Professor Pete Alexander: Health Is Your True Wealth

Professor Pete Alexander is the President of the best interior landscaping company in the San Francisco Bay Area, Office Plants by Everything Grows, which helps organizations in reducing stress, increase productivity, and achieve outstanding ROI through the methodical design and placement of lush, living plants in workplaces.He is also an adjunct professor at Antioch University, where he inspires his students to develop and apply key marketing concepts specific to their field of study.Professor Pete is also a professional speaker and best-selling author on stress reduction in everyday life, having learned the hard way that sacrificing your health for a better career is a bad idea.Lastly, he is a certified Laughter Yoga instructor who enjoys spreading laughter and joy throughout his community.Join us in this episode as Professor Pete recounts how he ended up in the emergency room in 2018 and then transferred to ICU because of a severe case of diabetic ketoacidosis, and how this incident made him realize how he had traded his health for his career, which motivated him to start working towards improving himself by focusing on his health. In the same breath, he emphasized one of his personal mantras: "I'm not a pizza." That means I'm not going to be liked by everyone, and that’s totally okay.Topics for today’s show:Stop ignoring the early warning signs of stress. If we can get rid of the negative stress, all the other stress is a piece of cake.Focusing on health care for the mindPerceiving different situations in our life from a positive standpointThe importance of respecting other person’s perception of the worldThe real secret behind laughter yogaThe most important part of everyone's day more than anything is sleep.The only way to deal with all the other stress will be to stop ruminating about the past and stop worrying about the future.Connect with Professor Pete:Website: https://petealexander.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petealexander/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/stressexpert Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stressexpert Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExpertStress YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHHO6IiWyn56aURq585fxVA Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1072704994 Find more from Conscious Communication and host Phillip Bogolub:http://consciouscommunicationpodcast.com/linkedin.com/in/bogolubrecords