Comments on: How the Financial Crisis Can Benefit Your Health http://smarterfitter.com/blog/2008/10/13/how-the-financial-crisis-can-benefit-your-health/ Less diet, more brain Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:44:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: monica http://smarterfitter.com/blog/2008/10/13/how-the-financial-crisis-can-benefit-your-health/#comment-1298 monica Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:41:46 +0000 http://smarterfitter.com/blog/2008/10/13/how-the-financial-crisis-can-benefit-your-health/#comment-1298 Evita and Julie - you both bring up another thing I've noticed since the meltdown. That is, I haven't really noticed a thing! The whole crash hasn't seemed to effect me at all. I thought maybe this was because I live in London, but then I talked to my parents (mom runs her own business and dad is a teacher) and they didn't even mention it. They're actually selling their house and shopping for a new one. Isn't it nice to not have to "survive" the hard times? You both point out something key to making sure these hard times really aren't hard at all: maintaining positivity under ALL circumstances, good and bad. Sounds easy, I guess - but so is life. Julie, your comment on peer pressure made me think about how living in London has affected my lifestyle, and hastened my dreams of moving to the country! You're right, the city influences are "subtle and insidious". Much like the black dirt I find in my ears after a day's cycling in London. Someday I'll be smelling more roses than car exhaust. But while I'm here I'm trying to make the most of it, and look to the positive side of living in a big city. I want to believe that it's possible to live the lifestyle I propose while still living in "regular", urban society. Evita and Julie - you both bring up another thing I’ve noticed since the meltdown. That is, I haven’t really noticed a thing! The whole crash hasn’t seemed to effect me at all. I thought maybe this was because I live in London, but then I talked to my parents (mom runs her own business and dad is a teacher) and they didn’t even mention it. They’re actually selling their house and shopping for a new one.

Isn’t it nice to not have to “survive” the hard times? You both point out something key to making sure these hard times really aren’t hard at all: maintaining positivity under ALL circumstances, good and bad. Sounds easy, I guess - but so is life.

Julie, your comment on peer pressure made me think about how living in London has affected my lifestyle, and hastened my dreams of moving to the country! You’re right, the city influences are “subtle and insidious”. Much like the black dirt I find in my ears after a day’s cycling in London. Someday I’ll be smelling more roses than car exhaust. But while I’m here I’m trying to make the most of it, and look to the positive side of living in a big city. I want to believe that it’s possible to live the lifestyle I propose while still living in “regular”, urban society.

]]> By: Julie http://smarterfitter.com/blog/2008/10/13/how-the-financial-crisis-can-benefit-your-health/#comment-1295 Julie Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:07:15 +0000 http://smarterfitter.com/blog/2008/10/13/how-the-financial-crisis-can-benefit-your-health/#comment-1295 I enjoyed this post and, as I read it, I thought that perhaps we'd not be in this economic situation if we'd all been after this sort of mindset all along. I mean at all levels of society, the personal AND business worlds. My upbringing was just as you write about, so the lifestyle you describe is pretty close to what my husband and I practice. I must say, I've lived in a very rural community, in one of the US's largest cities, and now rural-urban just outside that city. What I found, even for myself, having back-to-basics thinking is in the city is difficult to maintain. "Keeping up with the Joneses" and peer pressure is very subtle and insidious. I can see how people without much self discipline can become mired in trouble. And "if everyone else is doing it...", well... You know, I found that living as you describe is so beneficial on many levels. My sense of community is larger, my outlook is sunnier, I'm in terrific health, I have the mental space to consider new horizons, and the time to enjoy my accomplishments. Life is just <i>nicer</i>. Not only do I SEE the "roses" so many other people seem to overlook, I stop and "smell them," too! I enjoyed this post and, as I read it, I thought that perhaps we’d not be in this economic situation if we’d all been after this sort of mindset all along. I mean at all levels of society, the personal AND business worlds.

My upbringing was just as you write about, so the lifestyle you describe is pretty close to what my husband and I practice. I must say, I’ve lived in a very rural community, in one of the US’s largest cities, and now rural-urban just outside that city. What I found, even for myself, having back-to-basics thinking is in the city is difficult to maintain. “Keeping up with the Joneses” and peer pressure is very subtle and insidious. I can see how people without much self discipline can become mired in trouble. And “if everyone else is doing it…”, well…

You know, I found that living as you describe is so beneficial on many levels. My sense of community is larger, my outlook is sunnier, I’m in terrific health, I have the mental space to consider new horizons, and the time to enjoy my accomplishments. Life is just nicer. Not only do I SEE the “roses” so many other people seem to overlook, I stop and “smell them,” too!

]]> By: Evita http://smarterfitter.com/blog/2008/10/13/how-the-financial-crisis-can-benefit-your-health/#comment-1290 Evita Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:47:25 +0000 http://smarterfitter.com/blog/2008/10/13/how-the-financial-crisis-can-benefit-your-health/#comment-1290 Well no, I cannot say the economy has changed a thing for me. In fact I consider myself quite oblivious to the whole situation - not because I am naive or ignorant but because I choose to focus my life and revolve it around positive energy. I live based on the belief that we are all capable of creating our own reality regardless of what is happening in the world around us. Most of the time it is as easy as not getting sucked into other people's drama and a matter of personal perspective. However having said that - just based on health reasons I am a huge and I mean HUGE fan of eating in at home - healthy, personally prepared and cooked meals just can't be beat! And like you I am planning to quit my job in June and go freelance too - regardless of what is happening in the economy. I have no doubt that everything will work out for you Monica - just as long as you keep moving in the direction of your own wonderful creations :) Well no, I cannot say the economy has changed a thing for me. In fact I consider myself quite oblivious to the whole situation - not because I am naive or ignorant but because I choose to focus my life and revolve it around positive energy. I live based on the belief that we are all capable of creating our own reality regardless of what is happening in the world around us. Most of the time it is as easy as not getting sucked into other people’s drama and a matter of personal perspective.

However having said that - just based on health reasons I am a huge and I mean HUGE fan of eating in at home - healthy, personally prepared and cooked meals just can’t be beat!

And like you I am planning to quit my job in June and go freelance too - regardless of what is happening in the economy.

I have no doubt that everything will work out for you Monica - just as long as you keep moving in the direction of your own wonderful creations :)

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