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Four Key Focus Areas
Learn All You Can
Good health maintenance involves educating yourself in three steps:
Step 1 Step 2
Step 3
Learn what your body requires to be in the best running condition.
Learn about nutrition, exercise, your body’s natural cycles, and what may be harmful or destructive.
Remember: You don’t have to know everything all at once. Your body is great at compensating for your ignorance and mistakes. Unlike your computer, your body is able to fix itself most of the time—that is until it’s so neglected, alarms are sounded and it begins to shut down!
Education and maintenance needs to be ongoing. Regular checkups with your doctor, dentist, and health professionals will keep you informed and up-to-date on your current condition. Time takes a toll, and regular assessments are vital to a good health maintenance program.
Make learning a life-long habit. Everything you learn about your body, good health, and proper maintenance will benefit you in the long run— just keep working at it! This knowledge and understanding will help you make plans and take action to properly guard, improve, and manage one of life’s most precious resources—good health.
Soaring Health Costs
For most Americans, healthcare costs are the fastest growing item in their spending plan. Government, social agencies, health care professionals, and consumers—are all deeply concerned with solving this serious health and economic problem.
You need to make the same careful studied approach to healthcare as any other expense. Get as much information as you can, compare costs, and think about quality; you need your body to work for the long term.
Become a knowledgeable consumer and as a rule, you’ll become financially free and have a higher quality of life. Isn’t that what this is all about in the first place?
“Education should... create those mental habits which will enable people to acquire knowledge and form sound judgments for themselves.”
~ Bertrand Russell
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