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Gratitude Attitude: Celebrating Life's Blessing Daily

• me&my wellness / Anthony Hartcher • Season 1 • Episode 210

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What if you could turn every day into an opportunity for personal growth and joy?

In this enlightening episode of me&my health up, host Anthony Hartcher delves into the transformative concept of a "gratitude attitude" – a powerful approach that encourages us to celebrate life's daily blessings. Discover how embracing gratitude can lead to profound changes in your mental well-being, personal development, and overall happiness.

Anthony discusses the biological and philosophical aspects that support living each day as a unique celebration, moving beyond the conventional markers of time and achievement. Tune in to learn how you can start incorporating this life-affirming philosophy into your daily routine and why every day should be treated as a special occasion.

Don't miss out on this journey to elevate your life through the power of gratitude!


About me&my health up & Anthony Hartcher

me&my health up seeks to enhance and enlighten the well-being of others. Host Anthony Hartcher is the CEO of me&my wellness which provides holistic health solutions using food as medicine, combined with a holistic, balanced, lifestyle approach. Anthony holds three bachelor's degrees in Complementary Medicine; Nutrition and Dietetic Medicine; and Chemical Engineering.


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Anthony Hartcher:

Welcome back to another insightful episode of me&my health up. I'm your host, Anthony Hartcher, a clinical nutritionist and lifestyle medicine specialist. The purpose of this podcast is to enhance and enlighten your well-being. And today, I'll be doing that for you. And we're going to be talking about embracing every day as if it's your last. So it's about the rebirthing of you every day, and not waiting for that one day a year to come around that special day, your birthday, and then celebrate your birthday. In actual fact, when is your birthday? You know, we define it as the day you come out of the womb, you know, there's a whole thing around conception, and there's a whole thing around when you're in the twinkle of your parents' eyes, and they had the idea and the conception around that idea. So in actual fact, what is the starting point of your birthday? When is it, you know, we have this societal construct around that it's the day you come out of the womb, however, or the uterus. And the idea of that, for me is we'd actually don't know that date. The End Date, is there an end date when you stop breathing, your last breath, and therefore the, you know, the birth date is that first breath? Well, as we know, energy is not created or destroyed, but only transformed from one form to another. So it's a continuous, it, we're on a continuum. And so this is why I don't get concerned about my chronological age, and going up every year and getting older, because I'm on a continuum, I'm on this constant birth, and even like so that we go on this constant cycle of birthing and dying every day in terms of we have mitosis, which is cellular division. And that's, I guess, the regeneration of parts of us that have died off. And we have the apoptosis, which is programmed cell cellular death. And so we have cells dying every day, which we want those mutated those cells that are not serving us anymore, we want them to go. And we want them to create the space for new cells to come in and take take their place and actually be more functional than the old cells. And so we do go through this whole process of rebirth and death every day. And it's on a continuum. And even at a subatomic level, we have particles and antiparticles. And then all the way to the sun, the sun's constant on the sun, the stars, the stars being there's new stars being born, and there's, and there's old stars dying, and our sun will have an eventual death one day. So we have this continuum of birth and destruction or, you know, build and destroy, in other words, and so for me, the birthday is really a day that's happening every day. Because essentially, every day, you have a new day, and a new you. And there's new cells, you have new skin cells that they're turning over on a cycle, we have our red blood cells turning over on a cycle, we have our endothelial layer, our gut gut layer, it's turning over on a regular cycle, we have our organs regenerating, rejuvenating, and obviously, before that, the cells are dying as well. So there's this constant process, you know, to continue on, so to speak. And this is what I'm getting to is that every day is a birthday. Every day is a special day, every day, the sun rises, every day, the sun sets. And so it's this constant New Day, and we get a chance to rebirth ourselves. And so for me, I focus on I want to be better than yesterday. And what can I do today to improve myself so that I can say that I'm a new person today, and therefore another birthday, I have a birthday every day. I don't wait for that one day a year. And then I'm not worried about what chronological age I am because I consider myself youthful every day because I'm reborning rebirthing every day. And so what you want to think about is, what are you learning new every day. So make an effort to learn something new every day. So I always put a time aside to learn something new. I'm constantly learning something new about the work I love. So in terms of the field you love or the the area that you value most, what are you learning about and make it a constant practice of learning something new. And so therefore your mental capacity is is evolving, you are growing, you are constantly rebirthing and becoming better than yesterday. The other thing is your career or your business focus. What are you doing there every day to improve that? So I'm looking about how can I reach more people. How can I help enhance and enlighten the well-being of others every day, what can I go about doing that will set me to get more, you know, more reach more, you know, my get my message out to others that you know, are looking for what I have to offer. So I'm looking at doing that and improving the business and the way and all the mediums are which I do that every day, you probably recall if you're listening to early episodes of me&my health up that I just had guests on the show. And it was because I had that impostor syndrome, who would want to listen to me, and now you can't get me off the show. I have the limelight. I still have guests but obviously, I'm having a segment or you know, providing segments of philosophy, insight and what I'm learning and I'm sharing that. And it's I've got over the impostor syndrome. And that's the rebirth of me. That's the growth and evolution of me. So you, you have, you know, be witness to my evolution through this podcast, how I'm learning, and I'm applying that by teaching you, and I'm learning in new areas all the time, you probably think this podcast is all over the place. It's because I'm inquisitive. I'm curious, and anything that improves health I'm interested in, and I'm sharing that with you. So that's the benefit of listening to the me&my health up podcast. So in your business, in your career, what are you doing every day to improve that aspect of your life? What are you doing financially every day to improve your finances to take you or set you on the course of financial freedom? What are you doing? How are you cutting out costs? How are you adding extra streams of revenue or income? What are you doing about your finances every day? To take that forward to rebirth, rebirth, your finances so they're constantly improving and evolving? What are you doing in a family context every day? To improve the family dynamic? How are you showing up? Are you more present? How can you be more present? How can you spend less time on technology and be present with your family at dinner time? Just aspects of or how do you want, you know, how do you want to spend your time with family? How do you want to allocate that time with family? And how do you want to support and support your children's development, your family's development, your your spouse, your partner's development? How do you want to support them? How do you want to improve that every day? What can you do every day that supports the evolution the rebirth of you and your family dynamics in terms of society? How are you taking that forward? So this is one way in which I have an influence on society is through my podcast. And so that's why I drop it episode every week. And I've just started doing Facebook Lives to expand my reach. And I'm doing reels and just reels and pretty much all the channels I'm pretty much on every social media channel. I've just set up a Pinterest channel because that's a growing area. There's about 400 million people on Pinterest. And so now I'm on Pinterest as well as TikTok and so I'm constantly looking at ways I can expand my reach and expand my message and share that and have an influence. And so I want to have an influence on society. So socially, how are you influencing? How are you influencing your peers? How are you supporting your peers? How you better supporting your social circles? What are you doing in terms of that aspects of your life? What are you doing every day to improve that aspect of your life? And then in terms of your physical health, so what are you doing every day to improve your physical health? So I'm constantly looking at new ways in which I can improve my health. And I share that on this medium. As you know, recently I've been into sunrises so I see the sunrise every morning. I've now introduced earthing at the same time. So I'm walking along the beach watching sunrise. And I've also habit-stacked that with educating myself on health and wellness. And so I'm doing all these healthy habits and stacking and empowering my knowledge with the rising sun. So with the rising sun, the new day, I'm rebirthing it's another birthday for Anthony. He's getting he's getting smarter. He's evolving his intellect, he's looking at ways and thinking of ways in which he can expand his influence, is they're constantly thinking about how he can improve his family dynamic, his finances, and so I'm looking at all these aspects of life, and how I can evolve them. So I'm birthing every day. And the old me is dying, because I've got a new layer of evolution to me. So embrace this every day is a birthday. Don't wait for one day a year. And I got to give gratitude to my parents because they never made a big fuss about birthdays. Yes, we had birthday celebrations, but it wasn't a big fuss. And so I never become attached to that one day and so for me, I've always not been fussed about my birthday. It's just, it's another day but just like every other day, there's nothing different really about that birthday. And I'm not concerned about whether people like to when you make a big fuss about a birthday, it, you then create expectations around a birthday. And then you'll have expectations on others. Hence, that is doom to fail or doom to let you down because you're reliant on others to make a big fuss of your birthday. Whereas because I'm rebirthing every day I didn't give a stuff on my birthday if this person calls me or doesn't call me or contact me or remembers, or whatever. I'm not, I'm not worried about that at all. Because every day is a chance to improve my birthday. And in some ways, I think this event, anniversaries why is it one day a year you treat someone who has some special way? Why not every day? Why don't we do that every day? I question why we wait until Valentine's Day or your anniversary, to, you know, celebrate that occasion, because relationships are evolving every day. They're rebirthing. And things are moving on, you're moving through things, you're moving through struggles. And so it should be a celebration every day, don't wait for one day a year, and then have high expectations that the other person is going to sweep you off your feet and make a big deal. Because inevitably, you can be let down because you're relying on someone else, the only thing you can control is you and how you see things and your expectations. So it's best to have the expectations on yourself in terms of wanting to improve yourself as opposed to waiting for expect or putting expectations on others in terms of them to behave in a certain way to make you feel good. I make myself feel good every day by evolving myself in all areas of life. Improving myself in all areas of life, I have no dependency on anyone because I can control what I do in all areas of life, I can control how I show up in the family, I can control in terms of how much time I dedicate to evolving my education, I can control when I do a podcast, I'm not reliant on anyone else. I can do this all the time every day. In terms of my physical health, I'm in control of that. It doesn't depend on anyone else. So you want to make sure that you rebirth every day, and evolve every day. And not wait, what not wait for one day a year or a couple of days a year to celebrate, celebrate every day, make every day a special day, as they say every day above ground is a good day. And that's what I'm wanting to constantly do as a human one of my above grounds to take my intellect my knowledge to the next level every day to another level every day. And then what happens after I die that spirit or that intellect that information is then parted into many, it goes from one being in this confined body out to many, I'm going to have a profound influence on the many because there'll be people that tap into that entanglement with me that have listened to an episode and they'll take that through their lives. I'll take this episode through their life and entangle that in others and let everyone know that a birthday is every day of the year. It's not just one day, it's every day of the year. And you're in control of that by evolving yourself, nourishing yourself and then nourishing your relationships you putting in not expecting others to do something in return, but you just putting in you showing up you doing what you can do and that and not having the expectations on others. That's just a bonus. Okay? When it happens, all the stars align and your expectations are met. I don't put expectations on others. I only put expectations on myself and the expectations on myself the things that I can control. And everything I've mentioned, in all these seven areas of life, or the six areas of life I've spoken about the seventh area of life is spirituality. But this is what this episode is, is to let you know you're on a constant birth and, and this cycle and you know, when our body breaks down, that is just the end of our human experience. We then go into the ether and our our knowledge isn't lost. It's just parted on to the many or those that you entangled with you Tangoed with during your life, you have imparted some wisdom and this is what this this podcast is about leaving a legacy. You know, this will be around for much longer than my physical presence, these podcast episodes and hopefully it has an influence on the future generations. I want to leave a legacy of a legacy that I've made some difference in someone else's life for a life for I guess many lifetimes, not just my lifetime. So what is it that you can do in terms of make a difference and leave a legacy in the area that you value most? As you know I value it in health and well-being, but you might value it in family or relationships or in your physical health and, or in social influence or in social circles, or it might be financial, that's where you want to leave a legacy. You might want to empower people like Scott Pape in terms of the Barefoot Investor, you might want to be doing make a difference there or is it in cooking, cooking, and showing people how to cook and teach them how to cook and get them to embrace cooking as opposed to reliance on processed and fast foods. So just really wanted to share this little insight around every day is your birthday, every day is a special day. And it's YOU the expectations on you to develop and grow and to become a new person every day and do that with the sunrise that's why I wake up with the sunrise, not only to embrace the, I guess the benefits that I get from a health perspective, but also to recognise what difference am I going to make today. So that's what I'm looking to do is make a difference every day. And that rising of the sun sort of reminds me of the rising of me, coming out of my shell, getting out of this impostor syndrome and rebirthing and becoming a an influencer in the space of health and wellness. So I'm constantly evolving you've been along this journey with me and I really appreciate you coming along this journey with me and listening to me I'm hopefully there's some wisdom that you're taking away and applying in your life. And I'm just released a new coaching program a group coaching program, which you know, if you're looking for some a financially affordable way to really accelerate your health and well-being, I have this monthly group coaching program, if you go to the show notes and go to support the show down the bottom, there's a support the show that goes to my Patreon page. And then you want to sign up to the me&my plus the me&my plus me&my health up plus club, it is the me&my health up plus club. And that's where I offer group coaching. And that's where we get together monthly. And I share some education and we have a Q&A session, I answer your questions, I hold you accountable for the goals that you said that you would achieve that month. And we go through this journey together this monthly journey where we're empowering each other's health and well-being by holding each other accountable and making goals and setting goals every month as opposed to just for January, I set a new year's resolution then I forget it by February. So this group will empower you to stay accountable in your health and wellness every month. And it's only a monthly commitment you can cancel, you know, any month that you want to so you can do it for a month and see if you like it, there's actually seven days you get for free and and then beyond that, you know there's no long term commitment to it. It's you know, if you're getting value, obviously you keep paying. If you're not getting value, then you can leave at any stage. So join the me&my health up club plus and you know, come on a journey with me as a group as a collective and let's health up together. Thank you.

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