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Believe it or not, how you manage your health has a lot related to the video game of Tetris! We are all born with roughly the same health quotient of 1, what we do from this point on determines whether that quotient goes up or down.

Level 1: Start off slow
Slowly the stacks come onto one another, each successive level, the flow of new puzzle pieces speeds up. As things are still moving pretty slow at the start, you have plenty of time to fix mistakes, build up some positive traps and get ready for the oncoming onslaught that life throws at you.

Level 2: Getting Interesting
You begin to notice subtle changes, if your lucky, you still have plenty of time to make further changes in your game pieces for optimal positioning. You begin to get a flow going, expectations and instinct begin to show their face. The other puzzle pieces begin to make sense.

Level 3: All There
Hopefully the positioning you did earlier in the game begin to pay dividends, you can produce line after line, exponentially increasing your score. What once made little to no sense all begins to come together. You have done well grasshopper!

Level 4: Things are Speeding Up!
What was once a leisurely pace is starting to speed up, puzzle piece after puzzle piece fall, most of the time you can fix previous errors but you now have less time to think in between each puzzle piece coming down. You begin to rely more and more on instinct, trying to stay ahead of the game.

Level 5: Realizations are made
If you where smart in the past few levels and built up a bank of easy line formations, level 5 is no big deal, you have made provisions for what was about to come up in the next few levels just incase. You are benefiting greatly now from those decisions. If you didn’t think ahead, mistakes begin to occur, some you can fix, others permanent with little you can do about it other then hope you don’t make anymore.

Level 6-8: Drop off
Here is where most people begin to fall off the track, the puzzle pieces are falling too quickly and lack of foresight has taken its toll.

Level 9-11: Drop off 2
Those who get to this level where either very lucky or planned well along ahead to get to this point, regardless, the stacks usually end up too high and the game is over for most of them.

Level 12-13: Drop off 3
Maybe 0.5% of people playing this game will get to this level of game play, the puzzle pieces are falling incredibly fast but with proper planning and a honed instinct, you may proceed to the next level or perish in this one.

Level 14: The End
The puzzle pieces are simply falling too fast to keep up, one after another after another, instinct simply isn’t good enough anymore. The pace you where able to maintain before is simply too much, as the puzzle pieces build up to the top, you quickly see a GAME OVER. Nobody has achieved this level of success, it’s like the 5 minute mile, my goal is to break this milestone so that others know it IS possible!

Conclusion
Multiply each level by 10, this will give you something to think about as this number will represent AGE, the game represents your health. My goal in life is to get to level 14, it will take a lifetime of habits, lots of luck and an incredibly amazing desire to beat all the odds.

The Bottom Line
Tetris is a great analogy not only for health but for life in general… play it often to gain new insights!