How Are You Depositing Into Your Health Bank?

With the recent Bank Holidays, it has got me thinking about banks and the most important bank of all, our health bank.

We have the choice as to how we manage our health bank, we could choose to be poor, wealthy, frugal with our spending, or make regular savings and deposits.

What do I mean by this? Well, if I was talking about your money and finances, I am sure you would be doing everything you can to improve your situation, to earn and save so that when the time comes that you need money, there is some there to use.

However, we don’t always think about our health in the same way, if that runs out or goes in the ‘red’ we can’t just get a health credit card and pay it off over time.

So, what I wanted to do this week was think about how we are accumulating our ‘health wealth’ and how we are spending it.

Let’s break it down into 3 categories.

1.       Deposits – this is where you do healthy actions that build your health and wellbeing over time.

2.       Savings – this is where you avoid doing bad health actions that will make you sick, therefore keeping your health.

3.       Spending – this is where you neglect your health or do an action that will damage it.

Now I know you can’t go through life without spending, just like using money you need to buy stuff, but you can only buy stuff if you have the money to do so.

So, let’s think about our health in a similar way, if you want to enjoy treats of life, do activities that may harm your body like drink alcohol or play contact sports, then you need to make sure you are preceding that with healthy activities such as eating well, exercising and getting your adjustments.

The more activity you put into deposits the more you will be able to spend, and if you bank healthy habits more often than poor habits, you will build your savings enough so that the odd treat/binge and spending does not affect your health wealth in the long term.

So where to start? Here are my Top Tips to accumulate health wealth:

1.       Deposits

• Move daily and exercise or walk 30 minutes per day.
• Drink water regularly throughout the day.
• Take 5/10 mins time out to relax and be silent each day.
• Keep regular chiropractic adjustments to help you body function at it’s optimum.

2. Savings

• Make a ‘treat’ a treat. Enjoy when you want but not often and only on occasion.

3.       Spending

• Make a conscious decision about poor health habits, if you want to eat something bad, sit with the thought for a while and if you really want it, go ahead and spend.
• Small amounts of spending can help us, like paying for food, we need to do so. Exercise is a great example; in the short term it is damaging for the body but in the long term makes us better.

So, there you have it, my financial insight to your health.

Let me know your thoughts, I’d love to hear.

With love,

Tom