Real Wealth

“It is health that is the real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.“ Mahatma Gandhi.

      Your health should be something that is most valuable to you.  You can work to gain money and valuables and possessions, but without your health, you cannot enjoy them. Of course, there are some things we cannot control.  There are genetic processes, accidents, cancers and illnesses that we have no power over.  Sometimes, even in some of these instances, it may be your lifestyle and your attitude that defines how you can heal and how you are able to live day to day.  
       It is a struggle to eat right daily and to get some exercise.  We are too tired, too busy and we don't have time in our routine.  You have to want to do it.  You have to face the day with an attitude that it is possible to eat better, to exercise a little.  Small changes can make big results. Give up the soda, choose water or unsweetened tea with lemon instead. Have the side salad instead of the fries.  Eat a few hard boiled eggs, instead of the cereal and the pancakes.  Start small and get results. Take a daily vitamin.  Park at the back of the parking lot and walk to the store, to the mall, etc.  You don't have to park next to the door. Walk up the steps for a floor or two.  You don't need the elevator for that, do you?
       Get outside a little bit. Vitamin D is very important to our every day health and we don't get enough of it without stepping out into the sunshine.  Eat fruit instead of chips. Yeah, I know it really isn't what you may want at the time, but when you have a big bowl of watermelon with some strawberries or cantaloupe, you will enjoy it and you will become satisfied.  And happier with your choice.  
         
Health is wealth.