YHATC071: Stop Taking Your Health and Life for Granted (RIP Kobe Bryant)

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Folks, your life is the most valuable asset you will ever own on this earth. It’s far more valuable than any junk food you could ever eat, so cherish it.

I recorded this podcast on January 26, 2020, the date we found out that Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and seven others tragically passed away in a helicopter accident. I had to change what I was going to originally talk about.

Transcript

Y’all, it’s January the 26th. It’s a Sunday. A few hours ago, we found out that the one that only, Kobe Bryant, passed away in a helicopter crash, one of the greatest to play the game and I don’t know. I just want to take a moment of silence here on this podcast just to I guess reflect. So, y’all just take a moment with me…

Okay. Yeah man, I still remember when Kobe Bryant was first drafted, excuse me, I still remember when he was first drafted. I guess pretty long ago now. He was only like seven years older than I am because I was still of course in school, I guess maybe middle school I want to say, so I saw his whole career. It’s just crazy. It just really makes you just think about, it makes me think about or question, “okay, what is this life thing really about?” Even with this podcast, it makes me just kind of think, “okay, so what is this stuff? What is the worth of this?”

I was going to talk about something else. I actually wrote out my talking points. But, I’m going to go ahead and just more so share what was on my heart maybe as of a couple of days ago because I think it might be more relevant in light of what happened today with Kobe and all that kind of stuff.

So yeah, so excuse me, so basically y’all, I’ve realized as a trainer, as a health person if you will, I noticed that sometimes I’m too soft. Let me explain.

So I’m really, really passionate about seeing my listeners, my followers on yourhealthatthecrossroads.com, those who follow me on Facebook, on Instagram, on Twitter. I’m really, really passionate about seeing all of you really experience the best health that you can, the best quality of life that you can, seeing you avoid preventable disease, disease caused by lifestyle, heart attacks, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, type II diabetes, kidney disease. I’m really, really passionate about that. But sometimes I’m a little passive about it as well.

But the time is really out for that, it really is. The time really is out for me…excuse me…It’s really time out for me as a trainer to even be a little bit gentle with my message because I want you guys to really understand, even in light of again of what happened with Kobe, y’all, life is so, so precious.

Life is more precious than any jewel, any precious metal, anything that you could possibly imagine, it is. It’s something to be cherished. It’s something to be highly, highly valued. And the truth is guys that we haven’t had, we haven’t really been valuing our lives very much when it comes to health, and when it comes to the things that we eat and when it comes to whether or not we’re moving our bodies.

[Excuse the dog in the background, y’all. I can’t do anything about that.It’s been out for a long time and hopefully somebody take it inside.]

But anyhow, we really haven’t been valuing our lives based on how we treat our bodies. Your body is incredibly valuable, y’all. Don’t take it for granted. Don’t take it for granted. I can’t underscore to you how much it’s important for you to realize what you have. Look, even aside from having a healthy body, a body that feels good physically, you have a purpose in life. You have a purpose, so that’s another thing I’m quick to tell you.

This health stuff for me, it’s important to me that you live healthy because I believe it’s essentially your right to do it. Everything is available here on this earth for you to live a healthy life, to have a body that runs correctly. Why? Not just for the sake of being healthy, but so that you can live out your purpose, so you can live out life the way it’s supposed to be lived. You have something to contribute to this world.

But can you contribute that to the best of your ability when your body is running like junk? No. If you’re filling yourself up with sweets, if you’re got all this artificial stuff, processed food, you’re sedentary, you’re stressed out, all of the above, you’re not living your fullest life and neither are you able to fully contribute to this world.

It’s so many different things that go on in this world. So many different people are suffering. In some cases, it’s people that you could help. But you’re having to focus so much on your health that you can’t think about anybody else. But y’all, the time is really out for that. It’s out for that.

You have an amazing body. You have an amazing purpose. Even if you feel like you don’t, trust me, you do, you do. There is a point to all of this stuff. You have a purpose. You’re here to help somebody. I’m a firm believer. My faith in God, my faith in Christ makes me a firm believer that all of us are here for a reason, and that there is more to life than just simply getting up, going to work, coming back home, eating and more or less doing that over and over again for 60 years of your life, and then that’s just it. There is more to it than that. That’s why I want you to really get this health stuff.

Please, please, please, please, I’m begging you, take your health seriously. Food is not more important than your life. Food is secondary to life. All of these different kinds of things, it’s almost like they’re distractions, the high levels of stress, the business, the junk food, even other things that distract us from taking care of our bodies. It’s all distraction, man. It’s distraction.

Please take your health seriously. Take your life seriously because it’s the most valuable thing that you have. It’s the value of your life that makes other things valuable, the time you spend with people, even the money and all that kind of stuff. Excuse me, if you didn’t have life, that stuff would not even matter. It wouldn’t matter one bit.

So I’m telling you, your health is the most valuable thing you have. Don’t make sweets more valuable than your life. Please understand that this is not a game. This is not even a matter of something that you can just spin your wheels on and just like, “Ah, I’ll take care of it sometime in the future.” Don’t treat it like that anymore, don’t, don’t. There is more to your life than always trying to lose weight. There is more to your life than always having these goals that you never reach with your health. You need to go ahead and reach them now, so that you can move on to the next thing in your life. You hear me, y’all? I may be coming off to some as hard or whatever, but it really is that serious.

Go ahead and lose the weight. Go ahead and do what you need to do to get your, hopefully to get your body off of medication. It matters, guys. It matters.

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