Destination: Best Health. Life Goals. Symptom Goals.

North Star of personal and symptom goals help us operate at peak performance. Stay Well. Get Over It. Live the Best Life Possible. Try it. Makes a difference. Blog subscribers: Listen to the podcast here. Scroll down through show notes to read the post. Subscribe to Health Hats, the Podcast, on your favorite podcast player Please support my podcast. CONTRIBUTE HERE Episode Notes Prefer to read, experience impaired hearing or deafness? Find FULL TRANSCRIPT at the end of the other show notes or download the printable transcript here Contents with Time-Stamped Headings to listen where you want to listen or read where you want to read (heading. time on podcast xx:xx. page # on the transcript) Proem (Preface) 00:00. 1 Peak Performance or Bust 02:03. 1 Beacons on the Hill. North Star. 05:08. 2 Medical Goals and Personal Goals. We Are Not Our Diagnoses. 09:45. 3 Stay Well. Get Over It. Live the Best Life Possible. 11:00. 3 Reflection 13:32. 4 Please comments and ask questions at the comment section at the bottom of the show notes on LinkedIn via email DM on Instagram or Twitter to @healthhats Credits Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Boston Drummer, Composer, Arranger Web/social media coach, Kayla Nelson Inspiration from Curtis Cates, Fatima Muhammed-Ighile, Paulette Seymour-Route, Pancho Chang, Freddie White-Johnson, Susan Lin, Penney Cowan, Amy Baxter, Diane Shader Smith Sponsored by Abridge Links Curtis Cates' Hansel and Gretel Podcast Helping you come up with personal health goals https://health-hats.com/cds/ Related podcasts and blogs https://health-hats.com/pain-the-solution-many-solutions/ https://health-hats.com/personal-health-journey/ https://health-hats.com/salt-in-my-soul-an-unfinished-life/ About the Show Welcome to Health Hats, learning on the journey toward best health. I am Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged, old, cisgender, white man with privilege, living in a food oasis, who can afford many hats and knows a little about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. Most people wear hats one at a time, but I wear them all at once. We will listen and learn about what it takes to adjust to life's realities in the awesome circus of healthcare. Let's make some sense of all this. To subscribe go to https://health-hats.com/ Creative Commons Licensing The material found on this website created by me is Open Source and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. Anyone may use the material (written, audio, or video) freely at no charge. Please cite the source as: ‘From Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats. (including the link to my website). I welcome edits and improvements. Please let me know. danny@health-hats.com. The material on this site created by others is theirs and use follows their guidelines. The Show Proem (Preface) I build most of my podcasts around conversations with my guests. Although I try to craft the story while I prepare, the chat can go anywhere, often in unexpected directions. Then I extract the story after completing the recording during editing. I use the Proem (Preface) and Reflection as vehicles to shape those stories. Sometimes I have no guest, just me talking to you about whatever’s on my mind. These shorter episodes allow me to experiment, with music, word jazz, pilgrimage of sound. Today, I take inspiration from my podcasting buddies, especially, Curtis Cates, who has an amazing series about the fairy tale,