Being Proactive...Imagine That!

After 16 years of struggling with Crohn's disease, chronic pain and side effects of having my intestine removed I was unlucky enough to have both my family doctor and my specialist retire in the same year.  Unsure of what to do and how this was going to affect my treatment or future issues, I searched out a new doctor.  Based on a bad track record for health, my expectations were not exactly at their highest.  

I was so excited the first time I met my new doctor and he told me he needed to get his own picture of my health as opposed to reading records and basing our decisions on past knowledge.  After a few years of inconsistent treatment for my ailments, lack of iron stores and frustration with my lack of good health, I found someone who wanted to make things better.

Timing of this meeting couldn't be better.  After a few diagnostic tests and just a few months into my new found addiction to being active, my new doctor agreed to fix me up.  Frequent iron treatments, paired with my healthy eating and addiction to activity have given me more energy and happiness than I have had in years.  In fact, until the last year,  I can't ever remember being able to stay awake all day, or to have energy to do what ever I want, whenever I want.

Thanks to stable blood levels, improved health and a noticeable increase in happiness, I am now the best I have ever been.  Being proactive, a new concept for me in the last year is absolutely amazing.  I'm learning to take this concept and apply it to other areas of my life. My new theory simply questions how is it possible to complain about anything if you haven't taken steps to ensure problems and issues don't arise in the first place?

What could you do to improve your life, simply by being proactive instead of reactive?