Be Wise: Don’t Believe Everything You Watch or Read Online

In a world of instant opinions and viral “experts,” wisdom begins with one timeless habit — asking questions. What you believe shapes how you live, so choose your sources with care.

I who was talking to a friend at the gym today. He told me he watched a YouTube video about exercise. The information he learned from the video was indirect contradiction to the research I read. He’s older and he reported the person in the video said once you hit a certain age it’s all downhill. He was at that age and he was depressed. I provided him with different research and picked up his spirits.. I had a good menter early in life who told me to question everything. I think that’s especially important these days when you have people posting things on social media sites as if what they are positing is the truth. Examine what they are writing or saying. Who’s speaking? What is their background? There’s a lot of garbage out there and we have to learn how to sift out what’s true from all the stuff that’s misleading and false. Many of the headlines that we read are nothing more than Click bait. People want clicks, they don’t necessarily want to help us. Be wise.

Have you ever discovered that something you believed online turned out to be false? How did it change the way you look for truth now?

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking

Healthy Tips: 15 Minutes a day for Three years More Life? That’s a Good Deal

It should come as no surprise that staying physically active can keep you healthy and add years to your life. As few as 15 minutes of exercise per day may help you achieve benefits, which could include an additional 3 years of life.

Note: It’s not that hard. All one has to do is rearrange their typical day. Figure out how many minutes you spend on Facebook, Instagram, X, or other social media venues. What would you miss if you reallocated 15 minutes from a social media site and went for a walk. The social media site will be waiting for you. Personally, I deleted my social media accounts and don’t miss them.

Healthy Tips: Get It Done, Pardner

Today’s Healthy Tip: Get regular checkups: See your doctor for regular checkups and screenings.

What do intelligent people do? They’ll get regular checkups. You’re intelligent so schedule the annual tests appropriate for you. Give yourself the best chance to maintain your health. Yes, I know, we’re supposed to be on time to wait an hour or longer. If we’re late we have a problem. Take an iPad and read an ebook, scroll through your social media, or find another type of distraction. Don’t let it bother you. You know they’re going to take your blood pressure. They’ll put it on their computer and will show you have a high BP just because you got ticked because the doctor kept you waiting. Let’s not forget when you get chosen to go back to an examination room, there’s another 30 minutes to wait while you sit on the edge of an exam table in one of those half naked hospital gown dangling your legs over the edge. It almost seems funny. Ok, in Texas language, “Get it done, pardner!”

What If . . .

What if today I chose to do something totally different that what I normally do, what would it be like? I might not watch TV tonight. Yikes, what will I do with all that time? Would I slide into staring at my handheld phone, watching videos on my iPad, or going on social media? Can’t do that, it’s just substituting one drug for the another drug. I could go for a walk. I could read a book. I could handwrite a journal entry. I could bake healthy muffins and even eat one as soon as they come out of the oven. I might even sketch a design for landscaping my yard.  There are plenty of alternatives.

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