Health and Fitness Journal

It’s Important To Stay Healthy For Your Financial Life

So many things are competing to stress me out – there’s work (obvious); the kids (yup); weight gain ( when did this start creeping up?); and that black box called personal finances (yikes!).

They say when you turn 50 you get the face you deserve, so maybe because it was my 50th birthday when I went to see my accountant John, he read me like a book.

We were talking about my retirement plan when he pointed out the window and suddenly asked me “Hey, isn’t that your car?”. It was, and they were towing it away, a group of ten repo men!

I tried asking John about his fishing trip but he wasn’t having it. He looked me in the eye and told me “It’s time you and I had a good talk about unsecure and secured loans”. “That”, he said, pointing out the window after my departing Fiat, “is an unsecured loan”.

He was right. But surprisingly, instead of offering me some sort of financial pep talk, John suggested we curtail the meeting and head over to the local gym, Cunnard’s.

“When I turned 50 I found myself bombarded with problems, coming from just about every angle you could think of .”, John said as he loaded a barbell with 6 70lb weights.

“ What I learned, by the time I reached 60, was the importance of staying healthy for my financial life”. With that he hoisted the whole apparatus overhead and pumped it up and down 10 times.

I was amazed. But more than what he’d done, what John had said stayed with me. It lingered. Like sweetgrass. And now I’m thinking of how I can tie it all together.