Introduction: A Large number of Laws
Most educated people have heard of God's laws (contentious, confusing, conflicting and confounding), the law of Gravity, the law of Thermodynamics, the law of the Land, Parkinson's law, Murphy's law and so on. The majority are named after Mcdougal of a succinct observation described by the law. Laws range from A (i.e., Aitken's law - describes how vowel length is conditioned by environment) to Z (Zipf's law - a linguistic observation a few words are utilized often but the majority are used rarely).
As the wellness field grows and evolves, perhaps it's time for a REAL wellness law-or many such laws. If that's the case, why don't you associate as much as possible with one's own name?
Grandiose, perhaps, but if I don't take action, somebody else surely will and that person just might produce a mess of it. Wellness in corporate America and elsewhere on earth is described and presented in wildly inappropriate and dysfunctional ways; why don't you eradicate the babble with a couple of transformative REAL wellness laws? Such laws, if they seem sensible and lead humanity to sounder thinking, might well contribute modestly to improved health and life outcomes.
In addition, one does not need to formulate a law that's named in his/her honor or even know about a law to be afflicted with and to call home relating with it. Attorney We have all complied with Galileo and Newton's laws about gravity, prior to we became conscious of them.
Anyone who wants a law to bear his / her name should present some credentials. Mine are modest, simple but adequate for the honor. As of this writing, I've written 15 books, posted well over a lot of essays at Seekwellness.com/wellness, 74 eight to twelve-page hard copy wellness reports commencing in 1984, 657 weekly electronic REAL wellness newsletters, at the least a lot of lecture presentations in twelve countries while spending 43 years (since 1970) dreaming about the ways to and odds of vastly improved environments and cultures for greater health and happiness.
Which has generated this moment-the time when I offer the universe Ardell's two laws of REAL wellness.
Ardell's 1st Law of REAL Wellness: Random Chance, Natural Selection and Contingencies Trump All Else
Life's largest events often follow random, seemingly inconsequential small actions of which we remain unaware.
Secular rational freethinkers place stock in knowledge, commitment, reason and persistence in shaping and fine-tuning lifestyle habits. We embrace perspectives and behaviors on matters existential and otherwise designed to render positive states of enjoyment and well-being. We consciously seek happiness, freedom, physical fitness, love, mutually satisfying relationships and multiple skills. What matters most, what affects our successes and outcomes, appears more or less to be under our field of control. Alas, this functional and preferred means of thinking is essentially illusory. There are three far more consequential realities not under your influence in any way. Furthermore, these three factors render the quality and duration of your existence unpredictable and unknowable. They are: 1) random chance or fortune; 2) natural selection; and 3) contingencies.
Ardell's 2nd Law of REAL Wellness: Relative to Ardell's 1st Law of REAL wellness, other REAL wellness laws don't amount to much.
Thinking about the immense black hole power of the first law, additional such laws play a small role in efforts to shape life quality and longevity.
But, that does not obviate the case for added laws of REAL wellness lawyer. The truth is that most of the eponymous laws on the books are useless to many people but are yet of interest and even helpful for a few. I'm in my eighth decade; I'm not conscious of any occasion when I might have benefited from an awareness of Aitken's law or Zipf's law. I heard of neither until I started the research for this essay. Ditto a great deal of other laws.
Relative to the 1st law above, this law and the ones that follow do not amount to much. Nevertheless, I hereby give you a few more, just the same. They can't hurt.
Ardell's 3rd Law of REAL Wellness: Finding your passion is okay but keep going-become great at it.
Since few people enjoy royal lineage or handsome trusts that assure first-class travel in life with little or no dependence on labor, we must choose trades of sorts to pay our way through life. Thus, we're wise to adopt a long-term goal of studying and laboring at a trade which will prove enjoyable and satisfying, in addition to properly remunerative.
When this challenge is met, your means of earning a full time income won't seem like work.
Thus the next law - master a passion. Start by following varied interests and, after years and years or even decades of trial and error, settle into one of them, immersing yourself in it.
Be somewhat realistic but guard against premature realism-while not anyone can get elected, maintain the movies or play in the NBA or NFL, a select few can. Focus about what excites talents and gifts. Put in the time necessary to qualify for Carnegie Hall (i.e., practice, practice, practice-take account of Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 hours rule).
The goal here's that sooner or later in your career somebody, somewhere, for some good or strange reason, can pay you to do everything you enjoy doing-because you're so spectacular at whatever it is you've honed to a level of artful mastery.
Robert Frost expressed the idea of this law in his poem "Two Tramps in Mud Time:"
My goal in life is to unite my vocation
with my avocation.
As my two eyes make one in sight.
For only where love and need are one
And work is play for mortal stakes
Could be the deed ever really done
For heaven's and future's sake.
Ardell's 4th Law of REAL Wellness: Safer to chase after fun than to flee from pain.
Forget a whiff of prevention. That may indeed be worth a pound of cure, but a good grain of REAL wellness may be worth a lot of prevention. Prevention is indeed old school-it's vintage medical thinking focused upon avoiding negative outcomes. Furthermore, there's no fun in working whilst not to have a negative outcome.
In place of preventing something, pursue excellent results via proactive initiatives that amuse and satisfy. REAL wellness initiatives guided by reason, exuberance, athleticism and liberty are far more likely to be exciting and enjoyable divorce. Such efforts will reinforce good intentions far a lot more than ready for negative states not to happen thanks to preventive strategies!
Naturally, SOME prevention is good. Birth control prevention is good, disease prevention is good-you have the idea.
Ardell's 5th Law of REAL Wellness: Scrutinize the role you played in any scene, good or bad, and make adjustments.
Make personal responsibility your default setting. Yes, initially it is easier, cheaper and easier the culprit, excuse, deny and/or ignore responsibility than to embrace it. Such are the existing default settings generally in most cultures, including our own. In the long or even medium range, however, it is healthier, more satisfying and more effective to assume at the least some degree of responsibility. This method enables you to make adjustments independent of actions by others. Your own personal actions will be the surest steps to supporting your interests.
Ardell's 6th Law of REAL Wellness: Dead, bloated rhino equivalents will be the staff of life.
All aspects of REAL wellness aren't likely to be equally very important to everyone. We're all quite different in so many ways, though we're alike in lots of ways, as well. But, our circumstances, resources, capacities and the like vary significantly. Among the most crucial elements for enjoying life ought to be the connection with plentiful DBRU equivalents, an active curiosity about and life-long openness to new meanings and a commitment to and maintenance of a remarkably fit body.