Let’s start with:
1)Exercise: If you don’t know the benefits of regular exercise by now then you must be living under a very large and very old rock. Too often, just about everyone overestimates the amount of effort required to get results. The same advice I give to clients about budgeting. Something as simple as briskly walking 30 minutes daily has been shown to lead to health improvements and trigger weight loss. Therefore, if you are starting an exercise habit from scratch, start simple…just like a budget or savings, start simple. Don’t worry
about the piledriver crunches or high impact box jumps in your first week.
2)Cooking: This may strike you as a weird one, but I’ve seen up close the benefits to your physical and financial health from making sure my clients are thinking about how much money they spend going out for meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), rather than effective grocery shopping with a plan to cook more of your meals. Eating well, much like exercise keeps the slate clean in terms of health and lifestyle benefits; lower risk of obesity, high cholesterol, high blood pressure; improved flexibility, endurance, focus, clarity, better sleep, and sex life…and guess what? Cooking at home saves you so much real money that can be used to further your financial lifestyle and build a juggernaut of wealth for your retirement years. Make it a goal to cook at least one meal per day. There are so many great online recipes that are health conscious and budget conscious, have fun with it!
3)Meditation: The benefits of meditation are age-old and scientifically proven; focus, clarity, inspiration, and goal achievement are all part of the benefits. When it comes to financial lifestyle and mediation it’s about seeing the end in play and building a path to get there with stops/checkpoints along the way to hitting your retirement goal. Start with a small daily practice, even one minute a day can show you benefits. This will give you the ability to discover what’s important to your financial lifestyle and focus on current successes that will affect your positive financial future. Simply stated, the goal is to use meditation to “see and feel your financial successes” by calming your mind daily. If you find it difficult to meditate, maybe find a local group or class to attend or be a part of. Then once you get the hang of it, it can become a tool to really structure your future wealth…using the greatest tool in your toolbox, a calm and powerful mind.
4) Reading: “Reading is fundamental” is a tagline from a commercial from the 70’s. It’s magical and the one thing that allows you to live inside someone else’s brain for a little while, see what they see, feel what they feel and then leave again.