Should You Use a Health Prognosis as a Deterent?
Yes, it could happen to you. In this crazy world of the unpredictable, you might have something happen to you that causes you to question your health, your habits, and the way you’ve been living your life. Whether it’s a cancer scare, an accident, or just a bad test result, that dose of reality might be what you really need to start turning over a new leaf in your life. But should you use something scary as a deterent? That’s the question you need to consider first. You see, it doesn’t matter if you are good at your job, finances, sport or wealth creation. If your health goes out the window, nothing else matters.
I will refer to a great question by peak performance guru, Kurek Ashley further on. You can use it time and again.
Why a Scare is the Best Medicine
When you’re upset enough about something, everything else in your life seems to disappear. You don’t think about anything else but that scary moment and the possible ramifications of that moment. You think about the things that you might miss if something bad were to happen. You worry about what might happen if the results were found to be even worse than they were. You might even realize that something has happened that you could have prevented – that’s where the best inspiration plan can begin. This is a good time to ask yourself some quality questions. For instance, a good question is this: how would love respond? That is a question that bestselling author Kurek Ashley asked himself when he was in the darkest hours of his life.
If you have recognized that you have a part to play in the way you live your life and how things have turned out, why not use this time as a way to finally rid yourself of any bad habits you might have or to gain good habits that you’ve promised again and again to start? By realizing that you do have options and ways to turn your life around, you’ve really been given a sort of second change to do things over, in a positive and meaningful way. Whenever you feel that your motivation is wavering, just remind yourself of what you’ve been through and you will refocus your attention and your intentions.
Why a Scare is Not the Best Motivator
But there are two sides to every story. I learned this at 21st Century Academy. Because you might not be the one who caused your health scare (i.e. in the case of an accident), you might not want to use this moment as an opportunity to motivate yourself. After all, when things are out of your control, giving yourself the blame doesn’t mean that you will feel better about what happened. If you begin to tell yourself that you can change your life because of something that someone else did, you might find that you aren’t able to take quantifiable steps toward a new goal – and you might feel more lost than ever. You may also have gone through something so scary that reliving it each day is not motivating – it’s torture.
People react in different ways to different scenarios, so you need to determine what your next best course of action might be. Though you may find this health scare to be something that really revs you up and makes you want more from your life, others might find that they simply want to move past the event and not dwell on it at all. Whatever works for you is what works for you.
Right now, your main goal should be to become healthy – what happens after that can be decided another day.