YOUR MOST IMPORTANT ASSET

What would you describe as your most important asset?

Well, #First Bank taught me.

In a “Wealth Creation & Wellness” webinar the Bank held sometime last year, the speakers featured in that webinar – a Professor from LUTH, and other professionals, were unanimous that “investing in your health is a good savings account.”

In other words, you can always create wealth when you have good health.

However, you may not regain or create wealth if you lose your health.

For me, it’s like this:

You can create or regain wealth at any stage in life, if you have good health.

You may not regain your wealth if you have lost your health.

And a lost health may be difficult to regain.

I am yet to see anyone who lost their health, especially when they were older, and regained it for a long time to be able to recreate the wealth they lost in the process.

Once you lose your health, you may become a perpetual patient or visitor to a hospital.

The best time to invest in your health is when you’re healthy; when you’re younger and have no sign of ill-health at all.

This is the time you should be making huge daily deposits into your health account.

From this savings you can build wealth, even when you get older and people think you can no more ‘hustle’.

Who knows, your season may come when you are in your 50s or 60s.

Actually, so much is tied to good health, especially when you become older:

·????????Further wealth creation, especially after giving your children the kind of education that will give them a better life than you had.

When this does not happen, these younger people may not have adequate time to stand on their feet and be able to look after you.

·????????Family happiness and enjoyment depends on good health, particularly during the later years of life.

Failing health puts the younger members of a family in stressful conditions.

Everyone would then be running around to take care of daddy or mummy, who has High Blood pressure, diabetes or one undisclosed age-related illness or the other.

·????????Contributing to the wellbeing of others in the family, especially during social engagements, like weddings, etc.

·????????Leaving something for grandchildren and great-grand-children.

And so on and so forth.

How to invest in your health daily, and save money for further wealth creation.

Well, I can’t easily forget what my medical doctor nephew told me many years ago.

He emphatically told me that majority of people rush to the hospital when they are almost ready to die, or when they are half dead.

That young man opened my eyes.

He explained that when anyone visits the hospital and is admitted without their expecting it, something could be wrong.

And when a drip is set up for them, with doctors and nurses running around to take their blood samples to run one test or the other, something could be seriously wrong.

According to him, such individuals may have a 50/50 chances of recovering or dying.

Hmmmn….

Now, here are my suggestions on how you should make daily savings or invest in your health.

·????????Exercise Daily. At least, ensure you walk up to 10,000 footsteps every day.

·????????Eat healthily – Eat more vegetables and fruits than cooked food every day. In other words, eat more raw foods than cooked food.

·????????Drink sufficient water every day. Go for the natural alkaline water, with pH above 7.0.

·????????Get enough sleep every night, (5 to 8 hours).

·????????Set time aside to play with your children. Watch TV programs and movies with your family members.

·????????Ensure you live in peace with your spouse. Sleep on the same bed.

·????????Get involved in community services – social welfare, etc. Go out there to uplift others, especially those who need your help, not necessarily your money. You can introduce what is helping your health to others.

Of course, the best time to start investing in your health is now – this morning or in the evening when you get home from work.?

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