Book Review: Dynamic Health: Powerful Strategies for Healthy Living!

This book is a series of interview between David E. Wright publisher, and experts in the health field.

Bryan Joseph is a chiropractor who himself went through a year of intense pain due to a sports injury.  As a result he gained additional insight into pain and its treatment.  He is an advocate for health.  He advocates for holistic health through a balanced life.  He says “to truly achieve wellness one has to be emotionally, chemically, and physically balanced.  He gives further detail on what it means to be balanced in describing the chiropractic profession.  Nutrition, proper exercise, positive attitude, spinal alignment, and rehabilitation all have to be considered in order to reach optimal health. 

Balance is important to health.  Joseph said, “If someone would have told me that the body had energy and our attitude or mind frame made a difference in how we heal I would have thought they were nuts.  I now know that being out of balance in any aspect will make a difference in your health.”   He then later makes this comment, “I believe having the right attitude does more health for you than anything.  Keep a positive attitude and a good outlook on life.  Know that you are blessed in everything that you do and have.  Being able to wake up and take a breath every day is a gift and we must remember that.  This outlook can help you live a healthier and happier life more than anything else.  Always practice keeping a smile on your face and keep working to develop a positive attitude.”

Book Review: The Go-Getter: A Story that Tells You How to Be One

This book was written by Peter B. Kyne and published in 1921.
This is an old book, but its message is timeless.  It tells the story of William Peck, a discharged private form the military who lost an arm, and had one leg shortened while serving curing WWI.  However he says he can sell anything, and now that he is finally out of the hospital, he calls for his job at Pacific Coast Lumber.  He goes over the head of the managers, to the owner, who can’t turn him away.  However, much more important than this, Cappy Ricks, the owner is looking for a leader who can take over shipping operations in Shanghai.  It is interesting to note that on the day he was hired, he shares with Mr. Ricks his business card, which would have taken a couple days to print in those days.  He decides to get right to work: 
“Count that day lost whose low descending sun
Finds prices shot to glory and business done for fun.”

He quickly proves his worth as a salesman, but then Cappy has greater plans for him, and proposes the test of the “blue vase.”  This is in exercise where the individual is given and impossible task, if he completes it he will be offered a high paying job.  The task is to purchase a vase on Sunday, and bring it to Mr. Ricks.  The instructions are vague, and purposefully slow.  Additionally it is impossible to get a hold of the store own or manager.  His leg hurts, and his amputated hand itches, but he eventually gets the vase for $2000.  He doesn’t meet the train at the agreed upon time, but overtakes it before it arrives at its destination.  He explains why he completed the task, even though it seemed impossible.  His commander in the services had a motto, “It shall be done.”  It is that attitude and kept him going to surpass the odds against him.  “It shall be done.”  How many of us could use such a motto in our own lives.