Why I Put Health and Wealth in the Same Sentence

For most of my working life I thought of health and money as two different piles of worry. You dealt with one at the doctor's office and the other at the kitchen table, and they did not have much to do with each other. The older I get, the more I see how wrong that was.

In your later years, the two start to feed each other. When you do not sleep well, everything costs more, in energy and in patience and sometimes in dollars. When money is tight, the stress of it keeps you up at night, and then you are back to not sleeping. It becomes a loop, and I have been in it.

What I am trying to do now, both for myself and for the people I hope to help, is treat the two together instead of separately. Rest better so you have the energy to work on the finances. Bring in a little more income so the worry eases and the rest comes easier. It is not a quick fix and I am not going to pretend it is. But putting the two in the same sentence, and working on them at the same time, has been a better plan for me than treating them as strangers.