Alain Guillot

Life, Leadership, and Money Matters

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Looking After Your Health (When You Think You Are Too Busy)

In the workplace, you may find you are doing your best to help your employees feel safe, sound, and healthy, which invariably means talking about health and safety all too regularly, but what about your own health? Being a busy entrepreneur means that you may find you’re not able to take care of yourself as best as you can take care of your employees. You may pride yourself on working long hours, but if you find yourself neglecting your health and your happiness because you are too busy, what does it really take to ensure that you start to prioritize self-care again?

Learn the basics about nutrition

Having the proper nutrition is perhaps the most important element of having a healthy life. If you eat junk food, your body will quickly deteriorate, while if you eat the proper balance of nutrients (fats, carbohydrates, and proteins), you will feel alive and full of energy. Also consider taking some supplements like those at Nucific to help with keeping your body healthy and to assist with any sort of digestive issues – these can be great aid if you’re looking to live a healthy lifestyle! We can learn about proper nutrition from the government nutrition website created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Both of these sources of information are good starting points to learn more about the best nutrition for our bodies.

Block some “Me Time” to relax

We are constantly on the run, trying to pack too many things in one day, and we often neglect to take a few minutes to relax and recuperate our energy. Setting aside a few designated minutes of Me Time a day can help reduce stress, boost happiness, and increase productivity. I like doing a bit of yoga, reading a book, drinking a cup of tea, or mixing some Kratom with orange juice.

Kratom is a herbal medicine used since at least the nineteenth century to produce sedation, pleasure, and decreased pain. For more information check out Kratom.org.

Book an Appointment

You may say there is no time for a health check-up. But these days, there are many opportunities to book an appointment with a specialist without even having to leave your office. VeeKast, a portal for virtual healthcare sessions, is one of the easiest ways to get access to a specialist. You may have to go and get blood done, but if you can afford it, you can pay for someone to come out and take your blood for you. It’s a very simple thing, but if you are someone too that is busy, you can have virtual medical appointments.

Incorporating Exercise Into Your Day

If you don’t have 45 minutes to go to the gym that is fine, but you can keep a good exercise regime without losing any valuable work time. Some simple options include:

  • Crunches at your desk. 
  • A body weight workout. 
  • A portable exercise machine like the X3 bar
  • Simple isometric exercises.

But we place a lot of importance on being in the gym for a long period of time. This is not necessary. Instead, we should think about breaking down the exercises into small manageable components. Think about it as micromanaging your own health! You don’t have to necessarily achieve cardiovascular health because you can do this by fatiguing your muscle. You can very easily train one muscle to extreme fatigue in the space of 5 minutes. Doing simple isometrics or using your body weight to get yourself to fatigue is easier than you think.

Preparing for Sleep

Do you work right up to the minute you decide to go to sleep? If this is you, you are not giving yourself a proper opportunity to wind down. Learning to prepare for sleep will mean you have better quality sleep. Remember, it is about quality rather than quantity. And even if you can only spare 6 hours of sleep, by preparing your body and your mind for sleep using the right habits for you, whether this is a brain dump or having the opportunity to meditate, these little habits in the run-up to sleep really don’t take long. They can take 5 or 10 minutes. But if you can prepare yourself for sleep, you will have a far better restorative sleep, meaning you will work better the next day.

Looking after your health when you are too busy is about actually making sure that you are in peak physical health. This is where a combination of setting simple health goals, rather than a massive overarching goal, such as getting fit, will serve you well.