You can be the richest person in the world, who made the smartest money investment decisions, but all that riches will be worthless to you if your doctor tells you that you have 6 months left to live, because of the terminal disease.
We chase wealth, money, materialistic stuff, big houses, luxury cars, exotic vacations. And we are willing to work very hard to get these stuff. And if we don’t get them, we become unhappy and depressed.
We often think, that our health is given to us. We thing that being healthy comes naturally and automatically in our life’s. So we often choose to ignore it. Until we loose it. And than, and only than, we realize, that everything else becomes worthless to us if we can’t get our health back.
The smiling fit trash picker, that constantly moves to haul garbage bins from up and down the streets in the morning in your neighborhood is investing smarter than rich overweight executive watching stock charts, sitting on his but all day and making profitable transactions.
Often times he doesn’t know it, but he is investing in his health. He comes home exhausted from all that physical work, he sleeps well and probably eats well too, because he knows he will have to work very hard the next day again.
His blood pressure is fine and he is most likely going to live long and healthy life. Even if his bank account is not growing at all, he is investing way smarter and better than the sophisticated investment overweight, overstressed, over sugared investment genius.
Think about your health as the best investment in the world, and it really is the best investment. It will make you put things in a little better perspective. We spent too much time obsessing about things that in larger perspective don’t matter much and too little about things that matter a lot – our health.