Health Is Not Valued Until Sickness Comes

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Many older guys struggle with their health.

Just recently, I have had men in their 40s and 50s contact me with potentially serious health conditions. 

It often seemingly comes out of nowhere, no buildup, no major warning but of course there were warnings but the pace of life was fast enough for it to be missed or outright ignored as so many men do. 

Health is often a secondary factor, a superficial interest behind the fast pace of life and the constant aim at the future. 

In this fast pace of life, it appears we have many problems, issues and challenges to overcome but once we lose our health, all focus narrows down to restoring it, nothing else matters. 

The focus becomes entirely on restoration and recovery. 

Self taught Maths genius Thomas Fuller aptly wrote: 

“Health is not valued until sickness comes.” 

 Poor health is an instant reminder of how vulnerable we really are and what really matters. 

One of the most popular sections of our course is The Courage Of Self Protection and how building an efficient mind fortress keeps out negative and harmful influences but also reminds us to protect what really matters to us in life. 

I’ve always taught my clients that health, fitness and resilience are the foundation of everything they decide to do.

It is the primary platform everything else is launched from. 

How you exercise and what you eat should change you on every single level.

If it doesn’t and fear is still prevalent in your life, then the exercise and food you eat needs adjusting. 

After-all, fit bodies are everywhere these days but fragility is rife and what we see in a muscular body rarely translates to strength, courage and resilience. 

Health and fitness are not a distraction, a hiding place for the things we can’t face or the common trend of showcasing our own ego but a pursuit of real transformation. 

Losing our health instantly reminds us to spend more time with the people we love, stop and admire beautiful scenery and connect with the real self behind the need to always be someone or somewhere. 

Poor health is never down to the habits that drive a man to consume or run himself ragged but the mind that has convinced him this is the only way to cope, to achieve and to live. 

Free the mind and the existing habits have no fuel to power them anymore.