Health and wealth are so closely related, but it’s easy to fall into the trap of focusing on how to make money first and then promising that you’ll take care of your health after.
You need to make sure you’re looking at health first and then wealth.
It’ll feel against the grain of what you’ve known since you started making money, but there’s a simple way to trick your brain into feeling motivated to put health first…
The first question you may have is: “why must I trick myself to look at health first which can then lead to wealth?”
To my knowledge and belief, there’s no 100% perfect path to become wealthy and building an inheritance to leave behind. However, there are patterns we can clearly see when studying how others have reached success.
Pick any 10 successful people. It’s likely that 9 of them are “morning people.” They understand that waking up with focus and motivation is a crucial part of reaching their goals.
But here’s the catch: Only about 10% of people are actual “morning people.”
Does that mean you don’t have a chance at wealth if you’re not part of that lucky 10%? Absolutely NOT. All you must do is trick your brain into becoming a morning person, and then using it to chase down your goals (you’ll see how health is a big part of this shortly)!
Here’s how to do exactly that…
The simple answer is to go to bed earlier, but it takes much more than that. It’s about the quality of sleep you get each night.
And you DO NOT have to resort to pills and other artificial means of making yourself drowsy. There are natural ways to cure your lack of bad sleep.
1. Protein then dairy
Protein is great for you, but it’s also difficult for your body to digest. Too much protein too late in the day might mean the digestion process can disrupt your sleep cycle.
On the other hand, dairy contains tryptophan, which is a natural sleep inducer!
2. Exercise EARLY
Exercise will do two things. For starters, it enhances your mood, how alert you are, and your brain activity. And secondly, it prepares your body for sleep in the future.
But exercise is all about the earlier the better.
Exercise helps to keep you up for several hours, so doing it too late will disrupt your ability to fall asleep. But if you exercise first thing in the morning, it will give you ALL the benefits it can.
3. Forget about out naps, caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine
Naps that last more than roughly 20 minutes can make it more difficult to fall asleep and stay asleep, so cut them out of your day.
Cut caffeine, including chocolate, tea, and coffee of any kind, at least 4 hours before bed to ensure a natural falling asleep process for your body at night.
Alcohol may help you fall asleep faster, but it also completely ruins how well you sleep. Night sweats, headaches, frequently waking, and other consequences of alcohol all negatively impact your sleep. Try to cut alcohol out roughly 5 or 6 hours before bed.
Cut nicotine completely (I know that’s easier said than done for some people). The addictiveness of nicotine is so powerful that your body will crave it while you sleep, which affects your quality of sleep.
4. Keep the bedroom dark and primarily for sleep
A well-known but scarcely followed rule about sleep is to make the environment as dark as possible, which helps your body produce Melatonin, another sleep inducer.
Many people take this rule lightly and leave a light, television, etc. on. Do your body a favor and cut it all off.
You should also condition your body for sleep by keeping your bedroom for sleep only, if possible. Don’t retreat to your bedroom constantly throughout the day, and instead make sure your body knows that it’s time for bed when you enter that room.
All the above will trick your brain into becoming a morning person! Again, it’s the focus on health first, And when you do that, you have the ability to A) get more done, B) be more efficient and focused, and C) accomplish goals, reach success, and build wealth…
