There are a lot of great things that come out of adopting a healthy lifestyle, and many of those things come quickly. Change up your eating habits and exercise routine, and you start losing weight. Eat clean foods, manage stress and get enough sleep, and your mood and energy levels improve. Do a few fasts and cleanses, and your skin becomes clear and eyes more vibrant.
That’s all well and good and an excellent reason to start paying a bit more attention to your health and wellbeing, but you should also consider the benefits that come further down the road. It’s important to drop the consumers mentality and adopt an investor’s mentality, not just with money but with health as well. A consumer thinks, If I do x, y or z now, then I’ll be happy/rich/lose weight/fill in the blank. Investors have a very different thought process. An investor says to themselves, If I do x, y or z now, then in a few weeks/months/years, my efforts will be multiplied a hundred-fold. A consumer is a slave to instant gratification. An investor is in control of his or her desires, and plants a seed now so that he or she can have a field of rewards later.
If you instill healthy habits now, you can more or less coast on autopilot, making tiny adjustments along the way, adding things as needed, and remain healthy for the rest of your life. If you cut out junk food and focus on eating a whole foods, plant-based diet and make that your normal, think of all the problems that will be avoided down the road.
How much money will you save in hospital bills, doctors visits and insurance?
How much will your quality of life improve and remain elevated due to being fit, strong, happy, healthy, emotionally balanced and self-reliant?
How much will a little self-love go towards improving your relationships with others?
Problems in general and health issues in particular have a nasty habit of snowballing out of control. This is easily prevented by just putting a little bit of effort in now, while you’re ahead. Put a little effort into eating cleaner and expanding your pallet. Find a few forms of exercise you love and that don’t feel like work. A few times a week, go to bed early, by at least 10 pm, and make sure to have a few stress management techniques up your sleeve. These few things alone are powerful enough to keep you thriving well into your 90s and beyond. Even if health issues have already cropped up, it’s never too late to take charge and start to fix things.
I do one-on-one and group health coaching, so if you’re looking for specific solutions to your individual health problems, contact me. Adopt an investor’s mentality, and put time and effort into yourself now – you can thank me later.