How habit determines our future -Attention to your daily habit

 

How habit determines our future

The older I am, the deep realization I have on this topic:
What you do something is what you do everything. Your subconscious mind has decided for you habit and direction. Don't worry, our subconscious mind can be adjusted by daily reflection and realignment with our goal if we want.


A wonderful elaboration about the above statement here:

4 Reasons Why Your Habits Determine Your Future

http://simplelifehabits.com/life-habits/4-reasons-why-your-habits-determine-your-future

by Jonathan on Monday, November 28th, 2011 | 

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Have you ever suddenly woke up in life and realized, “How did I get here?” It is so easy to drift in life without even realizing it. Your habits determine your future. It is a universal law that you cannot avoid. It is as strong as gravity in your life. The sum of your present life is wrapped up in your past choices.

Reasons Why Your Habits Determines Your Future

I want to offer you 4 powerful reasons as to why our habits will determine our future. Maybe some of these will connect with you and encourage you to start paying attention to those daily habits in life.
Because we are creatures of habit. Whether we want to admit it or not, we govern our life by habits. In fact, experts tell us that 90% of our daily behavior is based on habits. You have habits for your morning routine, your daily commute, how you pay your bills and what you do with your free time. The sooner we accept that we are in fact creatures of habit, we can begin to identify those habits that are not taking us in the direction that we want to go.
Because you are the sum of your past habits. Your habits determine your future because of the law of sowing and reaping. In fact, the present “you” is a sum of your past choices in life. The most obvious example is if you are overweight. You are overweight because of the past choices you made to eat more and exercise less.
It is painful for us to admit that the responsibility lies with us. We often want to point to our environment, bad luck, and how we were the victim when it comes to the negative things in our life. The sooner you accept responsibility for your life, the sooner things can begin to change for the better.
 

Because your direction (not intention) determines your destination. This is a powerful principle that I first read in the Principle of the Path by Andy Stanley. You can have every intention in the world to accomplish something, but if your daily choices are going in the opposite direction, you will not end up where you want.
If you live in the Midwest and decide to go to the Florida Keys, you do not get there by heading north. It doesn’t matter how well you have packed, how great of a map that you have, heading north doesn’t work. Your intentions in life mean nothing. The actual direction you take (i.e daily choices and habits) determine your destination.
Because you always end up where you put your focus. This is why it is so critical to have a life plan. My life plan paints a clear picture for where I want to go in life. It works like a GPS. The more I review it, the more I have to re-align my actions, thoughts, behaviors, and habits to meet my life goals.
Where do you put your focus? Sure, you can say that you have no real goals for your life, but that isn’t true. What goals you have not set, someone else has set them for you. You are heading somewhere in life, you don’t have a choice.
Are the current habits in your life the right ones to get you where you want to go?

The impact of our friends - A father says...A new graduate's first year working experience

Recently, we have some gatherings with some special friends during the Chinese New year.

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The talk of a father about his son's childhood story related to football manner has been lingering in my mind.

His son is a football fan. When he was a kid, he used to complained that no one liked to pass a ball to him when he . The father conformed his son, "If you can catch a ball well, people will give you more chances. The first thing is to be ready to catch the ball - to practice more, to be well prepared. 作好自己的本份,机会自然来.

This exactly resonates to the saying that 机会永远是留给有准备的人.

Another talk with a young man who shared his first-hand experience about his first job and current situations:

A Double E graduate from UST has been just working for one year. Here is his personal feeling about the difference between studying in school and working in the society:

He said, writing program becomes his routine in his R/D job in combination with all he learned from school, not only his electronic knowledge. Every day is new to him,  so fresh and challenging that he need to learn new things quickly and in a massive quantities in a short period.

I can see his job satisfaction from his confident and humble voice, despite his hectic life...

It looks writing program is a life tool as basic and important as the most elementary arithmetic  for the new generation and digital age nowadays.

Every day I can find something new to think about, to enjoy, especially to learn from people around us.

Dead End - really a dead end?

Has anyone watched the talk show last Saturday by Michael Hui - The War of Men and Women. 

 It was charity donation event - Suicide prevention Services 生命热线. My family are fans of Michael.So we had a night of fun and some leanings about life, men and women...

Besides exhilaration and satirisation through the show, I was shocked to realize the divorce rate of HK is No. 2 in the world, only next to New York. Why? And 40% of suicide is related to relationship between men and women.

What first struck me  was -

多沟通,用心聆听,互相包容, 男女间冲突减少,自然能减少烦恼`,身体也会好多了!

If we can view from others' points of view, any arguments or any issues would be much more simple to resolve;  forgiving,  understanding and open-minded attitudes is the key to maintain a happy, sustainable relationship

How to see DEAD END from your point of view? An article in the show magazine caught my imagination. See what Micheal's and the director's view:

發炎 与抗疾病、抗衰老、抗癌症

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「吃錯了，當然會發炎、會生病！」健康話題新知　暢銷健康書作者陳俊旭博士指出，許多人喜歡吃熟食、飲食錯誤百出、生活習慣越來越違反自然……，變得沒辦法該發炎就發炎，讓身體長期處在慢性發炎之下，必然面臨疾病威脅，身心重創。作者引證醫學權的創新研究指出，「心血管疾病的罪魁禍首，不是膽固醇，而是血管發炎了！」這項前所未有的重大發現，開啟了醫學界對於慢性疾病的全新見解。然而對於一般民眾，甚至許多醫學專家和第一線的醫護人員還不知道，其實大多數心肌梗塞、腦中風、老年失智症、糖尿病、肥胖、過敏，甚至可怕的癌症等現代文明病，都和發炎關係密切。
2.顛覆傳統的健康飲食新常識：熟食，竟然和疾病劃上等號？！　　熟食有一個非常致病且致命的壞處，就是會破壞食物裡的抗氧化劑與酵素（攝氏55度以上就破壞）。也就是說，人類飲食的原罪在於熟食，加上偏食和飲食污染，讓很多人體內的抗氧化劑含量少得可憐，況且對抗發炎、擊退疾病的抗氧化營養素，體內絕大都數無法自行製造，必須從食物中取得。作者詳細分析熟食的六大問題，包括：營養素流失、油脂氧化、蛋白質變性、梅納反應、裂解反應，並提供解決熟食困境的飲食法，兼顧「美食」與「健康」。
3.自然醫學第一本對症治療處方全公開，治病不再靠吃藥和打針　　現代文明病，幾乎是慢性發炎失控的不同表現，因此抗發炎療法可說是預防與恢復健康的最根本方法。除此之外，作者針對心肌梗塞、腦中風、失智症、癌症、過敏、男女不孕、過勞等疾病的獨特性，分享自然醫學的疾病觀與治病處方，首次公開他為這些疾病量身訂做的特殊治療方針，分享給深受難病折磨、關心親友健康的人參考，甚至希望帶給醫護人員另一種治病新視野。
4..掌控發炎，天天抗疾病、抗衰老、抗癌症！　　第一招：實施抗發炎飲食。健康餐盤「食物四分法」，掌握生熟食健康比例，能生就不熟、能熟就不爛。第二招：補充抗發炎營養素。維生素C、好二十碳酸、植物生化素，以及祕密武器天然硫辛酸等，保健又救命。第三招：落實抗發炎作息。順應大自然輕鬆過生活；平時勤記體能日記、體溫日記，掌握健康密碼。第四招：貫徹抗發炎運動。首重調心、調息、養氣，天天做，身心健康又強身。

An Example of Alignment

Here is an example of alignment. If we can balance seemingly opposite things and alignment them for the same purpose, that would be the optimising approach to success.

 

性格飲食法

An email from my network for sharing:

 

性格飲食法

 

有強迫症的你
你是﹕愛強迫人、愛鬥咀、有睡眠問題、牢騷王。
宜﹕三文魚、糙米、向日葵籽、去皮火雞、香蕉、花草茶、各種碳水化合物，也可以幫助身體產生更多血清素，改善心情。
忌﹕高蛋白質、咖啡因的食物會令你更加集中，而集中力，你早已具備。


感性的你
你是﹕很容易覺悶、自信心很低、易容緊張，有頭痛及IBS症狀。
宜﹕雞蛋、動物肝臟、核桃、鯖魚、西蘭花是你的首選; 另外戶外活動及香薰油可以幫助你吸收奧米加-3脂肪酸，令你放鬆心情。
忌﹕沒有足夠睡眠及收埋自己唔見朋友、家人是你的大忌。

浮燥的你
你是﹕沒有條理、容易分心、唔肚餓都想食、成日遲到。
宜: 雞、火雞、蛋、魚、貝類、扒、燕麥及綠茶。這可以提高你腦內多巴胺的水平，提升集中力。
忌: 你不宜進食高碳水化合物或高糖的食品，因碳水化合物會加促製造血清素，令你更難集中。

浮燥又有強迫症的你
你是﹕無時無刻都會想著食物。
宜﹕綠茶、食得健康、定時運動、定立目標，要有充足的陽光及新鮮空氣。

容易緊張的你
你: 愛咬指甲、經常頭痛、肌肉緊張、心悸、害羞、在公眾場合覺得不自在。

宜﹕全麥、奶類食品、柑橘類生果、菠茶、杏仁、西芹、奧米加3-6-9及冥想。
忌﹕太多動物蛋白質、酒精、咖啡等都會令你更加容易焦慮及緊張。

防止肥肚腩飲食法

Emailing info from a frined:

防止肥肚腩飲食法

1. 雞蛋是你早餐及運動後的良伴。蛋白質防止肌肉破裂，而雞蛋中的維他命B亦可以給你更多能量，做工作或運動都會更起勁。

2. 肉類如雞肉及牛肉富含營養，可以幫你增加肌肉及提升免疫能力。買肉類時記住要選擇較瘦的部份。

3. 魚的脂肪是好脂肪，含有大量的蛋白質，幫你建造肌肉及防止脂肪在腰間積聚。

4. 果仁含有的都是好脂肪。手袋內不防放少少果仁，肚餓的時候吃一隻手咁大的份量，可以幫你對抗飢餓同時防止脂肪流失。其他零食如朱古力、薯片、餅乾都充滿反式脂肪，少吃為妙！

5. 橄欖油比菜油、花生油都健康一點。橄欖油其實幫你身體燒脂和降低膽固醇，對心臟亦有益。一安士的橄欖油已提供你一日90%所需。

6. 大部份的天然豆類如蠶豆，毛豆都富含蛋白質、有益腸臟的纖維及鐵質。將豆煮熟可以令豆類較容易消化，吸收到全部的蛋白質。經過加工的罐頭焗豆多數含高糖份，多吃會增肥。

7. 不想有肥肚腩，就要戒食經過處理的澱粉質，如麵包、意粉、白米。將他們改成未經加工處理的全麥麵包、意粉、紅米及麥片，停止你的身體儲存脂肪。

8. 蔬菜如菠菜、西芹含有豐富的燒脂纖維、維他命及礦物質。纖維可以增加飽肚感，令你對甜食及澱粉質的需求降低。