No Health, no Wealth

Your health is the baseline of any long-term success

Last year I battled one health complication to another, surprisingly, I thought I was quite healthy prior to this. I became so desperate for a solution that it taught me a valuable lesson -

Without health, you cannot create any impact or wealth!!!

The smartest entrepreneurs optimize every aspect of their lives, including health, so they can focus more time and energy on what they do best.

While many ignore their Physical health, many more ignore their Mental health (Wahala!¹)

Here are 6 things you can start doing now that will improve your health:

1. Practice self-care: As an entrepreneur, you will definitely encounter stress, so learning how to deal with it is very vital. One of the best ways that work is self-care. Self-care is when you choose behaviours that balance the effects of emotional and physical stressors such as exercising, eating healthy foods, getting more sleep, practising meditation, spending time with family, switching off your phone etc.

2. Draw Clear Boundaries: Work never finishes, there’ll always be more waiting for you on the horizon. Knowing when to say ‘No’ or powering down is essential to living a fulfilled life. As entrepreneurs and business leaders, we often always have a perpetual “to do” list of things. Even when you are supposed to be relaxing you are constantly checking your work emails, thinking about things that need to be done, stressing about a goal that missed the mark, and so on. It is also important to have strict cut-off times or “me-times”.

3. Be physically active: Staying physically active is the best medicine for both my physical and mental wellbeing. Get fit, sign up for a gym membership or consistently follow a regular workout schedule.

4. Do less: sounds counter-intuitive right? As a business owner & entrepreneur, it is common to do all the things all the time, but frankly, that’s just going to lead to a faster burnout, more stress, unmet expectations, and an unhappy outlook on the business as a whole. So practice the 80/20 rule - “What’s the one thing you can do, such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”

5. Journal: Document your failures, growth, and wins every day. I also learned that keeping a gratitude journal forces your brain to focus on the things that are working and on solutions more.

6. Lastly, don’t compromise on sleep! Staying up consistently overnight is not an indicator of a hustler or hard worker, it is sheer foolishness. Sleep helps your body heal and recalibrate.

Podcast Launch

The Grinders Table is launching on Sunday, January 16th. On this podcast, I’ll spend time talking to entrepreneurs, innovators, c-suites on how they have built/are building successful careers as well as their mistakes and failures. Subscribe here - Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Anchor, Spotify.

Listen to the trailer here -

1. Wahala means 'Trouble' in Nigeria Pidgin English