The only normal people are the one’s you don’t know very well.
-Alfred Adler
The man who spoke these words was founding the school of individual psychology back at the end of the 1800’s, but they have never been more relevant than today. His peers and colleagues were intellectual giants like Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. Over 100 years later and we are still mulling over the “weird” ideas these gentlemen introduced into the mind of our collective culture. We are still coming to terms with the ideas that spilled out of that era. The ideas of these men and others such as Tesla and Edison and Einstein were the culmination of the seeds planted by the Enlightenment area in Europe during the preceding hundred years. The intellect of the general public has taken this long to catch up.
What was the main idea of the Enlightenment, you ask?
Wikipedia will tell you that it’s purpose was to reform society using reason. The goal was to challenge all ideas, especially those grounded in tradition and faith, and to advance knowledge through the scientific method. It promoted skepticism on all fronts. The Enlightenment was a revolution in human thought. It’s rather easy for us to see how many benefits came to our culture from this period, but to the rest of the general population at the time it was absolutely crazy. Completely weird! But they showed us that there is a HUGE advantage to being weird and thinking differently than the herd.
It is too true that the definition of a “normal” person is a person we don’t know very well.
Everybody is a different person behind closed doors. You would be shocked to see what some of your closest friends are doing behind closed doors right now as you read this. I’ll bet your grandmother would be completely shocked to see that thing you did just the other day. Don’t lie! Pretty much every person you have ever seen in your entire life is a complete weirdo. The whole idea that there exists these “normal” people that we need to stifle out our uniqueness to impress is complete bullshit. Owning your weirdness is wonderful and freeing.
What you think of as your greatest flaw might actually be your greatest gift in helping you become your greatest version.
-Ralph Smart
I grew up knowing I was different. My mind was on things like the cosmos and ancient Egypt from the time I was old enough to read. I was into all sorts of things that none of my friends and family were too interested in. At a certain age after starting school I thought I was too “weird” to be fully accepted by the herd. I stopped being comfortable with my weirdness and didn’t talk about anything “weird” for almost 20 years. 20 whole years! I was more concerned with socializing and sports and everything else that fills time. I am proud to have finally arrived at a place where I am only going to keep getting weirder as time goes on and I get more confident in myself. The more confident you become in owning and
expressing your authentic uniqueness the more of your inner weirdo exposed to others with no fear.
If you’re reading my articles, chances are you’re a weirdo too. The greatest way to be weird around normal people is to stop justifying what you are doing if you feel it is right. It still won’t make sense to anybody that doesn’t want to understand and you should save your energy for something you really want to be doing. We can’t go around trying to convince everyone that we are right. We need only to BE the way that we know we should BE. Live the lifestyle that you know you should. Act in an authentic way and do what you feel in your heart to be right all of the time.
It’s always easier to fight for one’s principles than live up to them.
-Alfred Adler
A sad truth to face as adults about ourselves and other adults is that you can’t SAVE anybody. When you force somebody into something they’re not (at their core) ready to do, you’re not helping them. They’re not changing at the “being level” because they are not putting their own honest effort in. It’s like helping them cheat on their homework in school. Which only leads to cheating on the test, failing the course, and more risky behavior down the road. They’re not learning their lesson they’re meant to be learning and as soon as you slack 
in your involvement they go right back to the condition you found them in. If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. The only way to truly lead and inspire real change is to lead by example. BE that change you want to see in the world and stop leading horses to water.
Come out of the closet about whatever makes you weird. Don’t be afraid to share your ideas, but don’t force them or feel you have to defend them. We are afraid to reveal to the world who we really are. We keep ourselves in perpetual bondage because we are afraid of being whispered about. Let’s face it. You are going to be ridiculed and called out by people who are close to you as well as people you’ve never and will never meet. Don’t let that bother you. My wife and I literally had to “come out” to our families about eating a healthier diet and getting rid of other toxic things from our lifestyle. It was a lot harder than you think to say, “No offense, but I don’t eat that anymore.” You also wouldn’t believe the looks I get when I tell somebody I moderate my kids’ sugar intake.
The herd is programmed to police itself. The herd doesn’t like when you start doing anything that makes them feel uncomfortable. This is especially true if it involves you starting/stopping something that makes them feel like they aren’t making the best
choices in their own life. We get very insecure around people who we feel are “better off” than we are. We break ourselves down in our own mind and tell ourselves that we are “less than” and not “equal to.” We literally and subconsciously hand our power over to anybody our mind has identified as “superior” to us. This isn’t fair because of how aggressively our subconscious concepts of who we should be idolizing are molded by the media. This is followed by accusing said person of “thinking they are better than us” when the only problem exists within the story we’re telling ourselves in our own heads.
The truth is that we are all magical beings that are capable of manifesting anything we can imagine into our lives as long as we put in the required effort. We need to keep looking in the mirror when we complain about things that are happening in our life. Like one of Tony Robbins’ mentor
Jim Rohn always says, “If you want your life to get better, you’ve got to get better” and “If you’re not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to 
settle for the ordinary.” Don’t be afraid to be yourself. Don’t be afraid to start making changes in the way you think and set some new goals. There is literally nothing stopping you from doing anything you want if you are confident enough withstand the criticism until you get there.
Evolving Every Day in Every Little Way
The largest danger in life is that you might be too careful.
-Alfred Adler
Now I know that we are all familiar with this little saying, but I always took it for granted and never really thought about it. It is quite profound to speak of the fact that your body has a living ecosystem inside of it. You put food into your mouth which is taken through a process involving billions of living organisms who use enzymes and other chemicals to break the food down into it’s components. These guys then use the good raw materials to build new cells/perform maintenance on the body, pass the unneeded waste down the line, and store the rest as fat for a rainy day.
words, you fall into a state of disease. Dis-ease, that means you are not at ease, and under stress. Under stress, things don’t run optimally. If your body were a city, there would be garbage in the streets, bad plumbing, and maybe even talk of rebellion (cancer).
I had to take action. I made the choice and I educated myself in a way that our schools and our parents done. I did my own homework. I went to battle with these three addictions that were leading me down the road to cancer and obesity. I look at too many people I love that are losing this battle not even knowing there is one and how to stop it. This war on health has decimated my family, I can tell you that much. That’s why I need to pass this knowledge on.
That’s right, I’m talking about soda, pop, fizz, or whatever new slang you kids are using it these days. Better toss in energy drinks, most juices the kids drink, and sports drinks on the to-avoid list.
heard. When you drink soda pop out of plastic (cups or bottles) the chemicals and acids in the soda pop break down and mix with the chemicals in the plastic which (mostly petroleum) and the resultant chemical changes male hormones into female hormones after it hits your blood stream. This is causing breast cancer in males AND females.
fresh fruit to get your sweets. Even some raw cane sugar, maple syrup, honey. Stay with things that actually come out of nature.
reduce the good cholesterol (HDL). Corn oil, canola oil, sunflower oil; these are all full of high amounts of poly unsaturated fats while our body consists of about 97% saturated fats and mono-unsaturated fats. This increases your triglycerides which are the blood fats that clog up veins and arteries making it harder for blood to circulate around the body and raising blood pressure. Also produce free radicals that cause cancer down the line.
Coconut oil is full of the mono-unsaturated fats our body needs and uses. As a bonus, 50% of the fats contain lauric acid which is an immune booster and natural anti-viral. We literally use coconut oil for butter, to cook with, to pop popcorn with, to eat, and even as a lotion. For other healthier cooking alternatives to vegetable oil use my runner-up favorite extra virgin olive oil or flaxseed oil.
degrees F the enzymes become denatured. Is it a coincidence that a fever over 104 becomes deadly? Please don’t take my word for any of this, look it up. Fried food is all but devoid of enzymes, so we get very little nutrition from it. It mostly passes right through us without being digested and utilized by the body. Any of it that does get broken down is at the expense of the enzymes robbed from healthy cells. Eating fresh foods, at close to body temperature, in their most natural state is what works optimally for digestion and integration. It’s what our bodies evolved side by side with.
I know, I know. Nobody wants to hear ANYTHING about cutting back on the meat intake. I’ll admit that this is my biggest struggle with taking my healthy eating to the next level. I crave meat. I love a big juicy steak or a nice pork tenderloin… Sorry for the Homer Simpson moment, but you get the picture. We like meat, but we need a reality check about how good it is for us (especially the factory processed varieties). The World Health Organization released a study saying that processed meats cause cancer in the body. Think about it, do your own homework. Watch a couple of documentaries like Food Inc. and Forks Over Knives which are real life horror flicks themselves. We need to get over our meat addiction.
beaks, no feet, and no feathers. Of course the industry put out their own contradictory press releases, but you’ll find out the truth when you do your own homework. If you walked through there you would think you died and went to a horrible place. On top of it, when you inject hormones in to the chicken to make it grow, it creates cancer all throughout the chicken.
your species. When you intake that into your body, your body reads the data on that disk and has a reaction. From the point of view of your body, it’s like watching a horror movie for your cells. That’s why our Jewish people are only supposed to eat Kosher meat. They are not to cause pain to any animal, and when they kill an animal to eat it unconsciousness must be instantaneous. They know that when an animal dies in a state of terror, that fear keeps on resonating through every living cell in it’s body even past it’s death. WE HAVE HAD THIS ENERGETIC KNOWLEDGE BEFORE.
the past couple years and I’m really getting to where I know I need to finally rip the band-aid off. I get the “why are you a vegetarian, where are you going to get your protein?” I didn’t know what to say at first so I had to do a couple google searches. Ask and you shall receive.
1 teaspoon gives you 4 grams of protein. Spirulina is also packed full of magnesium to help build muscle and repair the body. Super green powder.
Popeye had the right idea when he picked his favorite dark leafy greens. 1 cup of spinach is 5 grams of protein. A few cups of spinach salad will give you a whole day’s protein.
A mere 30 calories of broccoli has 4.5 grams of protein. Broccoli is a fractal food as well. Look up “fractal foods” if you want an interesting lesson.
You can eat a handful of almonds (about 10 ounces) and chew up a whole 7 grams of protein. Even Peanut butter will give you 8 grams of protein in two tablespoons. Fresh, unsalted nuts are my new #1 Snack. Can’t get enough!
have to be weak. A gorilla eats bamboo all day and he would have no problem ripping your arm off.
My family and I moved down to Southern Texas in 2014. Prior to that we had been living in Chicago, so we couldn’t get enough of the sun and the year round pool access. Being in the sun much more than we were previously accustomed to had us using way more sunscreen than before. Having to apply sunblock on my two young daughters’ bodies almost every day (sometimes multiple times per day) really caused me to start paying attention to the ingredients in this stuff.
The two brands I had in my bag at the time, along with about every major name brand, and even the cheap-o store brands contain toxic chemicals that actually accelerate damage to the body and skin they are supposed to protect. Be on the lookout for these 5 dangerous chemicals on your sunscreen and put it back on the shelf if you haven’t bought it yet!!!
Linked to lowering the birthrate in babies whose mother’s had high exposure during pregnancy. Some also say it my be linked to higher rates of melanoma, the very cancer we are trying to protect ourselves from. Also linked to hormone disruption, the development of allergies in the body, and cell damage. Releases free radicals.
Quickly breaks down under UV exposure and is one of the biggest free radical generators. Free radicals are high energy particles that damage cells and DNA, cause cancer, and speed up the aging process.
Although vitamin A is a necessary nutrient for health, it degrades under UV exposure and releases the same free radicals causing genetic mutations and increasing cancer risk. When used by pregnant women, it has been linked to fetal brain swelling, organ toxicity, and developmental toxicity.
A common preservative in many beauty products shown to cause estrogen disruption and immunotoxicity. Also associated with infertility, neurotoxicity, abnormal testicular development, allergies, benign tumors of the uterus and digestive tract, asthma, breast cancer, and even contribute to obesity.
Sunblocks use a plethora of chemical fragrances to make their smell more tolerable to the user including phthalates. Usually called “artificial fragrance” which is the umbrella term for this group of chemicals. Known to cause neurotoxicity and immune system toxicity. Linked to cancer, allergies, birth defects, and even nervous system disorders.
want to steer clear. I don’t know about you but I buy just about everything but food online. What you want to be looking for instead is one with the main ingredient ZINC OXIDE or even Titanium Dioxide. These sit on the skin differently and don’t come with the host of alleged side effects. Even your buddy Dr. Oz recommends making the switch so please don’t take my word as an expert authority. Do your own homework.
