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| #MetaDay Metaphor Day 1 "Give me Some Heat" - Robert Kiyosaki |
Now that I've got over 2000 followers, the least I can do is give y'all a weekly "Metaphor Day" (the @rapOet twitter tag is #metaDay) - a small taste of Edutainment for you to - ENJOY!
It's the 1st day of the year, and appropriately, today's metaphor has to do with the correct way to GET STARTED! A common misconception among rappers is that they should get a record deal and THEN learn how to rock a crowd. It's not just rappers though, I've seen children in my public workshops argue that when their classmates are nicer to them, THEN they will improve their own behavior. Surprisingly, it's not just rappers or teenagers. The most common misconceivers of this common misconception are grown men and women (bosses, teachers, parents, you name it). It amazes me how often I hear adults argue that IF they had time they'd exercise more, or IF they had money they'd eat healthier, or WHEN they get more respect they'll start showing more respect to the people around them.
Really?
1. Most personal trainers advise us not to exercise more than 15-45 minutes, 3 times per week. Now that's only about 1.5 hours per week. People say they don't have time to exercise, yet according to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (28 hours per week). Someone please tell me if there's a law of physics that prevents people who can watch TV for 28 hours every week from exercising for 30 minutes.
And you don't need to go to a gym. Push-ups and Chin-ups have always been the best test of fitness (requiring you to lift your whole body). You can also do Squats and Planks if you want more variety. Once you can do a few dozen of each, you can add weight to each exercise by lifting household items in your hands or a backpack. If you don't want to hit your local park monkey bar for Chin-ups, you can find a doorway in your house with a ledge above it, OR spend $20 on a removable pull-up bar.
It's easy to find household items to lift though - you can even lift the chairs you sit on to watch television, the very television you're watching (during commercials), or the kids you're watching television with (during commercials). Speaking of which, research shows that American parents spend an average of 3.5 minutes per week in meaningful conversation with their children, yet their children spend 1,680 minutes per week watching television. Still think MORE time is what you need?
2. The top nutrition programs guide us to eat less by about 200-500 calories, at least 4 days per week, so in order to improve health, you actually need to SPEND LESS MONEY! For example, the average American drinks 526 12-oz sodas per year (1.5 cans per day). Drinking water instead cuts over 6,000 calories per month, saves $20 per week, and keeps off more of the calories you burn exercising. Even if you don't want to lose weight, eating healthy is not expensive, as demonstrated recently, In "A cost comparison of more and less nutritious food choices in US supermarkets", where David Katz at the Yale University School of Medicine found that people spend more OR LESS on healthier versions of most foods.
In truth, unhealthy and surplus food costs alot more than healthy or reduced eating. Americans and Europeans spend $17 billion a year on pet food (4 billion more than the estimated annual additional total needed to provide basic health and nutrition for everyone in the world) .Americans each consume an average of 260 pounds of meat a year (that's 40 x the average in Bangladesh). We also eat out regularly, paying for convenience - yet research shows that 19% of restaurant food items had at least 100 calories more than listed and only 7% of the 269 foods tested were within 10 calories of what the restaurants stated
Whether vegetarian or carnivorous, a few affordable foods like salmon, tilapia, tuna, eggs, frozen vegetables, and whole wheat bread are all you need to eat healthy. Strict vegetarians can use items such as canned beans, organic tofu, and quinoa for affordable protein sources. It's true that white rice lasts about a year longer than brown rice in the pantry, but brown lasts 6 months to a year, so if you can afford to buy rice twice a year... you're good.
There's lots of extremely low calorie ways to add flavor to healthy foods too. You might already have the best spices in your pantry, including cayenne, cinnamon, garlic powder, mustard, onion, cumin, oregano, and paprika. Still - by far - the most affordable health item is your health itself. If trends continue at the current rate, 100% of Americans will be overweight in just over 30 years. There will be 7.8 million more people with diabetes, 6.8 million cases of coronary heart disease and stroke, and 539,000 extra cases of cancer. Parents should know that being obese increases a child's risk for serious medical problems (including asthma, heart disease, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, breathing problems, bone conditions, gastro-intestinal diseases, early puberty, poor self-esteem, and depression). Medical bills are the number one cause of bankruptcy, and one of the largest expenses for most Americans.
So much for the argument of not having time to exercise or money to eat healthy. I'll leave it to you, to figure out why disrespecting others while waiting for them to show you respect first... is not a good idea - LOL! If you wait until your frostbitten to throw wood in the fire, you're gonna need A LOT MORE wood to warm things up. Don't be afraid to start giving what you want to receive, instead of waiting for someone to give it to you first. As Meek Millz put it, "Scared money don't make no money!"
Robert Kisosaki writes in our metaphor of the day, that waiting to be rich before you invest or save money is like "the Guy sitting with firewood in his arms on a cold freezing night, and he is yelling at the pot-bellied stove, 'when you give me some heat then I will put some wood in!'"
From the heart of the New York Tri-State - New England area, this is your favorite MC, wishing you a WARM winter
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