This site is the website of motivational speaker Craig Harper. A constantly updated, one-stop information, inspiration, education and motivation station. Unlike many similar sites, it is a totally free resource for anyone who is serious about moving from mediocre to amazing in any area of their personal or professional life. With hundreds of articles covering a wide range of subject matter, great interviews with cool people and inspirational video posts, there's more than enough brain-food to keep you busy for hours. Okay, days!! Enjoy.
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Fattitude
- Craig Harper
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notion of Renovating Your Body - once and for all. Many of us have a curious
ability to be able to get in shape for events (weddings, parties, reunions
and birthdays), if only we'd get in shape for life.
Craig Harper is Australia's leading
motivational speaker
and educator (according to Google Australia). He is a highly
sought-after corporate coach and is considered to be
a leader and pioneer in the areas of personal and
professional development.
Working with hundreds of
teams, companies and a wide variety of organisations
on numerous continents over the last twenty years
has given Craig a unique insight into, and
understanding of, human performance and all its
variables. Craig has an ability to educate, inspire,
challenge and make people laugh all at the same
time!
If you buy a television, a car, an iPod, a blender or pretty much anything these days, you can be sure of one thing - an accompanying 'user-manual'. A book or leaflet which tells you how to 'drive' your new acquisition. Yep, even a carton of milk comes with specific and detailed user instructions on the side. Who would have thought that pouring milk could be such a complicated and potentially high-risk process?
One of the many ironies of our world is that the most intricate, amazing and complex 'machine' in existence (the human body), comes with no instruction manual. "Here yer go Mr and Mrs Harper; one loud, screaming, kinda slimy small human - enjoy that. Er, him. I know you probably have lots of questions, but just take him home; you'll figure it out. You've got a while."
Sure, there have been numerous 'manuals' written on the most effective way to operate a human, but if you invest the time and energy to read them, you'll find that, as user-manuals go, they're mostly kind of confusing, somewhat contradictory (to the other manuals) and really, really, long. And the reality is that sometimes, in certain situations we don't have the time to go and refer to our manual anyway. Then what?
If only the human body had some kind of inbuilt feedback system to tell us what it needs. That would be cool. Kind of like an interactive, living, breathing user-manual. It could tell us things like when we need to eat less or more. Or when we need more sleep or rest. Or when we're dehydrated. Or injured. Or when we're over-trained. Or unfit and unhealthy. Or when we need to change a behaviour or habit in some way. It would give us some physical signals maybe. We might call them symptoms. If that were the case, then we could simply interpret these signals and adjust our behaviour accordingly to create the desired outcomes. That would be easy and efficient. We wouldn't need to rely on a written user-manual because ours would be inbuilt! An automatic and instant feedback system of sorts. What a concept. Wouldn't that be amazing? A machine that tells you what it needs. How advanced.
For example, we could interpret obesity as our body's way of saying "er, excuse me, I think you're feeding me too much and moving me too little", and we'd simply eat less and move more; bingo - fixed! Or we could interpret our yellow teeth, stinky breath and decreased lung capacity as our body's way of saying "hey, I'm really not a fan of this smoking thing"! Maybe we could see the on-going headaches, the lethargy, the white crap on our tongue and the irritability as a sign that our body might want to drink something other than coffee, coke and alcohol every now and then. Water perhaps. Or maybe we could consider our typical poor health to be an indicator that we need to change something significant about the way we live, rather than pop another pill. Crazy stuff I know, but just imagine if this were reality. We'd all be so healthy and functional.
Well, fortunately for us, in 2008 we have the luxury of talking 'user-manuals'. Phew. We call them 'experts'; doctors, psychologists, dietitians, personal trainers, physical therapists, dentists and a whole bunch of people (mainly medical folk) whose job title ends in the word(?) - 'ologist'. How lucky are we? Yep, these experts can tell us how to most effectively operate a human. How to eat optimally. How to treat injuries and illness. How to talk to other humans (can be tricky). How to exercise a human body and make it work more efficiently. And most importantly, how to make a human look good. Apparently, how a human looks is more important that how it operates. Not sure why though. I'm still researching that. Although there is much public debate about what is visually appealing. When it comes to dressing a human, it seems that there is no real consensus. Sorry, I digress.
But what if talking user-manuals are not always the answer either? Sure, they have some knowledge and they sound smart enough, but what happens when we ask ten different 'experts' the same question? Brain-ache, that's what. Confusion and despair. How are we non-experts meant to sift through the ever-expanding sea of conflicting ideas, schools of thought and philosophies on how best to operate a human, if they can't all agree?
If only someone would invent a human body which would provide us with constant feedback about what it needed. Then we'd be set. Then we'd all be healthy.
*Now, before you 'experts' get all precious and write in and tell me how irresponsible I am, listen up. I am not for one moment suggesting that professionals with specialist knowledge, skills and expertise should not be an integral and valuable part of any overall health strategy - when necessary. I refer people to a wide range of specialists often (apparently I'm meant to be one).
What I am saying (if you missed my rather obvious and sarcastic point) is that this marvelous machine that we call the human body is constantly 'telling us' what it does and doesn't need - how to operate it. Unfortunately, over time we have trained ourselves not to speak it's language; to ignore its voice. If we would simply listen to, and act upon, the constant stream of information that our body sends to our brain (our very own inbuilt user-manual), we would be a much healthier population and some of us 'experts' might have to find a second job. I'd be okay with that. I could always start a blog.
Today's take-home Message: Stop ignoring (neglecting, abusing, compromising) your body.
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