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Hi. We’re the Foolish Couple.  I am Andrew and Minna, Functional Nutrition Specialists and Success Coaches. We created Foco Academy to help people achieve whole life success by applying the Success Principles to the 3 areas of life that money can’t buy, that is, Health, Time, and Relationships.

When I first moved to the pacific NorthWest, we went to see something called a salmon ladder. I was wondering, why would a fish climb a ladder?

So in case you don’t know, here’s how it happens. Salmon instinctually would want to swim back to its original spawning ground to lay eggs and die.

Somehow, we put a dam in their path, blocking the fish from swimming back to where it wants to be. And the dam was so high and the water so strong that there is no way a fish can swim through it. So people put in ladders, basically small steps for the fish to jump up, one step at a time, until it goes over the dam and swim towards its destination.

Now, this doesn’t only happen to fish. Does it?

As we were all heading towards our goal, somebody decided to put a dam right in front of our paths, didn’t they?

In March of 2020, our lives basically stopped. Everything went into a halt. People were told, by somebody higher up and supposed to know what’s best for us, that we must all stay home and don’t come out.

And then they started to put in a ladder. Step by step. First step is to stay home. Next step, get connected so that you can work from home. Then? Stay away from all human connections, as much as possible. And then, the mask mandate, the vaccines, everything came step by step. And you were told to follow these steps so that you can get over the dam and continue to your destination.

But wait, we are humans. We’re not fish. We don’t act purely based on our instincts.

We can think. Can’t we? What’s stopping us from thinking for ourselves? From making our own decisions on what our path should be?

So I’m just going to say it. We are all getting played. Yeah. But how? You might ask.

Well, there are 2 basic human emotions that is working against us:

1. The media infused a lot of fear and uncertainty into our consciousness. The more news you are exposed to, the more afraid you are. And when you are scared, you go into a fight or flight mode. Meaning that you are letting your instincts take over. So the more fearful you are, the less you want to think for yourself and make your own decisions. 

2. Humans are social animals. We want to connect to other people. When all our human connections were cut off, we moved to social media and the news because that’s the only connection that we have access to. And humans like to follow the herd. Right? If you see a whole bunch of people heading one direction, you are most likely going to follow them, is that right? And what happens when you follow? You are not deciding for yourself where you want to go. Most of the time, you don’t even know where you are going.

But wait, the salmon ladder was there to help the fish right? Isn’t that a good thing? What we haven’t told you, and by the way we know this only because we ‘googled’ it, is that most of the time, the ladder doesn’t work out for the fish.

Most of the fish don’t make it to the top….

So for us, we’ve always been a little foolish and we tend to do things differently. We don’t want to go up the ladder, so we decide to take a different path. 

We’ve practically uprooted ourselves from our home of 20 years and moved everything, our stuff, our work, our cats, everything got moved 2000 miles away. We don’t want to follow the steps, so we chose a different path. 

You can also choose your own path, or follow the steps that is laid out for you. Remember that you are not a fish. You can think. So think about what you have lost and what you want back in your life. Just remember, there are always options. You can choose your own path.

You’ve probably heard people talk about the New Normal. But are you choosing to accept the new standards that someone else has laid out for you? Or do you want to define your new normal?

Either way it’s fine. It’s your life, your choice. All we’re saying is that if you want your new normal to look better than the old one, then you have to start thinking for yourself. Take a look at your current situation.

Are you happy where you are? And don’t say ‘It’s OK’. Because that is your way of telling yourself that you are not happy, not satisfied, and you’re just dealing with it, living with it because you feel like you don’t have a choice.

The way we see the next 12 months, there are going to be more steps on the ladder that you will be asked to jump through. With each step, more fish will fail and die.

If you want to design your own new normal, like we did, then I’m going to ask you to follow us. Because over the next  several months, we’re going to share our thought process with you. And we categorize our decisions and actions based on 5 categories:

Health & Wellness

Finance & Assets

Relationships & Connections

Economy & Employment

Social & Contributions

Many people died in 2020. I’ve lost my own mother last year. Many people have lost their jobs, shut down their businesses. Heck there are people getting hurt fighting to buy toilet paper. Do you see how ridiculous this new normal is?

And over the next 12 months, we think that things are going to get worse. And we’ll expand on that in our next blog. 

In our next blog we will be talking about Innate Immunity vs Vaccinated immunity and why you may be dependent on the mRNA vaccine for the rest of your life. You don’t want to miss this one!

Until Next time Love What you Live and Live what you love

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