No, yesterday I was like a million bucks. But today I just stumbled across one of those online net worth calculators.
I'm asked to enter my liabilities, home mortgage, car loan, student loans. And then next, what are your assets? Like the value of my home, jewelry or collectibles, cash, mutual funds and then after the immensely complicated calculation I just found out that I'm worthless.
The funny thing though, the only solace that really made a dent in nursing my worthlessness with a meager offering of encouragement was the old adage: I still got my health.
Maybe your net worth is not the best test of your self-worth. Perhaps the more critical query is, what is your net health?
Tell us a little bit about your assets.
- Bonds rates the strength of your connections, with others.
- Collectibles, are you living a life of memories worth saving?
- A vehicle, how powerful or painful is your mobility?
- Life insurance, what is the total value of your contribution to humanity?
- And of course, retirement, how much good will have you paid into your IRA?
And, can't forget our liabilities.
- Student loans, how much has it cost you to learn the hard lessons about stressing?
- Oh, credit cards, are you still really just paying the minimum balance due to your behavior?
- Personal debt, how much do you owe to yourself, still, to get fixed?
Your health net score will not be a number, it will be many numbers. Cholesterol levels to reach, numbers of hours to sleep, amount of veggies to eat, a number of relaxation techniques. It will be a fitness suggestion and most importantly a personalized navigation to get behavior from location to destination, and that map, the map, that tells you what to do, that is the critical component to the assessment.
Our odds for success are changing. Our unhealthy behavior is only as good as our directions.
To simply approach change as though it is difficult, only scratches to the surface.
Change is emotional. And our ability to override our emotional resistance to change depends on our intrinsic motivation to give a damn.
The irritating know-it-all in my mirror is right. I do know better, right? I know what medical researches says about my unhealthy behaviors. I know how it feels when I make unhealthy decisions, and I know that I'm supposed to do the right thing and I finally learned what the right thing is to do, and I finally give a damn enough to get it done.
Stop forgetting your pills, you know better. Stop postponing treatments, you know better. Stop being afraid to change, you know better. Stop saying you'll start tomorrow, you know better.
To know what to do you must have the right answers. To have the right answers, you must have the right questions, the right plan and the right reasons to help you change your direction.
so, grab those reigns of responsibility for navigating your path. Embrace your power to enhance the luster of your laugh, accept your duty as sovereign leader of wellness, of your vision.
Your net health potential is limitless. The same way you network your net worth to amass your net wealth, you can net heal your net self to amass your net health, and your future can be saved.
Good decisions can be made, and your net health can increase with one thing to do, give a damn.
