The Six Doctors of Health

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Jana Shelfer (00:00):
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Steve Jobs is quoted as sayingthe best six doctors in the

(00:26):
world not that we want doctors,but the best six doctors in the
world are sunlight, rest,exercise, diet, self-confidence
and friends.
I feel like this is very wise.

Jason Shelfer (00:43):
It's pretty impactful when you think about
it.

I think the older I get, the more I agree with him
.

Yeah, and it's weird because, even without the
quote over the last 10 years, alot of this are things that we
have kind of found throughexperimentation experimentation,
and if we would have justlistened to him or read his book
, it would have exponentiallyput us ahead of the game.

(01:10):
Yeah, it just moved us forward.
No, we had to learn it on ourown, and that's one of the
beauties of reading.
I love the fact that we'vepicked up reading these books
and autobiographies because itgives us the life lessons of
some of these people that havehad extraordinary lives in a
compact four-hour,four-five-hour version, and

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sunlight, just getting out thereand walking around the pond
every morning.

Do you know how many times, like when I was
suffering, I was in a dark place.
I went through a really darktime, and when I was going
through that time, the lastthing I wanted to do was go
outside.

Yeah, you want to bask in the darkness.

And I even remember your mom came to stay
with us for a short time and shewas, like you need to get
outside, get some of thatvitamin D.
You just need to go sit in thesun, get some of that vitamin D,
you just need to go sit in thesun.
And isn't that funny how now weski and we're out in the sun a
lot, almost to the point whereI'm like, oh my gosh, I'm
starting to premature age here,you got to get some umbrellas.

(02:16):
I got to protect my skin Alittle too much vitamin D.

No.

I don't even know if that's possible, but sunlight
does help your mood.

And there's an energy to it.
It's a it's.
Plants need light to grow.
We need light to grow.

Oh my gosh, that is so simple.

We're not photosynthesizing things.
I'm not a scientist, but I'massuming that we're not using
photosynthesis for anything butthat light is a nourishing
factor.

Maybe I'm not a scientist, but that light is a
nourishing factor?

I think we are, though Maybe.

I'm not a scientist, I'm not going to
claim it.
I think going outside and justbeing in the sun, I think it
helps not only our cells, ourskin, vitamin D, like you said,
but it just- 100% it gives usit's a life Force.

It's a life force .

Yes, 100%, it is a life force.

Okay, let's go through the next one, rest.
We've talked about thismultiple times in our podcast.

Because I feel guilty resting, yes, and I do
know that this month especially,or this past month June, the
month of June for us we spent alot of time on the couch because
we were tired, we were just.
It was like our bodies.
We were going going, going,going going and then our bodies
were like, okay, it's time torest.

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And for some reason, when Itried to rest purposefully, I
start feeling it's guilt andit's this oh my gosh, I'm
wasting.
I'm wasting my life and I havethings to do.

I'm wasting my potential and we talked about
this on our live chat with thecommunity that we accomplished
so many things in the first sixmonths of this year and
sometimes we need to look atthat and go.
You know what I need to givemyself that permission to rest.
Rest is so important Restrecovery, giving that

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authorization to recharge, togive myself the time to recoup
the energy.

You're so correct.
I mean, think of an athlete.
And when they just train, train, train, train train, that's
when they start getting injuries.
It's because they need thattime to just recharge.

And it also gives your mind a chance to practice,
perfectly Like when you'regoing through motions all the
time.
Sometimes you can just allowyourself your body and mind to
rest, but you can gently gothrough things in your mind
without the pressure of it anddo it perfectly.
All right.
Number three Exercise, and itdoesn't have to be vigorous.

How many times have we been told in our life
Exercise it does the body good,Right.

You sound like a Saturday morning commercial, it
not?

only does the body good, but it does your mind,
your soul, your.

Relationships.

Vitality Energy levels.

We talked about this in our Miracle Morning
podcast.
Just 10 minutes can be all youneed.
It doesn't have to be vigorous,it doesn't have to be six hours
in the gym, I know.

But for some reason, we do that.
We're like, oh my God, I got tostart a workout routine today
and we start by going to the gymfor an hour.

Yeah, because we want results immediately and
then tomorrow that hour justfeels.

That feels like too big of a climb.
Do you know what I'm saying?
That used to be me.

I would go to Tony Robbins.
I would go to Tony Robbins'conference and I'd be like, oh,
I got to get the full body gym,I got to get the supplements, I
got to get the protein shakes.
And I would come back and I'dbe like, all right, I'm going to
start my workout routine.
I'm going to do two hours a day.
I'll do an hour in the morning,an hour in the evening, and I
would just blow myself up likeexhaustion, exhaustion wise, not

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not muscle wise, but exhaustionwise, and I would be done in
like four weeks.

And even if you do it for four weeks, which I
don't think you did and I didn'tget the results.
I don't even think you made itthat long.
But if you do it for four weeks, then you've changed so many
things that you don't know whatthat one Right.

I don't know what's working and I've blown my
ecosystem out of the water LikeI've blown everything in my
life out of the water, and Ihave no idea what that one thing
is that's working, butincremental improvements, just a
little bit of exercise everyday would have been gold Number
four, which this is a no-braineras well.
Diet, diet we are what we eat.

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Just eat your food as medicine,so that you don't have to eat
your medicine as food.

Okay, I know you didn't make that one up, you
read that.

I'm pretty sure that's another Steve Jobs.

That is really quite brilliant, though, if what
we eat is what we are.

Yeah, I mean how many times did we hear that when
we were younger.

You are what you eat.

From your head down to your feet.

I never heard that part.

That's the way it goes.
That's why I'm such a poet, andyou didn't know it, but my feet
show it because they're longfellows.

Ah, Jason, you're full of surprises today.
Okay, so what is number five?

Number five is self-confidence, and I think
that just comes down to lovingourselves and also being
confident in that love.
So it's accepting yourself,like we all want acceptance, but
a lot of times we don't acceptourselves.
We want acceptance fromeveryone else.

That is so true.
That is so true.
And number six, friends.

Friends Value time with friends.

Now I'm going to be a little transparent here.
I feel like I have put friendson the back burner in my 40s and
it was a mistake.
I am realizing that it has beena mistake and I've really been
trying to intentionallyreconnect with some people and
to not get back in good graces,cause I never fell out of graces
, I just stopped putting effortinto it.

One thing I will say is that we have invested a
lot of time with each other andI don't regret I don't regret a
single bit of that.

Yeah, but it's to the point where we finish each
other's Sandwiches.

Sentences.

Oh, and I sometimes think, though, that
the more people that we can bearound, it will benefit us, I
think we definitely expand ourinner circle, yes, and expand
the layers outside of that innercircle, but it's a it's just so
important.
Okay, I just want to like take aminute to be real, because it's

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harder as you get older to makefriends, and I know that that's
a limiting belief, but when Iwas younger it felt so easy to
make friends, and it's not thatpeople don't like me, it's, it's
really me Like.
Sometimes I want people to seethree, fourths of me, but I

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don't want them to see that 25%that you know isn't, isn't what
I want to project.

Well, it's also.
It's hard for some people toaccept boundaries Like.
It's like when we say I've gotone weekend a month or one night
a month that I can hang out.
Yeah, some people are like Ineed someone.
I want someone that I can hangout with three times a week.

They feel like that might be a slap in the face
.
Right Is what you're saying.

And what we're saying is we really enjoy your
company.
We want to hang out with you alot and a lot.
Our definition of a lot ishanging out once a month.

Or once a quarter Right, let's not over commit.

Going out once a month seems like a stretch for
me.

Why is that, though?
We used to go out all the time.

But we do a lot like we.
We have a lot on our calendarand you say that.

But then I look at what we do and I, for some
reason, my perception is thatwe're not doing enough.

Well, look at our , look at what we just went
through our calendar and markedoff, like all the goals that
we've accomplished.
So we're going.
But the problem is, is we notthe problem?
We've designed our life toaccomplish the things that we
want in our life.
So we're going, getting up at 430 in the morning, we're going
to bed at 7.
I mean, that's a and a lot offriends no, there's people don't

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want to go.
Don't want to go to dinner at 430 in the afternoon, right?
Because they're like, oh mygosh, you guys just need to go
to the.

Golden Corral.
That's what crew we're in now.
Get that early bird special,that's right.

I don't mind going to the Golden Corral.
Well, I don't want to go eat atthe Golden Corral, but I don't
mind the early bird special.

Okay, so Steve Jobs, we all know him as the CEO
and founder of Apple.
No longer the CEO and founderof Apple, no longer with us.
Apple a day he was a genius.
Keeps the doctors away.
Oh my gosh.
Okay, you're making connectionsthat aren't there.

And his quote is that the six best doctors in the
world are sunlight, rest,exercise, diet, self-confidence
and friends.
Okay, so just to wrap this upof thoseconfidence and friends.

Okay, so just to wrap this up, of those six,
which one is your favorite?

My favorite self-confidence.

I was going to say the same thing.
I literally think, if you canstep into your self-confidence
and-.

I think the rest will come in with you.

Yes, you start attracting everything that you
want in life and need.

I think we've talked about this for the last
couple of years in the podcastand, like we just talked about
it and building our own prisons,and once you get that
self-confidence, you will bringin the rest of this and you will
start taking care of yourself.
You will start recognizing yoursoul, will take you to the

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sunlight, to the rest, to theexercise.
It will have you eating theright thing.

But they all kind of feed off of each other, don't
you think I?
Mean we've gone through periodsin our life where you know we
start eating the wrong things.
Then all of a sudden thataffects your self-confidence.
Am I right?
Or we stop exercising?

Or do we eat the wrong things because we're not
self-confident?

See, and it goes hand in hand, which came first,
the chicken or the egg.
I mean, I could sit here andargue this with you all day
which comes first, the smile orthe joy?

Right.

Right.
I mean it all feeds off of eachother and how do we just get
curious about this and say whatdo I want more in my life of?
Okay, so to wrap this up, don'tgo to the doctor, go to these
six doctors, that's right.
Read them off.

Sunlight, rest, exercise, diet, self-confidence
and friends.

Make sure you're going to the right friends.

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