6 Essential Points for a Good Life – Personal Training Vancouver

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Rohn: A Good Life Contains These 6 Essentials

Here’s what we must ask constantly, “What, for me, would be a good life?” And you have to keep going over and over the list—a list including areas such as spirituality, economics, health, relationships and recreation.

So, what would constitute a good life? Jim Rohn has a short list:

1. Productivity. You won’t be happy if you don’t produce. The game of life is not rest. Yes, we must rest, but only long enough to gather strength to get back to productivity.

What’s the reason for the seasons and the seeds, the soil and the sunshine, the rain and the miracle of life? It’s to see what you can do with it—to try your hand to see what you can do.

2. Good friends. Friendship is probably the greatest support system in the world, so don’t deny yourself the time to develop it.  Nothing can match it. It’s extraordinary in its benefit.

Friends are those wonderful people who know all about you and still like you. I lost one of my dearest friends when he was 53—heart attack. As one of my very special friends, I used to say that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly, and, if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That’s a real friend—somebody who would come and get you.

And we’ve all got casual friends, friends who, if you called them, they would say, “Hey, if you get back, call me and we’ll have a party.”

You’ve got to have both real friends and casual friends.

3. Your culture. Language, music, ceremonies, traditions, dress. All of that is so vitally important that you must keep it alive. The uniqueness of all of us, when blended together, brings vitality, energy, power, influence, and rightness to the world.

4. Spirituality. It helps to form the foundation of the family that builds the nation. And make sure you study, practice and teach—don’t be careless about the spiritual part of your nature because it’s what makes us who we are, different from dogs, cats, birds and mice.

5. Don’t miss anything. My parents taught me not to miss anything, not the game, the performance, the movie, the dance. Just before my father died at 93, if you were to call him at 10:30 or 11 at night, he wouldn’t be home. He was at the rodeo, he was watching the kids play softball, he was listening to the concert, he was at church—he was somewhere every night.

Go to everything you possibly can. Buy a ticket to everything you possibly can. Go see everything and experience all you possibly can.

Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give.

6. Your family and the inner circle. Invest in them, and they’ll invest in you. Inspire them, and they’ll inspire you. Take care of the details with your inner circle.

When my father was still alive, I used to call him when I traveled. He’d have breakfast most every morning with the farmers at a little place called The Decoy Inn out in the country where we lived in Southwest Idaho.

When I was in Israel, I’d have to get up in the middle of the night, but I’d call Papa. I’d say, “Papa, I’m in Israel.” He’d say, “Israel! Son, how are things in Israel?” He’d talk real loud so everybody could hear. I’d say, “Papa, last night they gave me a reception on the rooftop underneath the stars overlooking the Mediterranean.” He’d say, “Son, a reception on the rooftop underneath the stars overlooking the Mediterranean?” Now everybody knew the story. And giving my father that special day only took five or 10 minutes.

If a father walks out of the house and he can still feel his daughter’s kiss on his face all day, he’s a powerful man. If a husband walks out of the house and he can still feel the imprint of his wife’s arms around his body, he’s invincible all day. It’s the special stuff with your inner circle that makes you strong and powerful and influential. So don’t miss that opportunity.

The prophet said, “There are many virtues and values, but here’s the greatest: one person caring for another.” There is no greater value than love.

So make sure in your busy day to remember the true purpose and the reasons you do what you do. May you truly live the kind of life that will bring the fruit and rewards that you desire.

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World Health Organization: Eating Processed Meat Increases Cancer Risk Greatly – Personal Training Vancouver

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Now that the International Agency for Research on Cancer has confirmed a link between processed meat and colorectal cancer, you might be reconsidering what’s in your lunch bag.

Here’s what you should know before you eat your next meal:

1. Processed meat definitely boosts risk of colorectal cancer

The International Agency for Research on Cancer found a definitive link between eating processed meat and developing colorectal cancer, as processing causes chemicals linked to cancer. The working group of 22 experts feels so confident in its findings that it has classified processed meats in the same category as tobacco and asbestos — a substance that definitively causes cancer.

That’s likely because the salting and curing of meat creates cancer-causing chemicals like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), according to the IARC’s article published in the medical journal the Lancet Oncology Monday.

2. Level of risk depends on how much processed meat you eat

Eating 50 grams — two slices of bacon — each day boosts your risk of colorectal cancer by 18 per cent, according to the findings. The researchers found a “statistically significant dose-response relationship” between the consumption of processed meats and colorectal cancer.

“These findings further support current public health recommendations to limit intake of meat,” Dr. Christopher Wild, the IARC’s director said Monday.

But the agency doesn’t say how much meat is safe; they’re leaving that up to governments to recommend.

3. Eating processed meat not as dangerous as smoking

To put the findings in perspective, it’s important to understand that about seven per cent of Canadian men and six per cent of Canadian women will develop colorectal cancer in their lifetimes, according to the Canadian Cancer Society.

So, starting from there, an average Canadian man who eats a 50-gram serving of ham each day boosts his risk of getting colorectal cancer to about 8.26 per cent — an increase of 18 per cent from a person’s baseline risk. And, theoretically, it would be a little lower since the baseline figure of seven per cent would already include people who eat processed meat.

Other risks that can predispose someone to colon cancer include having inflammatory bowel disease, a family history of the illness, age, smoking and certain genetic conditions.

Smoking, on the other hand, increases someone’s risk of developing lung cancer by about 25 times — or 2,500 per cent, according to Cancer Research UK.

4. Jury’s still out on red meat — and it depends how it’s cooked

While the IARC researchers are satisfied of the link between processed meat and cancer, they are less confident about the role red meat plays in cancer risk.

“Chance, bias and confounding could not be ruled out … since no clear association was seen in several of the high quality studies and [the influence] from other diet and lifestyle risk is difficult to exclude.”

Researchers ruled red meat as “possibly carcinogenic” — and found that the way in which meat is cooked could increase the amount of cancer-causing agents in it. High-heat cooking like barbecuing is more likely to produce higher amounts of carcinogenic chemicals, like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, the Lancet article says.

5. 34,000 cancer deaths each year could be blamed on processed meat, researchers say

The Global Burden of Disease Project suggested that 34,000 global cancer deaths each year are connected to diets rich in processed meat, according to the IARC.

On the other hand, about one million cancer deaths are attributed to smoking and 600,000 due to drinking alcohol, Reuters reports.