feels like it'sthe wrong place.
And now it is the wrong placebecause you shouldn't be there.
It was a temporary place, itwas a temporary spot.
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So the other question is.
Does this role positively ornegatively impact or affect my
diabetes care, my metabolism,the things that I'm doing?
And if that's the case, we gotto work on moving.
Limitless living says thatwe're not staying here, we're
not allowing anything to preventus from doing what we need to
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do for our health.
Okay, that's number one.
Allowing anything to prevent usfrom doing what we need to do
for our health?
Okay, that's number one.
Number one we want to evaluateour career alignment.
Number two what we want to dois we want to set firm
boundaries at work.
So, commit to protecting yourtime, protecting your mindset.
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Be mindful in what you do.
If you have breaks, use thebreaks for a break.
Be mindful when you're eatingat lunch.
Be mindful when you're eatingat work.
Be mindful when you walk bysomebody's desk and you grab the
candy or grab the cookie orwhatever it is.
Why are you doing that?
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What's the boundary Schedule?
Short breaks, if you can,specifically for breathing, for
exercises, to reduce yourcortisol level.
One of the things that I tellpeople in the office is take
some time twice a day, and itdoesn't have to be long.
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Five minutes here, five minutesthere, and the goal for that
five minutes is simply to woosah.
So you're setting thoseboundaries at work.
Create a clear shut downroutine at the end of the day,
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end of your work, to protectyour evening for restorative
activities like exercise, mealprep, relaxation, hanging out
with the family.
I and I have to be honest, thelast couple weeks I've not been
doing this.
When I'm coming home, there isa spot on the highway where I
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say, okay, this is my place,that I'm leaving, work here and
I'm now moving into what myevening is going to be, and
that's the rocket.
As I'm coming on.
For those of you who are herein Huntsville, when I pass the
rocket, that's my place where Isay, okay, right now I'm
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changing, I'm changing mythought process.
I'm changing my thought processfrom being whatever I'm doing
that day and I'm now thinking,okay, it's nighttime and what do
I need to do as I get into thispart of my day?
Yeah, and then manage yourwork-related metabolic stress.
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Try intentionally doing microbreaks and that's what I was
just talking about Every hour,every half hour, whatever it is,
whatever you are allowed to doat your job, stretch, breathe.
Sometimes I'll leave thepatient clinical area and I'll
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just walk back to my wife'soffice and sometimes I walk in
and she's doing something andshe says, hey, what do you need?
I don't need anything, I justneeded to get away for a moment
and I walk, and I walk back.
Now there are times when I getback there and one of my team
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has to come get me.
It is what it is right.
So tell the truth, shame thedevil, but I needed a moment.
So, even small breaksdramatically reduce your
cortisol level and stabilizeblood sugars, and then identify
tasks that consistently drainyou and brainstorm how to delete
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, delegate, automate,restructure, whatever it is.
One of the key things that Itell students who are rotating
with me is find people aroundyou that do things better than
you do.
You to do things better thanyou do.
If you're the smartest personin the room, then there's a
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problem.
You need a different room.
That's the first.
We're actually coming to thatnext week as we get to our next
domain.
But here's the idea.
Here I think I'm pretty smart.
Actually, I think I'm abrilliant person.
I'm a bit biased, and youprobably think you're a
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brilliant person too, but I knowthat there are people that are
in my office that do some stuffway better than I do, and so I
may come up with the idea, butI'll give it to them.
I say, okay, you now, now yougo, so I don't even think about
it anymore.
I say, okay, this is what youdo, and I let them do what they
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are good at, because that's whyI have them around me.
I am a better person because Idon't think I have to do
everything.
I let people do what they'regood at.
So identify those things thatconstantly drain you I don't
like.
There are certain things Idon't like doing.
I don't want to do it, I don'tcare to do it, I know how to do
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it, but this, hey, you like that, boom there you go, you have it
and I pass it on.
So I tell my students when theycome through find people who do
things better than you and thethings that you don't want to do
.
If they like to do it, boomdone.
And then I'm not taking it back, I'm not criticizing it.
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Sometimes there are people theyfind the things we give them to
do they do it much better thanwe would have ever thought about
it.
And then, finally, job crafting.
Job crafting.
So enhance the purpose in yourcurrent role, find meaningful
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aspects within your existingrole and expand on them.
Meaningful aspects within yourexisting role and expand on them
.
One of the series I did acouple of years ago on the show
and you want to go back andwatch that it was a series on
people who were in their currentspace, thriving where they are,
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and one of the consistentmessages that came out of those
conversations was this what I'mdoing now was not what I started
out to do.
What I'm doing now is perhaps afar cry than I ever planned to
do, but while I was wherever Iwas, I learned the skills that I
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needed there.
And look at me Now the thingsI'm using are a lot of the
things I learned on the job thatI was not thinking much about.
So, wherever you are, even ifthis is not the space you're
going to be in, find meaningfulthings there, expand it.
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Talk to your manager, talk toyour team About modifying
responsibilities that better mapyour strengths and your
passions.
People in my office they cantell what I'm passionate about
and you guys see me here.
When something comes to my mindthat hits me, I'm excited about
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it.
So find those things in yourspace, even small adjustments
Like mentoring somebody else.
I love to teach, and you knowwhat makes my days go better
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when I have students around me,because it is the thing that
gives me passion.
So, mentoring somebody else,taking on a meaningful project,
something that you see, thatwould be great.
Talk to your supervisors hey,can we do this?
One of the best things that Idid recently was and I told you,
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I went camping, and so I am oneof the counselors for the very
first group that comes into ourand this is part of Pathfinders.
For those of you who may befamiliar with it, it's kind of
like Boy Scouts, cub Scouts.
So I am the counselor, I'm thevery first counselor that they
get when they come into theprogram.
And so over the years, right,I've thought about the fact that
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when we go to these big campsand I think I mentioned last
year we went to a camp that hasalmost 60,000 or 70,000 people
I'm talking about massive camps,I'm talking about tent camps
we're not talking about in thecabins.
This is actually you pitch atent, you put the stakes down,
put the tarp down and all thatstuff.
And so I have been in my mindthinking, hey, it would be nice
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to take just my group, becausewe usually go as a club.
And so I approached ourdirector and I said, hey'd like
to take, take our group camping,and he's a man, that's a great
idea.
And so over the course of thisyear that's, we've been working
on this camp and it wasphenomenal.
I loved it.
It was something that wasdifferent.
The kids loved it.
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People were saying, oh man, I'mglad that you were out here.
Oh, look at those.
They people came to visit usbecause it was just a group and
we were camping right here,right nearby us, because we have
a lot of space on our campus,and so we pitched the tents
right there.
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So is there something that yousee in your space, in your area,
on your job, that could be donebetter, something that speaks
to you?
So create it there.
You don't necessarily need anew job.
You need to intentionally alignyour current role with your
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health goals, deeply focused.
Deeply focused on what this is,one of the things.
That is a pillar of LimitlessLiving, and you've heard me say
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it, but I've not connected itthis way for you.
But let's connect it now.
In our limitless livingframework, we frequently discuss
three fundamental elements thatare critical to reversing
diabetes and achieving metabolichealth, that is, decrease
insulin, suppress the appetiteand reduce sugar.
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We've talked about those, butlimitless living says that those
are specific things to thoseareas.
If we come above and we startto look at our different domains
of health, in order for us tobe successful, what we have to
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have is rhythm, alignment andstructure.
Rhythm, alignment and structure, and rhythm is the basic tenure
of your life.
What is the purpose, what isthe goal, what is the ultimate
reason that you're here?
That's the rhythm of my life.
What is the thing?
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What is the thing when I thinkabout myself, when people think
about me, what is it that comesto their mind?
What comes to my mind?
What's the rhythm of my life?
What's the direction of my life?
What's my North Star statement?
Rhythm Alignment is are thethings I'm doing on a day-to-day
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basis taking me in thedirection of what I say?
My rhythm is.
That's what we're going to betalking about here in just a
minute, a little bit more deeply.
And then, in order for that allto happen, we've got to have
structure.
So the reason for what we do,the reason for what I do, is to
provide structure for people,because there's a lot of stuff
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that you know, you've heard it,we all have been told it, but we
don't have a way, we don't havea structure, we don't have a
way to start.
Some people don't do thingsbecause they just don't know how
to start, how to do it, what itshould look like.
It's a rhythm, alignment andstructure.
So, if you are going to beconsistent I want you to hear
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this, if you don't hear anythingelse that I say if you're going
to be successful in your health, if you're going to be
successful physical health,mental health, emotional health,
social health, spiritual health, occupational health, which we
were talking about today Ifyou're going to be, if you're
going to be successful in any ofthe domains which are really
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the crux of your life, you haveto have structure, you have to
have a way to keep that going.
Motivation is great, becausesome of you, when you leave here
, when you finish listening tome and people talk to you hey, I
just love that.
That really spoke to me and I'mglad it spoke to you.
But motivation is fleeting.
Tomorrow.
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When you wake up and somethingcomes to your mind, or some
obstacle is there, or some badfeelings, or some hurt happens,
motivation goes away.
What is the thing that you'reputting in place right now
that's going to help youautomate that process, so that,
even if you wake up in themorning and you don't feel like
going walking, you're going towalk anyway.
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What do you have in place sothat, even if you don't feel
like putting down that donut ortaking the insulin or checking
your blood sugar or saving money, if that's what you're working
on, whatever it is what do youhave in place that automates
that problem?
What's the structure that'sgoing to keep it going long term
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, because motivation is notenough.
Rhythm.
What's the tenure of your life?
Alignment?
Are the things you're doingconsistent with where you say
you want to go, and do you havesomething in place to keep it
going long term?
So let's zero in on thealignment, because it's
especially vital when we arediscussing occupational health.
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Alignment means that your dailyactions at work resonate deeply
with your personal purpose.
It resonates with your corevalues and with your personal
purpose.
It resonates with your corevalues and with your health
goals.
When your work is aligned,everything you do feels
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intentional, meaningful andauthentic when you're aligned.
But what happens when alignmentis off?
When alignment is off,metabolic health suffers.
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When your occupation ismisaligned with your deep
purpose.
There is a constant internalfriction.
Every task feels like you'repushing a boulder uphill.
You have to work harder, yourstress response escalates, your
metabolism suffers Becausethere's not alignment.
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It's like me trying to go toNew York, which is where my
family is, but heading toCalifornia.
I'm going somewhere, but it'snot aligned.
I'm moving, but it's not theright direction.
There's activity, but there isnot purposeful and there is not
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success-driven or orientedactivity.
I may get somewhere, but notwhere I'm trying to go.
One of the funniest things to meis these movies where you got
two people in a canoe and one isthey're supposed to be pulling
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right, pull.
And if you remember, in aKorean canoe you got two oars
and you're pulling, or more thantwo oars and you're all pulling
together.
And when you're doing that,right, you're going in a
particular direction.
But can you imagine whathappens if the people on one
side are pulling this way andthe people on the other side are
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pulling that way?
Right, it's like this, right.
And what happens to that boat,that canoe?
It's just going like this, thatcanoe, it's just going like
this.
In science, we learned inphysics that there are vectors,
there are forces that are goingat any particular time on a
particular object Physics and sothere can be a force going in
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this direction which is supposedto push an object going this
way.
But if you have an oppositeforce and they're pushing
against each other on the sameplace, on the same piece of
material, guess what?
That material is now stuck inspace, and so are the things
that you're doing aligned sothat all of the forces are
taking you in the direction thatyou want to go.
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Misalignment triggers chronicstress, consequently elevated
cortisol levels.
Chronic cortisol disruptsglucose metabolism and it
encourages insulin resistance.
When your work doesn't resonatewith you, it's harder to stay
motivated to manage yourdiabetes, harder to stay
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motivated to check your bloodsugars, harder to stay motivated
to plan your meals, harder tostay motivated to exercise
regularly.
It becomes a burden rather thana priority.
We're talking aboutmisalignment.
And then there's the emotionaleating.
So lack of alignment frequentlyleads to emotional buffering,
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because we're restless, we'reirritable and we're discontent.
And overeating or overindulgentin sugary, high-carb foods
temporarily causes an escapefrom work, dissatisfaction.
The transformational power ofalignment comes though.
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When a work aligns with thepurpose and true direction, the
amazing transformation thathappens is that our metabolism
becomes balanced Because all ofa sudden, alignment lowers our
cortisol level.
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Notice, we haven't done asingle thing yet.
We haven't walked, we haven'tstarted eating better, we
haven't walked, we haven'tstarted eating better, we
haven't taken medication, wehaven't checked our blood sugar.
But simply having alignmentlowers our cortisol level, and
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reducing that cortisol leveldecreases sugar, decreases
insulin, decreases inflammationand that directly improves our
blood work and our blood sugarcontrol.
When we're aligned, our energyis up and it energizes us and it
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motivates us, and that naturalenhancement allows us to be
willing to engage consistentlywith our health.
Better nutrition, betterexercise, boom.
And then we're more resilient.
So when we are misaligned, wehave what's called a fixed
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mindset.
We often see things in thenegative.
We think that all we can do iswhat we see.
We think that what we have ispermanent, that we cannot
advance beyond this, that wecan't move from here, our blood
sugars can't improve, I can'treverse my diabetes, I can't
lose weight, my blood pressureis always going to be like this,
I'm always going to havechronic, progressive worsening
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of my kidneys.
But when we become resilient,when we change our mindset, when
we're aligned, now we have agrowth mindset that says, hey,
limitless living, by the way, isa growth mindset process.
It says that I can change andnothing is going to prevent me
from doing what I need to do tobe successful.
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It creates psychologicalresilience.
It makes stress at work lessdramatic and less damaging.
So how do we do this?
Number one we want to clarifyour purpose.
What is your North Starstatement?
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Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Why are you at that job?
What do you truly care about?
What is it so?
You want to clarify the purpose.
Does my work reflect the valuesthat I say I have, and do they
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reflect that on a daily basis?
Number two adjust your currentrole.
Identify small tasks withinyour job that do align with your
values.
Talk to your managers.
Hey, can I switch roles?
Can I pick up this?
Can I do that?
Can I adjust this?
Whatever it is, be proactive.
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One of the ideas that comes tome sometimes is that all of us,
if you walked into your houseright now, or you walked outside
and you saw water just pouringinto your house, like some pipe
had broken while you were away,you would call, maybe, a plumber
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, or find somebody to go, turnoff the main right and you call
a plumber.
And if the plumber said to you,hey, I can't come until next
week, you know what we would doWe'd pick up the phone again and
we'd call a different plumber.
And if that plumber said Ican't come till tomorrow, we'd
pick up the phone again and we'dcall a different plumber.
And if that plumber said Ican't come till tomorrow, we'd
pick up the phone and we'd callanother plumber and we'd keep
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calling until we got somebodywho would come right now, within
the next hour, like emergency,like now come.
But we spend days, weeks,months, years in places that we
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should have left long ago Doingthings we should not currently
be doing.
And I want you pillar numbertwo that we're learning tonight
about limitless living.
Pillar number two says thatnothing that happens to me is
happening to me without medirectly being involved.
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Let me unpack that a little bit.
I often hear people say thathappened to me, that happened to
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me.
There are things that are goingto happen that are outside of
your control.
You're going to walk outside,it's going to rain.
Out of your control.
You're going to be going downthe road and your tire is going
to get flat on the car.
Outside of your control.
You're going to be going towork and you're going to be late
because there's an accidentoutside of your control.
You're going to be going towork and you're going to be late
Because there's an accidentOutside of my control.
Yes, but what I'm talking aboutAre those things that we have
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control about.
Over that we either Take asecond hand to and just let it
happen, or, by not making adecision, we've made a decision.
When it comes to our health,for sure.
When it comes to ourrelationships, for sure.
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When it comes to our finances,definitely.
When it comes to our job andour occupation and our career,
yep, well, that's what they saidat the job.
That's what we're going to doat the job.
That's what I was told.
This is what happened.
No, no, no, no, no.
Now, if you have done all youcan and it still happens,
another story Because it's nowout of your control.
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But we're no longer justallowing things to happen to us,
because we can make decisionsthat put us on the path to
success.
Limitless living, limitlessliving, that's the power of
rhythm, alignment and structure,and it is the power of
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limitless living.
It's one of the pillars oflimitless living.
It's one of the pillars oflimitless living, and so I want
you to start something realquickly.
I want you to start each day byreminding yourself of your
larger purpose and I want you towrite it.
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I want you to write it now.
Get a piece of paper, write itdown.
I am here because I value blank.
What is the blank?
And that blank should besomething that is in your North
Star statement the purpose.
What are you doing?
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End each day by acknowledgingthat the alignment that you said
you had is what happened today.
That requires you to make surethat you're doing, saying,
behaving, creating the spaceswhere that happens, when there's
alignment and a lot of you havesaid well, you know what.
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I don't have to worry aboutthat because I've retired, I'm
sitting at the house and myquestion to you is is what
you're doing aligned with whatyou say your purpose is?
Is what you're doing alignedwith what you say your purpose
is?
Is being at the house and notexercising aligned with your
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health?
Is not moving aligned with whatyou say you want to have in
terms of your health?
Alignment is not optional.
It's the heartbeat ofoccupational and metabolic
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wellness.
When your professional lifealigns with your purpose, when
your retirement aligns with yourpurpose, your metabolic health
improves naturally.
This intentional alignment cantransform your ability to
reverse diabetes and achievelasting health.
So your occupational healthisn't just a paycheck.
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It's one of the pillars of yourmetabolic health.
It's one of the pillars of yourmetabolic health.
It's one of the domains.
When your work aligns with yourdeeper purpose, your hormones
stabilize, your motivationskyrockets and reversing
diabetes becomes much more easyto do.
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So this week, I challenge you toevaluate your occupational
health.
Evaluate your retirementretirement.
Identify one small shift thatyou can make immediately to
enhance your purpose at work, athome, in retirement.
That will reduce your metabolicstress and set you on the path
for success.
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Remember, your health isn't aluxury.
Set you on the path for success.
Remember, your health isn't aluxury.
It's your most important joband you have the power to shape
your work life in ways that fuelrather than drain your
metabolic health and diabetesmanagement.
As always, we encourage you toeducate, empower, encourage,
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because I believe you can live atruly limitless life.
We encourage you to educate,empower, encourage Because I
believe you can live a trulylimitless life and, after all,
that's what we're doing here.
This is Dr Dwayne Wood, that'sWood with an E.
The E stands for endocrinology.
Here on the channel, I educate,I empower and I encourage you
to take charge of your health,take charge of your life, avoid
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complications and go to the nextlevel, creating the life you
always wanted.
Thank you,
What if your job isn't just about paying the
bills?
What if the work that you doeach day directly impacts your
blood sugar, your metabolism,your sleep and even your ability
to reverse your diabetes?
Tonight, we're diving into theworld of occupational health.
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We're exploring how alignmentbetween your job and your true
purpose can be the hidden key tounlocking metabolic health and
reversing diabetes.
If you've ever felt stressed,if you've ever felt stuck, if
you've ever felt burned out orjust unsure about your career,
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about what you're currentlydoing, and is it really
affecting your health, then thisepisode is for you.
Get ready, because tonightwe're exploring purpose-driven
health, how your work affectsyour metabolism.
If you're new to me, I'm DrDwayne Wood.
That's Wood with an E the Estands for endocrinology.
Here on the channel, I educate,I empower and I encourage you to
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take charge of your channel.
I educate, I empower and Iencourage you to take charge of
your health, your life, avoidcomplications and go to the next
level.
We're creating the life we'vealways wanted.
One of the things that we'retalking about in our, one of the
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concepts that we're using inour walk that we're doing, is
this idea of, is this idea ofkeystone principles, and
keystone principles are thosethings that are fundamental to
all that we do, and thisconversation is a very
fundamental conversation, asyou'll see, we'll kind of tie it
(01:56):
into some other things.
So, yeah, so fundamental towhat we're doing, fundamental to
the conversations that we arehaving, and that's why the
domains of health are veryimportant to us and we've been
spending some time kind ofwalking through this mini series
as we've been doing here.
So, thank you for that,cornelia, and let's see.
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So Steve is in the house, y'all.
Let's go back and let's sayhello.
Um, so, theresa saying hi, pamsteve.
Jennifer steve is saying helloto everybody.
Hi, steve from pam cornelia.
Hey, steve.
Uh, sherry demper, yeah, goodevening from brooklyn, new york,
in the house, y'all.
Oh good, hand clap and somemusic for you.
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Sh, sherry, that's my oldstomping ground, that's my place
right there.
Brooklyn.
I went to Brooklyn Tech.
I went to Andrews Huddy, 256,269.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, all up EmpireBoulevard and New York Avenue,
spent a lot of time on Nostrand,going up and down at the
Junction, kings Plaza, downtownBrooklyn.
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That's my place.
Park Slope, brooklyn, academyof Music.
Spent a lot of time in thatarea with friends.
So, hey, sherry, and I used towork at the Dime Savings Bank.
I don't know if I've said thatto anybody before, but, yeah,
that was one of my very firstjobs, right next door to
cheesecake, right next door toJunior's Cheesecake, okay.
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So anyway, pamela saying hi toSherry and Cornelio saying hi,
sherry.
Jennifer Nebraska is saying hey, howdy, steve and Sherry.
Sherry said thank you for thehand clap, all right, all
rightry said thank you for thehand clap, all right, all right.
She said I'm close to boys andgirls.
I know where that is.
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Yeah, yeah, boys and girls.
So we went to let's see if Ithink about my family.
We went to Brooklyn Tech, boysand Girls, sheepshead Bay,
erasmus.
This is not a high school, butI have some people who went to
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Lefferts, no, people who went toClara Barton, westinghouse,
grady, anyway, and I can go onand on and on and on.
Alright.
So Teresa is saying hi, steveand Cherry, so, alright.
So now we've looked at thenumbers, we see where we are and
everybody.
Once again, I want you tounderstand that what we are
doing, the benefits that you'reseeing, the things that you're
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having, that are happening inyour life, are simply side
effects of the process thatwe're on, the journey that we've
been on.
Limitless living is not adestination per se, but it is a
framework that we're using toimprove our dysfunctional
metabolism, and so dysfunctionalmetabolism is the underlying
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problem that leads to all of thedownstream difficulties that we
talk about.
When we talk about metabolicdisease, we talk about high
blood pressure, about metabolicdisease.
We talk about high bloodpressure, high cholesterol,
diabetes, prediabetes, fattyliver, polycystic ovarian
syndrome.
All of those are built ondysfunctional metabolism and the
culprit that underlines all ofthat is hyperinsulinemia, as
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we've kind of gone throughbefore.
So if you've not done so, makesure you go back and look at our
discussion on what disruptsmetabolism when we did in the
beginning of this series.
And so now what we've beendoing, based on our Limitless
Living Inventory that wedesigned and we talked about and
we implemented, we are lookingat the domains of health and
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we've been walking through thoseon this mini series that we're
currently doing, and we are nowtalking about our occupational
health, how our work andalignment or misalignment in our
work can affect the things thatwe do and how this works right.
So let's hop in, let's talk.
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So most of us, as we work, wespend about a third of our lives
working, that's nearly 90,000hours.
And guess what?
Those hours can profoundlyshape our metabolism, our blood
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sugar and our ability, as we'vebeen working on, to reverse our
diabetes.
Time, stress and even jobsatisfaction can secretly drive
your hormones, drive your eatinghabits, drive your sleep
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quality and overall, yourdiabetes management.
Yeah, so have you ever feltdrained at the end of the day?
And I'm not talking aboutdrained as in man, this is just
exciting stuff and I'm justspending all my time there.
I'm talking about drained whereyou are just really trying to
get through the day because whatyou're doing doesn't seem to be
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providing satisfaction.
You seem stuck, you seem asthough you're kind of going
through the motions, kind oflike that hamster on the wheel,
and so it's not just emotionalbut it's also physical.
And that's not just exhaustion,that's the metabolism reacting
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to stress, stress from careermisalignment, stress from time
pressures and all the thingsthat come along with not being
aligned in our purpose with thething that we're doing.
So when your job doesn't alignwith your sense of purpose, it's
not simply frustrating, it'sphysically disruptive.
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So we talk about those threewords.
You've heard me say them overand over and over again.
I'm saying them again.
Right.
We're dissatisfied and we arenot able to really decrease the
friction that goes on in ourlives.
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That causes dissatisfaction,and so chronic dissatisfaction
triggers your body's stressresponse.
It floods your system withcortisol, and cortisol isn't
just a stress hormone.
It directly raises blood sugar,it encourages insulin
resistance and it promotes fatstorage around your midsection.
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Often we have people who are puton steroids for whatever reason
.
They have COPD, they may havebronchitis, they may have some
other things going on, and sowhat happens is they get what's
called a cushingoid features,they get fat pad behind their
neck, their jaws become big,they have thinning extremities
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and they have mid-abdominalobesity.
It's almost like looking at aPillsbury Doughboy, the amount
of weight that they put on,particularly in the midsection.
And we've already said that thevisceral fat, not just the
abdominal fat, the fat thataccumulates on the inside, is
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disruptive to our metabolism.
And so when that happens, thenwe run into the problem that we
see when we talk about ourdysfunctional metabolism.
And so as we move through thatspace, let's go ahead and let's
do a quick recap of where we'vebeen.
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So we are in the process ofdiscussing the domains of our
health, and we have talked aboutthe limitless living inventory
which allows us to look at allthese aspects of our life, which
we're calling domains, and seeare there places where we need
to become more aligned?
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The domains represent the wheelthat is taking us through our
lives and you'll see that calledlots of different things If you
Google on the internet, if youread books.
They talk about the wheel oflife, right.
So these are the domains ofhealth, these are the different
things that we are looking atand these are the things really
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that are kind of taking usthrough life.
And when that wheel issymmetrical, when the things are
working, when they are doingthe things that they're supposed
to do, when there is alignment,then that wheel is smooth and
we're going through our lives ina smooth fashion, then that
wheel is smooth and we're goingthrough our lives in a smooth
fashion.
But if there is a part of thatwheel that is broken, damaged,
bent, then what happens is, aswe're trying to get through life
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, then we have kind of thisdisordered, dysfunctional, rocky
transit through our days,through our weeks, through our
months and ultimately, throughthe course of our lives.
So if we're going to besuccessful, if we want to make
sure that we are doing what weneed to do and make sure that we
are putting things in order.
We want to look at that wheeland make sure the wheel is well
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symmetrical, and so we've beenwalking through, now, the
domains of health.
We've been walking through eachof those and we are tonight
talking about our work and ouroccupational health, and that's
why this is coming up in ourdiscussion.
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So here's the science, here'sthe science behind the domains.
The science says that whenpeople are dissatisfied with
their jobs, when they'reconsistently having disordered
thoughts, they show up justbecause, oh, I got to.
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When there's not fulfillmentthere, then they have higher
cortisol level.
The cortisol level driveshigher blood sugars Because,
remember, cortisol is the stresshormone that actually gets the
energy in the form of sugar.
So there are two main stresshormones it's epinephrine and
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cortisol.
And epinephrine prepares thebody for stress or prefers the
body to function and to respondto stress.
You see a tiger and you need torun.
The muscles are all gearedbecause the brain has sent the
signal to the muscles to moveand cortisol now goes out and
finds the energy and dumps thatenergy into the muscles.
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So move and cortisol now goesout and finds the energy and
dumps that energy into themuscles so you can run.
So there's the yin and yang.
But cortisol is that stresshormone that goes out and finds
energy.
So whenever you are chronicallystressed then you have higher
cortisol levels.
Higher cortisol levelstranslates into higher blood
sugars.
Higher blood sugars requireinsulin to come out to regulate
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those blood sugars, because,after all, we don't want blood
sugars.
We said earlier that a normalblood sugar is anywhere between
100, sorry, 70 to 99.
Normal blood sugar is 70 to 99.
And we've told our patientsthat they can have blood sugars
between 100 and 120 for securityor safety reasons.
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So that insulin that comes outis going to help to regulate the
blood sugar so that it doesn'tremain high.
And once that insulin iselevated and I want you to get
this point because this is avery important point Once the
insulin is elevated, thatinsulin now causes the
downstream issues that we see inmetabolism.
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Insulin is not bad becauseinsulin does the job that it's
supposed to do in the body, butchronically elevated insulin
above normal is where theproblem comes in.
So when we talk about managingdiabetes, often I give the
analogy that your blood sugarsare elevated up here and your
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body's ability to manage.
It is here, and our goal isremember, one of the pillars of
reversing diabetes our goal isto reduce sugar to the point
where the body's ability tomanage it matches what the
glucose level is.
If that happens, medications goaway.
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And so here in this instance,having chronic stress that comes
from job dissatisfaction causescortisol.
Cortisol causes high bloodsugar.
High blood sugar requiresinsulin to come out.
We have higher A1Cs, insulinresistance goes up and, of
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course, the long-termmisalignment elevates cortisol
chronically and that contributesto metabolic syndrome, obesity,
high blood pressure, diabetesand cardiovascular disease All
of those things along themetabolic spectrum.
And then there's time stress,the feeling that you're always
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running out of time at work,which happens for people who are
not aligned with what they'redoing.
So this persistent sense ofurgency activates your fight or
flight system, driving insulinresistance and further
disrupting hunger hormones.
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Right, because when we'restressed we also find ourselves
eating.
Cortisol disrupts ghrelin andleptin, which are the hunger and
satiety hormones, and you feelhungry more and more.
You feel less satisfied.
When you eat, your blood sugarsare elevated and insulin comes
out that drives cravings.
You eat, your blood sugars areelevated and insulin comes out
that drives cravings, and thecycle just continues, going on
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and on and on and that becomestough to break.
The bottom line is that if youare unhappy at work, your
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metabolism feels it and themetabolism responds with all the
things that we talk about.
So sometimes people will say,man, I'm just hungry all the
time, I'm fatigued all the timeI'm putting on all this weight,
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I just am not comfortable in mybody Restless, irritable and
discontent.
Restless, irritable anddiscontent.
And so if we are not aligned,if we're not satisfied, then
that causes those downstreamissues for us.
So job satisfaction, motivationand metabolic health On the
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flip side, when we are satisfied, it's like medicine for your
metabolism, right?
You've heard us talk about foodas medicine.
How about this Job satisfactionas medicine?
When your work aligns with yourpurpose and with your values,
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your brain releases feel-goodhormones like dopamine,
serotonin, oxytocin and we'vetalked about oxytocin as that
bonding hormone.
Dopamine and serotonin arethose feel-good hormones and
dopamine really is thatanticipatory hormone.
It's like you are so excitedabout work and the things you're
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doing and the fulfillment thatyou get is you get a burst of
dopamine simply by thinkingabout going to work.
Wow, when I have my huddle wedo a huddle at my job and I sit
around or stand around with myteam, I tell them that I want
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you, in your personal life, tobe like in nirvana.
I want you to be so excitedabout your life at home and
outside of the job that when youcome to work, I simply, at the
job, I get the overflow of allthe stuff that's happening in
your life.
Because if I get that overflow,man, that is like the bomb.
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And so I want my folks to enjoywhat they do.
We have some folks that we'vetold before hey, we love that
you're here, but is this whereyou need to be?
And not that they were doingpoorly, but we knew that there
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were other things that theywanted to do in their lives.
So go do that.
We're excited that you're here.
Come out.
They not only improve your mood, but they directly enhance
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insulin sensitivity, metabolicfunction and your body's ability
to regulate sugars.
Imagine, imagine this you wakeup energized, looking forward to
the day ahead because you findfulfillment in your work.
You're naturally more motivatedto care about yourself.
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You eat better, you show upbetter, you carry yourselves
better, you move better.
You're able to stickconsistently to your diabetes
management plan, to your healthplan.
We're doing a 100-day walk toconsistency and health in the
morning.
You're more able to do thatwhen you are satisfied.
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Now I'm going to make a plughere.
Right, because I said thatwe're talking specifically here
about occupational health.
But when we look at thosedomains, when we talk about the
limitless living inventory, wedraw them and we talk about them
in isolation, as though there'sthis little compartment over
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here, over there and over there.
But the truth is that they allinteract, they cross into each
other.
Your personal relationshipcrosses into your occupational
health.
Your social health crosses intoyour physical health.
Your physical health crossesinto your emotional health and
they all are intertwined healthand they all are intertwined.
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When I transition to work thatfully aligned with my values and
purpose, like what I'm doinghere, and I've said to you guys,
when I get off air, when Ileave this space, when I hit the
button, the show turns off.
You can take a plug and plug itinto me and it would light.
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Why?
Because this is my alignment,what I do, love doing it, and so
if I can regulate all of mydomains, can you imagine what
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that's like?
So career satisfaction isn't aluxury Because we say oh yeah,
this is what I'm doing.
It is what it is, it's not aluxury.
Oh yeah, this is what I'm doing.
It is what it is.
It's not a luxury.
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It is an essential part of yourmetabolic health.
So let's talk a little bit aboutburnout and diabetes management
.
So let's move into specificallyblood sugars, because burnout
isn't just about feeling tired,it's a metabolic crisis.
Burnout means emotionalexhaustion, a sense of
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detachment from your work andfeeling ineffective.
You're doing the things you'regoing and I just feel like it's
I don't know.
From a metabolic standpoint,burnout consistently elevates
cortisol level, it weakensinsulin sensitivity, it raises
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inflammation and can eventrigger autoimmune responses.
And can even trigger autoimmuneresponses when you feel chronic
stress.
Then we have the inflammation,we have the abdominal obesity,
we have the cortisol level, andwe've said that those things
themselves decrease your immunesystem.
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You get sicker, you get moresicker.
Often it's like why am I alwayssick?
Why am I always catching a cold?
Why am I having all these otherthings happening?
It is because there'smisalignment.
So burnout shows up for lots ofpeople in different ways.
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But here's some ideas.
You skip your glucose checks oryou skip taking your insulin
because you're overwhelmed.
I can't think of just another.
If another person says anythingto me about blood sugar, I'm
just going to lose it.
If I have to think one moretime about the things that I'm
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eating, If I have to look at mymenu, if I've got to go look at
my carbs, if I've got to talk,if another person tells me that
I need to exercise, I'm justgoing to have it.
You start eating emotionallybecause you're unable, you don't
have the capacity in yourpersonal space, in your social
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space, in your relational space,in your mental space those are
all the domains, by the way.
You don't have capacity anymoreto handle those things because
you're putting all of yourenergy into just getting through
the day at the job, and so yourbrain doesn't want to make any
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more decisions.
We've talked about exhaustionand decision fatigue, and so the
natural thing to do is to takethe easiest route.
So if I see it and I see it,and I think it's going to help
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me be comforted I don't have tomake a decision.
I'm going to have it.
So you're driving down thehighway and you see the sign
that says whatever the sign says, and okay, there goes the car
and you show up at your housewith 18 Cadbury chocolate bars.
I'm not sure who that happenedto, but I'm just saying Right,
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you start eating emotionallyComfort foods that have high
sugar, high fat.
Right, they're not nutrientdense, they're very calorie
dense.
Exercise feels like it'simpossible because you're
drained, you're, I can't moveanother muscle.
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In other words, burnout severelyundermines your ability to
manage diabetes effectively andthat leads directly to poor
glucose control and increaseddiabetes-related complications.
So can you recognize some ofthese Red flags?
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These are red flags.
You feel chronically fatiguedand detached at work.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, how about that?
Your diabetes care habits slipbecause you're too exhausted.
I can't think about it anymore.
I can't check my blood sugar, Idon't even want to put on a
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monitor, I just want to eat andgo to sleep.
I'm not taking any insulin, I'mnot taking any medication.
I can't do anything else.
You notice worsening bloodsugars, despite your best
intentions.
You're doing all the thingsthat you've been told.
You've cut back on the food,but something just doesn't seem
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right and most people willdouble down on the food.
I'm decreasing my food whenit's not a food issue, it's the
fact that you are chronicallystressed.
So the bottom line there isthat burnout at work isn't just
emotional.
It directly interferes withyour diabetes care?
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Yep, yep, it does.
So what are some practical stepsfor aligning your work and your
health?
Some practical steps.
So what can you do?
How does that work?
Is it possible to manage it?
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So, get a pencil, get a pen,let's write it down.
Here we go.
Number one you want to evaluateyour career alignment.
Ask yourself does my currentjob align with my core values
and purpose, the things that I'mdoing?
Does it really align with whatI'm doing?
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Do I feel fulfilled by thetasks that I'm performing?
And hold on a second Does italign?
Do I feel like I'm fulfilled inthe task I'm doing, the things
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I'm doing on a daily basis?
Now let me pause and let medrop this in here.
There are times when we aregoing to have to do some things
that do not directly align withwhat we say we want, and when we
say directly align, I guess.
Let me change that, becausethat's not really true, because
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if you are doing a job right now, that is not going to be the
ultimate job that you do and youare simply doing that because
you have got to make money to beable to do the things you want
to do, then guess what that jobaligns with what you're going to
do.
But often we do one of twothings.
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We are in a job that is reallynot the position that we want
because of whatever the reason,we are going through a
transition in our lives.
We need finances.
Right now We've taken on asecond job to help out, whatever
it is, because that time ishelping us to move and to pivot
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and to go in a differentdirection.
And that's temporary and wedemonize that position.
We say, oh man, this is no, itis part of the process, it is
part of the journey, it is partof alignment, because it is
helping you go to the place youwant to go.
So that's one Either we arethere and it's a transitional
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space, but we demonize it and wedon't appreciate it, or two, we
stay in the transition spacetoo long.
Ah, ah, ah, you're not supposedto be there.
Until now, it was supposed tobe a stepping stone, it was
supposed to be a jumping offpoint, but you stayed there too
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long and now it feels like it'sthe wrong place.
And now it is the wrong placebecause you shouldn't be there.
It was a temporary place, itwas a temporary spot.
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So the other question is.
Does this role positively ornegatively impact or affect my
diabetes care, my metabolism,the things that I'm doing?
And if that's the case, we gotto work on moving.
Limitless living says thatwe're not staying here, we're
not allowing anything to preventus from doing what we need to
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do for our health.
Okay, that's number one.
Allowing anything to prevent usfrom doing what we need to do
for our health?
Okay, that's number one.
Number one we want to evaluateour career alignment.
Number two what we want to dois we want to set firm
boundaries at work.
So, commit to protecting yourtime, protecting your mindset.
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Be mindful in what you do.
If you have breaks, use thebreaks for a break.
Be mindful when you're eatingat lunch.
Be mindful when you're eatingat work.
Be mindful when you walk bysomebody's desk and you grab the
candy or grab the cookie orwhatever it is.
Why are you doing that?
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What's the boundary Schedule?
Short breaks, if you can,specifically for breathing, for
exercises, to reduce yourcortisol level.
One of the things that I tellpeople in the office is take
some time twice a day, and itdoesn't have to be long.
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Five minutes here, five minutesthere, and the goal for that
five minutes is simply to woosah.
So you're setting thoseboundaries at work.
Create a clear shut downroutine at the end of the day,
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end of your work, to protectyour evening for restorative
activities like exercise, mealprep, relaxation, hanging out
with the family.
I and I have to be honest, thelast couple weeks I've not been
doing this.
When I'm coming home, there isa spot on the highway where I
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say, okay, this is my place,that I'm leaving, work here and
I'm now moving into what myevening is going to be, and
that's the rocket.
As I'm coming on.
For those of you who are herein Huntsville, when I pass the
rocket, that's my place where Isay, okay, right now I'm
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changing, I'm changing mythought process.
I'm changing my thought processfrom being whatever I'm doing
that day and I'm now thinking,okay, it's nighttime and what do
I need to do as I get into thispart of my day?
Yeah, and then manage yourwork-related metabolic stress.
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Try intentionally doing microbreaks and that's what I was
just talking about Every hour,every half hour, whatever it is,
whatever you are allowed to doat your job, stretch, breathe.
Sometimes I'll leave thepatient clinical area and I'll
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just walk back to my wife'soffice and sometimes I walk in
and she's doing something andshe says, hey, what do you need?
I don't need anything, I justneeded to get away for a moment
and I walk, and I walk back.
Now there are times when I getback there and one of my team
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has to come get me.
It is what it is right.
So tell the truth, shame thedevil, but I needed a moment.
So, even small breaksdramatically reduce your
cortisol level and stabilizeblood sugars, and then identify
tasks that consistently drainyou and brainstorm how to delete
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, delegate, automate,restructure, whatever it is.
One of the key things that Itell students who are rotating
with me is find people aroundyou that do things better than
you do.
You to do things better thanyou do.
If you're the smartest personin the room, then there's a
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problem.
You need a different room.
That's the first.
We're actually coming to thatnext week as we get to our next
domain.
But here's the idea.
Here I think I'm pretty smart.
Actually, I think I'm abrilliant person.
I'm a bit biased, and youprobably think you're a
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brilliant person too, but I knowthat there are people that are
in my office that do some stuffway better than I do, and so I
may come up with the idea, butI'll give it to them.
I say, okay, you now, now yougo, so I don't even think about
it anymore.
I say, okay, this is what youdo, and I let them do what they
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are good at, because that's whyI have them around me.
I am a better person because Idon't think I have to do
everything.
I let people do what they'regood at.
So identify those things thatconstantly drain you I don't
like.
There are certain things Idon't like doing.
I don't want to do it, I don'tcare to do it, I know how to do
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it, but this, hey, you like that, boom there you go, you have it
and I pass it on.
So I tell my students when theycome through find people who do
things better than you and thethings that you don't want to do
.
If they like to do it, boomdone.
And then I'm not taking it back, I'm not criticizing it.
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Sometimes there are people theyfind the things we give them to
do they do it much better thanwe would have ever thought about
it.
And then, finally, job crafting.
Job crafting.
So enhance the purpose in yourcurrent role, find meaningful
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aspects within your existingrole and expand on them.
Meaningful aspects within yourexisting role and expand on them
.
One of the series I did acouple of years ago on the show
and you want to go back andwatch that it was a series on
people who were in their currentspace, thriving where they are,
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and one of the consistentmessages that came out of those
conversations was this what I'mdoing now was not what I started
out to do.
What I'm doing now is perhaps afar cry than I ever planned to
do, but while I was wherever Iwas, I learned the skills that I
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needed there.
And look at me Now the thingsI'm using are a lot of the
things I learned on the job thatI was not thinking much about.
So, wherever you are, even ifthis is not the space you're
going to be in, find meaningfulthings there, expand it.
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Talk to your manager, talk toyour team About modifying
responsibilities that better mapyour strengths and your
passions.
People in my office they cantell what I'm passionate about
and you guys see me here.
When something comes to my mindthat hits me, I'm excited about
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it.
So find those things in yourspace, even small adjustments
Like mentoring somebody else.
I love to teach, and you knowwhat makes my days go better
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when I have students around me,because it is the thing that
gives me passion.
So, mentoring somebody else,taking on a meaningful project,
something that you see, thatwould be great.
Talk to your supervisors hey,can we do this?
One of the best things that Idid recently was and I told you,
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I went camping, and so I am oneof the counselors for the very
first group that comes into ourand this is part of Pathfinders.
For those of you who may befamiliar with it, it's kind of
like Boy Scouts, cub Scouts.
So I am the counselor, I'm thevery first counselor that they
get when they come into theprogram.
And so over the years, right,I've thought about the fact that
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when we go to these big campsand I think I mentioned last
year we went to a camp that hasalmost 60,000 or 70,000 people
I'm talking about massive camps,I'm talking about tent camps
we're not talking about in thecabins.
This is actually you pitch atent, you put the stakes down,
put the tarp down and all thatstuff.
And so I have been in my mindthinking, hey, it would be nice
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to take just my group, becausewe usually go as a club.
And so I approached ourdirector and I said, hey'd like
to take, take our group camping,and he's a man, that's a great
idea.
And so over the course of thisyear that's, we've been working
on this camp and it wasphenomenal.
I loved it.
It was something that wasdifferent.
The kids loved it.
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People were saying, oh man, I'mglad that you were out here.
Oh, look at those.
They people came to visit usbecause it was just a group and
we were camping right here,right nearby us, because we have
a lot of space on our campus,and so we pitched the tents
right there.
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So is there something that yousee in your space, in your area,
on your job, that could be donebetter, something that speaks
to you?
So create it there.
You don't necessarily need anew job.
You need to intentionally alignyour current role with your
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health goals, deeply focused.
Deeply focused on what this is,one of the things.
That is a pillar of LimitlessLiving, and you've heard me say
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it, but I've not connected itthis way for you.
But let's connect it now.
In our limitless livingframework, we frequently discuss
three fundamental elements thatare critical to reversing
diabetes and achieving metabolichealth, that is, decrease
insulin, suppress the appetiteand reduce sugar.
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We've talked about those, butlimitless living says that those
are specific things to thoseareas.
If we come above and we startto look at our different domains
of health, in order for us tobe successful, what we have to
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have is rhythm, alignment andstructure.
Rhythm, alignment and structure, and rhythm is the basic tenure
of your life.
What is the purpose, what isthe goal, what is the ultimate
reason that you're here?
That's the rhythm of my life.
What is the thing?
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What is the thing when I thinkabout myself, when people think
about me, what is it that comesto their mind?
What comes to my mind?
What's the rhythm of my life?
What's the direction of my life?
What's my North Star statement?
Rhythm Alignment is are thethings I'm doing on a day-to-day
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basis taking me in thedirection of what I say?
My rhythm is.
That's what we're going to betalking about here in just a
minute, a little bit more deeply.
And then, in order for that allto happen, we've got to have
structure.
So the reason for what we do,the reason for what I do, is to
provide structure for people,because there's a lot of stuff
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that you know, you've heard it,we all have been told it, but we
don't have a way, we don't havea structure, we don't have a
way to start.
Some people don't do thingsbecause they just don't know how
to start, how to do it, what itshould look like.
It's a rhythm, alignment andstructure.
So, if you are going to beconsistent I want you to hear
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this, if you don't hear anythingelse that I say if you're going
to be successful in your health, if you're going to be
successful physical health,mental health, emotional health,
social health, spiritual health, occupational health, which we
were talking about today Ifyou're going to be, if you're
going to be successful in any ofthe domains which are really
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the crux of your life, you haveto have structure, you have to
have a way to keep that going.
Motivation is great, becausesome of you, when you leave here
, when you finish listening tome and people talk to you hey, I
just love that.
That really spoke to me and I'mglad it spoke to you.
But motivation is fleeting.
Tomorrow.
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When you wake up and somethingcomes to your mind, or some
obstacle is there, or some badfeelings, or some hurt happens,
motivation goes away.
What is the thing that you'reputting in place right now
that's going to help youautomate that process, so that,
even if you wake up in themorning and you don't feel like
going walking, you're going towalk anyway.
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What do you have in place sothat, even if you don't feel
like putting down that donut ortaking the insulin or checking
your blood sugar or saving money, if that's what you're working
on, whatever it is what do youhave in place that automates
that problem?
What's the structure that'sgoing to keep it going long term
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, because motivation is notenough.
Rhythm.
What's the tenure of your life?
Alignment?
Are the things you're doingconsistent with where you say
you want to go, and do you havesomething in place to keep it
going long term?
So let's zero in on thealignment, because it's
especially vital when we arediscussing occupational health.
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Alignment means that your dailyactions at work resonate deeply
with your personal purpose.
It resonates with your corevalues and with your personal
purpose.
It resonates with your corevalues and with your health
goals.
When your work is aligned,everything you do feels
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intentional, meaningful andauthentic when you're aligned.
But what happens when alignmentis off?
When alignment is off,metabolic health suffers.
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When your occupation ismisaligned with your deep
purpose.
There is a constant internalfriction.
Every task feels like you'repushing a boulder uphill.
You have to work harder, yourstress response escalates, your
metabolism suffers Becausethere's not alignment.
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It's like me trying to go toNew York, which is where my
family is, but heading toCalifornia.
I'm going somewhere, but it'snot aligned.
I'm moving, but it's not theright direction.
There's activity, but there isnot purposeful and there is not
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success-driven or orientedactivity.
I may get somewhere, but notwhere I'm trying to go.
One of the funniest things to meis these movies where you got
two people in a canoe and one isthey're supposed to be pulling
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right, pull.
And if you remember, in aKorean canoe you got two oars
and you're pulling, or more thantwo oars and you're all pulling
together.
And when you're doing that,right, you're going in a
particular direction.
But can you imagine whathappens if the people on one
side are pulling this way andthe people on the other side are
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pulling that way?
Right, it's like this, right.
And what happens to that boat,that canoe?
It's just going like this, thatcanoe, it's just going like
this.
In science, we learned inphysics that there are vectors,
there are forces that are goingat any particular time on a
particular object Physics and sothere can be a force going in
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this direction which is supposedto push an object going this
way.
But if you have an oppositeforce and they're pushing
against each other on the sameplace, on the same piece of
material, guess what?
That material is now stuck inspace, and so are the things
that you're doing aligned sothat all of the forces are
taking you in the direction thatyou want to go.
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Misalignment triggers chronicstress, consequently elevated
cortisol levels.
Chronic cortisol disruptsglucose metabolism and it
encourages insulin resistance.
When your work doesn't resonatewith you, it's harder to stay
motivated to manage yourdiabetes, harder to stay
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motivated to check your bloodsugars, harder to stay motivated
to plan your meals, harder tostay motivated to exercise
regularly.
It becomes a burden rather thana priority.
We're talking aboutmisalignment.
And then there's the emotionaleating.
So lack of alignment frequentlyleads to emotional buffering,
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because we're restless, we'reirritable and we're discontent.
And overeating or overindulgentin sugary, high-carb foods
temporarily causes an escapefrom work, dissatisfaction.
The transformational power ofalignment comes though.
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When a work aligns with thepurpose and true direction, the
amazing transformation thathappens is that our metabolism
becomes balanced Because all ofa sudden, alignment lowers our
cortisol level.
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Notice, we haven't done asingle thing yet.
We haven't walked, we haven'tstarted eating better, we
haven't walked, we haven'tstarted eating better, we
haven't taken medication, wehaven't checked our blood sugar.
But simply having alignmentlowers our cortisol level, and
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reducing that cortisol leveldecreases sugar, decreases
insulin, decreases inflammationand that directly improves our
blood work and our blood sugarcontrol.
When we're aligned, our energyis up and it energizes us and it
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motivates us, and that naturalenhancement allows us to be
willing to engage consistentlywith our health.
Better nutrition, betterexercise, boom.
And then we're more resilient.
So when we are misaligned, wehave what's called a fixed
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mindset.
We often see things in thenegative.
We think that all we can do iswhat we see.
We think that what we have ispermanent, that we cannot
advance beyond this, that wecan't move from here, our blood
sugars can't improve, I can'treverse my diabetes, I can't
lose weight, my blood pressureis always going to be like this,
I'm always going to havechronic, progressive worsening
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of my kidneys.
But when we become resilient,when we change our mindset, when
we're aligned, now we have agrowth mindset that says, hey,
limitless living, by the way, isa growth mindset process.
It says that I can change andnothing is going to prevent me
from doing what I need to do tobe successful.
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It creates psychologicalresilience.
It makes stress at work lessdramatic and less damaging.
So how do we do this?
Number one we want to clarifyour purpose.
What is your North Starstatement?
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Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Why are you at that job?
What do you truly care about?
What is it so?
You want to clarify the purpose.
Does my work reflect the valuesthat I say I have, and do they
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reflect that on a daily basis?
Number two adjust your currentrole.
Identify small tasks withinyour job that do align with your
values.
Talk to your managers.
Hey, can I switch roles?
Can I pick up this?
Can I do that?
Can I adjust this?
Whatever it is, be proactive.
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One of the ideas that comes tome sometimes is that all of us,
if you walked into your houseright now, or you walked outside
and you saw water just pouringinto your house, like some pipe
had broken while you were away,you would call, maybe, a plumber
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, or find somebody to go, turnoff the main right and you call
a plumber.
And if the plumber said to you,hey, I can't come until next
week, you know what we would doWe'd pick up the phone again and
we'd call a different plumber.
And if that plumber said Ican't come till tomorrow, we'd
pick up the phone again and we'dcall a different plumber.
And if that plumber said Ican't come till tomorrow, we'd
pick up the phone and we'd callanother plumber and we'd keep
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calling until we got somebodywho would come right now, within
the next hour, like emergency,like now come.
But we spend days, weeks,months, years in places that we
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should have left long ago Doingthings we should not currently
be doing.
And I want you pillar numbertwo that we're learning tonight
about limitless living.
Pillar number two says thatnothing that happens to me is
happening to me without medirectly being involved.
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Let me unpack that a little bit.
I often hear people say thathappened to me, that happened to
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me.
There are things that are goingto happen that are outside of
your control.
You're going to walk outside,it's going to rain.
Out of your control.
You're going to be going downthe road and your tire is going
to get flat on the car.
Outside of your control.
You're going to be going towork and you're going to be late
because there's an accidentoutside of your control.
You're going to be going towork and you're going to be late
Because there's an accidentOutside of my control.
Yes, but what I'm talking aboutAre those things that we have
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control about.
Over that we either Take asecond hand to and just let it
happen, or, by not making adecision, we've made a decision.
When it comes to our health,for sure.
When it comes to ourrelationships, for sure.
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When it comes to our finances,definitely.
When it comes to our job andour occupation and our career,
yep, well, that's what they saidat the job.
That's what we're going to doat the job.
That's what I was told.
This is what happened.
No, no, no, no, no.
Now, if you have done all youcan and it still happens,
another story Because it's nowout of your control.
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But we're no longer justallowing things to happen to us,
because we can make decisionsthat put us on the path to
success.
Limitless living, limitlessliving, that's the power of
rhythm, alignment and structure,and it is the power of
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limitless living.
It's one of the pillars oflimitless living.
It's one of the pillars oflimitless living, and so I want
you to start something realquickly.
I want you to start each day byreminding yourself of your
larger purpose and I want you towrite it.
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I want you to write it now.
Get a piece of paper, write itdown.
I am here because I value blank.
What is the blank?
And that blank should besomething that is in your North
Star statement the purpose.
What are you doing?
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End each day by acknowledgingthat the alignment that you said
you had is what happened today.
That requires you to make surethat you're doing, saying,
behaving, creating the spaceswhere that happens, when there's
alignment and a lot of you havesaid well, you know what.
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I don't have to worry aboutthat because I've retired, I'm
sitting at the house and myquestion to you is is what
you're doing aligned with whatyou say your purpose is?
Is what you're doing alignedwith what you say your purpose
is?
Is being at the house and notexercising aligned with your
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health?
Is not moving aligned with whatyou say you want to have in
terms of your health?
Alignment is not optional.
It's the heartbeat ofoccupational and metabolic
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wellness.
When your professional lifealigns with your purpose, when
your retirement aligns with yourpurpose, your metabolic health
improves naturally.
This intentional alignment cantransform your ability to
reverse diabetes and achievelasting health.
So your occupational healthisn't just a paycheck.
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It's one of the pillars of yourmetabolic health.
It's one of the pillars of yourmetabolic health.
It's one of the domains.
When your work aligns with yourdeeper purpose, your hormones
stabilize, your motivationskyrockets and reversing
diabetes becomes much more easyto do.
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So this week, I challenge you toevaluate your occupational
health.
Evaluate your retirementretirement.
Identify one small shift thatyou can make immediately to
enhance your purpose at work, athome, in retirement.
That will reduce your metabolicstress and set you on the path
for success.
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Remember, your health isn't aluxury.
Set you on the path for success.
Remember, your health isn't aluxury.
It's your most important joband you have the power to shape
your work life in ways that fuelrather than drain your
metabolic health and diabetesmanagement.
As always, we encourage you toeducate, empower, encourage,
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because I believe you can live atruly limitless life.
We encourage you to educate,empower, encourage Because I
believe you can live a trulylimitless life and, after all,
that's what we're doing here.
This is Dr Dwayne Wood, that'sWood with an E.
The E stands for endocrinology.
Here on the channel, I educate,I empower and I encourage you
to take charge of your health,take charge of your life, avoid
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complications and go to the nextlevel, creating the life you
always wanted.
Thank you,
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