1 Thought:

Having earned Delta Diamond Member status annually by the end of March each year for several decades I know what damage a career can have on a body first hand as well as a mind. None of us look for excuses; you don’t have to really do you…they are in plain view.

“I’m working 80+ hours a week, when I get home I have things to get done, and of course I need to spend time with my family” Sound like anyone you might know…possibly someone you know extremely well?

100% a challenge, but not impossible and equally worth while. Having a healthy mind as well as healthy body can make you pretty much unstoppable.

24 Hours a Day. The common thread that the most and least successful of us shares. None of us can create more hours in a day but we can break it out and utilize time better.

Feed the Mind:

They say if you want to keep a secret from someone simply hide it in a book. Reading is something not enough people make the time to do. I have consistently read no less than 2-3 books a week for decades now. I get the privilege of learning something new almost every single day. Small mental growth day by day is one of the healthiest things you can do. Also, if you are client facing or just want to be social you constantly have something possibly new to share with others.

Pick up a hobby. I tend to take the fun out of about everything I’ve been repeatedly told by focusing strictly on obvious ways to self improve. So I elected to choose things of interest that I knew I had low skill but admired others that had it; this would prevent me from being critical and trying to make something perfect. I am now proud to say I am a mediocre, at best, Oil Painter. Less than mediocre Guitar player, and a dangerously poor long board skateboarder. But I’m having fun and it’s in turn reducing stress which is extremely healthy.

Eat right. I choose to eat mostly Mediterranean for longevity and higher level health reasons. I choose in most cases to cook all my meals every morning around 4:00 AM or so. I realize the time of day seems odd but is it? When not traveling what time do you get home; how much time is spent watching TV, scrolling through mindless apps? Pick a time you like to make it happen, it’s ridiculously therapeutic to cook at least for me. Or if cooking isn’t your thing or you want to allocate time to something else consider eating/ ordering healthy and eliminating (not reducing) the foods that slow you down and don’t truly feed you. 30’s, 40’s, or in my case 50’s doesn’t mean its time to slow down. Comment or email me if you’d like me to share a grocery list and some of the recipes I make weekly that taste great and more importantly make your mind and body fire on all cylinders. Eliminate sugars, processed foods and basically foods that don’t help you…food should taste great but it’s also fuel.

Feed the Body:

Body in motion, stays in motion. Every year is a new challenge but I can honestly say as a guy in his 50’s that I feel better now than I did during a rough few years in my mid 30’s.

Fact is you can’t with complete honesty say that you don’t have time for your health and fitness because of a career or family. Your health and wellness not only makes you better at work and home but actually delivers you a much longer time to do both.

Harsh possibly but putting off your own health is simply an excuse because it’s hard to start. The good news is once you start it becomes addictive and if you keep it in balance with everything just becomes a part of your balanced day.

When you exercise properly you’ll release endorphins that feed your mind and assist in mental health.

Fitness also gives you a goal to work towards. I feel the scale is toxic; your weight is of little concern; what is of concern is are you happy with how you look and feel?

It can be something small like I can do 5 push-ups now, in 30 days I want to be able to do 20 without stopping. I’m trying to prepare for an Ironman currently; small improvements day over day, week over week are how I feel rewarded and see progress.

I’ll probably, if requested do a blog or two on overall health and fitness as it has been a healthy obsession of mine since I was probably 10 years old.

We are all a work in progress. We all have 24 hours each day. You and I both have so many ways to fill our day; none of us at the end will wish we had spent more time watching TV or scrolling through apps. We might look back and wish we had made our physical and mental health a bigger priority so we could have more time with loved ones and possibly accomplished more at the work we are all passionate about.

1 Quote:

” Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body”

– Juvenal

1 Question:

We all say we “don’t have time for our health and wellness” despite the clear proof that it feeds both our personal well being as well as that of our careers. Can you find 1 hour per day in your daily schedule starting tomorrow to split between possibly reading and something physical? Stick to this for 30 days straight, your well being doesn’t take weekends off. I promise if you are true to this for 30 days without missing a day it will become a habit.

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