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The Most Important Question

January 1, 2018 By Julian Kaufmann

Gym Fail

As we embark on the New Year, many of us have made resolutions for how we want to be in 2018 and what we wish to experience.

The gym will be packed today by those resolving to be healthier by exercising daily.  Unfortunately, most people do not succeed in keeping their resolutions.  In fact, it has been estimated that between 80-90% of New Year’s Resolutions fail. Thus by March, the gym will be much less crowded.  For more information about the difficulties of keeping your resolutions, James Clear has an excellent post on 5 Common Mistakes That Cause New Habits to Fail.

In order to make it through the tough times of adopting a new habit, it is important to have a sense of purpose. This purpose should also be in alignment with Divine Energy – God.

Why are you wanting to make this change and why do you want the things you are striving for in 2018. Simon Sinek has a great TED talk How Great Leaders Inspire Action about the power of WHY and the golden circle.

But think on an even deeper level. Why is your why, your why?

What are the hidden motivations and influences that are shaping your answers?

While each of us will have unique answers to our various questions, Albert Einstein provides guidance on the most important question for us to consider:

“I think the most important question facing humanity is, ‘Is the universe a friendly place?’ This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for themselves.

“For if we decide that the universe is an unfriendly place, then we will use our technology, our scientific discoveries and our natural resources to achieve safety and power by creating bigger walls to keep out the unfriendliness and bigger weapons to destroy all that which is unfriendly and I believe that we are getting to a place where technology is powerful enough that we may either completely isolate or destroy ourselves as well in this process.

“If we decide that the universe is neither friendly nor unfriendly and that God is essentially ‘playing dice with the universe’, then we are simply victims to the random toss of the dice and our lives have no real purpose or meaning.

“But if we decide that the universe is a friendly place, then we will use our technology, our scientific discoveries and our natural resources to create tools and models for understanding that universe. Because power and safety will come through understanding its workings and its motives.”

“God does not play dice with the universe,”

Love or Fear

Our answer to Einstein’s question will she insight on whether we are acting out of fear or from love.  Our response provides the framework for everything we experience.

Fortunately, this is a most important question has multiple choice answers that we can change upon reflection.  So as we welcome 2018 let’s check in daily to see how we are answering the question.

When we act in alignment with our Source, the universe conspires with us to achieve our desires.

Light is more powerful than dark. And love will overcome fear. 
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Filed Under: God, Uncategorized Tagged With: Einstein, Habits, Resolutions

Why I Did Not Drink To The New Year

January 1, 2017 By Julian Kaufmann

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Too Much of A “Good” Thing Does Not Equal A Good Time

Cleaning the Connection

Happy 2017!

2016 was a tough year for many people and now that the year is in the history books we can begin anew. Today our resolutions go into effect. And many of us resolve to improve our lives by adopting a more healthy lifestyle including diet changes and perhaps more exercise.  I know I do.

Hopefully, you don’t have a ringing in your head this morning from too much alcohol last night. If you are hungover, drink lots of water and consider how you feel right now compared to a more optimal way of being.

As for us, we had a quite night at home with family watching the ball drop in Times Square.  In years gone by I could have been one of the drunken revelers that flashed across the screen. But last night I was sober, forgoing any alcohol and  I woke up clear headed and ready to go. At 12:05 AM, I was sipping kombucha, not champagne.  For the first five minutes of the new year, I was kissing and hugging!

For the past two (2) years, I have not had a drop of booze. This after a couple of decades of having on average at least several drinks per week.

What started out as a 100-day gong of giving up alcohol has become a way of life for me now.  If you would like to learn more about gongs, please see Pedram Shojai’s  Urban Monk for more information.

I am not preaching about the evils of alcoholic beverages and I do understand the social aspects of drinking. Truth be told, I enjoyed the taste of beer and loved sharing great food and wine with friends and family.

Beeing a teetotaller is a great way for me to practice detaching.  One thing that helped me was that I found out I was allergic to wheat so I could not enjoy beer like I used to.  Drinking beer was like a poison to my body. Once my favorite alcoholic beverage was eliminated from my menu, it made giving up the other types of booze that much easier.

Staying on the wagon of sobriety offers many benefits, including:

  • Better Sleep: Processing alcohol disrupts your sleep which is why you should not drink before going to bed. After giving up booze I don’t need to snooze in the morning. I wake up energized and ready to go, not bleary-eyed and slow.I found that the amount of sleep I needed to feel refreshed went down as well. Better quality sleep in less time!
  • Fewer calories: Each beer I would have was on average about 2oo calories, and I would typically have two. Add to that the “beer munchies” that would often follow, and I often found myself consuming an extra 1000+ calories a day.
  • Better Workouts In The Morning: It is hard to work out when you are hungover.  As we previously stated alcohol negatively impacts your sleep. Waking up well rested allows you better performance in the morning.
  • More Money: Drinking is expensive.  If you order drinks at a restaurant or bar, you can spend between $6-$15 per drink.  Of course, this can get much higher once you start ordering fine wines.  If you get a DUI as a result of drinking, this could cost you at least $10,000 or worse.
  • Less Regret: Alchohol lowers inhibitions, and many people have done things under the influence of alcohol they would never do sober. Keeping drinks from under your belt allows you to keep your wits better about you.  Now that I don’t drink I can clearly see the inebriating effects of alcohol on others, and as a consequence, I am more resolved to maintain my composure and equanimity.

Ben Greenfield has an awesome site with a ton of helpful information on your body. He has a 2-part post that details the before and after effects of abstaining from alcohol for just 30-days.  Please click here for Part 1 and Part 2.

We have the opportunity to live each day optimally. If you have not tried it already, I would encourage you to abstain from alcohol for 30-days and see how you feel.  Please let me know how it goes. I’d love to get together with you for a cup of coffee.

Meanwhile For more resources and recommendations on how to get more out of your life, please check out my ebook – Cleaning the Connection 

Namaste

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: Optimal Living, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alcohol, Ben Greenfield, Cleaning The Connection, Let Go Let It Flow, New Years, Pedram Shojai, Resolutions, Sober

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