Blood Pressure Medicine

I have to take blood pressure medicine.  Not a lot...just a little but I still take it everyday.  If I don't take it everyday I can feel a difference after a couple of days so...I take it.

The medicine doesn't cure my blood pressure. It controls it...keeps it in the "normal" range but doesn't cure the cause because the cause is that I don't eat right, I don't exercise much...I just don't take care of myself well.  Oh, sometimes I do...I run every so often.  I have completed marathons, half-marathons, 10Ks and 5ks - even in the last month.  But running is not something that, by itself, is going to cure my high blood pressure.

I also take metformin.  I just started taking it because my last visit to the doctor discovered my A1C - a measurement of your blood sugar - was just over 7.  I guess that ain't good because the doctor put me on this drug.  I take it...everyday...it's almost like a miracle.  The drug has made a difference with the way I feel.

The medicine doesn't cure my pre-diabetes.  It controls it...keeps it in the "normal" range but it doesn't cure the cause because the cause is that I don't eat right, I don't exercise much...I just don't take care of myself well.  Oh, sometimes I do...I run every so often.  I have completed marathons, half-marathons, 10Ks and 5ks - even in the last month.  But running is not something that, by itself, is going to cure my pre-diabetes.

I know the cure

Everyone knows the cure

Eat right

Exercise consistently

Take care of myself

If I was change my behaviors in how I live each day I would be able to get off the medicines.  All I have to do is to...

Make...the...change...

Many of us face this same situation in our work lives.  We have a recurring issue...something that keeps of from achieving our best success.

And we know what we need to do.

But we keep putting band aides on the problem hoping that it will fix itself.  We keep taking our medicine that controls the issue but doesn't cure it.  We can't make the decision to change our behaviors that cause the issue...

We know the cure

Just like we know the cure for high blood pressure.

If we change our behaviors...we can cure whatever our issues are.

Let's stop taking our medicine.

Let's change our behavior.

Let's get healthy!