Episode Transcript

What’s up? What’s up? What’s up, everybody? Welcome to Five Minute rants everyone. Welcome to THE a.m. I’m your host, Michael Abernathy. And welcome to the show predicated on the journey of life and business.

Well, everybody, just jump straight into it. I want to talk about smoking. Shocker.

Now, what’s going to be really interesting is a lot of y’all when I say smoking, probably already thought about, oh, how it’s bad for you how it’s this how it’s that, Oh, I wonder What side of the ballpark he’s on. I actually don’t want to talk about any of those things. One, personally, I do believe smoking is bad for you, I don’t think you should smoke, I think you should really love yourself, take care of yourself. But that’s not What I really want to talk about. What I really want to talk about is short term versus long term thinking.

So I really believe that one of the major problems and obstacles to overcome personally is to see yourself where you stop, and you interact with short term thinking moments. And What happens is, we interact in long term moments, and we apply short term thinking there and it’s super detrimental. So let me give you let me give you an example. This is why I wanted to bring up smoking, right, I’m gonna give you some smoking facts to think about this, okay? 20 minutes after you quit smoking, your blood pressure and pulse rate drop, and your hands and feet, they warm up because circulation comes back, that’s 20 minutes, right? This is after you quit for 20 minutes, Alright, 12 hours, all of your carbon monoxide levels in your oxygen decrease. In other words, you can breathe better, you have better oxygen levels, you feel better, right? And then that automatically starts to being better for your heart reducing heart risk and disease. 24 hours after quitting, your chance of heart attack decreases 48 hours after quitting nerve endings in your mouth and throat regenerate. So you actually have things grow back two weeks to three months after quitting your circulation continues to improve, your aerobic capacity improves. In other words, your ability to run breathe all those things ok. That means that walking becomes easier. Right? Walking, it’s hard to walk when you’re smoking. Right one to nine months after quitting smoking related respiratory systems decrease such as coughing, sinus congestion and shortness of breath, your energy increases as fatigue decreases, your lungs become stronger and are better able to fend off infection. So one to nine months. Again, your breathing is still improving. Okay, it’s not just within the first 20 minutes, this is nine months after you quit, your breathing is improving the whole year, you almost made it all the way around Christmas, five years after quitting risk of death from lung, mouth, throat and esophageal cancers decrease by half. And your risk of stroke becomes the same as that of a non smoker, five years of quitting is when you really begin to get the effects and the desired results you want for a better, more healthy life. 10 years after quitting your risk of lung cancer death decreases to roughly half that of a person who still smokes. Normal cells replace pre cancer cells in your respiratory tract 10 years. So in order to return to some semblance of normal with your health, it is a 10 year journey to quit smoking.

And I’m saying this because honestly, that’s how just about everything in life works. It is a five to 10 year journey in the long term to progress to get where you want. And What happens is the short term thinking takes over a lot in our body. So it’s very short term to be like, Man, I just, I need to take a smoke, I gotta go outside and smoke, I gotta go outside and smoke that short term thinking because you’re only fulfilling the need of your body in that moment. And short term thinking if you never read up on it, I encourage you to because it’s very detrimental to you. But think about that 10 years of not smoking, again, 10 years around the 10 year mark after quitting is when the full health effects really start taking place and your body heals. That’s business, it takes the business really operates in five to 10 year cycles, okay, you look at the economy, there’s huge five to 10 year cycles, you look all over the place in terms of personal development growth, it’s five to 10 year cycles.

So I’m saying this because you got to think long term in order to move forward into the future. If you’re not thinking 10 years out. It’s broken. And I’m not saying you got to think big picture, you gonna know all the details. And What happens is when we start thinking 10 years out, we get scared of that because we’re trying to figure out all the details of What it’s going to look like in 10 years. And that’s not What you need to do. You need to have a general goal of 10 years and say I want to be healthy. What does that look like okay, in the next 10 years, I want to be at this weight because this is a healthy body weight. I want to quit smoking, or I want to quit drinking, you know, at an unhealthy level. I want to exercise and all those things into think about that at 10 year level the same thing with business and the same thing with everything else.

Anyways guys, I’m out of time so I’ll catch y’all later peace