So I have a story that I have to share with you guys because it might be extraordinary today. I think it came very much from one of these moments. Years ago, well I guess I was 23, John and I, that’s the year that we started our business when I was 23 and it was—well let’s just say, as I have told you before, there was a lot going on that year, you know we had just gotten married and we had just moved to Wisconsin and we’re just starting a business, so, you know, needless to say, that’s a fairly high stress time in one’s but I've never been a person who—well I've never thought of myself as a person who is stressed. I've always said to myself—you know as very on the go and I can handle this and I'm a goal setter and all that kind of stuff and I just kind of fly with stuff and go along with it.
Well, so we’ve got all this stuff going, a brand new business, a brand new marriage, a brand new little farm that is—we’re doing everything we can to keep all this stuff together and I wake up one day and I can't move my arms to wash my hair. There is so much pain in my body and all my muscles hurt so much I started to not be able to function actually in so many ways when I laid down it hurt, anything I did my body hurt. So I went to the doctor and I had all these tests and I mean every test you can imagine, nobody could find anything wrong with me, it must be this, they test me, it must be this, they test me and I was starting to feel like this guinea pig, if you will of just a bunch of needles being stuck on me. My mom and I went up to Meo Clinic and we had a few days up there and it ended up, low and behold, the brain is a strong thing, it was stress. And I don’t know if this has ever happened to you before and I'm sure we've all had things in our lives that bring us perspective but it was huge, I mean it took me over, it rocked my world. And once I knew it was stress, I realized even though I'm a really positive person, I had to focus even more on being positive.
So that’s kind of when I started a lot of my mantras and things, embraces sweetness of life and I just kind of put these things in front of me and then I decided the other thing I had to do is—and you know, we all have these things, I kept my eyes up here and anytime I feel a lot of stress coming on, I’ll kind of do this thing, rise above it and I’ll keep my eyes up here on anything positive that I can, because I know that if I remain really positive no matter what's going on, no matter what kind of stuff is being thrown at me or our family or our business or anything that’s happening in life, you know it’s so easy for even sometimes really little things, I know you know stress us out. I mean it can be anything, well I know you’ve got dozens of them too.
So it’s just a little reminder that staying positive, focusing on all the good things that are in front of you, all the wonderful things and I kind of do that mental list all the time, I mean if I'm going into one of those moments where I'm kind of—that we all can have, then I’ll just kind of—I’ll just—I literally almost tilt my head up and I’ll kind of put my eyes up there and I’ll say, you know what, no I'm not going to because I'm not get anything out of it, I'm not going to get anything out of worrying about it, I'm not going to get anything out of getting stressed out about it, I am going to find a way to make sure that I'm keeping my eyes focused on positive things. So when that whole thing happened to me where my body literally wasn’t functioning anymore, I mean my brain just sort of set my body into this weird, funky place.
Once I realized it was stress, I made some changes in my life, you know I did focus on more positive things, I took care of myself in a different way. I stopped working until 10:00 every single night. We didn’t have kids then so I could work until 10:00 every single night. I just started treating myself a little bit differently. I felt I was so superhuman. I can do anything, you know I can handle all these stuff and I started realizing, what? What am I getting out of this? A lot of pain, my—for your body to hurt like that and that’s when I realized, you know your health, your mental and physical wellbeing are so important. So, I always want to encourage you to be extraordinary. I know that you already are, and just be positive, grasp on to any little thing you can to stay positive and that will allow you to have an even more extraordinary experience.
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