The people of the US are constantly raising the bar on IQ.  Kids today are learning things in pre-school that I remember learning in 1st grade.  The invention and use of computers, educational TV and electronic learning mediums have some kids reading before they get into school.

All of these things are increasing the IQ of our children as well as many adults in today’s world.  IQ is a measure of a persons’ intelligence from an information or  “smart” level.  So then, what is EQ or sometimes referred to EI?

EQ is your emotional intelligence.  We probably all know someone in our past or present who is like an encyclopedia, for the younger generation these were books typically sold door to door that contained facts and knowledge about most subjects that we used for research,  but had little to NO commonsense or weren’t comfortable outside of their structured environment.  I’ll give you a perfect example of what I am talking about.  I have patient with a son who is a computer genius.  You can ask him to fix networking problems, done; load software, done; trouble shoot system problems, no problem.  So why is someone with this amount of IQ  not able to hold down job for longer than 6 months?  You guessed it, his EQ is that of a child.  He struggles to act appropriately in a work environment  and therefore finds himself getting disciplined all the time until they have had enough.  If he was put into a social event like an employee party or dinner, he would be completely out of his comfort zone would not know how to act and eventually would either leave or make a fool of himself.  The problem with electronic media is that people can learn without having to develop personal social skills.

Here’s another great example of the lack of EQ in someone who was a semi-successful business owner.  I have a friend who owns his own business and was pretty successful for a time.  As times changed he kept doing what he had done in the past to keep building his business.  As you can imagine that started to not work out to well.  It unfortunately led the demise of his business.

When I talked to him about it, he told me, “I don’t understand how this happened, I had a great business plan that had worked for the first couple of years.”

So I asked him, “When it started to not work or you saw a decline in results and growth, did you alter you plan or find new ways to improve your outcomes?”

He said, “Why would I do that when it worked so well for so long?”

Well because of the lack of EQ to fully understand the situation, his IQ got in the way.  His procedures were flawless and he knew them well.  Sometimes we are stuck in a spot and we don’t have the ability to step back, look at the situation and determine that our results are terrible.  We think, “If I keep doing what I am currently doing why would I expect the outcomes to change?”

So my final point for today:  If you have been stuck in a life or health situation that you don’t like, know is not healthy for you and you just keep doing what you are currently doing, do you expect it to change?  If you said yes than we need to work on increasing your EQ!  Don’t let your IQ get in the way of change and development.  I had the opportunity to talk with a successful and well educated lady at the mall this past weekend about her health issues.  She told me she was currently seeing 12 different medical specialists and they have yet to determine what are  the causes of her problems.  She told me she was taking 17 RX drugs currently and she felt her condition has not really improved significantly.   So I asked her if she thought the 18th drug was finally going to be the answer.  You have taken 17 and do you think, ‘if I could just take ONE MORE I am sure I will be cured?’  She looked at me with a serious face and said probably not.  I asked her if she would like to possibly only see one doctor, get off her medications and have her body restore itself to its normal natural state?  She looked at me and smirked and got onto the escalator saying, “as if it could be that easy, no thank you.”  Her IQ was good, as she was able to explain some things that were going on with her, but I question her EQ, however.

I realize people are unfortunately taught in our society that choices we make on a daily basis don’t have a significant impact on our health and our future.  We are indoctrinated into a health care system that over the past 30 years has proven to be completely failing our country.  People are forgetting that our body is a self -healing and self-regulating organism.  You body is not WEAK, it wants to be healthy and the decisions you make today will impact its ability to perform in the future.  If you want health and what you are currently doing is not improving your condition, (by the way drugs never cure anything) then it is time to utilize that by hopefully developing EQ and making a change.

It is time to take control of your health.  If you are looking for a beacon of light in a very toxic society, I suggest you PLUG into Maxmized Living.

Keep moving forward,

Dr. Tim

Dr. Tim