The Easy Way to Find What You’re Looking For
Remember Miss Cleo?
She was the Psychic Reader’s Network pay-per-call service host from 1997–2003.
She had many thousands of viewers and callers into her live show every night where she’d perform live fortune-telling & Tarot Card readings.
Her no-nonsense delivery and exotic Jamaican accent made her a star very quickly as a late-night infomercial sensation.
Infomercials get a bad rap — I’ve loved many late-night informercial products from Oxi-Clean, to Sham-Wow’s, to Flex-Seal (RIP Billy Mays). I always loved their rapid delivery & certainty in the products.
It’s an art.
And Cleo was an artist. She could tell the future — it seemed. She’d listen to caller’s situations, ask a few questions, and deliver cold, hard, no-nonsense direction on what to do. The callers would fall over themselves telling her how right she was. “How’d you know?”
Because she was always right.
But (spoiler alert) she couldn’t really see into the lives of her callers.
In reality, she was skilled at telling callers things they already knew…but wanted reassurance, verification, and ultimately permission to act upon.
Here’s the truth: you and me…we search for validation of our own feelings consciously and unconsciously. Think about how we Google things: When I want to know the benefits of kale, I search “why is kale good for me?” or “why is kale a superfood?”.
What results are Miss Cleo-esque —returning what I want to know. Articles and studies proving, heralding the importance of kale.
It takes a few searches and a little scrolling find that kale can in-fact be dangerous for people with thyroid conditions due to it’s use & redirection of iodine in the blood.
What I want you to take-away from this is: you will find what you look for.
You do not need permission to question the status-quo framework that surrounds you. You can thrive with “unorthodox” methods. This applies to diet, exercise, relationships…
3 Square Meals a day? Please.
Treadmill running isn’t as good as normal running? So what?
Love means never saying you’re sorry? Nope.
Rule #1 of creating any shift in your life (like becoming the man you were meant to be) is sustainability. It has to be appealing. You don’t just have to believe/want it, you have to want to want it.
Why do you eat at breakfast, lunch, and dinner times?
Because…that’s what time it is? No. The time is 7am, mid-day, or 7pm.
Surely this has happened to you: you’re at work, in-the-zone, crushing your way through the day, only to suddenly see that it’s past noon or 1pm.
“Damn, I need to eat lunch” you tell yourself.
Why? Because…it’s lunch-time damn it.
Wrong.
I invite you to consider — for the sake of example — eating only when your body tells you you’re hungry, instead of when the day somehow told you.
What are you afraid of? “Messing up your appetite for later”?
Really?
It’s funny, I ranted about this idea a little on the latest episode of my podcast The BBQ Diet — along with comments about Cosmo Magazine & a short story about my latest killer brisket-cook. Take a listen if you’re interested:
Orthodox eating schedules are best used for growing children. But you’re an adult. You make the rules, don’t you?
Eat when you damn well see fit. You have permission.
Until next time, take care of it.
David
PS
If you aren’t sure where to focus your fatloss efforts, I’d be happy to point you in the most productive direction. Act now, & reap the benefits of a body that you can be proud of for years.
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