Over the past weeks, remiss though I have been in contributing to this blog, I have had the luxury of contributing to my overall health in ways that many people would not relate synonymously with health. In my conversation yesterday with Michael Fletcher of Neworld Business Coaching, I had the opportunity, led by some great questions, to describe how I would like to redefine "health".
During these weeks, I have had the luxury of meeting with three good people, a bookkeeper, business coach and an accountant, each of whom factor substantially into my picture and definition of health. Essentially, these people remove stress and keep me on track by doing what they do, to let me do what I do. Beyond that, they provide for me, much as I and other health practitioners do for their clients, those systems that enable us to maximize our time in each endeavour. By removing stress and maximizing productivity for lack of a better term, these key players in health provide me a very important product beyond the dollar value of their services, time.
One of the common wants in our lives is for more time. By surrounding yourself with experts that are good people you can trust, from your handy man/woman to your Naturopathic Doctor, you can find in their services that invisible benefit of time. It may be immediately tangible like when you can keep playing with your child as the repair person fixes the leaky faucet, or it may be something you can only dream of, like running around with your great grand children thanks to the steps you took in caring for your health throughout your life.
We need to take a good look at how we value and define health. Orison Swett Marden once wrote that "personal value is a coin of one's own minting". Personal health needs to be appreciated as the substantial player in determining personal value and we need to realize that experts can provide us with more time, healthier, stress-free time, to do what we love. The reality is their is no "perfect health" and their is no universal definition for health, so each of us needs to create a realistic picture of our health and paint in all those players we can to make this coin of personal health and value worth its full potential.