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3 Small Steps For a Healthier, Wealthier Life

Motley Fool Answers

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Taxes, Saving, Money, Investing, Planning, Retirement, Personalfinance, Finance, Education, Business

4.4823 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2015

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Better health equals higher wealth. It’s a scientific fact! We discuss three simple changes you can make every day to be healthier and wealthier. Also, Fools share their favorite travel websites and Robert endorses a creative hack for building better habits.

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0:00.0

This is Motley Full Answers.

0:05.0

I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined by the stalwart Robert Brokamp.

0:09.0

Thank you.

0:10.0

Always here in supporting me.

0:11.0

I promise Deanna will be back next week.

0:14.0

So that's good news for the Deana fan club.

0:17.0

We got your letters, okay?

0:18.0

Jeez.

0:19.0

All right, but this week we're going to talk about why healthy, wealthy, and wise is more than just an adage.

0:24.2

It's science.

0:25.5

The better you take care of your health, the wealthier you'll be.

0:28.9

And so later in the show, we'll be joined by the Motley Fool's chief wellness fool with some advice on small steps you can take to be healthier and wealthier.

0:35.8

But before that, we're going to talk about some

0:37.9

simple hacks for breaking bad habits, and we're going to talk to some fools about their favorite

0:43.1

travel sites and apps. All this and more on this week's episode of Motley Fool Answers.

0:51.2

So the story we're going to talk about today came to us from Michelle, and it was an article

0:56.6

on Quartz where we learned about a woman who erased $26,000 in debt by coloring in a pretty

1:03.1

picture. So basically, she drew a big doodle with all these little swirls on a big canvas,

1:08.8

and every time she paid off 100 bucks in debt, she colored

1:11.4

in the swirl. And this act was enough motivation for her to get out of debt.

1:15.9

Yes. And it is well established in the goal achieving community that some way of tracking

1:23.7

your goal visually could increase your chance of accomplishing it.

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