The business landscape is a hive of activities that makes numerous entrepreneurs always have a lot on their plates, leaving little time for them to look after their health. However, no matter the status of your company, your health remains paramount for your business to thrive. Health is the most valuable aspect of human life and should be seriously taken care of if you want to reach your business objectives. In today’s podcast, Beth Shaw from YogaFit and Stephen Halasnik from Financing Solutions discuss the importance of health for entrepreneurs.
Summary
The Importance of Health for Entrepreneurs
Health is wealth, so goes a popular saying. Health is considered the most valuable aspect of every individual’s life. Every entrepreneur should focus on maintaining complete physical, mental, and social well-being for the successful operation of their businesses. It’s not enough to have money. We can make good use of our money and pilot the affairs of our business only if we are in good health.
As a business owner, you should strive to balance your entrepreneurial venture and your overall health. You should not run your body like a machine or a business if you want to remain on top of your game. ‘A man who is too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools,’ says a Spanish Proverb.
When you’re in optimal health, you can withstand the challenges life and running a business bring to you, especially in this time of uncertainties occasioned by Covid 19 pandemic and economic downturn. We need mental and physical stamina to be able to face the myriad of challenges that comes with running a business. 
What Are the Importance of Health for an Entrepreneur?
There’s no denying that your health is the most valuable asset. If you don’t have a healthy lifestyle, you don’t have anything. An unhealthy person can hardly run a successful business, so you must prioritize your health as an entrepreneur. Below are the benefits of a healthy lifestyle for business owners:
Prevent Diseases
Maintaining a healthy life helps prevents diseases as it strengthens human immunity against various ailments. The immune system is responsible for warding off foreign agents that harm the body, and it’s more potent when we’re in a good health.
Additionally, a healthy lifestyle helps improve longevity as the body gets proper exercise and nutrition.
Improve mental health
Perpetual peace of mind is vital for every entrepreneur. When you don’t take care of your health, it may result in poor mental health. Living a healthy lifestyle would help calm your mind and improve your mood.
As an entrepreneur, only when you’re mentally happy that you can become productive, make informed decisions and perform at your peak level.
Enhances Productivity
Healthy people are always on top of their games. You can perform your tasks effectively when you’re in the right frame of mind and body.
Physical fitness raises energy levels, reduces stress and combat fatigue, and makes you more efficient in performing tasks.
Helps In Finances
Adapting to a healthy life will save you the cost of medical expenses. In other words, you can channel the money you would otherwise have spent footing medical bills into your business financing.
In this era of rapidly rising medical expenses, it becomes necessary that we take good care of our health to minimize the chance of becoming sick.
How to Stay Healthy As An Entrepreneur
If you fail to adapt to a healthy lifestyle, you see yourself falling short of making choices regarding exercise, nutrition, sleep, and more. Below are the tips for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Exercise
The importance of exercise to health cannot be overstated, and every entrepreneur should make sure they set aside 45 minutes of vigorous exercise every day. In addition, you might consider various types of physical activity to remain in your top form, including swimming, running, jogging, walking, hiking, and more.
Exercise offers numerous health benefits, such as preventing excess weight gain and stress, reducing heart diseases and other diseases, enlivening the mood, promoting better sleep, and more.
Lack of exercise can negatively affect your business. For instance, when you’re stressed due to not exercising, you can easily take your frustration out on your employees, thereby severing your cordial relationship with them. On the other hand, people who exercise are less prone to stress and treat their employees better.
Meditation
Another important way entrepreneurs can live a healthy lifestyle is by adopting a meditation program. Meditation helps to manage anxiety, depression, and mood. Meditation gives one a sense of calm, peace, and balance that benefits both emotional and overall well-being.
When you’re tensed, you can use meditation to relax and refocus your attention on what’s giving you inner peace. Your time for meditation must not be quite long to yield a result. Ten minutes of concentrated calmness can make a world of difference.
Yoga
You can consider doing mind-body fitness. Yoga helps alleviate pain such as lower pain, arthritis, headache, and more. Plus, it can also reduce the chance of blood pressure and insomnia.
Further, it also offers mental benefits. You will inevitably undergo stress as an entrepreneur. But yoga will help you manage stress so that it will not negatively affect your mind and body.
Regular yoga practice helps increase body and self-awareness and can help you detect early physical problems so that you can take early preventive action.
Diet
As an entrepreneur, you must prioritize your diet to maintain fitness and run your business day-to-day. A healthy diet helps protect you against all forms of malnutrition and non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer.
In conclusion, you should reduce your sugar intake, give fasting a try, engage a nutritionist, assess your current health plan and pick a competitive sport to improve your lifestyle.
Learn More About Our Guest
Beth Shaw is the author of four best-selling books on Wellness. She is the founder YogaFit Training Systems and a pioneer in the Wellness, Yoga & Fitness space in North America. She is also the host of the Make America Healthy Radio Show. Beth is a Harvard alumnus and a Graduate of Goldman Sachs’s 10,000 small businesses program.
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