The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
Interpretation
Treating your body well provides the best foundation for success in life.
This quote by Denis Waitley emphasizes the importance of valuing our physical health and well-being as essential components of a successful life. Just as a spacecraft is meticulously maintained and cared for to perform at its best, our bodies should also be treated with the utmost care to ensure we have the energy and endurance to navigate life's challenges and opportunities.
In practice
During a motivational speech on personal development.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.
You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.
Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.
Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.
Shift work, where the body clock is continuously changed, is really deleterious on many levels - from psychology to physiology.
No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
People with Alzheimer's deserve to be seen, so that we can find a cure!
I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.
Americans whisper the word Alzheimer's because their government whispers the word Alzheimer's. And although a whisper is better than the silence that the Alzheimer's community has been facing for decades, it's still not enough. It needs to be yelled and screamed to the point that it finally gets the attention and the funding that it deserves and needs.
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