Most of us don’t think much about the foods we put into our bodies or how they affect our us and the environment. Not only that, we also rarely think about where our food comes from and how it got to be in that nice white shrink wrapped tray we see sitting on the grocery shelf.

Meat is an interesting one, it has a dramatic affect on your health, and the environment. Check out these 26 reasons not to eat meat…

1. Higher Body Weight – Meat eaters tend to consume more fat which often results in increased body fat levels.
2. Higher Cholesterol – Meat eaters usually consume more bad fats which results in higher cholesterol levels.
3. Higher Blood Pressure – The fats in meat tend to clog up your arteries which results in higher blood pressure.
4. Higher Risk of Diabetes – Meat eaters tend to eat less legumes, whole grains, fruits and vegetables which all help to prevent and control diabetes.
5. Higher Risk of Cancer – Meat eaters tend to eat less legumes, whole grains, fruits and vegetables which all have powerful antioxidants that help to prevent cancer.
6. Higher Toxicity Levels – Meats are usually treated with preservatives and other chemicals to help them look better stay fresher. These chemicals are toxic to the body and can lead to disease over time. The EPA also estimates that about 95 percent of pesticides in our diet come from eating meat, fish and dairy. Fish contain carcinogens (PCBs, DDT) and heavy metals (mercury, arsenic; lead, cadmium) that cannot be eliminated by cooking them. Meat and dairy products are also full of steroids and hormones.
7. Digestion Problems – Meats are difficult to digest and eliminate. Over time this creates a toxic environment in the digestive tract which can eventually cause cancer.
8. Shortened Life Span – According to many University and government studies, vegetarians tend to live about 7 years longer than meat eaters and vegans tend to live about 15 years longer than meat eaters.
9. Higher Chance of Terminal Diseases – A British study that tracked 6,000 vegetarians and 5,000 meat eaters for 12 years found that meat eaters were 40 percent more likely to die from cancer and 20 percent more likely to die from other diseases.
10. Higher Food Costs – Replacing the meats in your grocery cart with vegetables and fruits will save you thousands of dollars a year.
11. Meat is Murder – Every day about 22 millions animals are slaughtered just to supply Americans with meat for food consumption. Give up meat and save the life of a conscious being.
12. Meat Eaters Use More Fossil Fuels – It takes twenty times more fossil fuel to grow and supply 1 pound of meat compared to 1 pound of vegetables. Eliminating meat consumption will help reduce fossil fuel usage and could help lower gas prices and help our precious oil supply to last longer.
13. Meat Eaters Use More Water – It takes 441 gallons of water to grow and supply 1 pound of beef compared to only 14 gallons of water for 1 pound of wheat.
14. Meat Production Wastes Food – It takes 7 pounds of grain to grow 1 pound of meat. If everyone gave up eating meat, we could feed 7 times the population that we currently do without needing any additional farm land.
15. Meat Production Causes Animal Extinction – In the United States, grazing has contributed to the demise of 26% of the federal threatened and endangered species list. It’s also estimated that for each hamburger made from rain forest beef, approximately 20 to 30 different plant species, 100 different insect species, and dozens of bird, mammals, and reptile species are destroyed.
16. Meat Eaters Tend To Have a Lower Spiritual Energy – According to many religious traditions, the eating of meat brings heavy, stagnant energy into the body which hampers our ability to live at a high vibration. Avoiding meat consumption may help you to move toward enlightenment.
17. Meat Production is Destroying The World’s Largest Supplier of Oxygen – The rain forests in South America are being destroyed to make room for livestock.
18. Meat Production is the Biggest Cause of Global Warming – A 2006 United Nations report found that raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined.
19. Meat Production Pollutes The Environment – Animal farming creates massive amounts of manure and urine run-off which pollutes water supplies and local land.
20. Factory Farmed Meat and Animal Products Are Extremely Cruel To Animals – Many of these animals never see the light of day, they’re confined to pens that do not allow them to move or turn around. They live in their own waste, forced to constantly breathe in ammonia and other waste products. They are pumped full of antibiotics because of their polluted living conditions. They are fed foods that they are not designed to digest because “it’s cheaper and more efficient”. They’re pumped full of chemicals to make them grow bigger and produce more. They are often mutilated without the use of painkillers. And finally they are often slaughtered while they are fully conscious. In short, they live a life of living hell.
21. Meat Eaters Lose More Bone Mass as They Age – At the age of 65, the average bone loss of a meat eating woman is double that of their vegetarian counterparts. Experts attribute this to excess protein consumption from eating meats which can interfere with the absorption and retention of calcium.
22. Meat Eaters Are Heavily Exposed To Food Born Illnesses – Eating meat can make you very sick. According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, 25 percent of all chicken sold in the United States carries salmonella bacteria and the CDC estimates that 70 to 90 percent of chickens contain the bacteria campy-lobacter (some strains of which are antibiotic-resistant). Approximately 5 percent of cows carry the lethal strain of E. coli O157:H7 (which causes virulent diseases and death), and 30 percent of pigs slaughtered each year for food are infected with toxoplasmosis (caused by parasites).
23. Meat Eaters Risk More Back Problems – Meat eaters tend to consume more bad fats that often leads to arterial blockages which, according to Neil Barnard, M.D, can cause back problems. “Back pain appears to begin, not in the back, but in the arteries.” “The degeneration of disks, for instance, which leads to nerves being pinched, starts with the arteries leading to the back.” Neil Barnard, M.D., president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and author of Foods That Fight Pain (Harmony Books, 1998).
24. Meat Eating Women Have More Menopause Problems – Plant food sources contain a compound called phytoestrogens that helps to balance your hormones. Thanks to a meat-free diet, vegetarian women have much fewer problems related to menopause. They sleep better, have less hot flashes, have more energy, less weight gain, fewer mood swings, and maintain a higher sex drive.
25. Meat Eaters Stress The Financial and Health Care System – Diets that are heavy in animal products cost the country over $60 billion dollars a year in health care costs related to heart disease, cancer, food poisoning, and obesity.
26. Fish Eaters are Destroying The Ocean’s Fish Population – Fish are being over-harvested and according to the Food & Agriculture Organization, 11 of the 15 world’s major fishing grounds are almost depleted.

Personally, I’ve been a vegetarian for well over 5 years now. I feel good about my dietary choice. I lost weight when I stopped eating meat, I rarely get sick anymore (I used to get at least 5 colds a year), I have more energy, and I feel good about having a much smaller environmental impact on the world I live in.

What about you? Was this an eye opener for you? Do you agree or disagree that eating meat can have a significant negative impact on the human body and the world?

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Did you know that your thoughts and feelings can impact the food you eat? Taking a moment to love and appreciate your food can improve how it reacts with, and affects your body.

Before I talk about how our thoughts and feelings affect our food, I want to introduce you to Dr. Masaru Emoto. I believe his research into water also applies to the food we eat.

Dr. Emota has spent his life studying (and proving) how words, thoughts, and emotions affect the energetic structure of water. He would even take pictures of the results. I invite you to check out some of the pictures he has taken or some of his books to learn more.

Basically, what Dr. Emoto discovered is that when we send negative thoughts and emotions toward water, the energetic structure of the water changes into something that looks very negative. Conversely, when we send positive thoughts and emotions toward water, the energetic structure changes into something very beautiful.

Dr. Emoto even used this approach to clean up several polluted bodies of water simply by getting large groups of people to send loving and grateful thoughts to the water.

Considering that our bodies are made up of about 70% water. You might want to monitor what messages you are sending with your thoughts, words, and feelings. When you love and appreciate yourself and the water you consume, it will have a direct positive impact on the energy of the water in your body.

(to learn more about Dr. Masaru Emoto, check out this great Q&A session with him.)

Love Your Food

I believe Dr. Emoto’s research into how our thoughts affect water also applies to the food we eat. Everything in this Universe is made up of energy. So the same principles that apply to water, also apply to the food we eat.

What do you think and feel while you eat?

• Do you worry about your food making you fat?
• Do you feel guilty about sneaking that extra cookie?
• Do you worry that you’re going to get heartburn?
• Do you fear that that slice of cheese is going to clog up your arteries and give you a heart-attack?

All of these types of thoughts affect the energy of your food in a negative way. In fact, those very thoughts could end up becoming self-fulfilling as the negative energy of the food starts interacting with the energy of your body.

You can change how your food affects your body by changing the energy of the food you eat into something more positive. Take a moment before you chow down your next meal or snack to send a little love to it and thank it for giving of itself to nourish you. This one little act will help your food to nourish your body and energy in a much more positive way.

I’m not saying that this approach is a free ticket to go eat whatever you want without consequence. I don’t think there has been enough research on the subject yet for me to be able to say that with absolute confidence. But I am sure that if you focus on positive thoughts and emotions about what you’re eating, it will cause less problems for you and benefit you a lot more.

Maybe there really is something to the idea of “saying grace” before your meal.

I encourage you to give it a try for the next week or two and see how you feel.

I wanted to share this video with you today not to convince you that what Dr. Simoncini is saying is true, but just to present to you another viewpoint you can use to determine your own truth.

The motives of others are not always going to be in your best interest. Start taking your health into your own hands. Don’t take what your doctor, or anyone else tells you as truth without doing your own research and finding what makes sense to you.

I personally believe that it isn’t in the best interest of the medical community to allow cancer cures like this out into mainstream medicine. Here’s why:

• Baking soda can’t be patented and therefore drug companies can’t get rich off of it. There’s a lot more money to be made by treating cancer patients with expensive drugs.
• There’s more money to be made by keeping a patient ill and having them constantly come in for checkups and treatments. These medical treatments bring in a LOT of money for medical centers.

Unfortunately greed rules much of what goes on in our world today. In most cases, you can just follow the money to find the truth of something.

What about you, do you implicitly trust the medical community? Or do you think there are cheaper, safer, and more effective alternative treatments that are being suppressed because there is no profit to be made?

I strongly believe that all areas of our lives are intertwined and have an effect on each other. But this interconnectedness is the most obvious in the area of our own health.

If you are unhealthy:

• You have less energy to improve your other areas of life like mental, spiritual, relationships, and finances.
• Physical pain and ailments slow you down.
• You feel more depressed and angry.

But this also works the other way. As you improve your health, every other area is also going to be affected in a positive way.

Have More Energy To Work Towards Your Other Goals

When you feel tired, sick, and achy, it’s hard to find the energy to work toward your goals in the other areas of your life. Taking action is hard if you’re just too tired to do it.

If you begin to improve your health, your energy levels start to increase and aches and pains will start to fade away. This new found energy and sense of well-being can then be used to start making the desired changes in the other areas of your life.

Feel More Positive

When you exercise and eat healthy foods, a chemical called serotonin is released by the body. Serotonin helps control your mood and just plain makes you feel good. By eating right and exercising regularly, you can make sure that you are getting regular doses of this feel good chemical.

Don’t worry about getting addicted to it. It’s all natural and non-harmful when you get it naturally from living a healthy lifestyle .

Gain Confidence

Success breeds more success. As you see regular improvements in your exercise achievements and in your health in general, your confidence will also naturally increase. Seeing yourself improve and succeed in the area of your health will give you more confidence that you can also improve and succeed in other areas of your life.

Not only will your confidence increase, your self esteem will increase as well. Healthy living leads to a healthier appearance. Your weight will begin to move to a healthier level, and your skin and eyes will begin to have a healthy glow to them. As your physical appearance improves, you will start feeling better about how you look. How would your life change if you felt good about how you looked?

Conclusion

You can make some dramatic changes to your life in a short period of time if you immediately do a complete overhaul of your diet and start exercising daily. However, this fast and hard approach doesn’t work for everyone.

Often these types of changes are just too dramatic for people to stick too. If you can do it, I encourage you to do so. But if it doesn’t work out, don’t get discouraged. This is normal and there is another way.

You can take slow and steady baby steps instead. Start by making one small dietary change and adding just one hour of exercise to your week. Make sure you choose an exercise that you enjoy.

Give it a month and then make one more change and add a bit more exercise to your week. It’s easier for your brain to accept small incremental changes, so use that to your advantage.

In just a few months you will have made several dietary changes and added a good amount of exercise to your routine.

As a personal example, I recently got over my addiction to coffee. Now I’m working on alkalizing my body. Small changes each month, but over time, all these small changes will really begin to add up.

Start improving your health today and over the next few weeks and months you can be sure that you will start to see improvements not only in your health, but in many areas of your life.

I invite you to follow along with me as I will be posting regular updates on my progress and results on this website. Short updates will be posted in the comments section at the bottom of this article. I may also post a full article summarizing my results at the end the trial.

Before I move on to explaining how I’m going to be doing my trial, let me share with you some of what I’ve read about having an alkaline vs. an acidic body pH. I should also share with you that I’m not a licensed physician. This information is simply based on what I’ve read. Which is why I’ve decided to do this trial to see if alkalizing will benefit me.

I encourage you to join with me in this trial if you think this might benefit you as well. I would love to share the experience and results of this doing this trial with others.

What Do Alkaline And Acidic Mean?

Chances are that you probably already have some idea of what acid is. Highly acidic substances can corrode and dissolve anything they come in contact with. You have hydrochloric acid in your stomach to help you digest the foods you eat.

In relation to pH, anything below a pH of 7.0 is considered acidic. The lower the number, the more acidic it is.

On the other end of the scale is alkaline. If something is alkaline it is the opposite of being acidic. Alkaline substances can act as a buffer to help neutralize acidic substances. However, if something is too alkaline, it can also have a corrosive effect.

Anything above a pH of 7.0 is considered to be alkaline. The higher the number, the more alkaline it is.

A pH of 7.0 is considered to be neutral. It is neither acidic or alkaline.

What An Acidic Body pH Does To You

Our bodies are designed to work optimally at a pH level of approximately 7.3 – just slightly alkaline. When that pH level starts dropping below 7.0 and we start becoming more acidic, it takes a heavy toll on our bodies.

• Your immune system no longer functions optimally.
• Cancer cells can grow much more easily. Every person that I’m aware of that has cancer has had a pH level in the low 5  range.
• Your energy levels are depleted as acid builds up and oxygen levels are depleted.
• It can even help aggravate negative emotions making them more frequent and prolonged.
• You could gain weight because the acid in your body causes your body to store fat instead of use calories for energy.
• Bone material gets depleted as your body uses the minerals from your bones to try to keep your blood pH neutral.
• Toxin build up in your body is accelerated as your body’s ability to neutralize and dispose of toxins is handicapped due to excessive acid.
• You could suffer from malnutrition as your body’s ability to assimilate nutrients from food is compromised.

On the other hand, it is also possible to become overly alkaline. Being overly alkaline for an extended period of time can also cause health and digestive problems. It’s best to aim for a pH level in the 7.0 to 7.5 range.

What Causes Your Body To Become Acidic

There are four main causes of acidity in your body:

Diet – Basically, an unhealthy diet leads to acidity in the body. You can check out a list of acidic and alkaline foods. Or do a quick Google search to come up with lots of lists that you can look through.

Lifestyle – Smoking, excessive drinking, not getting enough sleep. These types of lifestyles cause stress on the body which leads to excessive acid production.

Emotions/Stress - Negative emotions and stress (both mental and physical) lead to the production of acid in the body. If you think about it, terms like stress “eating away at you” really aren’t that far from the truth.

Toxins – Regular exposure to toxins also causes acid production in your body. We’re assaulted by toxins on a daily basis, so this is hard to avoid. Air pollution, toxic gasses from new carpets, fuel vapors when we fill up our vehicles, herbicides and pesticides, pharmaceutical drugs, that “new car smell” in a new vehicle, are all toxic. Toxins are everywhere and hard to avoid.

What Are The Benefits of Alkalizing Your Body

Weight loss – An alkaline body is better suited for converting stored fat into energy and using consumed calories for energy instead of converting them into fat.

Better Nutrient Assimilation From Foods – An alkaline body will assimilate nutrients from food and supplements better than an acidic body. If you are too acidic, you may actually be suffering from malnutrition since your body can’t get the nutrients it needs from the foods you’re eating.

Prevents Bone Loss – Your blood must maintain a pH of around 7.35. Based on what I’ve read, if your blood pH goes below seven, or much above 7.5, you will die very quickly. If you don’t keep your body in an alkaline state, your body will start leeching minerals from your bones so that it can at least keep your blood at the proper pH level. This isn’t a bad thing, your body is just doing what it has to in order to keep you alive. But if your body is kept in an alkaline state, then it has no need to leech stuff from your bones to keep your blood at a safe pH range.

More Energy – Keeping your body alkaline helps it better utilize the calories you consume as energy. It also helps provide a better environment for oxygenation of your cells which will help give you an extra energy boost.

More Stamina – Physical exertion often leads to the release of lactic acid in the body. This lactic acid can make your muscles tired and sore. When you’re body is in an alkaline state, it is better able to buffer or neutralize this lactic acid giving you increased stamina.

Helps Prevent Viral, Bacterial, and Fungal Infections - Viruses, bacteria, and fungus all thrive within an acidic body. They begin to die off when they are placed within an alkaline environment. By alkalizing your body, you’re making it an unfriendly place to live for the things that can make you sick.

Helps Prevent and Heal Diseases - Just as bacteria and viruses suffer in an alkaline environment, diseased and damaged cells within the body also suffer. Some research has shown that when the pH level of a cancer cell is changed from acid to alkaline, it dies very quickly.

Read the story about a man who cured himself of prostate and bone cancer using pH therapy. There are stories all over the place of health practitioners making a dramatic difference in their patient’s lives just by putting them on a pH therapy program to help them become alkaline.

Helps Prevent Allergies - Allergies are basically an overreaction of your immune system. In an alkaline body, your immune system is much less likely to overreact to substances that are of no danger to it.

May Help To Improve Your Mood – It’s possible that if your body pH is slightly alkaline, your mood and overall sense of well-being will improve.

My Current pH and How I Plan To Alkalize

This morning I did both a urine pH test and a saliva pH test using simple pH test strips that you can buy quite cheaply at most drug stores or online. Apparently testing first thing in the morning is the most accurate way to check you pH levels.

My results for both urine and saliva were a pH of 6.0.

This shocked me a little, but not too much, considering I just recently finished doing a several month trial of mega dosing vitamin C. I used a common form of vitamin C called ascorbic acid which, of course, is very acidic. So I wasn’t overly surprised that all that vitamin C I took created a lot of acid in my body.

Considering that I just quit drinking coffee . I decided that I didn’t want to push myself with too many lifestyle changes at once. So instead of focusing mainly on diet to help raise my pH, I plan on using baking soda and molasses for the purposes of this trial.

Baking soda is highly alkaline, so taking it orally it will act to buffer out the acids in the body. The molasses are also alkaline forming in the body, and they help to transport the baking soda to any sick cells or fungus in the body. When the baking soda hits these cells and fungus, it injures or kills them by quickly creating an alkaline environment around them.

For now I’m going to be using plain old Arm and Hammer baking soda. I have read that this baking soda might contain aluminum in it, so hopefully I can find some aluminum free baking soda the next time I get to the grocery store.

My protocol is quite simple:

• I’ll start by taking 2 teaspoons of baking soda with 4 teaspoons of black strap molasses twice daily.
• I’ll take the mixture away from food (one hour before or two hours after eating) to avoid buffering the acids in my stomach just before or after eating. Your stomach needs those acids to digest the food you eat.
• I’ll track my progress by testing both my urine and saliva pH each morning, and increase or decrease the amount of baking soda and molasses I take as necessary.

I’ll also keep track of any physical and emotional effects that I notice and share them with you in the comments below. So please be sure to come back regularly to read the comments if you’re curious how things are going .

Update – This trial is now complete. Read the results.

So in honor of her, I thought I would share with you a few of the more important lessons that she has taught me over the years.

#1 Don’t Worry

It’s not very often that I see my dog worry. She doesn’t spend her day worrying about whether or not her next meal will arrive, or if she will go out for a walk that particular day. She just takes things as they come.

To often we spend our time and energy worrying about things that may never happen. Why waste your precious mental and emotional resources on something that may never happen? It’s OK to plan for the future, but don’t obsess about it. Your life will be much less stressful if you just take things as they come.

#2 Love Unconditionally

No matter what, my dog loves me. It doesn’t matter if I’ve been away for longer than planned, don’t have time to take her for a walk, or if I’m feeling a little grouchy on a particular day. My dog is always happy to see me and spend time with me.

Imagine if she didn’t have that unconditional love.

If she held a grudge for not getting her walk, we would both miss out on some great time we could be spending together later. Who wants to hang out with someone who’s mad at  them?

If she avoided me when I was feeling grouchy, then I might miss out on the opportunity to be cheered up by her funny antics.

Imagine if we acted the same way around our friends and family? Showing unconditional love like that would make our relationships, and the world as a whole, much better .

#3 Don’t Judge People By Their Appearance

I can take my dog for a walk anywhere and she will be happy to meet anybody. There have been several occasions where we’ve crossed paths with people whose appearance has made me want to avoid them. Not my dog. She’s happy to go up and greet them.

Quite often, those people that appeared strange or scary to me ended up being very pleasant people. I never would have had the opportunity to interact with them if my dog had judged them based on their appearances like I did.

You’ll end up meeting and talking to a lot more interesting people as you go through life if you don’t dismiss them based on how they look.

#4 Be Persistent

If my dog wants attention, she’s lets me know. First she grabs a toy, trots over, shoves the toy in my lap, then stares at me. If that toy doesn’t seem to work, she’ll go to her toy box and grab another toy in the hope that the different toy might be of interest to me. If that one doesn’t work, she’ll go and get another one, and another one..

Sometimes throwing various toys in my lap works, but if it doesn’t, she’ll eventually proceed to flip over on her back, flair her legs around and make funny noises in an attempt to get me to rub her belly.

This whole process can go on for quite a while. If it doesn’t work, she’ll just take a break for a while, then try again. And she keeps on trying until she gets the attention she wants

The point is that she doesn’t give up when something doesn’t seem giving her the desired result of getting the attention she wants.

You can do the same in your life. Don’t give up on your desires and dreams because you tried something and it didn’t work. Just because it doesn’t work, it doesn’t mean you failed. You only fail when you stop trying. If you need to take a break, do it, but never give up.

#5 Live In The Moment

My dog is extremely focused. I  have never seen anyone as mentally involved in what they’re doing in any given moment as she is.

When she’s resting, she is the ultimate example of being totally relaxed. She just flops, and and utterly sinks into, whatever she’s lying on. It’s like she melts into the surface she’s on. Of course I have no way on knowing what’s going on in her mind, but I strongly suspect that she’s not running through a list of things she has to do, worrying whether or not her stuffed animal will make it through another play session, or wondering if she’ll get fed that evening. She’s just appears to be totally relaxed.

She’s the same when she decides that she wants to stalk the latest squirrel that’s invaded her back yard. Nothing can break her focus when she’s doing that.

We can learn a great lesson from her on this one. Learn to be in the moment with whatever you’re doing. If you’re resting, just rest. If you’re working, focus on your work. If you’re playing, play with everything you’ve got. If you’re spending time with a loved one, give them your undivided attention. You’ll find that you become more relaxed, do better work, have better relationships, and you’ll be less stressed.

#6 Get More Exercise

Insufficient exercise makes my dog both agitated and chubby. Regular exercise keeps her happy and healthy.

We’re really not much different as human beings. Our bodies were designed to move, not sit around all day. And exercise releases helps release chemicals in our body that make us feel happier. Take a tip from my dog on this one. You’ll feel better, and look better if you get some exercise everyday.

Oh, and bonus points if you exercise outside on a sunny day. Lot’s of fresh air, and plenty of stuff to sniff at when you’re outside .

#7 Stretch Regularly

Almost every time my dog gets up, and before every walk, she stretches.

It must benefit her because I can’t say she’s ever had any sort of joint injury. Unlike myself, and many other people I know, who have all had joint injuries at one point or another in their lives.

Take her advice and just do a few quick stretches her and there throughout the day. You’ll be much less prone to injuring yourself and it’ll help promote good blood flow in your body.

Conclusion

I’m not quite ready to promote my dog to monk-hood yet. I suspect it’s because I want to hold on to the ‘master’ title for at least a while longer. But I would be foolish to ignore the lessons I can learn from such a great teacher.

What about you, have your pets taught you any great life lessons? I’d love to hear them. Please share them by leaving a comment below.

PS – Check this out if you want to see a picture of Lucy.

This one piece of advice can help whether you are a business owner or you are working for somebody else. It can help you in your relationships with friends, spouses, children, and even pets if you wanted to try it.

Just following this one tip could change your life.

Would you like to know what it is? I won’t hold you in suspense any longer…

Do just a little bit more!

What Happens When You Don’t Do Just A Little Bit More?

Before I explain how doing just a little bit more is one of the key things you need to know about how to be successful, let me first share with you how most people operate their lives.

You may have noticed a trait in most people, maybe even in yourself, to do just enough to keep themselves out of trouble.

• At work, they do just enough to keep from getting in trouble.
• In their business, they do just enough to meet the customer’s expectations.
• At home they give their family just enough attention to keep them from complaining too much.
• For their health, they only do something when they become ill.

When you do just enough to get by in life, nothing really changes.

• Meeting expectations will rarely get you a promotion at work.
• Meeting the expectations of your business customers won’t get you raving reviews and lots of referrals.
• Meeting expectations from your family and friends won’t help you improve your relationships with them.
• Only doing something about your health when you become ill won’t help you optimize your level of energy and well being.

How Doing Just A Little Bit More Can Help You Succeed In Any Area Of Life

Doing a just a little bit more is one of the key things you need to learn if you’re studying how to become more successful.

Doing just a little bit more is what makes you stand out from the crowd.

• Exceed your job expectations by even just a bit, and you’ll stand out from everyone else who is just doing the minimum to get by. Chances are that you’ll be the one up for the next promotion that comes along. And even if your current employer doesn’t recognize it, others will and new job offers will come along.
• Do just a little bit more for your customers than your competitors do and you’ll have a loyal customer for life. Not only that, they won’t hesitate to tell everyone they know about how pleased they were with your product or service.
• Do just a little bit more each day for your family and friends and watch your relationships blossom to amazing new levels. Take some time each day just to compliment and appreciate your spouse and talk with them. Spend a few extra minutes doing fun activities with your kids. Take the time to call up a friend and ask how they’re doing. You’ll be amazed at what a difference this can make!
• Do just a little bit more for your health and watch yourself feel better and better. Small changes like committing to quit coffee, eating one less donut and one more salad instead, going for a half hour walk instead of watching that sitcom, will all help you to feel better and have more energy in the long run.

Now you know one of the secrets of how to become successful. Doing just a little bit more doesn’t require a lot of extra effort, but it can make a big difference in your results.

Do you have any other ideas on how the philosophy of doing just a little bit more could be applied?