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Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons that you can reflect on in your journal so you can grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and have a better career, better relationships, and better personal finances while you enjoy your morning cup of coffee.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
In today’s episode, we are going to discuss how we need to understand when we do things, they create secondary and tertiary events, and how this affects us and the world. I think a lot about what I do with my life and what kind of life it’s going to give me. I studied public health in college, and a lot of it was about changing peoples’ behaviors so that we have a better future.
The Department of Health and Human Services comes out with initiatives every ten years where they are focusing on different health areas that we should be focusing on from food safety to mental health, along with 43 other objectives that if fixed, can create a society where we’re spending less money on public services because people won’t be needing them and we will have more productive members of society because they won’t be as stressed and healthier.
This is a top-down approach, but we also need a bottom-up approach with our own actions. We have to be aware of our own actions because they do have consequences. We can’t wait on people from above to tell us what we need to do, we need to take action ourselves. When it comes to things like smoking, we should give people the resources to quit, because that will cost a lot less than a lung transplant in the future. We’re already going to spend the money, might as well spend a lot less than we can.
I used to sell life insurance and would have people in their 50s and 60s who would fill out an application, and when you do this, you have to put down your medical history because the life insurance company wants to know what is the likelihood that you’re going to live for a long time. They want people to pay their premiums as long as possible. Having too many policies that are used quickly will bankrupt a company. This is why people with health issues pay a lot more in coverage than healthy people. So taking the right actions and being aware of our consequences can help us out by making things cheaper for us.
The same thing applies to our relationships, we can be jerks to our friends, family, our partner, and our kids with our actions and those actions will have consequences, and they can be bad consequences that cause a generation’s worth of damage, maybe more.
When it comes to working, we can work on the wrong thing for too long, and then it causes us to hit a brick wall, and then we’re going to feel stuck. I could have easily chosen to work at my federal job, but I probably would pick up a drinking problem because I was so miserable at work.
Making different choices can be scary because there is so much uncertainty, but that short-term pain is a lot better than suffering for decades. So we just can’t look at the first level of our decisions, we also have to look into the future to see what are the secondary and tertiary effects of our actions. Then we have to analyze is what we really want for our lives. If the answer is no, then we should make a change because that future is coming if stay on the same path. These projections can’t be done with 100 percent certainty, so we have to be okay with being wrong, but if we choose not to address something with our actions, then things will just stay the same. And if we’re suffering, then we should really change things.
And that’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, don’t lose sight of your actions and consequences because if we do this, then we are going to end up in a place where we don’t want to be. So we should look at our lives and see what will this action that I’m taking today, give me tomorrow, a year from now, and a decade from now. It’s real easy to be caught up in the day to day without really pondering on what we should do with our actions. This is why journaling is a great practice to add to our day. Journaling gives the opportunity to slow things down and ponder what we should actually be doing with our day. So if you need help with journaling, just send me a message at [email protected] or send me a DM on social media.
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