What's your #1 asset?
Money?
Your
house?
Your Pokemon card collection?
No. It is your health and wellbeing.
Why?
Because, YOU are the number one asset you have to make a contribution to the world around you, especially those people around you that you love and cherish the most.
It's exactly why when you're on the plane and they tell you to put your mask on before helping others...
it's because you're actually of zero use to anyone if you can't even breathe.
Think about it…
Can you be the best parent if you’re constantly stressed out, ill, tired, and weak?
Can you be the best partner to your husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend under those conditions?
How about how you perform at work?
That last one is always an
important one for me…
I absolutely love what I do for a living.
However, it's bloody hard work sometimes, and when I let things slip and make compromises with my own needs, I absolutely notice a difference in my focus, productivity and how I interact with others… and that’s the exact opposite of what any business owner wants.
I think we all get so caught up in getting things done that we forget to stop and
understand that if we took better care of ourselves we’d probably actually get more done - at least more of what’s really important.
Stephen Covey (author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - a non s**t "self help" type book that I'd definitely recommend - it's under a tenner on
Amazon) refers to it as “sharpening the saw.” He’d talk about how people would
be so busy trying to chop down the tree that they never stop to sharpen the saw... which would make chopping the tree go faster and easier.
Here are five areas to focus on when protecting your number one asset:
- Nutrition
- Getting enough quality sleep
- How often you train, and how you recover from this training
- How you manage stress - the biggest one for most of us, myself included
- Confidence, self-worth
and other psychological factors
Remember, if you want to be a great parent/spouse/friend/worker you need to take extra special care of YOU…
If you’d like my help with any of those five areas just ask. :-)
Much love,
JB