Health and Wealth – More Than Just a Rhyme

A Truthful Ditty

When your grandma was a girl, she probably learned this little verse:

Early to bed and early to rise...Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

This little ditty still holds a lot of merit. Health and wealth do go together. In fact, without health, there may be no wealth. And when health is compromised, oftentimes wisdom goes out the window.

If you’ve ever watched a family lose all their life savings due to a lingering illness, you know this fact firsthand. Perhaps it has happened to you. While you can always make more money, if you lose your health it is extremely difficult to regain that loss.

A Paradox

One of the greatest paradoxes of all times is when people throw caution to the wind and spend all their waking hours seeking after financial gain – and does so at the expense of their health. Perhaps you are not getting enough sleep, or you have unhealthy eating habits. Burning the candle at both ends, working long hours, allowing stress and worry to take control and suffering the results. Perhaps anger, fear, and anxiety have taken over. Soon your body is simply too weak to fight off disease and illness. You will catch everything that is “going around.”

Any wealth that is gained will be spent on medical bills and prescriptions. And if there is no insurance available, that means even more money lost.

When your body is in a weakened condition; be aware that your mind is in a weakened condition as well. How then, can you proceed forward to build a credible, profitable business when you can’t even think clearly?

A Wise Investment

What’s the answer?

It’s time to stop and think of the end result of your present lifestyle. Are you seriously investing in your own health on a daily basis? Or have you left it all to chance? Or worse, have you abused your body with lack of proper rest, lack of proper nutrition, and lack of proper recuperation/restoration periods?

As you rush forward in your quest for – whatever it is, a higher position, higher wages, an established business – have you lost site of the total cost? And if you consider the cost – possibly the loss of your health – will it be worth it in the end?

Vital Element of Health

One of the most vital sources of energy and health is oxygen. And yet so few people take in enough oxygen. A sedentary lifestyle means little or no vital oxygen intake. Just 30 minutes of exercise three times a week, could make an incredible difference in how much oxygen your vital organs receive. And a daily walk costs virtually nothing.

The Perfect Setup

Empty calories – food with no true nutritional value such as potato chips, pastries, soda pop, just to name a few – are a detriment to health and work to weaken all systems of the body. As unbelievable as it sounds, many Americans today suffer from malnutrition. This is not because of lack of food, but too much of the wrong types of food. Too many wrong food choices. Too much saturated fat, too many hydrogenated fats, too much sodium, too much refined sugar, too many calories.

Wrong food choices result in an extremely over-burdened body, and yet supplies very little of the essential vitamins and minerals that are necessary for good health. It’s a perfect setup for illness and disease.

If you are searching for ways to change your life for the better, to enhance your lifestyle and gain lasting wealth, you would do well to begin with the ultimate respect of your own body. Begin a simple exercise routine; determine to eat foods that are high in nutritional value; seek out times of rest and restoration.

Take care of that body. There are no trade-ins available!