Vaults - The Success Paradox

How to Defeat Self-Sabotaging Behavior on Your Way to the Top

Over the past twenty-five years, I’ve had the pleasure of working with a variety of high achieving leaders of organizations, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and business owners.

And what I’ve noticed among this group of very successful people is that, the paradox of playing the success game often means that in order to succeed in a competitive global environment most of these individuals became workaholics…The job came first, family a distant second and there was no time for anything else.

So as a result their health suffers, personal relationships are in the toilet, and most found themselves speeding down the highway to burnout.

This is not uncommon. Most highly successful people all struggle with the making time for self-care. To change this, you have to create a shift in paradigm from the workaholic grinding it out, to a Values Driven Strategic Investor, investing in yourself.

What is a Values Driven Strategic Investor?

It is someone who places great value on good health and realizes that good health is his/her greatest gift and the most important asset on their balance sheet. And most made the conscious commitment to invest in their health and to strategically create a lifestyle that brings the greatest possible return on investment, good health.

Why would you want to be a Values Driven Strategic Investor? For one thing, it’s not the workaholic grinding it out; it’s the Values Driven Strategic Investor who gets the greatest return on their investment.

You’re putting in time so you might as well get the greatest return on your investment. And what is the greatest return on your investment? Good health. How much would you pay for that? I’ll tell you’re currently paying for it right now.

Let’s make no mistake about it; poor health cost you a lot of money every year. So obviously, good health makes the best financial sense.

If you’re severely overweight or obese, you can expect to pay an extra $1500 out of pocket. Add diabetes to that and you can expect to pay an extra $3300 out of pocket. A non-severe heart attack can run you an extra $22,000 out of pocket.

If you’re overweight, have diabetes and a heart attack, you could be looking at an extra $30,000 out of pocket. So obviously, good health makes the best financial sense.

I want you to also keep in mind that just 30 to 40 pounds could also mean that you have abdominal obesity. That means women’s waist is equal to or greater than 35 inches, 40 inches for men.

And the difference is the type of fat. Subcutaneous fat under the skin is not dangerous because you can burn it off. But the dangerous fat is visceral fat, which is inside your body and around your organs. It is dangerous because it increases your bad cholesterol, leads to diabetes and can lead to a heart attack, fatty liver, high blood pressure, osteoarthritis, and a host of dangerous health issues.

Now having said all that, it doesn’t matter where you are right now, what matters is what are you willing to do about it.

I hope you decide to become a Values Driven Strategic Investor investing in yourself, going after the maximum return on your investment, which is good health. Why? The alternative is leading you sick, broke and nearly dead.

Most successful people, who have unfortunately neglected their health over the years in pursuit of their success, end up spending a lot of time energy and money trying to get their health back.

You don’t have to wait until that happens. You don’t have to wait until you have a heart attack, bypass surgery, until you get diabetes, or if you if you already have it, until the symptoms become unbearable. You don’t have to wait until you go to the doctor and get a diagnosis. You can make the change now.

You can choose to become a Values Driven Strategic Investor, investing in your most important asset, your health.