General Healthy

Yes, there is a real person (with 30+ years health/wellness industry experience) behind General Healthy.  In fact, I’ve been in the health field for most of my adult life.  

Every day, I see and experience the carnage of poor health…on too many levels to express here.  I am (as many are) frustrated with the lack of leadership at a time when we are drifting further and further into an abyss of poor health.  The costs are enormous, on a personal, as well as societal level.  

We must speak out…and not just to those that already listen…but to those that aren’t.  The best chance to live a long and vitality-filled life, is to be healthy…period!  The cheapest health care is to NOT need it.  And the best way to NOT need it…is to be healthy.  

So why, in my experience (and in the news) are so few people truly healthy?  I am obsessed with answering these two daunting questions: 

If most of us know what we should or shouldn’t be doing in order to be truly healthy…why aren’t we doing it?  And, if we are trying to make a healthy change, why can’t we  sustain  healthy change in both ourselves and society? 

After studying  ”change” in client populations for the past 7 years and researching the studies and literature on behavior change, I’ve concluded the following: 

We’re not MOTIVATED to change…and all the information is useless unless someone is truly motivated to use it. 

We don’t really know HOW to change…we continually skip the stages of how to THINK about change properly and how to PREPARE to change properly.  We simply start changing, with nothing to sustain our motivation beyond our initial successes. 

We have no leadership in the United Sates, to help us change, that captures the imagination of all, and rallies us, collectively behind a “value health movement”.  The enemies, obstacles, and distractions to the pursuit of real health….are winning. 

General Healthy was born out of the void in national leadership in health…to have a universal rallying point and leader in a health promotion movement.  He is the “Smokey the Bear” of health.  

If a cartoon bear can lead us into preventing forest fires, General Healthy can lead us to better health. I believe that if a cartoon bear can rally support to protect our forests from fires, then General Healthy can rally support for the value of “health”.  He can say the things that need to be said…for all of us.  He can point out the enemies (obstacles) of health in a far-ranging and far-reaching way. 

Making “health” a priority, a value, a wish, a desire in America (or at least if a few lives) is my passion.  And, in the preparation to regain our health, we’re going to have to fight through all the distractions to our good health.  There are an awful lot of folks in our society who benefit by us not being healthy…and very few who actually benefit by us being truly healthy.  We really should pull together in a giant health promotion effort…and it can be done cheaply on the internet.  

While many in our industry have carved their niche in their respective health fields, it is obvious that we are so fragmented that while we can find each other, and others that really want to, can find us…we need to reach out and touch as many that don’t come to us when they’re “ready” to change. 

We really need to re-awaken a desire to change…and I believe General Healthy can help. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My name is Barry and I live in Central Ohio. 

I’m 51, married, have 4 kids (15, 13, 9, 5), 2 dogs and 2 cats.   I currently own and operate two health-oriented companies…a wellness consulting/services company (clickable at the bottom of the page)….which specializes in changing corporate health cultures, as well as a corporate benefits consulting company (which integrates wellness into a corporate benefits environment).   

I hope you’ll join in promoting  General Healthy and his mission to create a healthier future by following on:

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Thanks. 

Barry (General Healthy)