It’s not always easy to be at our best. I often say that having a healthy, natural lifestyle is one of the keys to get the best of us. However, I often struggle to follow my own advice. Sometimes, I don’t feel like cooking, and just feel like eating fries and cheesecake. Sometimes, I don’t want to think about the people that have worked in slavery conditions to produce the sugar in that chocolate bar. Sometimes, I feel frustrated by the lack or organic products at my grocery store and just want to eat strawberries that don’t cost half of my grocery budget! But then I turn on my core beliefs and realize that I’m about to choose laziness and mediocrity over being my true self and be at my best. I have to come back to my senses and think: “how my decisions will impact my life and the world I live in?” This doesn’t mean that I always eat the healthiest possible, or that I never compromise. For me eating healthy 80% of the time makes me feel comfortable with the occasional binge. However, there’s things that I whish I wouldn’t compromise. Those things are when my choices have an impact on the world we live in. Like choosing to close my eyes when buying something I suspect to be not fair-trade, or that supports companies with questionable ethics. This is for me like betraying myself. It’s a betrayal of my core values and it goes against my strongest beliefs, against all I wish the world could be. My mom asked me a while ago why am I eating so healthy. “Are you so afraid of being sick?” She asked. This question really made me realize that being healthy goes way beyond avoiding diseases. Eating the healthiest possible is for me part of being at my best. It’s also a way of living according to my core values, a lifestyle that is perfectly aligned with the world I want to live in. Have you ever imagined what life would be if every single person in this world would be living at their best? If every people on this earth would have the strength to be their true self and to live according to their own values? The world would certainly be a better place. So no, I can’t let me betray myself. I can’t just stop caring about the world we live in, and let my aspirations and beliefs die slowly because of laziness and lack of focus. That’s why everyday is another journey to strengthen my commitment to be at my best and hopefully, inspire people to do the same. And what about you? Are you living at your best? Does your actions always reflect your ideal world, or if you too, sometimes choose things that are not your ideal just because it’s easier, more convenient or more comforting? What are you doing to live according to your own values? | ||||
