6. Health Care
It’s just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little. –Marvin
Traub
1) Drink more water: Not only does drinking plenty of water have great health benefits; water drinking has financial benefits, too. Not only will you digest food better, you won’t eat as much avoiding overeating. You’ll also find yourself feeling a bit better as you begin to get adequately hydrated. Most people are perpetually somewhat dehydrated.
2) Healthy food: Cut back on the convenience foods – fast foods, microwave meals, and so on. Instead of eating fast food or just nuking some prepackaged food when you get home, try making some simple and healthy replacements that you can take with you. An hour’s worth of preparation one weekend can give you a ton of cheap and handy meals that will end up saving you a lot of cash and not eat into your time when you’re busy.
3) Give up expensive habits: Habits like cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs. Those habits cause money to flow away from you with nothing in return. Call up your fortitude and work hard to kick the habits and you’ll find that money staying in your pocket instead of burning up and floating away.
4) Keep your hands clean: This one’s simple – just wash your hands thoroughly each time you use the bathroom or handle raw foods. You’ll keep yourself from acquiring all kinds of viruses and bacteria, saving you on medical bills and medicine costs and lost productivity. That’s not to say you shouldn’t explore the world and get your hands dirty sometimes – that’s good for you, too –
but basic sanitation does help keep the medical bills away.
5) Eat breakfast: Eating a healthy breakfast fills you up with energy for the day and also decreases your desire to eat a big lunch in the middle of the day. Not only that, breakfast can be very healthy, quick, and inexpensive. A bowl of milk in the morning is often the one thing that keeps me from running out to eat an expensive lunch later in the day – and it keeps me peppy and full of energy for th