The Health Account is More Valuable than the Bank Account

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Speaker 1: (00:00)

Retirement to me seems like some magical unicorn that’s way out there. I know we go to work each day to pay our bills and everything, but I think we all are trying to maybe save enough one day to be able to choose what we do with our days. And that term is called retirement. Anytime I see anybody that is retired, about to be retired, I’m just so happy for them because I know how much work, how much time, how many mornings they had to get up, how many nights they may have had to stay late. All the things that it takes to get through a career, to be able to one day say that I’m going to retire and retirement has a lot to do with, are you ready to retire? Not just physically. A lot of us are ready to retire physically a lot sooner than we are in other areas.

Speaker 1: (00:47)

But mostly we are concerned about our finances. You know, how many years to make how much money to have what we need to live on. And for many people, you know, that’s scary because a lot of times they can outlive their finances. And many times it’s poor health that causes them to outlive their finances quickly because medical costs can be so costly. We know that health problems are the number one cause of bankruptcy and the number one cause of people losing their money anytime during her life. And especially during retirement, if they have health concerns. So, which leads me to the question, what happens if you outlive your health account? So just like our bank account, our health account works the same way. You’re either making deposits or withdrawals with practically everything you do in a day. However, when we start off as babies and young kids, we start off with so much health that there’s a ton in the account and we can withdraw for a long time before we really noticed the balance getting low.

Speaker 1: (01:56)

But in reality, we don’t want to do that at all. We want to continue to fill up the account as much as we can, because the more we put in it, the longer or better you last, the younger you’ll feel and the better the parts will work. The more active we’ll be able to be and the less suffering we’ll experience. And we’ll be able to do that longer and throughout our lifetime so that we can not only enjoy the years we’re living now, but we can enjoy all the years that we have available to us. And we do that by making sure we have a full health account that has plenty in it to last us a lifetime. So let’s take a look at the health account, very simply everything you do. And we’re just going to give it a score for conversation purposes, how you sleep eight hours either goes into your account as a positive, you get rest, your healing and repairing, or a negative, if you’re sleeping in pain, uncomfortable, not getting rest, and stressed each day.

Speaker 1: (02:47)

You have all sorts of little things within that. How many hours you sleep, if you’re anxious or you’re relaxed, do you have a mattress that’s comfortable or uncomfortable? Is your pillow comfortable, uncomfortable? All these little things are pluses and minuses in your health account. Now these things you don’t notice right out of the gate, you don’t notice maybe on day one or day five or week five, but put 5, 10, 15 years on top of it or put an injury on top of it. And all the sudden these areas become more vulnerable and easier to see, but whether you can see them or not, or whether you can feel them or not, be assured that these things are either adding to your account or subtracting from your account.

Speaker 1: (03:39)

It’s a very simple process. You can’t go by how you feel, feeling will be the last thing that happens. You are unhealthy before you feel unhealthy. And you’ll be healthy before you feel healthy, how you feel never leads the way. So all of these different categories, if you can live based off of seeing them as more of a deposit into your health or a withdrawal, and believe me, you don’t have to carry a calculator and do all these different things. However, your body is calculating these things and is using a calculator. But, you don’t necessarily need to do that. Just try to win more moments, like, let’s just take this top category of sleep for one second. Let’s just say for conversation purposes, one night sleep would be, plus two in one day, over a week, that would be a plus 14, over a year that would be a plus 728.

Speaker 1: (04:33)

And over a decade, that would be 7,280, just on sleep alone. The same is true in the negative column, adding all the way up to 7,280 negative points. Now, we obviously know that there’s ups and downs, but this is for conversation purposes, just to get you to start thinking about things. It is so important to win all these moments in your life for two reasons. One, you reduce the stress that they cause, that causes negative problems, negative column, and negative points. In addition to that, if you learn how to do them the right way, the things you’re already doing in a day, you can actually turn those things and have them promote health. So you’re not only not getting the negative number, you’re turning them into a positive number and you see that not only does positive grow over time, it becomes exponential as time continues to go on it multiplies, it adds onto each other and gives you better and better health benefits.

Speaker 1: (05:37)

The longer more consistent, and more time you have a good habit, not to mention the fact that we talked about right here, you’re taking something that was negative and now making a positive, gives you a 14,000+ point difference. So let’s just go down the line, when you’re awake. When you wake up, are you stretching? Are you running out the door? Do you drink water or do you drink sugary drinks? Do you do vitamins or you don’t do vitamins? Do you handle things well or are you very stressed? Do you leave the house and give yourself plenty of time to be on time? Are you always running late? When you go to bed, did you stretch and reduce the stress from your day before you went to bed? So your sleep would be better. Or did you just go home, watch TV, stress out even more and then go to sleep and have your mind race and your body tight and then have a bad night’s sleep that multiplies together in the wrong direction.

Speaker 1: (06:29)

So remember, all the 7,000 points, was only the sleep column. These are all the different decisions we’re making, and we want to get as many deposits into the account as possible, work and home. Are we doing it in good posture? We doing it in good shoes? Are we doing it in a good chair? How’s our workstation set up? Are we doing things with good form? When we get home, do we leave work at work? Do we leave homeschooling at school time? Are we doing body restoration and repair? Are we doing recovery? How are we doing with relationships? So all of these things are adding and subtracting to our health. And what I want to just say very, very, very, very, very, very clearly is that this not only has an incredible impact on the day you’re living today, and over a week will have an amazing impact on the next week, and have an incredible impact on the next month, and have an outstanding impact on the next year, and have a mindblowing impact over the next decade.

Speaker 1: (07:21)

But when you need that health and when you need it in that account and you’re living your life, and maybe you’re not able to put as much into the account, as you used to, you’re not able to exercise as much or whatever the case may be, that stops you from really depositing all that you need into the account. And you may start to get into some days where you spend more than you’re putting into the account. You’re going to want as much in that account as possible to be able to write any check you need to write throughout your entire lifetime. It’ll save your finances. It’ll save your retirement plans. It’ll give you the ability to be active. It’ll reduce your suffering. And if you have enough health in the account, you’ll be able to enjoy every year of your life to the best of your ability.

Speaker 1: (08:06)

And that’s the best thing you could do for yourself. So don’t wait, teach it to your kids. There is no reason for them to get arthritis in their twenties, thirties, and forties, before they learn about taking care of their back and spine and joints. There’s no reason for them to suffer because kids are very resilient and can bounce back from anything. There’s no reason for their health to get bad before you lift it back up and teach them how to have good health. Again, don’t let them waste those years of depositing into their health. Don’t waste any year depositing into your health for your health to be the best it can be every single year and throughout a lifetime. You have to have the solid habits that feed the roots of health that produce the fruits of good health for being active and feeling good. You can’t just get that from doing nothing.

Speaker 1: (08:52)

You can feel a certain way and you can be active for so long, but you will never be at your best if you’re not feeding your body the things that allow it to produce health and by winning moments, reducing stress and turning those moments into moments that produce health. So that is my encouragement to you. I know that we may have some fear of how our finances are going to last us a lifetime, but the best chance that they’ll last you a lifetime is being healthy enough to work and earn money. The best chance that’ll be for them to last you a lifetime is for you to be healthy. So you don’t have to spend all your money on your health and the added incredible most amazing bonus of them all is you’re going to have the health you want to enjoy a great life.

Speaker 1: (09:33)

Do not wait. This is very serious. Keep investing, make sure you add to your health account each and every day. All right, love you. Keep it going, keep doing it. Don’t mean to talk at you, talking to you. I’m working on this myself. It’s just too obvious. It’s too right here. And it’s too apparent to ignore it or not talk about it or consider it. We have too much control over our health that we give away. We don’t want to be talking about that’s what happens when you get older and all these other things that we don’t control. We want to do what we do control and we can control, investing in our health and if it’s worth it to us and we take the time and have the discipline to do it, the rewards are amazing.

Speaker 2: (10:17)

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