The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
Interpretation
Treating your body well provides the best foundation for success in life.
This quote by Denis Waitley emphasizes the importance of valuing our physical health and well-being as essential components of a successful life. Just as a spacecraft is meticulously maintained and cared for to perform at its best, our bodies should also be treated with the utmost care to ensure we have the energy and endurance to navigate life's challenges and opportunities.
In practice
During a motivational speech on personal development.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.
You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.
Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.
Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.
It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.
The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science is that it takes the nutrient out the context of the food, the food out of the context of the diet, and the diet out of the context of the lifestyle.
Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
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