A very common excuse I run into when people begin educating themselves about investing in a diet program or in a new book is 'I don't want to waste my money!!' WHOA, hold on there, learning about your health is a waste of money? Eating healthy is too expensive? How so? What is so important that you need that money for that is more important than your health?
It is a strange trend in society that we are reluctant to spend money on education but more than willing to spend money on something like junk food for example. We are very wary of 'scams' and are inclined to be negative towards educational products or services before we are positive.
Well I have another challenge for you; Write down all the money you HONESTLY spend in one week and what you spend that money on. And come back and tell me you have no room in your budget for your health. After all, money something you use to swap for something else. When you buy food you swap survival value (food) for financial value (money). When you buy new clothes you swap social value (clothes) for financial value (money). Money in itself is just a tool used to buy things (most which you probably don't need).
Ok, but let's go through the absolute worst case scenario possible!! You invest in a product or service which turns out to be of no value to you at all. Firstly, you probably didn't spend that much money on it in the first place; Books are cheap, many programs have refund policies, you usually don't have to spend a large amount of money upfront. Secondly you have just worked out what DOESN'T WORK for you, which you wouldn't have found out if you hadn't have tried. As Edison said "I have not failed, I have just found 1000 ways that don't work!" So you have not failed, you have just found a product or service that may not be compatible with you.
Remember, money can be earned back; Health and Psychological problems caused by obesity are often hard to reverse.
As for the notion that it is too expensive to eat healthy; Once again I challenge you to cost out your shopping list for eating healthy and compare it to your ordinary shopping list. Eating healthy isn't expensive, you just may not be educated enough at this point to be healthy on a budget.
I never want to hear that you are wasting your money by improving your health, even as you read this you know deep down that such a statement is ridiculous.
Until next time, Jack.
It is a strange trend in society that we are reluctant to spend money on education but more than willing to spend money on something like junk food for example. We are very wary of 'scams' and are inclined to be negative towards educational products or services before we are positive.
Well I have another challenge for you; Write down all the money you HONESTLY spend in one week and what you spend that money on. And come back and tell me you have no room in your budget for your health. After all, money something you use to swap for something else. When you buy food you swap survival value (food) for financial value (money). When you buy new clothes you swap social value (clothes) for financial value (money). Money in itself is just a tool used to buy things (most which you probably don't need).
Ok, but let's go through the absolute worst case scenario possible!! You invest in a product or service which turns out to be of no value to you at all. Firstly, you probably didn't spend that much money on it in the first place; Books are cheap, many programs have refund policies, you usually don't have to spend a large amount of money upfront. Secondly you have just worked out what DOESN'T WORK for you, which you wouldn't have found out if you hadn't have tried. As Edison said "I have not failed, I have just found 1000 ways that don't work!" So you have not failed, you have just found a product or service that may not be compatible with you.
Remember, money can be earned back; Health and Psychological problems caused by obesity are often hard to reverse.
As for the notion that it is too expensive to eat healthy; Once again I challenge you to cost out your shopping list for eating healthy and compare it to your ordinary shopping list. Eating healthy isn't expensive, you just may not be educated enough at this point to be healthy on a budget.
I never want to hear that you are wasting your money by improving your health, even as you read this you know deep down that such a statement is ridiculous.
Until next time, Jack.
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