Tim Bean - The Wealthy Body In Business

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What can I say about The Wealthy Body ? We often hear words like body image and nutrition thrown around, but these words will not be important to you if you are on the first steps of the road I am travelling (and in due course I hope you will soon be!), so I shall try to tell you briefly what this has done for me:

I need glasses that are only half as strong as they were last year.

I no longer wonder whether I can walk to the tube station but how fast I can run 5 miles.

People have respect for me as soon as I walk into a room, not just after I open my mouth and start talking.

People ask me my advice on health and fitness.

My friends tell me I look ten years younger.

I look for the stairs, not for a lift, and people cannot keep up with me if they walk beside me.

I no longer want to keep my shirt on at the beach, but rather have a Spartan 300 beach body (Next year, Tim!).

I can go to designer clothes shops (not just to the tailor) and buy clothes off-the-rack.

I got a job offer based on my energy and drive. Before meeting Tim I would have endured the (unspoken) interview question, Why are you so fat?

When someone looks at me, I know what they are thinking and its not, Boy, hes let himself go

Its the best investment I have ever made and has given me my life back at the age of 40. I intend to live the rest of it to the fullest.

Jonathan Biles , CEO,

Gate Insurance Group

Truly revolutionary on many levels. Having seen first-hand the problems of burn-out and general wellness issues, particularly at the most senior levels at the firm, I think this book offers a unique and sustainable answer to the issues our most important and busiest senior managers face.

Dame Amelia Fawcett , DBE,

Former Vice Chairman & COO (Morgan Stanley International)

As scientists and physicians, we know the ageing process in men and women is complex. In many different ways, the body gradually ceases to operate as optimally as it did when it was younger. Most often we can view this as an accumulation of physiological errors that did not exist in our earlier years. However, although no one can stop the process of getting chronologically older, there is much that can be done to halt or even reverse the damage caused by lifestyle factors.

For many years, Tim Bean and Anne Laing have been changing the lives and lifestyles of men and women who face the daily challenges of corporate life. They have combined their deep understanding of the business community with a physiological approach to proactive wellness. Their approach blends best practices in exercise, nutrition, regeneration and restorative medicine, and integrates these into the high-pressure corporate lifestyle.

This book presents the case for executive well-being in a practical and sensible manner, yet has been written from the heart using real stories about real people. It exposes common health issues and offers realistic solutions. It goes beyond the boundaries of traditional wellness programmes by offering a fully rounded approach and I applaud what the authors have set out to achieve.

I trust you will enjoy reading this book, and I hope you take full advantage of the wisdom and information it contains.

Dr Sergey Dzugan

M.D. PhD

Tim Bean has, singlehandedly, become the spark that has ignited my desire to have a healthy mind and body that supports my career and family aspirations. A picture of health himself, Tims work is based on science and years of experience. In this book, Tim and Anne Laing share countless insights and actionable advice that can help anyone experience the benefits of good health. Executives in particular should pay careful attention to chapters about the brain-body connection, corporate career killers, and ageing. These authors know their material and I am pleased to see their insights now available to us all.

Prof Dr Michael Netzley , Academic Director,

SMU-ExD Executive Development, Singapore

The business world is getting tougher rather than easier, faster rather than slower, and more stressful rather than less. The city is uploading more pressure, and companies are downsizing their key talent.

Yet none of us are getting any younger. Instead of getting stronger, fitter, faster, more energised and engaged, were mostly getting older, slower, weaker, softer, fatter and sicker as we age. At senior levels the gap between expectations to lead and perform, and the ability and capacity to do so, is ever widening.

Something has to give and it is. People in business are crumbling under the load, fading under the pressure, and dying under their desks. Its true. You know it, and youve probably seen it.

The cost to business, to family and to society is massive incalculable even.

What can be done to close this mile-wide chasm afflicting millions of people at work?

Thats what this book is all about.

The Wealthy Body in Business is a behind the scenes insight an insiders guide, if you will to the most successful strategies, tips and best practices weve been using successfully over the years with our private clients at the top levels of business. Executives, directors, leaders and luminaries high-profile, high-flying men and women, entrepreneurs operating at the hard edge of business, where the pressures are enormous, the stakes are highest, and the cost of failure inconceivable.

In applying these simple but robust remedies, weve seen people get leaner, stronger, smarter, sharper, more confident, more agile, energised and a whole lot less stressed than theyve ever been.

Theyre making better decisions, becoming better leaders, and extending their influence and earning capacity exponentially.

Theyre happier, healthier and more successful. They love the way they feel about life and about business. Their families love it, the staff enjoy it, and their doctors are quietly pleased (well, youd hardly expect them to jump up and down, now would you?).

If this works for them, it will certainly work for you.

This powerful book is packed full of quick wins and easy-to-implement action points, and even if you put only a tenth of its ideas in place, we guarantee youll notice a difference, and others around you will notice a difference too. People who are in better shape, with more energy, sleeping better, being less stressed, thinking smarter, feeling healthier, working better, always being on top of their game, will always be more successful in business, and in life.

We call it having The Wealthy Body, and its yours for the taking

Lets start with a bit of straight talking. Getting healthy and staying healthy takes work. You live in a body that was designed to work hard, yet you live in a world where strenuous work is discouraged. We have lifts, escalators and cars to replace the tedium of physical movement, and food is easy to find, and easy to eat. It is over-processed too; we call it pre-chewed un-food. Businesspeople work at jobs that require very little physical movement, and we bathe our entire bodies in chemicals at the expense of our immune systems from the food we eat, the air we breathe and the products we put on our skin. See for more on preservatives and parabens in the everyday products we use.