We talk about a famous quote on the podcast all the time.

When you are healthy, you have 10,000 needs.

When you're sick, you have just one.

In other words, health is everything.

It doesn't matter if you have lots of money.

It doesn't matter if you have material possessions. It doesn't matter

what you have. If you don't have your health, you can't enjoy it fully. Now, this really is about

any kind of health. But of course, from our context, what matters the most is the issues that

you can prevent. And most health issues that people have is a issues that you can prevent.

And most health issues that people have is a byproduct of their habits, things that are preventable.

So in other words, you want to prevent the things that you can prevent with proper habits, having your health.

Having your health is ideal.

Whatever you can do for your health is paramount because without your health, you can enjoy all the other things.

So when you're healthy, you don't notice about your health. You, oh, I want this. I have to go here. Oh, we have this trip coming up. And, you know, the kids need to do this and oh, my God, these bills and blah, blah, blah. When you're sick, all you want to do is not feel like shit. You don't care about all the other stuff. you just want to not feel like you're dying.

It's awful.

It sucks to be sick.

And any kind of illness, you just want that to go away.

Same thing with your friends or family that's dealing with an illness, whether it's severe and chronic or it's just the flu. Whatever it is, you want them to get better. You care about people and you

want that person to not be unwell.

So that's the most important thing. Health is everything. A famous quote from Thomas Carlyle,

he who has health and hope and he who has hope has everything. He who has health has hope.

And he who has hope has everything. And this really means optimism. It means a positive

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