Health & Wellness Magazine HealthQuest Spring 2018 | Page 22

DEAN
GRAZIOSI
Dean Graziosi
&
WELLNESS
HEALTH
THERE’S AN old Indian proverb that says
“a man with his health has a thousand
wishes and a man without his health has
but just one.” There is no money, there is
no thriving business, there is no ROI or
EBITDA that can help you when you’re
sick and don’t have your health. When
you don’t have your health, nothing else
matters.
We get the opportunity to pay for our
health in advance—or at least do all we
can to prevent illness—so we can enjoy
the spoils of our hard work. Whether you
are an entrepreneur, a businessperson, or
someone who just works hard at a job or
career, you know you say yes to things
when no one else is watching. You work
hard when no one else does, doing more
than most, putting forth the effort, time,
and energy.
So making health a part of your life, a
part of your routine, isn’t something you
should do. It’s something you must do.
Well, you’re either going to pay now or
pay later. And for all the money you make
in the world, if you are sick when you are
older, you would give it all back for more
time, for more health.
Here is a silly analogy I heard that I think
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works great for the issue of health. If you
owned a million-dollar racehorse and
had all your money invested in it, and
having that horse win was the difference
between you or your company making
it, how would you treat that million-
dollar racehorse? Would you not let it get
enough sleep? Would you overstress it?
Would you not give it great food? Would
you give it preservatives? Would you be
mean to it? Would you not let the horse
have time to just chill some days?
No, of course not. You would feed it the
best nutritious food. You would get it a
trainer and make sure it felt good. You’d
get it a naturopath and a nutritionist. You
would play soothing music for it. You
wouldn’t let it get stressed.
What about you? You are your own
million-dollar racehorse. How are you
treating you? What kind of words are you
using to beat yourself up when things
don’t go right? What kind of food are
you feeding your body? What kind of
movement and exercise are you doing?
Are you doing meditation or yoga,
something to soothe the mind? You are
your own million-dollar racehorse.
For me, exercise is a part of my life. It’s
a part of my morning ritual and a part
of my morning routine, but there’s more
to it than that. It’s more than just the
exercise. I’ll give you an example of my
morning routine. First—and I learned
this from Arianna Huffington— at night,
when you go to bed, put your phone on
airplane mode. So many of us wake up
in the middle of the night and check our
phone. It’s two feet from our head. Or
we wake up in the morning and the first
thing we do is check for email or text
messages. And what you are doing is
playing Russian roulette with your phone,
deciding if you’re going to start your day
in an offensive or defensive mood, if your
confidence is going to be down or really
down because you don’t know what’s
coming in. So what I’d suggest is to put
your phone on airplane mode before
you go to sleep and not look at it in the
middle of the night or first thing in the
morning when you wake up.
Next, you should create a seven-minute
routine that you do when you first wake
up in the morning. Maybe you already
have an hour or two to meditate and
practice gratitude, which is amazing and
you should. But if not, when your eyes