Dr. Peter J. Weiss

“Some­body needs to do some­thing.”

Have you ever heard that before? I’ve heard it a lot.  In fact, I’ve even said it:  “Some­body really needs to do some­thing about this health care cri­sis we’re hav­ing. Some­body really needs to do some­thing about the obe­sity epi­demic in Amer­ica.

Some­body really needs to help change America’s cul­ture and we need to change our envi­ron­ment. And some­body needs to help us get healthy food.”

Well that kind of talk doesn’t really help that much. Even­tu­ally I decided, “Hey, I’m some­body!  Maybe I should try to do all of that.” It’s a pretty tall order, but what I did do was write a book, “More Health, Less Care.”

I became a well­ness evan­ge­list and I’m try­ing to build America’s well­ness sys­tem with the More Health Less Care Alliance.  I’m try­ing to do some­thing to help Amer­i­cans help them­selves to well­ness.

But what’s going on in your life? Do you sit around think­ing, “Some­body needs to make organic food cheaper. Some­body needs to fix the insur­ance sys­tem so that I have access well­ness ben­e­fits. Some­body needs to do this or some­body needs to do that before I can be well.”

You might be wait­ing a long time because those “some­bodys” aren’t nec­es­sar­ily going to do that.

You’re some­body and you can con­trol your life.  Yes it is hard to get well in Amer­ica today. But it’s not as hard as some peo­ple seem to think it is. It just requires that you want to do it and that you start work­ing toward it.

Peo­ple will come along­side to help you. I’m one of them.  The peo­ple in the More Health Less Care Alliance are some of them and your friends and neigh­bors may be some of them as well.

So the impor­tant thing is to stop wait­ing for “some­body to do some­thing” for you to get well. You’re some­body. Just go for it.

You can do it.