The practical applications of health

Thought: Health does not only mean a longer life, it means a freedom of choice in how to spend that life.

Tip: You do not achieve ‘health’. Health is something you work at everyday that allows you to live your life in any way you want. A lack of health means a lack of options for how you can spend your time, particularly as you age. This is true of us as individuals, and as parts of larger organisations.?

A ‘healthy’ person is one whose options are open.

They can sleep when they want to, eat what they want to, work as long as they need to and engage in any activities that take their fancy.

It is the same for a ‘healthy’ organisation.

Their workforce produces quality work for less time and energy expenditure, doesn’t get sick, can easily adapt and can buckle down and put in the hard yards when it’s needed.

If our health declines, as individuals or organisations, so too does our ability to function and the work we can accomplish suffers.

Work on improving not only your own health, but the health of your employees, and you will be actively working on increasing their level of freedom, happiness and utility.?

Question: What could you accomplish with a healthy workforce that you couldn’t with an unhealthy one?

News: Employees are turning their noses up at lavish perks - proof that we can't just throw anything at staff and hope it does the job.