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#129: Laugh in the Face of Death [Podcast]

#129: Laugh in the Face of Death [Podcast]

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 Welcome to Episode #129 of the Fight for a Happy Life podcast, “Laugh in the Face of Death.” How do you prepare to face the day? Do you have a morning routine to be at your best? Whether you rely on exercise, meditation, red light therapy, or coffee, once the day starts, most of us feel our power being sucked away… or given away. The insults and threats of daily life are relentless in their attack on our optimism, good will, and best intentions. But wait! Isn’t that what training in self-defense is all about? To defend our health, safety, and good vibes? Yes! We must become masters in managing our minds and emotions to maximize our power and optimize our chances at success in every realm. In this episode, I’ll share three simple actions you can take right now (and keep taking all day) to boost your fighting spirit. I’ll also discuss the advantages of facing threats with a smile and why laughing in the face of death is a smart strategy. Of course, I’ll be interested in what you have to say, too! If you’ve got a trick to optimizing your attitude and defending your heart, let me know! To LISTEN to “Laugh in the Face of Death,” just hit play below. Play the audio podcast below… or download to your device.Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher or Spotify. To WATCH the video version or READ the transcript, scroll down below. If you’d like to support this show, share the link with a friend or leave a quick review over on iTunes. Thank you! Oh—and don’t forget to sign up for free email updates so you can get new shows sent to your inbox the minute they’re released. Thanks for listening! Keep fighting for a happy life! Laugh in the Face of Death Here’s a video of the podcast. If the player doesn’t work, you can click this direct link. As always, if you’d like to comment (or complain!), feel free to leave a message here or through my Contact Page. TRANSCRIPT Today on Fight for a Happy Life, Laugh in the Face of Death. Howdy, Ando here from Happy Life Martial Arts. Welcome to episode number 129 of Fight for a Happy Life, the show that believes even a little martial arts makes life a whole lot better. Let me ask you something… How are you feeling? Are you feeling 100%? You probably don’t, and you’re probably at the age where you’ve realized you’ll never feel perfect again. There is no such thing as 100% anymore. Maybe you woke up with a fever today. Maybe you’ve been getting punched in the mouth a lot lately. Maybe you wanted to record a podcast and your wife can’t stand the sound of your voice droning on and on, so you’ve come out to the car instead. Whatever your circumstances, please know we must optimize ourselves to get the most out of what we’ve got. If you want a happy life, achieve your goals, feel fulfilled, we must try to come at it with everything we’ve got if we’re going to have any chance at all at success. It’s also true in the realm of self-defense that if you’re being attacked, we can’t focus on what we don’t have. We’ve got to make the most of what we do have to survive. Now optimizing sounds fancy, but really how can you optimize yourself? Let’s make this very simple. First fix your posture. Whatever you’re doing right now. Can you sit up a little straighter? Can you stand up a little straighter? Can you make yourself a little more aligned and comfortable? Two, can you take a big deep breath? Just take it. Everyone knows they should, but when was the last time today you took one? So take a big breath. Number three, add a little smile to your face, even if it’s half your face. Add a little smile. Find something you can be grateful for, something that makes you feel good, or, heck, if you have to fake it, just fake it. Make a smile. Now those three little things, if you just sat up, you took a breath, and you added a smile, I’ll bet you felt some percentage of improvement in your state of being. True? That little boost, it’s fascinating to me how little it takes to head us in the direction toward success instead of failure. Optimizing is not fancy. It doesn’t have to be. So, give yourself that quick little boost, feel a little bit better, and know that you just increased your chances at success and survival. It makes me think of an interview I saw once with Tom Brady, the NFL quarterback. And the Patriots, I believe, were getting blown out in the first half of the game. They came up for the second half, however, they rallied and came back to win the game. So, in the post-game interview, the interviewer asked Tom Brady, what was the conversation like during half time? How did you change the plan? What was said? And Tom Brady said, nothing changed. There was no new game plan drawn. What they needed to do was execute better. And I thought that was a fantastic concept, which is why I’m sharing it with you. Sometimes we doubt our systems, we doubt the mode, we doubt the information, when really it’s just, we have to be ...
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