Investing in Your Own Wellness

Is health featured in your investment plan?

Hi everyone, I sincerely hope you’re safe and sane wherever you find yourself bunkered down during this early Autumn week.

Summer has officially ended for half the world, a fact that’s unfortunately very worrying because a virus loves nothing more than cold weather.

Health has been on the forefront of my mind for the past several months, and now more than ever before has impacted my investment strategy.

I’ve never taken especially seriously the many recommendations from health professionals who have told me that I need to go to the gym. Even though I’ve had high blood pressure since my teen years, I’ve never worked at lowering it.

My main resistance to going to the gym is the cost, and how much it sucks. But I learned this year that taking group classes is a lot more enjoyable than clunking around on complicated gym equipment; plus it takes away the risk of using the equipment wrong and causing myself an injury.

Yoga in particular is more fun in a group, and is an uncomplicated way of getting in better shape.

The Wellness Plan

Investing in higher quality food and motivating exercise classes has been my way of putting money to work as part of a strategy to lengthen my healthspan.
My goal is to strink the portion of my life that’s spend in hospital and unable to earn money or make regular investments.

I dread the day that I can’t make money, and have nightmares that the inevitable day will come before I’m able to live comfortably on the money my investments make passively.

So now I’m working to ensure that I’m healthy so that when I do eventually retire it’s on my terms, and when I’m ready.

If you’d like to make similar lifestyle improvements and strategise your own healthspan, here are some lovely links…

• The Lifelong Financial Cost of a Single Burger
• Get Fit with Sith Yoga
• I’ve Started a Wellness Budget
• The Gym is Dead, Long Live Yoga