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I am growNman 83: Mastering the Essence of Holistic Growth: Elevating Your Life through Balanced Diet, Communication, and Focus
Unlock the secrets to a healthier, happier life by mastering your diet and communication skills! On this episode of "I'm Growing Man," I promise you'll discover how a balanced diet can prevent future health problems and enhance your self-esteem, laying the groundwork for long-term happiness. I'll share my personal journey toward becoming the best communicator and show you how establishing a routine and setting long-term goals can transform your life.
We also dig into the profound impact of distractions on personal growth, revealing how eliminating them can lead to greater self-awareness and uncover your true purpose. You'll learn the importance of focusing on what you can control and striving to be great on purpose. With a motivational call to action, this episode will inspire you to embrace open-mindedness, admit when you're wrong, and commit to personal development. Tune in and take the first step toward unlocking your full potential!
what up, though, and welcome back to I'm growing man it's your man, jai d, in the building. I want to say that, uh, it's been a long time since I've actually recorded. I've had, you know, a lot, of, a lot of videos in the fall. Today is one that I've been working on, been trying to figure out what can I do to give back in a way that may not have any meaning to you, but what could I tell somebody who was trying to figure it out?
Speaker 1:I believe at a young age, if you can master your diet, you're going to remove a lot of the distractions that a lot of adults whether married, single, they have a problem with, because delicious foods are an unfair resource that we've used for so many years, and we come up with reasons why we're supposed to have it, were supposed to have it, and now we're approaching this age where a lot of us are falling because of core eating habits, and, you know, nobody knows when they're going to go. Nobody says you have to go anytime soon and, with that being said, take better care of your body, and if I was young people, I would master that because, as you you get older, you're gonna still enjoy delicious things, but your foundation is gonna go back to what you know is right, so you'll still have the understanding of what people go through. But you're gonna already have this thing that a lot of us are still fighting, trying to figure out what's the right type of diet that is good for you. And my suggestion do them all, but you have to complete the diet, whatever the results that you're supposed to get. I do believe you can get those results, but you can't cut any corners. You have to say okay, I want to see what this can do. At the end of the day, you're making a decision and I'll say this people that have a good understanding of their diet if you talk to them.
Speaker 1:Everybody has their own insecurities, but it's a different type of understanding of life where certain people don't have to worry about If you're overweight. There's messages that you get that I even see because I know that I'm part of some of these categories, because if you're not a part of those categories, it really doesn't affect you, so you don't think about it. So, as a young person, I definitely would do research and try to find why I said all of them, because the body will find a way to make anything that's good for you. Bad because it's a creature of habit. So as you master each diet, you're going to like the results that you like with your body. I think that you've got to think where do you want to be? And I'm saying this, I guess I guess where I am. I'm like I'm a lot closer to 50 than I would have ever thought that I would be in a situation talking about how I got here and, I believe, if I understood about just mastering a diet.
Speaker 1:I think happiness comes within. Like you have a different type of self-esteem. People that have better diets, they don't worry about certain things, people don't you know. Like they don't have the best diets, and I mean I think everybody knows that. But if you're young you can still beat it. I think anybody can beat it.
Speaker 1:But I think as you get older, you get stuck in your ways and it's like this is what makes you happy, and what's crazy is that it really doesn't make you happy. It doesn't. It makes you think that you're unhappy. So you do these things. It gives you this temporary gratification that only hurts you in the long run. We have to be able to control that. Food is only fuel. It's only fuel, that's it. I think you should learn a routine. You can start at a young age. Learn a routine like figure out what's something that you would want to be, and I'll give an example for me.
Speaker 1:I said I want to be the best communicator ever. So I was like, what does that look like Something that I would have to work on for the rest of my life? So I studied languages. I studied different forms of communication, whether it's body language, tone, delivery, questions, different types of responses. One could have to change a conversation, being prepared to just let it go wherever it's supposed to go. A lot of times we're in conversations and we're trying to get this whatever, when you can get some of the most beautiful things from people if you just relax and actually listen, because most people have all of the answers. They just can't practice it because, for whatever reasons, if you take a little bit from everybody, it could be a beautiful thing. You see a lot of growth in people. I guess I forgot.
Speaker 1:What I'm really trying to develop is a skill set where I totally understand and can empathize with somebody, where there's no misunderstanding, trying to figure out if it's possible, because I don't know, but I know it's going to take for a remainder of my life and since this can't hurt anybody, I feel like it's going to be fun. But you can do whatever you want to do, and I was just giving you an example of what I plan on doing because I think it changes. It changes what your future could look like. You know, if you're waiting to become old to do whatever you want to do, you deserve so much more. It takes a certain type of investment you got to put in yourself and if I was in high school still, I think I would be trying to develop a routine. I would create some type of map of what I would want to do. What does it take to get there? I'm not saying you got to come up with something elaborate immediately, but just imagine what you could create if you knew. If you say, ok, how do I get here? You put the puzzle pieces together. The whole thing is going to take effort. The better the picture, the more effort it's going to take to be able to make the picture better.
Speaker 1:I think Earth has become a place of whatever you want it to be, has become a place of whatever you want it to be. It depends on how important you really think you are, because some people are just caught up and they have some bustle of everything. It's real easy to get caught in it too. Oh, last thing, I think that if a lot of people the smartest people in the world just be open to being wrong, and even if you're right, if you can work on a response where a person would still want to continue to talk to you, you may not be able to get anything from this person. Maybe you don't know how to ask the right questions for them to be able to describe it or for you to be able to get what you think you already think you know, but at the end of the day, the best communicator is always going to give this person something and try to get as much as possible without making this person feel inadequate. And that goes with tone, delivery cadence, cutting people off. I know because I practice that behavior and it's poor because nobody really deserves it. I just came up from an environment where that was okay. Since you're an adult, I practice bad things. I'm sorry. Just be open to being wrong.
Speaker 1:I feel like no matter how much information you know, just know that it's a possibility. Your perspective can always gain more information to have an even clearer view without misjudging your audience. I don't think anybody should ever get to the point where they don't have the time to effectively communicate a stance without bringing like a class or station or some type of wealth in life. You can learn from anybody. I really believe that I enjoy the true fruit of being a human. It's just how can life improve? Just look at it. Like I say, you can always be wrong, but even if you're right, it could always have been better. What could you have done to make it better? You didn't do it the best way possible. You didn't do that. If you did the best way possible, you'd probably have a different result, because I'm pretty sure wherever you are in life, you are not where you saw it like that. This is where I thought I'd be. It could be so much better, but you got to work on those things and that's the type of thing I think that could change.
Speaker 1:I think those three things master the diet, create a routine to develop something that you want to develop later in life and it just becomes part of your life and at a certain age it just unlocks. It unlocks things you wouldn't even imagine, but you got to put the work in. The effort is necessary. If you don't put the effort in, none of this matters. It's like I'm talking about wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. You have to put the effort in. That's the crazy thing. How about this Majority of the people, everybody I speak to? They already know it takes the effort. They don't want to do it though. That's crazy. This is what I believe effort creates the interest compound rate that everybody be watching money. If you put that effort into your life and try to have a better life, improve these things that I'm talking about, it creates to compound interest of opportunities where you just become really cold at what you do. But you can control what you want your life to be.
Speaker 1:If you put the effort in Master your diet, create a routine that you want something to develop, and it don't even matter how old you are. It don't Like. Well, I guess it does. I'm sorry, that's within reason, okay, like I don't want anybody to take anything I say out of context. But at the end of the day, like, if you have and you know you don't know your life is not in danger. You can be out here cold in like five or seven years if you like develop a routine where you can invest like 12 to I don't know. But yeah, you know what. You should have a routine already anyway. If you don't, you're a young person, that's what you're developing to. But yeah, older people is really difficult unless you're in the field of what you really want to do.
Speaker 1:Like I'm working on communication, so I'm in education. I got to like practice trying to see if I can give this information to these kids. So, like I get to really practice my craft. Like all the time I do it when I come home, my craft. Like all the time I do it when I come home and I even call it invest, I'm going to sleep and getting that, uh, the amount of time for my body to recuperate, to redo it all over again at some point. I feel like if I keep intentionally trying to find ways to get better, these students are going to get a better teacher. So I said, like it just depends on what you want it to look like and I know if you do these three things, people are like oh, I wish I knew what I was supposed to be doing.
Speaker 1:The reason why most people can't find out what they're supposed to be doing because they're distracted by the things they put in their body. If you remove the distractions out, the things would be right in your face. You'd be like, oh man, I didn't even know it was right there. But the problem is we don't like our everyday life, so we consume it with things that distract us from focusing on the things that need to work. No lie and well, that's crazy too. Like if you worked on the things that actually needed to work, you would become a better person. It was crazy. It's easier than people think.
Speaker 1:You just got to believe you're that important and you got to believe you can put in the effort, because if you don't, your story's not going to be as good as it could have been Because you're already taking shortcuts. You're not even bringing the best version of yourself to the party, so you're not even going to get all the benefits because they don't know who you are. Whoever you are, put that work here. Remember always be open to being wrong. It's always a better way to do something.
Speaker 1:And yeah, just because the way that you did it worked for you doesn't mean that that person have enough information for them to believe that it could have worked for them. You know, you think they just want to be wrong. So and you could be on the other side too. You know, you may not be, you may not have the best view. Just be open to be wrong, like. I didn't look at it like that, you know. Just keep asking questions so that you can be like, because at the end of the day, if you're having a conversation, you don't want it to be an argument. That's poor communication, right there, people that argue poor communication Like you don't have to disagree and use insults, because what's the point? Anyways, y'all made today better than yesterday. Don't worry about anything you can't control. G-a-t-a. Get after that action, that action will get after you. Be great on purpose.