I was speaking to an older gentleman in a coffee shop recently who was eighty years of age. He didn’t look it and truly he was the picture of health. I asked him what he did for a living when he worked and he told me that he was a mailman. Back then a mailman carried a leather bag and walked up and down in neighborhoods delivering mail to houses. So he walked a lot during the day. I asked him what he does now to stay in such good shape and he told me that he walks one mile a day, every day. A routine he was familiar with and was used to. This helped in maintaining his weight, kept his heart strong and his blood work was always perfect. The trick was he did it consistently and in moderation. Consistency and moderation make it far easier to continue and allows us to keep a healthy balance. So avoid excess, stay consistent and be patient with yourself and you will discover the secret to lifelong health and well being.
11. Start listening to understand We all like to be heard; and some of us like to be heard a bit too much. We can have a tendency to inundate a conversation with our own interests and just love communicating to people how smart we are or how we solved some large scale problem at work. If you happen to be with someone when this is going on it can be sad to watch the expression on the listeners face when they are interrupted or when the speaker almost starts another conversation that is totally off the topic that was being discussed. Most people like to listen to respond. You can see it in their eyes and body posture. They discovered a link in a conversation and want to talk so bad that they are practically leaning into the speaker. Look, this is an easy one: below I am going to explain the five types of listening. You decide which
