What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being?

HEALTH TO THE FORE

“Take care of your body; it’s the only place you have to live,” attributed to Jim Rohn, emphasizes the significance of prioritizing and caring for our physical bodies. (From a LinkedIn post by Dr Caroline Hong 28 July 2023)

It was a coincidence that Doctor Hong’s Paper came up on the same day that this question was posed. I am a member of the LinkedIn community and always scan through is on the site each morning. There is a certain congruency between The quote and the topic.

As a 77-year-old man, I often wonder about where my physical and mental health is going to go and how it is going to evolve in the years of life I have remaining. Along time ago, I never thought I’d get to 77. My ambition earlier in my life was to get to the year 2000, at which time I would be 54.

I have not really been all that particularly conscious about Health. However, there are certain things from which I have refrained or used and discarded when they were likely to have an impact upon my health. I thiknk my abstinence from these practices, with giving up on them have been helpful.

I have never used social drugs, and in my youth was not tempted toward marijuana, cocaine, heroin, or any other social drugs. I have tribute that in part to the upbringing offered to me by my parents and also to the application of common sense.

While working in a remote community in the Northern Territory, where alcohol was disallowed, I took to smoking cigarettes for relaxing purposes. I took my first puff at the age of 26 and gave the habit away when I was 29. During that period of time I never smoked a lot but nevertheless did inhale nicotine and other noxious substances.

Unfortunately, I did indulge in alcohol for a period of time. During my 30s 40s, 50s and into my 60s, I drank alcohol. After retiring in 2012, it came to me and drinking was not wise and that I might be consuming too much alcohol. So one day in February 2013, I gave it up. That was on on the spot decision and I have not consumed alcohol since that time.

(I must say that with cigarettes in Australia now costing about Two dollars each, and with a schooner of beer giving you a little change, if any, out of $10, I think I made a very wise decision. I have saved countless thousands of dollars.

In general terms without going over the top I try to be circumspect about my style of life and everything I do.