The Number One Success Factor in Achieving Health and Fitness Goals

All goods and services are a measure of human time. We exchange time through currency, which allows us to either sell time or buy more back. Warren Buffet is famous for amassing his wealth through backing solid companies on the stock market and watching his wealth grow over decades. By amassing such wealth, his time is truly his own, and his ability to do whatever he wants with such wealth improves the quality of his time.

The lesson here is that time is required to amass a fortune of health because after all, our health is our wealth, which in return buys us more time on this earth, and improves the quality of said time. Your relationship with time will be the number one determinant of achieving your long-term health and fitness goals.

Long-term Thinking

I see the cycle repeat time after time. People embark on a restrictive diet, or a very low-calorie diet in a bid to lose weight quickly. I see the other side of the same coin from time to time in those looking to gain muscle. Just like investing in volatile stocks in the stock market, quick progress is possible, but the vast majority of folks never beat the market and are in a worse-off position than when they started within weeks.

Whereas those who look for a modest 5% average compounding return per year, over the course of decades, make generational wealth. Your slow and steady progress, healthy habits compound over time and lead to achieving one’s goal.

I thought this would be a longer article, but I’d just be rehashing the same lesson. Don’t try to beat the market. Work with it. Life sorted.