"The Five Symptoms Of Your Secret Problem Keeping You From Greater Health, Wellness, Vitality, and Success...And How You Can Get Rid Of Them Today!"

But, if the desire for such success is a commonplace human yearning, then why don’t more people achieve it? Why do we have so much stress? Why aren’t we all as successful as we’d like to be? What is harming our relationships and stopping us from fulfilling our dreams?

I’ve spent the last thirty years helping people and organizations gain more health, fitness, and success - from working individually with patients to training Fortune 500 leadership groups - and I’d like to answer those questions for you in this report. First, I will reveal the “secret” problem that is keeping you from your greatest health and success – and why it will continue to shackle you until you fix it. Then, I will tell you how to fix that “secret” problem. Sound like a good deal? Great!

Your “Secret” Problem

Your greatest health and success will always elude you as long as you continue to suffer from a malady more deadly than heart disease, obesity, and cancer combined. The pain and hopelessness of depression, axiety disorders, fibromyalgia, arthritis, phobias, and other chronic illnesses have no end until you treat your secret problem.

Your financial fitness will elude you while you suffer from your problem. Stress over money issues will not end.

You will never fully realize your dreams until you remedy a problem that can stop your career in its tracks quicker than insulting your boss. Your most important relationships will stay just outside your grasp until you discover and defeat your greatest enemy.

Your greatest enemy, the number one killer of your health and success, what's stopping you dead in your tracks is… “seriousness.”

Now Your Problem Is Not A Secret Anymore!

“Seriousness” cripples us by forcing us to take ourselves too seriously. We have been taught all our lives that responsible people must be serious – we have been taught a lie. If you fall for this, there is absolutely no way for you to be as successful as you desire.

Do you want proof? My years of experience, as well as volumes of clinical research, have proven that when you take yourself too seriously you cannot function at the levels needed to rise above mediocrity!

NOTE: I've transformed my experiences and knowledge into a book, called the Fun Factor. The Fun Factor will not only teach you in-depth answers to these problems, but teach you much, much more! Check out the Fun Factor here. The Five Side Effects of Seriousness That Kill Your Success

1. You Cannot Listen Carefully Enough
   Listening carefully is impossible when we are taking ourselves too seriously. You’re too full of your own importance to accurately see, hear, and interpret what’s going on around you when you’re serious. Yet it is a fact that our listening skill is our greatest asset for health and success.

   Most people find listening difficult because they think of it as a passive state. Careful listening may be a quiet activity, but it is certainly not passive. It requires the activation of every sense – our ears, of course, but also our eyes, our touch, and especially our hearts. The goal is to first understand, before seeking to be understood.

   If we are not listening fully to what we are hearing, we will fail to discover information essential for our emotional, financial, and spiritual wellness. Seriousness keeps us from hearing clues that will make us more effective and successful. Failing to listen intently keeps us in the dark about potential solutions to problems, as well as the strategic alliances that could propel our success. Last, but not least, when we don’t listen carefully, we can’t become aware of the humor in any situation that might otherwise be overlooked – which can help ease our seriousness.

2. You Don’t Benefit From Mistakes
   Far from a license for mediocrity, embracing our mistakes is a formula for success. If we are to rise above our setbacks we must have the energy for it. Trying to deny our mistakes and keeping them hidden from others is a waste of that precious energy.

   We are perfectly imperfect. Mistakes are inevitable, but they can be real assets if we are willing to learn from them. Acknowledging them freely is the first step in turning our perils into pearls. And, also, the first step toward lowering our stress level.

   What do we learn from mistakes when we’re willing to acknowledge them? Of course the most obvious payoff is that they teach us what doesn’t work. Being wrong will often alert us to another perspective or point of view. Mistakes also force us to develop new behaviors and coping styles – expanding our repertoire. Tonight Show host Johnny Carson was a master at deliberately “making mistakes” in his nightly monologue as a way of exercising his adlibbing skills.

   Learning what doesn’t work, seeing additional perspectives, or developing new coping skills are all priceless assets when we are grappling with the challenges in our lives. And when it comes to expanding repertoires and gaining new perspectives, we have no greater limitation than our crippling seriousness.

3. You Won’t Challenge Your Assumptions
   Most of the fear we experience in life relates to assumptions we make based on past experience or the council of others (usually from some form of hearsay). When we are too serious we become tireless assumers. Drop us into any situation and the first thing we’ll do, whether or not we know the facts, is begin to make assumptions. We are not deterred by ignorance of the facts. Whenever we don’t know, we simply make more assumptions.

   Most of our assumptions go unchecked. Soon we begin to treat them as fact and assign them the power of truth.

   There’s only one problem with all of this. Most of our assumptions are wrong! Our batting average is so poor it’s a miracle we’ve had any success at all.

   In order to experience physical and fiscal health and wellness, we need the capacity to challenge our assumptions frequently enough to stop us from veering too far off course. And, of course, we need to challenge our old behaviors and paradigms so that they can be replaced with new, more successful ones. Seriousness is our worst enemy for this. Not challenging prevailing assumptions is one of the chief symptoms of crippling seriousness.

4. You Can’t Stay Focused And Remain Flexible
   Staying focused, but flexible sounds like an assignment for a contortionist. Aren’t they opposites?

   Let me put it this way. We all know the shortest distance between two points is…usually under construction! That’s right. The theoretical straight line does not exist.

   We are challenged to keep our goals and priorities clearly in focus, while remaining flexible enough to accommodate the inevitable surprises. At times life resembles a game of “Twister.” That’s why seriousness is so deadly; seriousness kills our ability to be flexible.

   Balance is our goal. If focus overrides flexibility, we become stubborn, rigid, and bull-headed. If flexibility eclipses focus, we are left aimless and vulnerable. Seriousness imprisons us in these extremes; our relationships suffer from our inflexibility and our stress level rises.

   When it comes to flexibility, being too serious offers a lose/lose situation. Seriousness snuffs out our sense of humor and, without humor, we lose flexibility.

5. You Can’t Laugh With Yourself
   Laughing with ourselves is not about losing self-respect or demeaning ourselves. Just the opposite – it is an act of loving kindness. Willingness to laugh with ourselves frees us from the restrictions of the unrealistic and unremittingly harsh expectations to which we hold ourselves under duress. It gives us latitude to appreciate the ever-present inconsistencies and contradictions that are part of our makeup.

   Laughing with ourselves helps us recognize the vital difference between perfection and perfectionism. Perfection is what we are, and that includes all the inconsistencies and shortcomings. You are not perfect, but you are perfection because of, not in spite of, your contradictions. Perfection is healthy; perfection leads to fitness on all the levels we desire. It includes imperfection.

   Perfectionism, on the other hand, is what we think we should be. It is a byproduct of seriousness and it is always unhealthy. It is intolerant of imperfection. When we are caught up in our perfectionism, we are brittle and inflexible. We can be broken down by change.

   So, laughing with ourselves is not a form of humiliation. It is a way of taking ourselves lightly, puncturing our pomposity, while still taking our responsibilities seriously. Unfortunately, when we are too serious we are unable to lighten up. We become much less resourceful.

The Remedy for Your Killer Seriousness

So what is the solution to your crippling seriousness? How can you inoculate yourself , and overcome this immense roadblock on your path to healthy relationships; low stress; and health, wellness, and fitness of mind, body, and spirit?

I have great news for you: you already possess the vaccine – you were born with it! All you need is some help re-learning how to use it, and some time spent sharpening your skills with it, to turn it into the most potent tool in your health and success building arsenal.

Your remedy is the natural medicine of humor. And you're on a website that will help you start learning to use this natural medicine...today!

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