Stop Giving Your Power Away
It is shocking to see people give their power away. To the doctor, to the financial advisor, to the tradesman, to corporations, and big pharma, to their partner, or even a complete stranger. Don't get me wrong everything has its place and we need advisors and partners, but there is a huge difference in just letting someone walk all over you and take advantage of you and you being in control of making informed decisions. And the latter means that you have to make your own research and due diligence.
After graduating from university with a bachelor's degree in management, I was a project manager doing large scale urban regeneration commercial real estate development. My degree was business management, not construction management. Yes, I had the innate ability to project manage and the necessary skills, but I didn't possess the technical knowledge. That I had to learn while doing (and there was no time for that!). Developing real estate takes a huge team of specialists to submit planning and execute the actual construction. I don't have the specialist knowledge of a town planner, architect, structural engineer, and the like. But I had to manage them and the information and data they were presenting me. I had to challenge them and question them on everything. Why? Because my job was to manage risk.
Now let's take that to every day life. The only doctor I would entrust, and in an emergency, would be a surgeon. Elective surgery I would do my due diligence before, try every natural way possible before, then go for it as a last resort. Regular general practitioner doctors know effectively nothing. Especially when it comes to nutrition and causation. They do not treat the root cause and they do not study nutrition in medical school. Which begs the question what good are they? Referral to specialists? The only thing they do is prescribe pharmaceutical drugs and why would we want to be dependent on that? That's not tackling the root cause. It might aid in alleviating symptoms, but then there are side effects.
The best thing to do is to take control of your life. And we do this by creating a clear goal of what you'd like our life to look like (with meaningful work and relationships and behavioral traits– not a plethora of material possessions), visualize and feel ourselves having already attained that life, and then, go take one small actionable step towards that goal.
Own your power. Own your life. You will feel infinitely better when you are in control of yourself and what you create.