Season 1 Chapter 17 - Q4 Process- Your Health Standards

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Chapter 17 Q4 Process your health status standards. Welcome back to the Synergy Health welcome back to the Synergy Health Solution. In these next few minutes, we're going to be hearing from Dr. Janowitz about setting health standards for ourselves and how to make better habits.

Awesome.

Tell us, Dr. Janowitz, how can we create better habits? And what is people's quality of life based on really?

Sure. Well, I believe that the quality of somebody's life is based upon the quality of standards that they choose to live in that particular area. So when we talk about health, it all becomes a standard. And one thing I've learned in some of the coaching is one of the worst places to live in is in this state of what's called toleration, where you just accept for how things are and, and that's how they're supposed to be. And so a lot of people tend to equate what's common in their life. And this is where the trick, where the trap happens is they tend to equate what's common in their life as normal. So, oh, I wake up and I have this certain energy level. I'm always like a good seven. And it's okay, it's not a 10, but it's not a four. And this is what I go through with my life where I have this pain and I'm always had this way. And it's, you know, my common headache that I get or my common knee issue or common digestive issue. And we start to accept that as our standard. And then when we accept it as our standard of living, then we don't take any action to make a change because that is our standard. Or I mean, you know, many of us have been in relationships that were not very high standard in our life to what we have now and very disempowering. And then we discover that, right? And then maybe we make a change. But you don't make that change until you see that your standard is being rubbed the wrong way. And so the quality of your life is based upon the quality of standards that you choose, which is the minimal acceptable return in that area of your life. And so how you make that change is the moment that you decide that that standard is no longer your standard. It's when you have a change in your power, in your value, in your values and in your value for yourself that your standards change. And you say, that's it. Never again. This isn't who I am. And the moment you change, it changes. So there's a lot of talk about habit forming, like, oh, it takes some books say, and some research says it takes 21 days of doing something to form a habit, or it takes 60 days of doing this to form a habit. And although there is a time factor, I believe the underlying psychology behind it is a standard issue. How you make a change in a habit is you say, this is who I am now. This is the core of what I believe. And then this is the standard to which I'm going to choose life. And so when you make that shift, which is a value and a power shift, it becomes a standard shift. And we could talk about this really anywhere in the process of the Synergy success cycle. It really blends in power, it blends in purpose. The standard of your values, the standard of your vision. It can talk about the standard of the people. We talk about it. Surrounding yourself with the top five people in your life or who's on your mentor bench or your healthcare accountability team, what's the standard for that? But it really blends well with process because the standard to which you execute your actions in your life is going to really dictate those habits, which is going to dictate the results that you have in life.

You have a quote in your book that says, high standards create high results. High standards create consistent results.

That's right. Because when you have that, it becomes consistent because that's your baseline. So if you're operating at this level of your health, you have to understand that you're operating at that level because you have a standard that that is acceptable. And the moment you see it as a different way, and that's where a health leader or a really good healthcare coach, you know, I would say that my gift is to help people become aware of where they presently are at with their health. See it for how it is, not see it worse, but get reality as to what their current situation is, what's going to happen, and then paint a picture what's going to happen in the future if they don't do anything about that. But then, even more importantly than that, Jenny, is to then say, what if you can live A life like this. What if you can have this? What if this can occur? Well, all I'm doing is I'm elevating their standard and then getting them to believe in that standard and then to create that as their new floor of where they want to be. And once they do that, their health just automatically changes. Not just in one area, but in every area. It's so cool.

As I'm hearing you speak, I have this vision of you literally handing someone a key to unlock another door.

Yes.

You know, people, they don't always set the standards. They kind of, like you said, accept the them. Maybe because they were taught that that's all they were worth having.

That's right.

Or because that's what their life experience has been.

Yeah, so true.

But it's really just a mindset. It's a conscious decision to change the standards. I mean, it's really a simple concept. It's not a common one, but it's a simple one. If you really just sit and think about it.

That's right.

And so you're giving them the key to unlock another door. This is amazing.

And, you know, a lot of times someone has to get to the low to really see that. And, you know, so it's like, you know, why does God give us the bad times and the good times? Well, sometimes the bad times can serve as a very big value clarification. And it can also serve as a springboard to say, hey, this is not the life I wanted to live. I deserve so much more. So frustrations lead to breakthroughs, and frustrations can lead to setting a new standard. You know, I was in a relationship before my wife, and I was accepting that standard of that relationship. I knew that subconsciously it wasn't the best relationship for my potential. And it's not that she was a bad person. It just was an incompatibility, great person. However, it wasn't until I took her to my parents and we had my father's 65th birthday, and then she interacted with them, and then I saw that it didn't work, and I saw that it was very incongruent. And it was at that point that I had that clarification that this is not the standard of what I wanted for my relationship. And frankly, it wasn't the best for her. So it was at that time to free the relationship up to where she can find the person that's best for her and I can find the best person, which, by the grace of God, met my wife shortly after because I had a standard Shift. So when you shift your standard, not only do your processes change, but who you attract changes very dramatically, too. Yeah.

You talk about the sigmoid curve. I think people are used to hearing this more on a maybe mathematical level.

Sure.

How does this apply to our health standards?

Sure. So it's also used. The sigmoid curve talks about things like in business too, as well. So what it essentially describes is that when you start something, you make a decision to do something. And you might say at this point of being in a decision, this is where you decide. Well, when you decide to do something, you start working on that. You don't immediately just grow from that. You actually typically have a dip. And that dip is that learning curve. And so you're going to have moments of pain where you're like, I'm really bad at this thing. Right. It's like when you start learning to exercise and you're going to go, I'm going to exercise. I'm going to run a marathon. Well, you're probably going to botch it at the very beginning. Right. Or try to eat. Well, you're going to botch it. So you're going to have this downswing. Now, this is where a lot of people can drop off. And so if they don't have a standard to remind them or their purpose or their vision or their goals or people to support them, they're going to drop off at that stage, but they're going to come down. But then if they just hang in there, and I want to encourage the listeners, whatever you're going through with your health, hang in there. Don't give up, because you get through that dip. That is a natural process. Don't have judgment to it, but just know that it's part of the process. And then you'll go up. And as you go up, you start becoming much more competent on that. And we'll talk about that later on with the journey of learning. But you'll get better at this thing and you'll get success, and you'll start to see successes become even easier and more profound as you go through this in your health and in areas of your life. But then the other part of the sigmoid curve says that if you don't continue to make changes, change and improvement, that you'll start to get complacent. And when you get complacency sets in, then you'll start to dip down. So there's initial dip at the beginning of the sigmoid curve. When you're learning a process, then you got that great improvement that everybody loves. But then if you don't pay attention, you're going to get another dip, and then you can go down in a negative way again. And so it's at that stage when complacency sets in. The key to this thing is to create a new curve. It's to create another curve to say, I got to learn something here, to take me to the next level and understand that when I learn that again, I'm actually going to dip again. And it's really hard for a lot of achievers, and most people that are listening to this are achiever mindsets. It's hard for an achiever to have failure and setback and realize that everything new that you learn, you're going to have initial failure and setback. The key is, again, if you hire coaches or be around people, you want to shorten that time period. Right. Shorten the pain. But there's going to be a little bit of pain in making change.

Growing pains, right?

Growing pains is such a true thing in life. So you're going to have that. So how do we shorten that at the beginning, but then also, how do we systematically put in a new curve? And a lot of people who are successful fade into the sunset because they fail to create that next curve, that. That next mountain to climb. Right? Yeah.

Which is often presented to us through life anyway. So if you need a reminder, just look around you.

So true. Life is the greatest teacher.

Exactly.