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Good Morning MOJO,

Change or Die?!?!

What if a well-informed, trusted authority figure said you had to make difficult and enduring changes in the way you think and act? If you didn‘t, you would die soon…a lot sooner than it had to. Could you change when change really mattered?

Yes, you say?

Try again…you wouldn‘t change.

Don‘t believe it…you want the odds? Here are the odds: 9 to 1. That‘s 9 to 1 against you.

Do you realize a SMALL % of the population consumes the VAST majority of the health care budget for diseases that are very well known and by in large behavioral? That is, we are sick because of how we choose to live our lives, not because of any environmental or genetic factors beyond our control. They say it could be as much as 80% of our health care budget is consumed by these behavioral issues…smoking, eating, drinking, stress and lack of exercise.

Could it be the same way in other areas of our life? If other areas in our life are sick, could it be in large part due to behavioral issues that are in our control as opposed to conditions that are outside our control?

You want some more proof of the challenge we all face in change? There was a study done back in 1995 of people who went through bypass surgery…open heart surgery. Of those studied, within 2 years from surgery 90% went right back to their old unhealthy lifestyle. So, if the fear of DEATH doesn’t initiate change…where do we go from here? More importantly how do we get our stubborn brain to stop resisting change so tenaciously. Why do we fight it even when we KNOW if we don’t it will kill us?

Well, knowing that motivating people with the fear of death wasn’t the right approach because 90% went right back to where they were before, they tried a different approach. They changed their focus…have any idea to what? The joy of LIVING.

They took 300 patients and put a 100% daily effort into focusing their minds on all the daily things that make life great…and coached them on their mindset, their attitude, their daily habits, and surrounded them continually with the RIGHT influences. It was this change of focus…taking it away the fear of death and into the joy of living, that allowed 77% of the patients to sustain the lifestyle changes.

What changes do we need to make? Where is our focus…in fear or in joy?

It’s a New Year and its time to make some changes now!!!!!!!

Attached is the complete Change or Die Article…it is definitely worth taking the time to read.

Make is a GREAT week and a GREAT life!!!!!!

Happy New Year,

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” Lance Armstrong

Tom Tognoli
COO, Founder

Intero Real Estate Services
Direct: 650.622.1225 or 408.342.3001
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