New Insights---Hunger, Health, and Happiness

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Hunger, Health, and Happiness; a title stirring in my brain as I awoke this morning.  Many years ago I learned concepts of self-discipline when I was not disciplined much at all.  I was more than a typical self absorbed young adult trying to learn how to live on my own and prepare for my future. 

I skirted on the edge of rules at a conservative university feeling like I deserved some uniqueness. One day I realized that uniqueness is more those who learn how to control their lives than those who let life take them where every wind of cultural fancy blew. 

I wanted to be good at what my profession might be someday.  I wanted to do well in school so I could have opportunity open up to me.  I listened to a presentation which taught skills for time management.  I read a book about how to read a book faster.  I tried to improve my study skills.  I made list after list of things I needed to do to improve myself. 

Somehow I was still missing the improvement I expected.  The lesson for me was that learning self-discipline is like weight lifting.  You don’t go from bench pressing 125 to 215 over night.  It takes time and persistence to generate new habits to a self-perpetuating lifestyle. I would have to be patient as the new me emerged, or just give in to failure and mediocrity.  Patience was not my norm.  I needed an 8 week boot-camp so I could come out a different creature.  I had no idea growing up was going to be so hard. 

The rest of the school year went OK with incremental changes.  But boot-camp was still needed.  I chose a two year mission experience for my Church as my crucible.  I intended to be the hardest working most obedient missionary ever.  Talk about an extended boot-camp; missions are monk-like discipleship.  I was determined to survive. 

Now don’t get me wrong, I loved serving the people of British Columbia and Alaska, many of whom were native North Americans. But dirty moldy bathrooms, cots to sleep on, peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches or cold cereal at most meals, 16 hour work days, -50 degree weather, 90+% rejection, no television or other entertainment when you need to “chill”,  restricted library, constant return&report prying eyes, and a culture that insisted on not giving up, caused my free-spirit to feel claustrophobic.  But I was determined to finish the course. 

In late 1973 I left for home after two full years of self imposed spiritual, emotional, physical, and intellectual boot-camp. It was the most difficult thing I had done up to that point in my young life.  When I went back to college in January I discovered I had changed.  My focus was better, I had goals.  I was more interested in what the professors were trying to teach me.  My grades took a huge leap forward.  My boot-camp had done the trick.  Self-discipline was no longer the anomaly.  It had become much more natural. 

Now here is where Hunger, Health, and Happiness come in.  It takes a decent amount of self discipline to maximize happiness.  If we are too self absorbed we get out of balance and happiness suffers.  But learning to take care of the essential ingredients of life: hunger and health make it possible to access maximum strength and happiness.  A trusted Church leader taught me that in order to be of service to mankind, I must first learn to control my own appetites and passions.  Then I would be capable of helping others along the way.  His famous speech was titled “Know Thyself, Control Thyself, Give Thyself”.

So here I am 40 years after my boot-camp having made similar mistakes as in my younger years.  But this time the reason was different.  I had been serving others non-stop since I came out of my original boot camp and forgot to continue to control my appetites. I had gained a total of 100 pounds since I left my mission experience at age 21. 

So I have created a new boot-camp, but this time I sleep in a cozy bed in our comfortable home and have not had to go monk-like. My boot-camp is teaching me new habits to take care of my health and hunger.  I am eating differently now.  I am in my 6^th week of my weight loss program. 

My body is changing and my attitude is improving. My energy is up and my productivity is better.  My creativity is skyrocketing.  I have been caught off guard by how many things have changed since I determined to put some good old fashioned self-discipline back into my health habits.  Even my golf game improved.    

I have a long way to go.  I am particularly anxious to get to my goal-weight of 199 lbs so I can go on a maintenance program and keep the new habits firmly set.  I refuse to yo-yo this time.  I will be more useful to my wife, my family, my profession, and others.  Besides, it’s really nice to feel so much better physically.  Hunger, Health, and Happiness is my new mantra.   Happiness for me and thereby for others around me.           

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