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We believe that health, wealth, and lifestyle encompass the full spectrum of the elements of a happy and productive life. We also understand that these are not the only elements of a happy and healthy life.
Do you want to live the healthiest and wealthiest lifestyle possible? But do not know where to start?
Food is the fuel your body uses for energy, growth, and health. It’s also important for keeping your immune system strong so it can fight off bacteria and viruses. But eating well is about more than just preventing sickness. Good nutrition is an important part of leading a healthy lifestyle. Combined with physical activity, your diet can help you to reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce your risk of chronic diseases (like heart disease and cancer), and promote your overall health.
The most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans emphasizes the importance of creating a healthy eating pattern to maintain health and reduce the risk of disease. This includes consuming dairy products that are low in fat or fat free as well as foods that contain calcium, such as dark green leafy vegetables (such as kale and broccoli) and calcium-fortified foods (such as orange juice and tofu).
Your body needs vitamin D to absorb calcium. Many people don’t get enough vitamin D from food sources alone. Sunshine is one source of vitamin D. You might need to take a daily vitamin D supplement if you’re homebound, have dark skin, or wear clothes that cover most of your skin when you go outside.
If you’re pregnant or breastfeeding, talk with your doctor about whether you need extra calcium or vitamin D
When you’re young, it seems like there’s nothing you can’t do. You can stay up late, wake up early, eat junk food every day, and not go to the gym for a week, and still feel great. But as you get older, that changes.
The Importance of Building Your Personal Wealth
Money is the only thing that holds its value. If you want your future self to be happy, you should make as much money as possible and save it.
They say money doesn’t buy happiness. But science says otherwise: to a point, money does buy happiness–it buys you the freedom to spend your time and energy on things that matter to you instead of being stuck in a soul-crushing job just to pay the bills. In other words, money buys you time and options.
But don’t take my word for it: when researchers from Princeton surveyed people on what makes them happy, they found that income does correlate with happiness–up until around $75,000 a year. After that “satiation point” (I love that phrase), more income has no effect on happiness at all.
So how do you get there? The simplest answer is to earn more, but I’ve got another idea: if you build up your assets until they produce enough passive income to cover your basic expenses every month, you can quit your job and start doing what you really love.
Wealth is the fundamental thing. Wealth is stuff we want: food, clothes, houses, cars, gadgets, travel to interesting places, and so on. You can have wealth without having money. If you had a magic machine that could on command make you a car or cook you dinner or do your laundry, or do anything else you wanted, you wouldn’t need money. Whereas if you were in the middle of Antarctica, where there is nothing to buy, it wouldn’t matter how much money you had.
Always Try to Improve Your Lifestyle
From the things I want, I can figure out what kind of lifestyle I want. The process of working out what you want is itself a valuable life skill. It’s not something they teach you in school. So it’s something a lot of people don’t get around to doing until late in life, if at all. But if you don’t know how you want to live, you’re unlikely to get there.
You might think this would be obvious. But it turns out that if you ask people what kind of lifestyle they want, they have surprisingly little idea. If pressed for an answer, they’ll instinctively reach for the standard set of “lifestyle” clichés: a house in the country and a cottage by the sea; a nice car or two; some fancy clothes; maybe a yacht and/or private jet; lots of travel; good restaurants and hotels; a membership at an exclusive golf club; and so on. But if these people had any of these things already, would they really be seriously considering changing their lives?
Not usually, no. Most people who are thinking about making such a big change are thinking about it because they’re
It’s easy to feel like you’re not making progress, because the problems that are left are always harder than the ones you’ve already solved. But if you have a nice lifestyle, it means you’ve solved some hard problems.
If you’re trying to make a lifestyle decision and don’t know what to do, it’s often helpful to ask yourself “What would be the best possible outcome?” This is easy if you’re thinking of moving to a new place or taking a new job: the best possible outcome is that it works out great! You love your new city or your new boss or both. You feel like you belong. Nothing goes wrong.
You Can Have it All
You can improve your health and your lifestyle by making small changes. One of the best ways to do this is to exercise more. Try to build more movement into your day, such as taking the stairs more often or walking more.
Also, eat a nutritious diet and avoid eating too much processed food. Lastly, stay hydrated by drinking enough water each day.
I have a theory why the people who go to gyms are so much healthier than the rest of us. It’s not because they’re working out. I think it’s because they’ve already made a difficult decision.
They’ve decided they want to be healthy, and that going to the gym is not just a good thing to do but something they want to do. This changes their default behavior, which makes them healthier in all sorts of ways, not just at the gym.
So, if you want to improve your health, decide how you want to live and what you want to spend your time doing. Then, don’t make plans about how you will get there. Just start doing things that move you in that direction. You’ll figure out the details as you go along.
If you want to be healthy, it’s not great to ask what you should do. You need to ask what you can do.
If you’ll forgive me for sounding like a self-help book for a moment, the advice of self-help books is often worthless in practice. It’s one thing to tell someone who is already healthy and energetic that they should exercise more. If they get up at 6am every day and run 5 miles before breakfast, they can probably handle an extra hour of exercise without having to give up anything else.
But if someone is overweight and tired and depressed, telling them to just cheer up and exercise more will be useless advice. They don’t have the energy for an extra hour of exercise; their life has enough stress already.
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