How do you stay healthy?
1. Stay adequately hydrated. This will help you feel more alert and awake, it will help your body feel better (and more your joints lubricated), and it will help your kidneys.
2. Eat a healthy diet (varied color and type of fruits and vegetables each day; different protein sources each day). The cleaner you eat, the better you feel. Aim for a good variety so you aren’t missing any key nutrients. Take a multivitamin as a true supplement (it’s meant to add to your dietary success, not to be your dietary success).
3. Live a healthy lifestyle (minimize sitting; do meaningful exercise at least 30-minutes per day…do something physically and mentally challenging every day). Be outside – get some sunshine (vitamin D).
4. Maximize quality sleep. A high quantity of sleep can be helpful, but why sleep more than you need to? At that point you’re literally sleeping away time in your day, and time is the most important and scarce non-renewable resource we have. Focus on getting just the right amount of good sleep.
5. Interact with someone you care about each day AND treat them well. Be generous. It will help you mentally and make others feel good too.
6. Forgive yourself and don’t sweat the small stuff. In the grand scheme of life, it probably doesn’t really matter.
7. Be interested/learn something new every day. When you stop growing or getting excited to learn, you slowly start dying and becoming less interested.
8. Be involved with a good church (or other positive community). See, talk with, and interact with positive people in a positive environment often.
9. Spend less than you earn. Automatically set aside money to “pay yourself first” and invest. This will help you feel less financial stress and allow for you to spend on things you actually care about.
10. Have long-term goals. You should always be striving to improve yourself.