People in Control Live Longer

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Occasionally I spent time to read motivational books such as the one I read yesterday entitled Maintaining Sound Physical and Mental Health by W.Clement Stone. There are many useful guidance presented in almost all the pages but I find this particular phases are the most influential and it kick me right in the butt (good kick).

The phrases are as follows “Contrary to what everyone believes or would like to believe, top-level, high-paid, successful women and men live longer than anyone else. People at the top are in control of their lives and people in control live longer. It not is not hard work that kills, it is not competition. It is not even having to count all that money that kills. What kills is not having control over your lives” said Dr.Estelle R.Ramsey, a nationally known endocrinologist.

Dr.Ramsey continued by saying “Middle managers are the ones who are killing themselves. They are the ones who are highly subject to cardiovascular problems. They are the one who suffer from stress because their lives are neither predictable nor secure.” 

Dr.Ramsey found the same characteristics in rats. “When animals know what to expect”, she said, “They can handle stress. When it is unpredictable and they have no control, they start to bleed internally and die”.

So my dear friend, this is like an eye opener and makes us aware this is common to most middle managers. Worrying about problems which we have no control what so ever is pointless and just wasting your bloody times. We are better off thinking something else that can brings benefit to you personally, financially, physically and mentally. Worrying affects the circulation i.e. the heart, the glands, the whole system nervous system. I have never known a men who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt (thinking negative and so on).

Time is another factors that we seriously need to look into. Nowadays we aged very fast and in my opinion we need to act fast and do something quickly and forget about wasting time near the TV or hanging out with bunch of real time waster (unless of cause if you need sometime off after hard work). As an example, I should have thought or do something to start building a house when I was young, some way between 25 to 35 years old rather than 44 years old.

It is much reasonably cheaper and when you make a mistake you still have time to correct the mistake. Anyway, getting old is beyond our control and it better not to think about it at all. Do your very best now, today and navigate your life to the very best you can and aimed, focus and then shoot. Pray that you will hit the bull eyes.