There is great value in surrounding yourself with winning people who strive for success every day and who genuinely believe excellence is not just a word but something we should strive for every day.
Then there is my friend. He is the most negative person you could ever meet.
He doesn’t believe excellence is a word many use as a target they are trying to reach, but knowing in their hearts is never really achievable.
If every positive thought in my head tells me I should turn left, my friend will vacillate between left and right to absolute confusion before saying I told you right was the correct answer.
Even when the left is correct, he wants me to know that right was a better choice, but because I decided to go left, I will never know how good turning right would be.
I have denied the concept that twenty good apples will never turn a lousy apple into good and refused to acknowledge this concept is wrong because I have always wanted to support my friend, given how close we have been for such a long time.
After 73 years of friendship, I have finally decided not to listen to my friend anymore. To break free of the negativity he constantly promotes to me by surrounding myself with winning people.
It is difficult to make the decision not to listen anymore and to front my friend, telling him he is a loser and that all the time I have known him, he has been 100% wrong.
Because we have known each other for so long, this decision has been one of the most complex decisions I have ever had to make.
But I know what he will say to me in response. He will tell me this is just another one of the bad decisions I have made in my lifetime.
I know he is wrong, but I also know nothing I can do or say will offend him, and I know I will not be able to walk away from him.
Why?
Because he is in my head, he is my subconscious.
He never told me not to eat foods high in sugar because they would steal my health. He told me how good they tasted and how satisfying they were.
He never told me sitting on the couch watching TV was terrible for me, and he never told me exercise was overrated.
He never told me my health is a gift and I will lose it if I don’t cherish the present.
So here is me, telly you, your subconscious, and my subconscious are wrong.
Eating the wrong foods and failing to exercise your body and your mind will steal your health unless you turn off the TV, get up off the couch, make a continuous decision to tell your friend to GO TO HELL, and do something to #ReclaimYourHealth.