April 6, 2026 • 45 mins
Time for Change!
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Prevent and reverse disease, overcome common health obstacles, and live
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
All Right, guys, welcome back to another week Maximized Living
Radio with your host, Doctor Greg O'Neil. Today, I'm going
to be talking about the time for change, that the
time for change is now, and that you making your
decisions every day, even if you're not making a decision
for your health, is still making a decision for your health.
And I have talked about this before, but I just
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can't emphasize how important this is lately. Kind of my
reasoning behind this, I've had quite a few newer patients
come in in the last few weeks, and the theme
has just been that they are amazed at how much
better they're doing and how much better they're feeling. Just
amazed even after a few quick adjustments. That I have
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a woman who comes in. Her name's Brenda. She's in
her early sixties, and she was dealing with very bad
neck and shoulder pain. Like so like think your neck,
your upper back into the front of her shoulders, just
like stiffness, soreness, And people don't realize how much that
just lays a tool on your body. Is that when
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your spine is not moving, your brain does not like that.
Your brain actually gets stressed out. And when your brain
gets stressed out, that's going to lead to your brain
sending messages of stress to the rest of your body.
So everything kind of it reinforces what's going on. You
tighten up more, you feel more stressed, and the hormones
start changing as far as cordisol, then you're not going
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to sleep as well. You're not going to feel as relaxed,
You're gonna feel more heightened, you're gonna feel more anxious.
The issue becomes is that we're so used to how
we feel we don't know any different. So you could
work on a computer and it could be the computer
you've worked on for years, and someone could say, well,
have you ever thought about upgrading your computer to a
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new you know, increase the RAM, increase the speed, increase
your memory. And if you've only worked on one computer,
you're like, why do I need to do that? It's
working just fine. Then if you were to hop on
a different computer, one that was new and fast and
had more storage and ram and everything like that. You'd
be like, oh, my goodness, to how fast this is?
If everything loads faster, saves faster, processing faster. You don't
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know until you experience something different, Just like being in
a car. How do you know you're in a kind
of a crappy car until you drive in a nice car.
Because someone could say, oh, you'd love the people say
to me, you'd love the handling of a BMW. Okay,
so I don't. I don't drive a BMW or drive
a Honda. I could just say, well, my Honda is fine.
It handle's just fine. Now if I went and test
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drove a BMW or drove someone else's BMW, maybe I
would like the handling of that car. Does that make sense?
Won't we get used to our body? So right now
people are listening to this. You're used to dealing with
baseline headaches and tension and stiffness and pain, and then
because of that, your brain gets stressed and that leads
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to poor sleep, anxiousness, shallow breathing, just overall tension in
your chest and in your back. But because that becomes
your baseline where your new normal, and by the way.
Didn't that term just get ruined by COVID. Remember everyone's
fan new normal. I was like, that's my term. Don't
use it for a negative like that. So that becomes
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your new normal of just not feeling good and you
don't know any different. But then when you switch and
you do something different, that's when good things happen. So
for Brenda, who I was talking about, just spoke with
her the other day. She's like, I can't tell you
how much how happy I am when I leave your office,
how much better I feel? And I can just feeling
her back. The muscles are more relaxed, everything's looser. I'm like,
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your spine is feeling great. And she say, hey, you
wouldn't believe I'm sleeping better, My energy is better. I
just feel more uplisted, better mood. Everything improves when your
muscular skeletal system is healthy. I can't express that enough.
And some of you listening to this you may not
believe me. You may think, oh, that's easy for him
to say he's running an advertiser on a radio show. Guys,
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this isn't just something I talk about. This is something
I lived myself. I'm a chiropractic patient myself. Not only
am I a chiropractor. I've been adjusted since I was
thirteen years old. I know the difference between someone who
gets adjusted and someone who doesn't. I've been in practice
for over thirteen years now. I see it every single day,
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And probably the hardest part of my job is people
who don't want to take that step, who admit they
have an issue. They say, I'm dealing with X, Y
and Z, but they're just giving up on the inside
and maybe even on the outside, and letting life just
steamroll them. And then those same people they back away
instead of stepping forward, they step back, and you start
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giving up things like gardening or walking or golfing or
running or pickleball or all your activities, and it just
inch by inch, little by little by little by little,
you start to turn yourself into a person who's neglected
their spine, who's totally lost their health and honestly is
on the road to disability. Look at the number of
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people who end up with knee surgeries and hip surgeries
and back surgeries and shoulder surgeries and neck surgeries and
get injections. How the heck is this happening? Why? Why
is this happening because you're not taking care of yourself.
You're not addressing root causes of problems. You're medicating it,
you're ignoring it. You're thinking that it's just going to
go away on its own. Newsflash spoiler alert, it ain't
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gonna happen. These problems without being corrected get worse. You're
not any more special than the next person who had
to have surgery. I'm not any more special than anyone else.
We're given this body, this amazing healing power in our
body that's designed. Our bodies designed to heal. But if
we don't take care of ourselves, it will break down. Okay,
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So you think of like like look at it, like
your lawn and your lawn, your grass. It should be
nice and green. And when there's proper nutrition, when there's
proper water, when there's sunshine, the grass is green. It's healthy. Okay,
when things are neglected, or if there's a drought, or
if there's a nutritional issue or there's other problems going on,
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the grass is gonna turn brown. So what color do
you want the grass to be of your life? You
want it to be green and vibrant. So the grass
needs to be watered now I love this saying, and
I hope that it sticks with someone listening to this today.
And I have this actually at a pillow you know
when you go to like those like home goods stores,
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And I think it's a wife's job to buy like
five thousand pillows, like all these throw pillows. Like if
a guy had a house on his own, Like if
I lived on my own, I don't think there'd be
any extra pillows. I might have like one on the
couch and one in the bed, and that would be it.
But women have to have Like why is that the
have like five thousands. But I did see one that
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I like, and it says this. It says, the grass
is greener where you water it, you know, the saying
the grass is greener on the the grass is always
greener on the other side. People always looking elsewhere. And
I take that as like people looking at their health.
It's like, Okay, once I retire, once I get the
kids in school or out of school, or once I
get through this, and people just kind of push through,
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push through, push through, and then all of a sudden
they wake up one day and they're on different medications
or they're doing all these different pain and they say,
if I could only just get to this thing, get
to this event, then life will change in my life
will be better. And that's not true. Okay, So the
saying the grass is greener on the other side, that's
a false thing. So what I like to say is
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the grass is greener where you walk. So it takes intentions,
It takes you watering the grass of your life, taking
care of your health, being conscious of the decisions that
you're making on a day to day basis, so that
you can see the fruits start to bear in your life.
But it can be good fruit, you know, Biblically, good
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trees bear good fruit. Bad trees bear bad fruit. It's
the same thing with ourselves. Now, obviously that's talking from
a spiritual aspect, the fruit of our the fruit of
the spirit. What I'm talking about from a health aspect
is that when you take care of yourself, take care
of the soil of your body, then you're going to
grow good things, positive things, and that you feel energy
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and you sleep well, and you wake up and you're
not stiff, but you actually feel flexible and loose and
you feel youthful. One of the most common things people
say is well I'm getting old, and all I change
is now you star to argue with people, Oh, you're
not getting old, blah blah blah blah. Now I just
say no, you're not getting old, you're feeling old, and
they're like, yeah, you're right. I have not one person
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arguing back on this. You're not getting old, you're feeling old.
There's a big difference because there's people your age that
are feeling a lot worse and there's also people your
age that are feeling a lot better. And after the
break I'll talk about you don't want to totally base your
health on how you feel, but that's another topic. So
stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Easter eggs, jelly beans, chocolate bunnies, but the sweetest of
them all, Jesus, sweet.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Victory Guy, for all that this is the time for change.
You have to change now, not now, not five years,
not ten years, not next month, not next season, right now.
When's the best time to plant a tree is twenty
years ago. The next best time is today. The issue, though,
is that we have intentions. Intentions are like our little
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motivations that we get that we want to do something,
But it's doing it That's that's the issue, right So
there's a law. It's called the law of diminished intent.
So what it says is that the longer you wait
to act on something you know you should do, the
less likely you are ever to do it. So you've
had those moments before you feel motivated, you feel convicted,
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You're like, this is it. I need to change, Like
January first, I'm losing this weight. This is gonna happen.
Or I have this fact and I'm getting this taken
care of. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm
gonna get in shape, I'm gonna go to physical therapy,
I'm gonna go to the chiroproductor I'm gonna eat healthy.
But what happens is is that you wait, you think
about it, you talk yourself out of it, or you
try it for a little bit and you quit. And
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then that urgency that you once felt that felt so
real and you're right there, you're excited, you're motivated, it
fades out and then the window closes. It's not random.
It's kind of like how we're wired from a human
psychology perspective, is that our brain is always like, what
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are you doing for me lately? Like it wants the
next best thing. It's how our brain is kind of
set up, so it's kind of like it's part of
our superpower and our super weakness at the same time.
I would say that human beings our greatest superpower is
the ability to adapt. Like you look at people who
are completely impoverished or grew up in really tough childhoods
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or had a tough go at life, and you see
people who are still grateful and thankful and resilient and
are able to push through. Because our body in some ways,
in some ways has a long memory and that we
can hold on to trauma and emotional issues and things
of that nature. But it also has the ability to
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heal and to move on, to forgive. That's a truly
human quality. So what we have to do it all
comes down to this is just you have to act
on the nudges that you get now throughout and that
takes a few things. Number one, it takes being conscious
of that, listening to your body not getting sucked into
the busy, busy, busy rat race of society of the
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go go go. And I get it, trust me. I
have three young children. They have to be I take
them to school, they go to private school. I don't
take them on the bus, we drive them, we pick
them up. I have a youngest child at the time
recording this is in preschool where we drop the kids
off at eight am. She gets picked up at eleven
thirty am. Then we go back and pick up the
boys at three pm. So there's a lot of that.
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Then on top of that, there's kids' sports and activities,
and then there's our own extracurriculars. And we have a business.
I have eight employees, I have over a thousand active patients.
I have a radio show. I have all these different obligations. Okay,
and there's people listening to this your life. You have
a lot more going on than me, And there's some
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people you're like, well, I don't have as much going
on with that. What's my excuse. I'm not trying to
make it about that. All I'm trying to say is
we all got stuff going on. We all fill up
our weeks, we all fill up our days. Heck. I
talk to people I know them personally who are retired,
and they're like the busiest people that I know. Their
schedule is full, their schedule is booked out, their days
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are booked like it doesn't matter about okay, once I retire,
or once the kids are out of school, or once
the summer starts, or once the school starts, or whatever
else excuse we can use or event, it has to be.
The change we have to make is now is we
can't wait, We can't wait, We can't wait till life
slows down, till life's not busy anymore, because news slash
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talk to anybody at any age, life doesn't really slow down. Now,
things can change. Maybe when you retire there's a little
less urgency with time, or maybe you have a little
more flexibility or control our freedom. But why wait until
you're sixty seven, seventy years old to start taking care
of your health? Why not take care of it now?
And in my personal opinion, my clinical opinion is people
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tend to wreck their health in their I would say
late twenties, but really in their thirties and their forties.
Why because that's when people are at maximum response. There's
a lot of output, whether it's children, whether it's job,
whether it's go, go go. It tends to be that
age group that I tend to see. Now, am I
a little biased because I am in that age group? Probably?
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But I can tell you one thing. When I was
a teenager, or when I was in college, or when
I was before I had children, I can tell you
from a personal standpoint, I had a lot more time
on my hands. Now, Did I use that time wisely
and fill it up wisely? No? I did not, of
course not. I'm like, looking back before kids, I'm like,
I should have written like a whole series of books.
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I should have like I should be a published author
or something with all the time that I had, But
it gets filled up by other stuff. Right. The other one,
I believe it's called Parkinson's principle, is that the time
allotted to perform an activity will always be filled up.
So what does that even mean? If you give yourself
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two hours to get ready in the morning, you're gonna
take two hours to do it. If you wake up
like you snooze past the alarm and you wake up,
you're like, oh my goodness, I have ten minutes to
get ready. Guess what you're gonna do it in ten minutes.
You're going to figure it out. So the time allotted
to perform an activity will always be filled. So what
we want to do is is schedule ourselves out and
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have some wiggle rooms so that we can have time
to take care of ourselves. So this is called being structured.
It's called having a plan, it's called having a schedule.
And yes, I realize this may sound a little like
I'm patronizing or paternalizing people, but I'm telling you it's huge.
It's huge for a lot of people. Like it's a
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lot of times it's basic life skills that can get
in our way. And I'm and I'm also talking to
myself here as well, So just just letting you know. Now,
I call this the like the war plan, getting yourself
ready for the week, like just those things that you
know you need to do. You've heard this analogy before, probably,
but it bears repeating. Where you have the professor asked
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the students, he has like a jar, and he has
the golf balls, and then he has the rocks like
the pebbles, and then he has the sand, and it
looks like a lot and he's like, how would you
fill up the jar? And now, if you fill up
in the sand, the jar is going to fill up
right away. If you start with the pebbles, it's the
same thing. So what happens is that the golf balls
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represent those big obligations in your life. So for me,
it would be like, okay, career, it would be, you know,
getting the kids to school, like the things that I
can't mess I can't just like wake up one day
and be like, you know what, I'm not bringing the
kids to school today. That's called an obligation. It has
to be done. Okay, I have to get I have
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patients that I'm seeing at seven fifteen in the morning.
Guess what I have to be there, all right. Also
I would add in family with that too, the other pillar.
It's like, okay, it's time to be with my family now,
or we're going to schedule family time or like a
vacation or something like that. That needs to be done too,
because your kids, grandkids, they need your time as well,
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and your energy and your focus and your attention. And
so those are like the golf wells, So they go
in first. Those are your big big items. Then you
have like the pebbles or the smaller rocks that can
go around that are more flexible. They can go in
between and underneath you can hear what I'm talking about.
So that would be the things like okay, your hobbies, exercise,
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your health, you know, time to take care of yourself.
Maybe it's other things like time to get ready in
the morning, driving to work, like all these different things
that are important, but they're also like more variable. Okay,
you can change it a little bit. It's a little
more fluid. Then you have the things in your life
that are like sand. Now, sand can can move and shift,
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They can fit in any nook and cranny. You could
pour the sand on top of the golf balls and
the rocks, and it's going to find its way through.
That would be things like entertainment, cell phone use, evus,
computer use. I'm talking about things that are like you
don't need to do on a daily basis, but you do.
It's for entertainment purposes. Okay, you probably see where I'm
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getting at here. Is that many people are putting the
sand in the jar. First is that their time is
being sucked down by entertainment and I'll even say mindless entertainment,
being on the phone, social media, YouTube, TikTok, instagram, Facebook,
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I mean, you name it. It's that's going to fill
your time and that's going to prevent those other pillars
and other building blocks of your life from being a priority.
So you have to have your priorities right and in
the right order. So the right order is like, again, hey,
your obligations, the things you must do that you have
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to be there for, that has to come first. Okay.
Then it's like okay, And your health should be like
right there, guys. Then it's like, okay, my free time,
it's like okay, going to the gym, going for a walk.
And I'm not saying those things aren't as important like
your health, but it's a little more fluid. You can
schedule it like I can work out at the start
of the day, but if I miss it, I can
go at the end of the day or the middle
of the day. Does that make sense versus like for
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work in school pickups like those times they're set in stone, okay.
And then the last the funny part of this whole
analogy is that the professor puts in the golf balls
of the big things in life, the pebbles smaller things
in life, flew with things, and then the sand, and
then at the end he goes and everyone has time
for a beer, and then he pours a beer on
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top of that. So I think that's funny. Maybe an
organic beer, gluten free beer. But yeah, it's the point
of that is that you also have to take time,
like for a vacation, getting away, resetting yourself. Because the
next thing I want to talk about, just at the
end of this segment, moving into the next segment, is
this phenomenon called hurry sickness. Curry sickness is that you
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you look at people and I'm trusting I'm if my
wife was here when you talk about as like, are
you seriously going to teach people on this? But hey,
it's from personal experience. Okay, who who better to teach
you about hurry sickness than doctor Grey O'Neil. I'm I'm
telling you because I'm I have to manually hit the
brakes from my body my mind to like to slow
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down into like what's what's coming next, what's the next thing.
So here's a few signs of hurry sickness. Well I'll
talk tell about what it is and after BAK we'll
talk about those signs. So hurry sickness is basically, like you,
your nervous system, your body is attuned to doing everything
as fast as possible, as quickly as possible, as efficient
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as possible, as convenient as possible. And so whether that's
going to get groceries, whether that's going shopping, whether that's
going to the gym, whether that's being at work. Unfortunately,
this can bleed in and over into relationships. How you
talk to people, how you listen or not listen to people.
Are you waiting to speak versus listening to what someone's
actually saying? And this hurry sickness becomes this phenomenon of
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just what's next, How can we get this done and
move on to the next thing, And that steals presence
in your present moments. So stay tuned, we'll talk about that.
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Today I'm talking about time for change. I want to
talk about now a phenomenon that I'm very familiar with
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that I probably deal with on an ongoing basis. You know,
sometimes I catch I have to catch myself and I'll
go through kind of my regulation strategies with this too.
But it's a phenomenon called hurry sickness. I was talking
a little bit about it before. What it means is
that hurry sickness is the constant sense of urgency, a
feeling like you're always behind, always rushing, and you're never
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able to slow down even when there's no real deadline,
your body and mind act like there is. I'm gonna
repeat that again, Herry, sickness is a constant sense of urgency,
feeling like you're always behind, You're always rushing, and you're
never able to slow down, even when there's no real deadline.
That's the key one. Your body and mind act like
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there is. It's not just being busy, it's being internally
driven to rush all the time. So here's some signs
that you have it. Oh my gosh, my wife would
last this. You're gonna look in the mirror here. Impatient
in lines, traffic or with people talking slowly. Now the
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people talking slowly. To give myself some cred I've been
a little better with that. I think thirteen years of
being a chiropractor, I've gotten better of allowing people, not
finishing people's sentences for them, allowing them to speak. Getting
a little better with that. Yes, okay, I will admit
I am impatient in lines. I don't know what people
are doing. One example is if you ever go to
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the Giant Center in Hershey, like I've gone. Recently. I
went to Disney on Ice with my daughter, and I
don't know. You know, when you go to park and
there's like those parking attendants and you drive up. What
are people doing out there? Are they telling them their
life story? Are they like asking for directions? I'm not kidding.
People sit there for like a minute or two and
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maybe it feels like that or thirty seconds whatever, and
I'll drive up. I have the parking like I have,
I'm prepaid parking. I got prepaid parking ahead of time.
I go up, I got my QR code out, and
then I just drive off literally less than five seconds.
And then I'm like, what what are they doing? What's happening?
Now here's my other gripe. Then I'll get to the positives.
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You're at a red light. It's a long red light.
Like I'm bringing my kids to school. There is a deadline,
got to get there, leave on time, all that stuff.
You're sitting there and we have this one intersection. If
you're familiar with the lid Its Pike at all, there's
an intersection in Neftsville. It's called the Neftsville four Corners
of the Neftville Light. My kids call it the crazy
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light because going east to west, they it's like trimmed down.
Going north and south, it's a longer green light, which
I understand there's more traffic, but east to west at
rush hour getting the kids to school and stuff, it
gets very backed up, very busy. Now coming one way,
there's an advanced green, but on the way to school
there's not an advanced green, so you're getting even shorter
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amount of time. So you can be sitting there. I'm
not joking, like a good two minutes. You know, you're
sitting there waiting for the light to turn green. You're
behind four or five people, and the first person in line,
what's their only job in the world. When the light
turns green, you go. You move your butt and you
start moving because it's your job, your responsibility is your
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obligation to get that line moving. And people will sit
there and they've already waited for five minutes themselves, and
I'm like, what the heck, come on, Okay, that's my
gripe on that. So, yes, I do have hurry sickness.
I'm trying to improve. So if you're ahead of me
in a green light, just please go. I also have
to be careful too, because I got my way to
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the office. I always think like sometimes there could be
a patient and this has happened before. There's like a
patient in front of me, patient behind me. I'm like,
I can't be laying on the horn and tailgating people here.
I got to just relax so that helps me to
go to breathe. All right, constantly here's another sign of
hurry sickness. This is this is a big one. Constantly
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checking your phone or clock. I'm getting getting better at
that couple things for that. I deleted YouTube off my phone,
I've deleted social media, so that like urge to want
to check my phone. That's gone down drastically. All right,
here's another sign you have it. Multi It's like tasking everything,
even meals or conversations like Okay, I'm going to eat
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and watch TV or I'm gonna eat and talk. I'm
gonna eat while I do this zoom call. And that multitasking,
especially with food is not good, especially for children. No
technology for kids are going to emphasize that, especially for kids,
especially when they're little, with food, because it leads to
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a disregulation between their brain and their gut. Because your
brain should be in what what should it be focused on?
When you're eating, digesting your food, releasing saliva and enzymes
from the pancreas or the gallbladder, all these different things.
But instead you're focusing on watching Bluey or some show
for a child, and that's going to cause dysregulation and
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it also leads to addiction as well. Here's one feeling
anxious when you have nothing to do, when life finally
calms down, when there's finally like a break in the schedule,
Do you feel anxious? Do you feel like, okay, what
do I do now? That can be a sign of
hurry sickness finishing other people's sentences. My wife quickly beat
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that ahead of me. So my wife, you know, I
love her very much. We're very different in how we communicate.
So when I tell a story, I usually try to
get to the punchline quickly, especially if it's something like
a little urgent where I'm sharing something important with someone,
because I don't like to leave people on the edge
of their seat. Like, for example, if I'm saying, like, okay,
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a problem happened with the kids, I usually start out
with just you know, everything's okay, no one's hurt, but
here's what happened today. I usually do that so that
I don't freak that person out. Now, my wife she
would say he would go on a whole long She
doesn't like this word. I use the word be labored
explanation of an event. And then I'm sitting there thinking,
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like there's been times where I'm like Kristal, like, can
you is everything okay? Like are the kids? Did their
arms get chopped off? It's something She's like, oh no, no, no,
this just happened at the store. And then this happened.
I'm like, okay, whew, And then I've gotten the can
you please listen to me. I'll get to the point
where I'm want to get to it. So yeah, don't
for husbands out there, do not finish your wife's sentences.
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This is not good, okay. Being irritated by small delays
and another sign of hurry sickness is always thinking about
the next thing instead of the current moment. Guilty is
charged that one's tough now for me going away on vacation,
and I think part of this is human nature. I'm
not trying to excuse myself at all, but you plan
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a big vacation, you're excited, right, it can be hard
and I'm like a big kid on vacation, like I
got the Hawaiian shirts. I got the dad's shoes. I'm excited.
Like people say, do you have a hard time going
away vacation? Do you like think about work? And I'm like, no,
I love going away. It's so much fun getting on
the plane, getting on the road, trip wherever else. Like
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it's just that anticipation, like getting on the road, seeing
the road in front of you. It's just fun. It's
a fun feeling. But but that feeling is fun that day.
But it can't be. It can't be all the time.
It can't be like the two weeks leading out that
you have all these you know, all this anxiety and
all this thinking about okay to vacation. And again that's
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where my wife is good with that, helping me with
that poor decision making, so reacting instead of thinking. So,
how this affects your life is that when you have
for a sickness, it's going to lead to you making
poor decisions because you're just in like reaction mode and
that not only affects the decisions that you're making, but
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it's also going to affect your body and stress in
your body. So stay tuned, we'll talk about that.
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DAY i THINK i shouldn't just cut off my heag
in one. Bage this has been a fun show for
me to record Because i'm kind of looking at myself
in the mirror with this. ONE i am a patient as.
Well i'm a working uh working in uh work in
progress as. Well so, yeah, anyways talking about time for
change and the things that get in a way of us.
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Changing now the second half of the, Show i've been
talking about a concept called hurry. Sickness so, again hurry
sickness is a constant sense of. Urgency it feels like
you're always, behind always rushing or never able to slow,
down and even when there's no real, dayadline your body
and mind act like there. Is and this leads to
poor decision making because your body's in this like reactive reactive.
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Mode think of like young young. Parents, Now i'm you,
know my kids are nine years time recording, this nine years,
old six year, old four years, Old so, like, yes
life is busy and full and all, that but, honestly
it's it gets a little. Easier like they can get
up and kind of get themselves dressed and you, know
go to the bathroom on their, own wape themselves on their.
(34:31):
Own like even just the little things like. That if
you've been a parent, before you, know like just that
little bit that they can do on their own is
like such a big deal for the. Parents So I'm
i'm not even talking about me with. This i'm talking
about parents of really young, kids like when they're babies
or when they're like toddlers all running around and you
you can see that parent they are just on, guard
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like they're you, know they're they're ready to, Pounce like
if the toddler going to run, away did the baby
just poop their? Diaper is this going on to that going,
on there's a lot of balls up in the air
that can lead to like poor decision. Making then if
you're to walk up to that person and be, Like,
okay here's this mathematical, equation go ahead and do this right,
now or go do this, test how are they going
to do on? That there'll Be i've said this a million.
(35:14):
Times when my kids are really, YOUNG i, said, WHAT
i can't even think. Straight you hear yourself saying mail,
LIKE i can't even handle what's going. ON i can't
even think. Straight AND i say to my, kids, please
just once you buckle your seat, belts once you're in the,
car Then i'll be able to think because you're so
focused on that next. Task, now this can be not
just for, parenting but this can be any aspect of
like you have a busy, job you have a lot
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going on at home or at, work or with, finances
and all these things that are happening with deadlines and.
Whatnot your mind just gets flooded with these, hormones the
main one being, cortisol which is a stress. Hormone and
for a short amount of time that's, okay but when
it's elevated, elevated, elevated that's going to lead to severe
problems within your. Body so that leads to just you, know.
(35:58):
Hurry sickness is linked to health, decline so it's linked
to heart, issues, tension, fatigue, stiffness and. Pain i'll just
elaborate on that a little. Bit when people have constant
tension in their. SHOULDERS i see this a lot again
with young, mothers mothers who are either, pregnant have little,
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babies have, toddlers just this chronic rest in their. NECK
i call it mom, neck where their head comes, forward
their shoulders around, forward not just from breastfeeding and nursing
and holding a, child but being like on, guard sleeping
in weird, positions not sleeping as much as they, should
being tired, out just being on guard puts a lot
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of tension in the. Neck here's another, one decreased, Presence
so feeling like you're missing moments with your, spouse with your,
kids with your. Family and that's one that's hard and
something That i've experienced before in the. Past i've definitely
taken taken steps from myself of, regulation Which i'll talk
about here. Minute but that's hard when you look back
(37:03):
at your life and you're, like, man that was just
WHAT i don't want to say to. Myself you, know
in ten years WHEN i look, back is just, Like,
wow what a. Blur that just was a. Blur do
you ever hear people say, That they're, like that was
just a blur of a, week or a whirlwind of a,
day or a blur of a, month or that just
went by so quick or so. Slow and that usually
(37:25):
means that you're not present whenever you feel like or
WHENEVER i should, say WHENEVER i feel like time is
going by too fast or too. Slow that Means i'm
focused on the time and not on actually being in
time that makes, sense like being WHERE i, am and
then obviously that's going to then lead TO i think
the worst one out of this list is reduced. Joy
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life starts to feel like a checklist instead of something to.
Experience and that's so hard for me to read Because
i've experienced that in my life And i've experienced that even,
recently and that's SOMETHING i don't want to. Do we
all don't want. That the life is starting to feel
like a checklist of just like check this, day check that,
day instead of, like, OKAY i want to. EXPERIENCE i
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want to be, here and why do we have to
go away in order to experience? That why do we
have to have a new? Experience why can't we do
it now in our own. Life, well there's steps that
you can do to do, this and these are some
That i've incorporated in my own. Life So i'll go
through some of these steps and just elaborate on the
ones That i've used. Personally so steps to correct hurry
sickness is to build margin within your, schedule like stop
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scheduling back to back. Everything just schedule maybe one thing a.
Day i've heard retirees say this a, lot And i'll
give this advice to also young. Parents young moms, especially is,
like for a young mom that has, baby if you
can just get your teeth brushed by twelve pm by,
noon you're doing. Great you're doing. Great so you can
(38:54):
brush your teeth by twelve, noon you're doing amazing with
all that you're dealing with with young. Kids, now for,
Retirees i'll often hear it Said they're, LIKE i used
to plan you, know, five, six seven things a. Day
NOW i just plan, one, Okay so it's like just
think of it like. This if you're retired or. Whatever
maybe one thing in the, morning one thing in the,
afternoon and then you don't have, to you, know focus
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on that as much for the busy. Busy, now for
those of us who are in that busy season of,
life there's a lot going. On MAYBE i have a
demanding job with deadlines and everything like, that maybe try
not to add extra. Stuff, Now, AGAIN i have my own.
Issues my wife is infamous for adding in a lot of.
Stuff my wife is amazing at scheduling and managing employees
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and doing all that. Stuff but she would even admit
that she can sometimes overschedule herself or over commit herself
to all the. Responsibilities and a lot of Times i'll
be the one there and she does this with me
in other areas of just hitting the break of, like,
hey let's just focus on this one thing. Today we'll
deal this with this, tomorrow and then she'll tell me
to not interrupt her all. Right next thing is doing
(40:02):
one thing at a, time and then this is HUGE
i talked. About we'll just focus on, meals like when
you eat, food just eat the. Food don't be on
your phone at the same, time don't be checking, emails
don't be finishing up on. Work don't be WATCHING tv
or a movie or anything like. THAT i understand those
things are fun to do at, times the entertainment, ASPECT
i get, that but it's really important that you train
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your body to just be doing one thing at a
time so that it can focus on one thing at a.
Time next step is slowing your. Transitions so there's something
in life called the transition. Times, NOW i was always
taught WHEN i first got into business AND i had
mentorships and going to, seminars they would always, say it's
the transition times that are killing. You and for some,
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people you might need to speed up your transitions in
order to be able to fill in other. Things So
i'll kind of say this with a caveat. Here for
some of us who are go go, go you, know, move, move,
move all this kind of, stuff we need to slow
down those transition times, driving, walking, speaking just those like
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in between times to take a, breath, relax realize that
your obligation is, coming like the school pick up this,
coming or the work drop off. Whatever but you need
to just slow down a little. Bit. Now for some
of you who feel like you don't have enough time
in the day and who don't have time to exercise and.
Stuff there's areas of your, life those transition times that
you need to tighten up where it's, like, okay yes
(41:33):
it's okay to slow down a little, bit but you
don't need to now hop on your phone for half
an hour or WATCH tv or watch the, news or
School instagram or School facebook or. Whatever that's what's stealing your.
Time so you want to slow your, transitions but not
just fill up your transitions with you, know nonsense and
things that are going to steal your time from. You,
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Okay so setting no rush zones this is really. Important
and we do this for dinner. Time so there's times
during the day where you just set it and still
like we're not rushing here where there's no. Technology number,
one no phones at the dinner, table, none especially when
you got kids, there you're setting a, president you're setting an.
Example and for adults. Too i've gone on many date
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nights when you go to a restaurant and you see another,
couple and we've been really conscious of, this not even
bringing our phone to dinner if we have, them putting
it in our coat, pocket putting it, away putting on
an airplane mode's people are just on their phones all
the time and they're not even being present with the
person across the table from. Them so at no rush
zone means like okay for my kids at, dinner my oldest,
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SON i don't know who he gets this, from but
he likes to eat fast and go on to the next.
THING i have no idea where he gets that, from
BUT i have to tell, him Like, michael just you,
know you can slow, down eat your. Food it's, Okay
like we're gonna all sit as a. Family we're all
going to sit as a family while each person finishes.
Up so dinner should be definitely a no rush zone
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to just let your body calm and be, present especially
with family. Members so control inputs as the excellent living
constant phone news stimulation against, scrolling, scrolling scrolling. Scrolling all
you're doing is just reinforcing that hurry sickness in your
mind and then taking a pause that like even five
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to ten minutes a day just. Fit even if it's
like maybe it's in your car outside of work before
you go in during that transition. Time maybe it's before
you walk in the door at. Night maybe it's sometime for,
ME i have about a seven minute drive from my
office to. HOME i use that time to just kind
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of calm. Down, now on the way, THERE i might ramp,
UP i might listen to more energetic music or get
myself in a state of like serving and being more.
Energetic but then on the way, HOME i got to
do the. OPPOSITE i have to like calm myself. DOWN
i just dealt, with you, know stay fifty different conversations
at the office and making decisions and helping people and all.
THAT i got to move out of that, mode that
(44:06):
kind of quote unquote doctor mode and move into husband,
mode move into father. Mode so we want to switch.
Hats we want to switch those modes from home from,
work from, play so that you can take that time
to just pause and reflect it and kind of switch
switch gears there and then lastly here and maybe most
importantly reframing. Urgency most things aren't actual. Emergencies LIKE i
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had a second grade, teacher if you raise your, hands
she would say blood her, Gut and what she meant
by that was, like unless you're, bleeding you your guts
are hanging. Out don't ask me a, question which is,
Funny but what she taught me at a young age
is that most things are not. Emergencies, so, GUYS i
hope this show has helped you have a blessed.
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All Right, guys, welcome back to another week Maximized Living
Radio with your host, Doctor Greg O'Neil. Today, I'm going
to be talking about the time for change, that the
time for change is now, and that you making your
decisions every day, even if you're not making a decision
for your health, is still making a decision for your health.
And I have talked about this before, but I just
(00:40):
can't emphasize how important this is lately. Kind of my
reasoning behind this, I've had quite a few newer patients
come in in the last few weeks, and the theme
has just been that they are amazed at how much
better they're doing and how much better they're feeling. Just
amazed even after a few quick adjustments. That I have
(01:02):
a woman who comes in. Her name's Brenda. She's in
her early sixties, and she was dealing with very bad
neck and shoulder pain. Like so like think your neck,
your upper back into the front of her shoulders, just
like stiffness, soreness, And people don't realize how much that
just lays a tool on your body. Is that when
(01:24):
your spine is not moving, your brain does not like that.
Your brain actually gets stressed out. And when your brain
gets stressed out, that's going to lead to your brain
sending messages of stress to the rest of your body.
So everything kind of it reinforces what's going on. You
tighten up more, you feel more stressed, and the hormones
start changing as far as cordisol, then you're not going
(01:45):
to sleep as well. You're not going to feel as relaxed,
You're gonna feel more heightened, you're gonna feel more anxious.
The issue becomes is that we're so used to how
we feel we don't know any different. So you could
work on a computer and it could be the computer
you've worked on for years, and someone could say, well,
have you ever thought about upgrading your computer to a
(02:07):
new you know, increase the RAM, increase the speed, increase
your memory. And if you've only worked on one computer,
you're like, why do I need to do that? It's
working just fine. Then if you were to hop on
a different computer, one that was new and fast and
had more storage and ram and everything like that. You'd
be like, oh, my goodness, to how fast this is?
If everything loads faster, saves faster, processing faster. You don't
(02:31):
know until you experience something different, Just like being in
a car. How do you know you're in a kind
of a crappy car until you drive in a nice car.
Because someone could say, oh, you'd love the people say
to me, you'd love the handling of a BMW. Okay,
so I don't. I don't drive a BMW or drive
a Honda. I could just say, well, my Honda is fine.
It handle's just fine. Now if I went and test
(02:53):
drove a BMW or drove someone else's BMW, maybe I
would like the handling of that car. Does that make sense?
Won't we get used to our body? So right now
people are listening to this. You're used to dealing with
baseline headaches and tension and stiffness and pain, and then
because of that, your brain gets stressed and that leads
(03:15):
to poor sleep, anxiousness, shallow breathing, just overall tension in
your chest and in your back. But because that becomes
your baseline where your new normal, and by the way.
Didn't that term just get ruined by COVID. Remember everyone's
fan new normal. I was like, that's my term. Don't
use it for a negative like that. So that becomes
(03:36):
your new normal of just not feeling good and you
don't know any different. But then when you switch and
you do something different, that's when good things happen. So
for Brenda, who I was talking about, just spoke with
her the other day. She's like, I can't tell you
how much how happy I am when I leave your office,
how much better I feel? And I can just feeling
her back. The muscles are more relaxed, everything's looser. I'm like,
(03:59):
your spine is feeling great. And she say, hey, you
wouldn't believe I'm sleeping better, My energy is better. I
just feel more uplisted, better mood. Everything improves when your
muscular skeletal system is healthy. I can't express that enough.
And some of you listening to this you may not
believe me. You may think, oh, that's easy for him
to say he's running an advertiser on a radio show. Guys,
(04:20):
this isn't just something I talk about. This is something
I lived myself. I'm a chiropractic patient myself. Not only
am I a chiropractor. I've been adjusted since I was
thirteen years old. I know the difference between someone who
gets adjusted and someone who doesn't. I've been in practice
for over thirteen years now. I see it every single day,
(04:41):
And probably the hardest part of my job is people
who don't want to take that step, who admit they
have an issue. They say, I'm dealing with X, Y
and Z, but they're just giving up on the inside
and maybe even on the outside, and letting life just
steamroll them. And then those same people they back away
instead of stepping forward, they step back, and you start
(05:04):
giving up things like gardening or walking or golfing or
running or pickleball or all your activities, and it just
inch by inch, little by little by little by little,
you start to turn yourself into a person who's neglected
their spine, who's totally lost their health and honestly is
on the road to disability. Look at the number of
(05:26):
people who end up with knee surgeries and hip surgeries
and back surgeries and shoulder surgeries and neck surgeries and
get injections. How the heck is this happening? Why? Why
is this happening because you're not taking care of yourself.
You're not addressing root causes of problems. You're medicating it,
you're ignoring it. You're thinking that it's just going to
go away on its own. Newsflash spoiler alert, it ain't
(05:49):
gonna happen. These problems without being corrected get worse. You're
not any more special than the next person who had
to have surgery. I'm not any more special than anyone else.
We're given this body, this amazing healing power in our
body that's designed. Our bodies designed to heal. But if
we don't take care of ourselves, it will break down. Okay,
(06:12):
So you think of like like look at it, like
your lawn and your lawn, your grass. It should be
nice and green. And when there's proper nutrition, when there's
proper water, when there's sunshine, the grass is green. It's healthy. Okay,
when things are neglected, or if there's a drought, or
if there's a nutritional issue or there's other problems going on,
(06:33):
the grass is gonna turn brown. So what color do
you want the grass to be of your life? You
want it to be green and vibrant. So the grass
needs to be watered now I love this saying, and
I hope that it sticks with someone listening to this today.
And I have this actually at a pillow you know
when you go to like those like home goods stores,
(06:54):
And I think it's a wife's job to buy like
five thousand pillows, like all these throw pillows. Like if
a guy had a house on his own, Like if
I lived on my own, I don't think there'd be
any extra pillows. I might have like one on the
couch and one in the bed, and that would be it.
But women have to have Like why is that the
have like five thousands. But I did see one that
(07:14):
I like, and it says this. It says, the grass
is greener where you water it, you know, the saying
the grass is greener on the the grass is always
greener on the other side. People always looking elsewhere. And
I take that as like people looking at their health.
It's like, Okay, once I retire, once I get the
kids in school or out of school, or once I
get through this, and people just kind of push through,
(07:35):
push through, push through, and then all of a sudden
they wake up one day and they're on different medications
or they're doing all these different pain and they say,
if I could only just get to this thing, get
to this event, then life will change in my life
will be better. And that's not true. Okay, So the
saying the grass is greener on the other side, that's
a false thing. So what I like to say is
(07:57):
the grass is greener where you walk. So it takes intentions,
It takes you watering the grass of your life, taking
care of your health, being conscious of the decisions that
you're making on a day to day basis, so that
you can see the fruits start to bear in your life.
But it can be good fruit, you know, Biblically, good
(08:18):
trees bear good fruit. Bad trees bear bad fruit. It's
the same thing with ourselves. Now, obviously that's talking from
a spiritual aspect, the fruit of our the fruit of
the spirit. What I'm talking about from a health aspect
is that when you take care of yourself, take care
of the soil of your body, then you're going to
grow good things, positive things, and that you feel energy
(08:41):
and you sleep well, and you wake up and you're
not stiff, but you actually feel flexible and loose and
you feel youthful. One of the most common things people
say is well I'm getting old, and all I change
is now you star to argue with people, Oh, you're
not getting old, blah blah blah blah. Now I just
say no, you're not getting old, you're feeling old, and
they're like, yeah, you're right. I have not one person
(09:02):
arguing back on this. You're not getting old, you're feeling old.
There's a big difference because there's people your age that
are feeling a lot worse and there's also people your
age that are feeling a lot better. And after the
break I'll talk about you don't want to totally base your
health on how you feel, but that's another topic. So
stay tuned.
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Victory Guy, for all that this is the time for change.
You have to change now, not now, not five years,
not ten years, not next month, not next season, right now.
When's the best time to plant a tree is twenty
years ago. The next best time is today. The issue, though,
is that we have intentions. Intentions are like our little
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motivations that we get that we want to do something,
But it's doing it That's that's the issue, right So
there's a law. It's called the law of diminished intent.
So what it says is that the longer you wait
to act on something you know you should do, the
less likely you are ever to do it. So you've
had those moments before you feel motivated, you feel convicted,
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You're like, this is it. I need to change, Like
January first, I'm losing this weight. This is gonna happen.
Or I have this fact and I'm getting this taken
care of. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm
gonna get in shape, I'm gonna go to physical therapy,
I'm gonna go to the chiroproductor I'm gonna eat healthy.
But what happens is is that you wait, you think
about it, you talk yourself out of it, or you
try it for a little bit and you quit. And
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then that urgency that you once felt that felt so
real and you're right there, you're excited, you're motivated, it
fades out and then the window closes. It's not random.
It's kind of like how we're wired from a human
psychology perspective, is that our brain is always like, what
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are you doing for me lately? Like it wants the
next best thing. It's how our brain is kind of
set up, so it's kind of like it's part of
our superpower and our super weakness at the same time.
I would say that human beings our greatest superpower is
the ability to adapt. Like you look at people who
are completely impoverished or grew up in really tough childhoods
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or had a tough go at life, and you see
people who are still grateful and thankful and resilient and
are able to push through. Because our body in some ways,
in some ways has a long memory and that we
can hold on to trauma and emotional issues and things
of that nature. But it also has the ability to
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heal and to move on, to forgive. That's a truly
human quality. So what we have to do it all
comes down to this is just you have to act
on the nudges that you get now throughout and that
takes a few things. Number one, it takes being conscious
of that, listening to your body not getting sucked into
the busy, busy, busy rat race of society of the
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go go go. And I get it, trust me. I
have three young children. They have to be I take
them to school, they go to private school. I don't
take them on the bus, we drive them, we pick
them up. I have a youngest child at the time
recording this is in preschool where we drop the kids
off at eight am. She gets picked up at eleven
thirty am. Then we go back and pick up the
boys at three pm. So there's a lot of that.
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Then on top of that, there's kids' sports and activities,
and then there's our own extracurriculars. And we have a business.
I have eight employees, I have over a thousand active patients.
I have a radio show. I have all these different obligations. Okay,
and there's people listening to this your life. You have
a lot more going on than me, And there's some
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people you're like, well, I don't have as much going
on with that. What's my excuse. I'm not trying to
make it about that. All I'm trying to say is
we all got stuff going on. We all fill up
our weeks, we all fill up our days. Heck. I
talk to people I know them personally who are retired,
and they're like the busiest people that I know. Their
schedule is full, their schedule is booked out, their days
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are booked like it doesn't matter about okay, once I retire,
or once the kids are out of school, or once
the summer starts, or once the school starts, or whatever
else excuse we can use or event, it has to be.
The change we have to make is now is we
can't wait, We can't wait, We can't wait till life
slows down, till life's not busy anymore, because news slash
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talk to anybody at any age, life doesn't really slow down. Now,
things can change. Maybe when you retire there's a little
less urgency with time, or maybe you have a little
more flexibility or control our freedom. But why wait until
you're sixty seven, seventy years old to start taking care
of your health? Why not take care of it now?
And in my personal opinion, my clinical opinion is people
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tend to wreck their health in their I would say
late twenties, but really in their thirties and their forties.
Why because that's when people are at maximum response. There's
a lot of output, whether it's children, whether it's job,
whether it's go, go go. It tends to be that
age group that I tend to see. Now, am I
a little biased because I am in that age group? Probably?
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But I can tell you one thing. When I was
a teenager, or when I was in college, or when
I was before I had children, I can tell you
from a personal standpoint, I had a lot more time
on my hands. Now, Did I use that time wisely
and fill it up wisely? No? I did not, of
course not. I'm like, looking back before kids, I'm like,
I should have written like a whole series of books.
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I should have like I should be a published author
or something with all the time that I had, But
it gets filled up by other stuff. Right. The other one,
I believe it's called Parkinson's principle, is that the time
allotted to perform an activity will always be filled up.
So what does that even mean? If you give yourself
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two hours to get ready in the morning, you're gonna
take two hours to do it. If you wake up
like you snooze past the alarm and you wake up,
you're like, oh my goodness, I have ten minutes to
get ready. Guess what you're gonna do it in ten minutes.
You're going to figure it out. So the time allotted
to perform an activity will always be filled. So what
we want to do is is schedule ourselves out and
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have some wiggle rooms so that we can have time
to take care of ourselves. So this is called being structured.
It's called having a plan, it's called having a schedule.
And yes, I realize this may sound a little like
I'm patronizing or paternalizing people, but I'm telling you it's huge.
It's huge for a lot of people. Like it's a
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lot of times it's basic life skills that can get
in our way. And I'm and I'm also talking to
myself here as well, So just just letting you know. Now,
I call this the like the war plan, getting yourself
ready for the week, like just those things that you
know you need to do. You've heard this analogy before, probably,
but it bears repeating. Where you have the professor asked
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the students, he has like a jar, and he has
the golf balls, and then he has the rocks like
the pebbles, and then he has the sand, and it
looks like a lot and he's like, how would you
fill up the jar? And now, if you fill up
in the sand, the jar is going to fill up
right away. If you start with the pebbles, it's the
same thing. So what happens is that the golf balls
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represent those big obligations in your life. So for me,
it would be like, okay, career, it would be, you know,
getting the kids to school, like the things that I
can't mess I can't just like wake up one day
and be like, you know what, I'm not bringing the
kids to school today. That's called an obligation. It has
to be done. Okay, I have to get I have
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patients that I'm seeing at seven fifteen in the morning.
Guess what I have to be there, all right. Also
I would add in family with that too, the other pillar.
It's like, okay, it's time to be with my family now,
or we're going to schedule family time or like a
vacation or something like that. That needs to be done too,
because your kids, grandkids, they need your time as well,
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and your energy and your focus and your attention. And
so those are like the golf wells, So they go
in first. Those are your big big items. Then you
have like the pebbles or the smaller rocks that can
go around that are more flexible. They can go in
between and underneath you can hear what I'm talking about.
So that would be the things like okay, your hobbies, exercise,
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your health, you know, time to take care of yourself.
Maybe it's other things like time to get ready in
the morning, driving to work, like all these different things
that are important, but they're also like more variable. Okay,
you can change it a little bit. It's a little
more fluid. Then you have the things in your life
that are like sand. Now, sand can can move and shift,
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They can fit in any nook and cranny. You could
pour the sand on top of the golf balls and
the rocks, and it's going to find its way through.
That would be things like entertainment, cell phone use, evus,
computer use. I'm talking about things that are like you
don't need to do on a daily basis, but you do.
It's for entertainment purposes. Okay, you probably see where I'm
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getting at here. Is that many people are putting the
sand in the jar. First is that their time is
being sucked down by entertainment and I'll even say mindless entertainment,
being on the phone, social media, YouTube, TikTok, instagram, Facebook,
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I mean, you name it. It's that's going to fill
your time and that's going to prevent those other pillars
and other building blocks of your life from being a priority.
So you have to have your priorities right and in
the right order. So the right order is like, again, hey,
your obligations, the things you must do that you have
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to be there for, that has to come first. Okay.
Then it's like okay, And your health should be like
right there, guys. Then it's like, okay, my free time,
it's like okay, going to the gym, going for a walk.
And I'm not saying those things aren't as important like
your health, but it's a little more fluid. You can
schedule it like I can work out at the start
of the day, but if I miss it, I can
go at the end of the day or the middle
of the day. Does that make sense versus like for
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work in school pickups like those times they're set in stone, okay.
And then the last the funny part of this whole
analogy is that the professor puts in the golf balls
of the big things in life, the pebbles smaller things
in life, flew with things, and then the sand, and
then at the end he goes and everyone has time
for a beer, and then he pours a beer on
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top of that. So I think that's funny. Maybe an
organic beer, gluten free beer. But yeah, it's the point
of that is that you also have to take time,
like for a vacation, getting away, resetting yourself. Because the
next thing I want to talk about, just at the
end of this segment, moving into the next segment, is
this phenomenon called hurry sickness. Curry sickness is that you
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you look at people and I'm trusting I'm if my
wife was here when you talk about as like, are
you seriously going to teach people on this? But hey,
it's from personal experience. Okay, who who better to teach
you about hurry sickness than doctor Grey O'Neil. I'm I'm
telling you because I'm I have to manually hit the
brakes from my body my mind to like to slow
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down into like what's what's coming next, what's the next thing.
So here's a few signs of hurry sickness. Well I'll
talk tell about what it is and after BAK we'll
talk about those signs. So hurry sickness is basically, like you,
your nervous system, your body is attuned to doing everything
as fast as possible, as quickly as possible, as efficient
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as possible, as convenient as possible. And so whether that's
going to get groceries, whether that's going shopping, whether that's
going to the gym, whether that's being at work. Unfortunately,
this can bleed in and over into relationships. How you
talk to people, how you listen or not listen to people.
Are you waiting to speak versus listening to what someone's
actually saying? And this hurry sickness becomes this phenomenon of
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just what's next, How can we get this done and
move on to the next thing, And that steals presence
in your present moments. So stay tuned, we'll talk about that.
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Today I'm talking about time for change. I want to
talk about now a phenomenon that I'm very familiar with
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that I probably deal with on an ongoing basis. You know,
sometimes I catch I have to catch myself and I'll
go through kind of my regulation strategies with this too.
But it's a phenomenon called hurry sickness. I was talking
a little bit about it before. What it means is
that hurry sickness is the constant sense of urgency, a
feeling like you're always behind, always rushing, and you're never
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able to slow down even when there's no real deadline,
your body and mind act like there is. I'm gonna
repeat that again, Herry, sickness is a constant sense of urgency,
feeling like you're always behind, You're always rushing, and you're
never able to slow down, even when there's no real deadline.
That's the key one. Your body and mind act like
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there is. It's not just being busy, it's being internally
driven to rush all the time. So here's some signs
that you have it. Oh my gosh, my wife would
last this. You're gonna look in the mirror here. Impatient
in lines, traffic or with people talking slowly. Now the
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people talking slowly. To give myself some cred I've been
a little better with that. I think thirteen years of
being a chiropractor, I've gotten better of allowing people, not
finishing people's sentences for them, allowing them to speak. Getting
a little better with that. Yes, okay, I will admit
I am impatient in lines. I don't know what people
are doing. One example is if you ever go to
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the Giant Center in Hershey, like I've gone. Recently. I
went to Disney on Ice with my daughter, and I
don't know. You know, when you go to park and
there's like those parking attendants and you drive up. What
are people doing out there? Are they telling them their
life story? Are they like asking for directions? I'm not kidding.
People sit there for like a minute or two and
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maybe it feels like that or thirty seconds whatever, and
I'll drive up. I have the parking like I have,
I'm prepaid parking. I got prepaid parking ahead of time.
I go up, I got my QR code out, and
then I just drive off literally less than five seconds.
And then I'm like, what what are they doing? What's happening?
Now here's my other gripe. Then I'll get to the positives.
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You're at a red light. It's a long red light.
Like I'm bringing my kids to school. There is a deadline,
got to get there, leave on time, all that stuff.
You're sitting there and we have this one intersection. If
you're familiar with the lid Its Pike at all, there's
an intersection in Neftsville. It's called the Neftsville four Corners
of the Neftville Light. My kids call it the crazy
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light because going east to west, they it's like trimmed down.
Going north and south, it's a longer green light, which
I understand there's more traffic, but east to west at
rush hour getting the kids to school and stuff, it
gets very backed up, very busy. Now coming one way,
there's an advanced green, but on the way to school
there's not an advanced green, so you're getting even shorter
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amount of time. So you can be sitting there. I'm
not joking, like a good two minutes. You know, you're
sitting there waiting for the light to turn green. You're
behind four or five people, and the first person in line,
what's their only job in the world. When the light
turns green, you go. You move your butt and you
start moving because it's your job, your responsibility is your
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obligation to get that line moving. And people will sit
there and they've already waited for five minutes themselves, and
I'm like, what the heck, come on, Okay, that's my
gripe on that. So, yes, I do have hurry sickness.
I'm trying to improve. So if you're ahead of me
in a green light, just please go. I also have
to be careful too, because I got my way to
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the office. I always think like sometimes there could be
a patient and this has happened before. There's like a
patient in front of me, patient behind me. I'm like,
I can't be laying on the horn and tailgating people here.
I got to just relax so that helps me to
go to breathe. All right, constantly here's another sign of
hurry sickness. This is this is a big one. Constantly
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checking your phone or clock. I'm getting getting better at
that couple things for that. I deleted YouTube off my phone,
I've deleted social media, so that like urge to want
to check my phone. That's gone down drastically. All right,
here's another sign you have it. Multi It's like tasking everything,
even meals or conversations like Okay, I'm going to eat
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and watch TV or I'm gonna eat and talk. I'm
gonna eat while I do this zoom call. And that multitasking,
especially with food is not good, especially for children. No
technology for kids are going to emphasize that, especially for kids,
especially when they're little, with food, because it leads to
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a disregulation between their brain and their gut. Because your
brain should be in what what should it be focused on?
When you're eating, digesting your food, releasing saliva and enzymes
from the pancreas or the gallbladder, all these different things.
But instead you're focusing on watching Bluey or some show
for a child, and that's going to cause dysregulation and
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it also leads to addiction as well. Here's one feeling
anxious when you have nothing to do, when life finally
calms down, when there's finally like a break in the schedule,
Do you feel anxious? Do you feel like, okay, what
do I do now? That can be a sign of
hurry sickness finishing other people's sentences. My wife quickly beat
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that ahead of me. So my wife, you know, I
love her very much. We're very different in how we communicate.
So when I tell a story, I usually try to
get to the punchline quickly, especially if it's something like
a little urgent where I'm sharing something important with someone,
because I don't like to leave people on the edge
of their seat. Like, for example, if I'm saying, like, okay,
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a problem happened with the kids, I usually start out
with just you know, everything's okay, no one's hurt, but
here's what happened today. I usually do that so that
I don't freak that person out. Now, my wife she
would say he would go on a whole long She
doesn't like this word. I use the word be labored
explanation of an event. And then I'm sitting there thinking,
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like there's been times where I'm like Kristal, like, can
you is everything okay? Like are the kids? Did their
arms get chopped off? It's something She's like, oh no, no, no,
this just happened at the store. And then this happened.
I'm like, okay, whew, And then I've gotten the can
you please listen to me. I'll get to the point
where I'm want to get to it. So yeah, don't
for husbands out there, do not finish your wife's sentences.
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This is not good, okay. Being irritated by small delays
and another sign of hurry sickness is always thinking about
the next thing instead of the current moment. Guilty is
charged that one's tough now for me going away on vacation,
and I think part of this is human nature. I'm
not trying to excuse myself at all, but you plan
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a big vacation, you're excited, right, it can be hard
and I'm like a big kid on vacation, like I
got the Hawaiian shirts. I got the dad's shoes. I'm excited.
Like people say, do you have a hard time going
away vacation? Do you like think about work? And I'm like, no,
I love going away. It's so much fun getting on
the plane, getting on the road, trip wherever else. Like
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it's just that anticipation, like getting on the road, seeing
the road in front of you. It's just fun. It's
a fun feeling. But but that feeling is fun that day.
But it can't be. It can't be all the time.
It can't be like the two weeks leading out that
you have all these you know, all this anxiety and
all this thinking about okay to vacation. And again that's
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where my wife is good with that, helping me with
that poor decision making, so reacting instead of thinking. So,
how this affects your life is that when you have
for a sickness, it's going to lead to you making
poor decisions because you're just in like reaction mode and
that not only affects the decisions that you're making, but
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it's also going to affect your body and stress in
your body. So stay tuned, we'll talk about that.
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DAY i THINK i shouldn't just cut off my heag
in one. Bage this has been a fun show for
me to record Because i'm kind of looking at myself
in the mirror with this. ONE i am a patient as.
Well i'm a working uh working in uh work in
progress as. Well so, yeah, anyways talking about time for
change and the things that get in a way of us.
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Changing now the second half of the, Show i've been
talking about a concept called hurry. Sickness so, again hurry
sickness is a constant sense of. Urgency it feels like
you're always, behind always rushing or never able to slow,
down and even when there's no real, dayadline your body
and mind act like there. Is and this leads to
poor decision making because your body's in this like reactive reactive.
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Mode think of like young young. Parents, Now i'm you,
know my kids are nine years time recording, this nine years,
old six year, old four years, Old so, like, yes
life is busy and full and all, that but, honestly
it's it gets a little. Easier like they can get
up and kind of get themselves dressed and you, know
go to the bathroom on their, own wape themselves on their.
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Own like even just the little things like. That if
you've been a parent, before you, know like just that
little bit that they can do on their own is
like such a big deal for the. Parents So I'm
i'm not even talking about me with. This i'm talking
about parents of really young, kids like when they're babies
or when they're like toddlers all running around and you
you can see that parent they are just on, guard
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like they're you, know they're they're ready to, Pounce like
if the toddler going to run, away did the baby
just poop their? Diaper is this going on to that going,
on there's a lot of balls up in the air
that can lead to like poor decision. Making then if
you're to walk up to that person and be, Like,
okay here's this mathematical, equation go ahead and do this right,
now or go do this, test how are they going
to do on? That there'll Be i've said this a million.
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Times when my kids are really, YOUNG i, said, WHAT
i can't even think. Straight you hear yourself saying mail,
LIKE i can't even handle what's going. ON i can't
even think. Straight AND i say to my, kids, please
just once you buckle your seat, belts once you're in the,
car Then i'll be able to think because you're so
focused on that next. Task, now this can be not
just for, parenting but this can be any aspect of
like you have a busy, job you have a lot
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going on at home or at, work or with, finances
and all these things that are happening with deadlines and.
Whatnot your mind just gets flooded with these, hormones the
main one being, cortisol which is a stress. Hormone and
for a short amount of time that's, okay but when
it's elevated, elevated, elevated that's going to lead to severe
problems within your. Body so that leads to just you, know.
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Hurry sickness is linked to health, decline so it's linked
to heart, issues, tension, fatigue, stiffness and. Pain i'll just
elaborate on that a little. Bit when people have constant
tension in their. SHOULDERS i see this a lot again
with young, mothers mothers who are either, pregnant have little,
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babies have, toddlers just this chronic rest in their. NECK
i call it mom, neck where their head comes, forward
their shoulders around, forward not just from breastfeeding and nursing
and holding a, child but being like on, guard sleeping
in weird, positions not sleeping as much as they, should
being tired, out just being on guard puts a lot
(36:40):
of tension in the. Neck here's another, one decreased, Presence
so feeling like you're missing moments with your, spouse with your,
kids with your. Family and that's one that's hard and
something That i've experienced before in the. Past i've definitely
taken taken steps from myself of, regulation Which i'll talk
about here. Minute but that's hard when you look back
(37:03):
at your life and you're, like, man that was just
WHAT i don't want to say to. Myself you, know
in ten years WHEN i look, back is just, Like,
wow what a. Blur that just was a. Blur do
you ever hear people say, That they're, like that was
just a blur of a, week or a whirlwind of a,
day or a blur of a, month or that just
went by so quick or so. Slow and that usually
(37:25):
means that you're not present whenever you feel like or
WHENEVER i should, say WHENEVER i feel like time is
going by too fast or too. Slow that Means i'm
focused on the time and not on actually being in
time that makes, sense like being WHERE i, am and
then obviously that's going to then lead TO i think
the worst one out of this list is reduced. Joy
(37:46):
life starts to feel like a checklist instead of something to.
Experience and that's so hard for me to read Because
i've experienced that in my life And i've experienced that even,
recently and that's SOMETHING i don't want to. Do we
all don't want. That the life is starting to feel
like a checklist of just like check this, day check that,
day instead of, like, OKAY i want to. EXPERIENCE i
(38:08):
want to be, here and why do we have to
go away in order to experience? That why do we
have to have a new? Experience why can't we do
it now in our own. Life, well there's steps that
you can do to do, this and these are some
That i've incorporated in my own. Life So i'll go
through some of these steps and just elaborate on the
ones That i've used. Personally so steps to correct hurry
sickness is to build margin within your, schedule like stop
(38:32):
scheduling back to back. Everything just schedule maybe one thing a.
Day i've heard retirees say this a, lot And i'll
give this advice to also young. Parents young moms, especially is,
like for a young mom that has, baby if you
can just get your teeth brushed by twelve pm by,
noon you're doing. Great you're doing. Great so you can
(38:54):
brush your teeth by twelve, noon you're doing amazing with
all that you're dealing with with young. Kids, now for,
Retirees i'll often hear it Said they're, LIKE i used
to plan you, know, five, six seven things a. Day
NOW i just plan, one, Okay so it's like just
think of it like. This if you're retired or. Whatever
maybe one thing in the, morning one thing in the,
afternoon and then you don't have, to you, know focus
(39:15):
on that as much for the busy. Busy, now for
those of us who are in that busy season of,
life there's a lot going. On MAYBE i have a
demanding job with deadlines and everything like, that maybe try
not to add extra. Stuff, Now, AGAIN i have my own.
Issues my wife is infamous for adding in a lot of.
Stuff my wife is amazing at scheduling and managing employees
(39:38):
and doing all that. Stuff but she would even admit
that she can sometimes overschedule herself or over commit herself
to all the. Responsibilities and a lot of Times i'll
be the one there and she does this with me
in other areas of just hitting the break of, like,
hey let's just focus on this one thing. Today we'll
deal this with this, tomorrow and then she'll tell me
to not interrupt her all. Right next thing is doing
(40:02):
one thing at a, time and then this is HUGE
i talked. About we'll just focus on, meals like when
you eat, food just eat the. Food don't be on
your phone at the same, time don't be checking, emails
don't be finishing up on. Work don't be WATCHING tv
or a movie or anything like. THAT i understand those
things are fun to do at, times the entertainment, ASPECT
i get, that but it's really important that you train
(40:26):
your body to just be doing one thing at a
time so that it can focus on one thing at a.
Time next step is slowing your. Transitions so there's something
in life called the transition. Times, NOW i was always
taught WHEN i first got into business AND i had
mentorships and going to, seminars they would always, say it's
the transition times that are killing. You and for some,
(40:48):
people you might need to speed up your transitions in
order to be able to fill in other. Things So
i'll kind of say this with a caveat. Here for
some of us who are go go, go you, know, move, move,
move all this kind of, stuff we need to slow
down those transition times, driving, walking, speaking just those like
(41:11):
in between times to take a, breath, relax realize that
your obligation is, coming like the school pick up this,
coming or the work drop off. Whatever but you need
to just slow down a little. Bit. Now for some
of you who feel like you don't have enough time
in the day and who don't have time to exercise and.
Stuff there's areas of your, life those transition times that
you need to tighten up where it's, like, okay yes
(41:33):
it's okay to slow down a little, bit but you
don't need to now hop on your phone for half
an hour or WATCH tv or watch the, news or
School instagram or School facebook or. Whatever that's what's stealing your.
Time so you want to slow your, transitions but not
just fill up your transitions with you, know nonsense and
things that are going to steal your time from. You,
(41:53):
Okay so setting no rush zones this is really. Important
and we do this for dinner. Time so there's times
during the day where you just set it and still
like we're not rushing here where there's no. Technology number,
one no phones at the dinner, table, none especially when
you got kids, there you're setting a, president you're setting an.
Example and for adults. Too i've gone on many date
(42:15):
nights when you go to a restaurant and you see another,
couple and we've been really conscious of, this not even
bringing our phone to dinner if we have, them putting
it in our coat, pocket putting it, away putting on
an airplane mode's people are just on their phones all
the time and they're not even being present with the
person across the table from. Them so at no rush
zone means like okay for my kids at, dinner my oldest,
(42:38):
SON i don't know who he gets this, from but
he likes to eat fast and go on to the next.
THING i have no idea where he gets that, from
BUT i have to tell, him Like, michael just you,
know you can slow, down eat your. Food it's, Okay
like we're gonna all sit as a. Family we're all
going to sit as a family while each person finishes.
Up so dinner should be definitely a no rush zone
(43:00):
to just let your body calm and be, present especially
with family. Members so control inputs as the excellent living
constant phone news stimulation against, scrolling, scrolling scrolling. Scrolling all
you're doing is just reinforcing that hurry sickness in your
mind and then taking a pause that like even five
(43:23):
to ten minutes a day just. Fit even if it's
like maybe it's in your car outside of work before
you go in during that transition. Time maybe it's before
you walk in the door at. Night maybe it's sometime for,
ME i have about a seven minute drive from my
office to. HOME i use that time to just kind
(43:44):
of calm. Down, now on the way, THERE i might ramp,
UP i might listen to more energetic music or get
myself in a state of like serving and being more.
Energetic but then on the way, HOME i got to
do the. OPPOSITE i have to like calm myself. DOWN
i just dealt, with you, know stay fifty different conversations
at the office and making decisions and helping people and all.
THAT i got to move out of that, mode that
(44:06):
kind of quote unquote doctor mode and move into husband,
mode move into father. Mode so we want to switch.
Hats we want to switch those modes from home from,
work from, play so that you can take that time
to just pause and reflect it and kind of switch
switch gears there and then lastly here and maybe most
importantly reframing. Urgency most things aren't actual. Emergencies LIKE i
(44:31):
had a second grade, teacher if you raise your, hands
she would say blood her, Gut and what she meant
by that was, like unless you're, bleeding you your guts
are hanging. Out don't ask me a, question which is,
Funny but what she taught me at a young age
is that most things are not. Emergencies, so, GUYS i
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