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You have read Romans 12 before. Someone put verse 2 on a coffee mug and handed it to you at a men's breakfast.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Good verse. It is where almost every man starts.

Paul did not start there.

Verse 1 comes first, and verse 1 is about your body

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice.

Body in verse 1. Mind in verse 2. In that order, on purpose.

I have spent over thirty years as a Doctor of Chiropractic. More than 410,000 visits, hands on real people. That is where I learned the order matters, and it is why I will not coach a man's thinking while his body is running on fumes. It does not hold. You have felt it not hold.

What it looks like in an ordinary week

You decide Sunday night that this is the week. You are going to be patient with your wife, present with your kids, focused at work.

By Wednesday at four in the afternoon ...

The light changed this week. You saw it on the drive in, grey at seven where it was gold a month ago, and something in your chest did the math before your head got there. Summer is winding down. The year is not over.

Those last four months are where most men lose the year they said they wanted.

October shows up carrying other people's plans. November shows up carrying other people's expectations. December is spent before you get to it. By the second week of January you are looking back at a year you can describe and cannot point at. You made money. You cannot name what you built.

The season does not ask permission

It fills. An open calendar becomes a suggestion box, and every person in your life has a suggestion. Your calendar was built to hold your priorities and carry them into the week. Most men hand it over by the first week of October, then spend the rest of the year working someone else's plan with their own hours.

You know the sound of that one. It is the thought at eleven ...

This 1 Stress Slaying Tip neurologically and psychologically helps us Crawl Out of Our downstairs’ brain Transforming Renewing into Our Upstairs’ Brain.

This also stimulates Creativity which is 1 of the 7 Life Practices I love to preach  which’s essential for the Happy Life!

So get  your colored pencils and pens out!  Let’s go...

 I recommend drawing a repetitive seen of stress that negatively keeps popping up in your head as of late.  It may be ugly.  It may be a calm!  Either way, it’s an annoying scene.  Whatever it is, draw it!

For me, it’s my desk overran with countless tasks of paperwork out of order 😫! Awe it sends me into a frenzious monkey brain if I give it permission to!

Turn to your journal‘s next pg. 

Draw a Freedom Scene! To me it’s an eagle flying over a beautiful mountain set!  Sun shining bright!  Wind in my hair-I mean Feathers 😌!  Freedom!  Freedom!!  Oh wait we’re not done!

Now Flip back to the pg of negative stress.  STAB a large hole in it!  Awe, Let the S...

2 Simple Free Steps to a New You are:

1. Find, Search out People with Success-Full Skillsets and Join them!  There is so much to this. Most of us are stuck in the Negativity, watching negative news, joining in Complaint Conversations, always pointing out the wrong and Not BE-ing solution oriented.  This puts us in a negative stunted Brain literally shrinking our brains and self inflicting Dumbing Down!  We are who we hang around and the topics of our conversations determine who we become.  Choose Well, Transform and Transcend!!
2. Instead of taking a negative stand regarding the advances in technology, Robotics, Drones, Copying and Downloading the Human Brain, Artificial Intelligence, etc, Accept the Fact that the Future is here, alive and well.  We might as well use the technological advances of today for Good!  Stay abreast on what's New and incorporate AI in our lives for Better Choices.  Keep a Great attitude on the Now and Future.  Keep a great outlook regarding others, too, and wat
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