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Element 1: Body = Earth (土)

Q: Easiest way to loose a few extra pounds?

A: Diet (reduce SOS (Salt, Oil, Sugar), lower meats, avoid all processed, high calorie, junk food & alcohol. WFPB best w 6 small meals/day,
Exercise (Children/Adol min 7-15 hrs/wk, Adults min 5-10 hrs/wk, Seniors min 2.5-5 hrs/wk),
Meditation (Children/Adol-Quiet time min 15 min/day, Adults/Seniors 30-60 min/day),
and Sleep (Children/Adol 8-10 hrs/day, Adults 7-8 hrs/day, Seniors 8-9 hrs/day)

Q: How does exercise affect us?

A: Builds and maintins our physical, cardio-vascular system & generates our natural miracle drugs "DOSE ICE,"
DOSE ICE meaning Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, Endorphin, Insulin, Cortisol, Estrogen, etc.

Q: Best exercises?

A: Combine 1. Stretching, 2. Strength training (building muscle), 3. Cardio exercises.
FITT =
F: Frequency (6x/wk),
I: Intensity (45 to 80% of max - Treadmill test),
T: Time (30-60 min - 6x/wk),
T: Type (Aerobic continuous movement — such as walking, jogging, dancing, biking, and swimming & Anaerobic burst burns - sprinting, weightlifting, push-ups, squats, and jump rope)

Q: How to avoid most disease?

A: Diet, Exercise, Meditation, and Sleep
Mother of many diseases* = Obesity, a national epidemic, often causes or worsens
*1. Heart Disease: 655,381 dead
*2. Cancer: 599,274 dead
3. Accidents: 167,127 dead
*4. Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): 159,486 dead
*5. Hypertension (Stroke): 147,810 dead
*6. Alzheimer's Disease: 122,019 dead
*7. Diabetes: 84,946 dead
*8. Influenza and pneumonia: 59,120 dead

Q: Sleep vs Meditation?

A: Sleep = immune system, cellular repair, stress-processing like clear out brain beta-amyloid lower dementia and Alzheimer (REM = dreams)
Meditation = 2x/day 20 min (8 am & 4 pm) lets body rests up to 2 to 5 times deeper than the deepest part of sleep."
Sleep is "non-awake", "unfocused" dream state, while meditation is "awake" "eyes-open" calm state w much lower breath and heart rate,


Element 2: Emotion = Fire (火)

Q: How to stay passionate about anything?
Q: Would you like more passion to engage and endeavor?

A: Have Fascination, Kaizen - improve daily, Ikigai - purpose, raison d'être, Growth Mindset
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (GRIT)
1. Develop a fascination with what you will do.
2. Kaizen - improve daily.
3. Ikigai - a greater purpose than yourself.
4. A growth mindset.

Q: How to change habits?

A: 4 Cs - Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity.

Element 3: Mind = Water (水)

Q: Is your mindset where you need it?

A: Dweck's 1. Pessimism = Fixed Mindset
2. Optimism = Growth Mindset

Q: How to change mindset?

A: Seligman’s ABCDE method
Adversity,
Belief,
Consequences,
Disputing/Disproving beliefs on evidence,
Energy to solve the problem.

Element 4: Work = Metal (金)

Q: Rusty? Lost a little of your edge?

A: Influencing Principles
Complimenting,
Scarcity,
Authority,
Liking,
Reciprocity,
Social Pressure,
Consistency
Dweck's 2. Pessimism = Fixed Mindset vs. 2. Optimism = Growth Mindset

Q: Want to review and sharpen your skills to succeed again in business and career?

A: DISC Styles: Red, Yellow, Blue, & Green Behaviors

Element 5: World = Wood (木)

Q: Fall into some bad habits?

A: Start small grow big over time.
Keystone habits good start to develop discipline & sense of accomplishment.
Transfer skills to other needed/problem areas in life.

Q: Need to renew the people and places to influence and surround your business for success?

A: Seligman's PERMA
P: Positive Emotion,
E: Engagement,
R: Positive Relationships,
M: Meaning,
A: Accomplishments/Achievements)
Achieving "Flow" in what we do