You Are Your Own 99%: Taking Back Responsibility for Your Body, Health and Life
The 1% vs. the 99%
Every doctor, therapist, acupuncturist, massage therapist, psychiatrist, friend, or family member who cares for you—collectively—make up 1% of your life. Not 1% each. All of them together = 1%.
That means YOU are responsible for the other 99%.
When you hand over your responsibility to the 1%—expecting them to heal you, fix you, or carry you—you’re giving away your power. The truth is: no one can live inside your body except for you. No one knows it better than you do.
Why This Matters
The current medical system (especially in America) thrives on separation. It conditions you to believe that you need others to tell you what’s wrong, that credentials equal authority over your own experience. This leaves people:
Afraid to speak up to their doctors.
Afraid to trust their intuition about what feels right for their own bodies.
Afraid to take responsibility for the daily choices that determine long-term health.
So, they comply. They take the meds. They get the surgeries. They suffer. Not because they are weak, but because they’ve forgotten how to be their own 99%.
Reclaiming Your 99%
Your life is YOURS. Your body is YOURS. Your choices are YOURS.
No one can make them for you. And yes—this can be hard.
It’s hard to give up processed food, sugar, or diet soda.
It’s hard to start moving your body when it feels easier not to.
It’s hard to let go of people who only bring stress or drama.
But these are YOUR choices. Live with them—or change them. No one else can do it for you.
Practical Framework: The Soccer Field
Imagine life as a soccer field.
You are the primary player. You play both offense and defense.
Your support system (doctors, healers, therapies, remedies) are teammates—on the bench, waiting for you to decide if and when they need to come in.
Think of Life as a soccer field. You are the Primary Player, and You play both sides. Life is coming at you. Maybe it kicks you a sore throat. It is up to you to look over at your bench where the Team is and decide the players you are going to bring on the Field. At first the teammates may be some salty hot water to gargle and honey to coat and alleviate soreness.
But tomorrow when you wake up and life has decided to kick some swollen glands and body aches on the field, you are definitely going to bring different teammates off the bench. If a consistent high fever gets kicked at you, You may choose to pull onto the Field the teammate called Doctor and then maybe another teammate called antibiotic.
Maybe life kicks some depression onto the field. Who are Your best Teammates. Is it Sally who brings her own troubles to your field and tries to help you with them? Or may it be Diane who chooses to listen and offer some tools such as; getting into nature and finding a breath exercise?
The point is that You Need To Know These Answers for Yourself because no one else is in Your body. We cannot Know How You Feel. Which means; We cannot know what is optimally best for You.
You can see now why it is very important to know who your team is and to recognize which players are most valuable. It is equally important to become very clear on which teammates are harmful to you.
Life Coaching becomes and Invaluable First Choice Teammate when choosing to look at life from this perspective. Together You and Your life coach will take a journey into understanding who you are at an intimate level so that you begin to Know Yourself as Your 99%. You will determine who your key players are by understanding life through your own perspective which allows you to know what or who will benefit you are put you at a deficit at any given time. Life Coaching can quickly put you in Your Primary Player Role!
Key Takeaways
You = 99%. Everyone else combined = 1%.
Know your body. Invest in your body.
Know Your Team.
Use others as teammates, not as primary players.
Reclaim Responsibility for Your Health and life choices.
