Jean Chatzky - AgeProof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip

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To all who want to
live AgeProof:
Longer and Stronger

H ow do you define a winning life? I would define it as living strong, living healthy, living with low stress and high passion, living with security, and living with the people you love. If you agree, then the next question becomes:

How do you achieve those things?

In my mind, its about knowing how to navigate the daily collisions.

What do you do when your eyeballs collide with a bakery window? What do you do when your toddlers pranks collide with your patience? What do you do when your viewpoint collides with your partners? How you manage those daily conflictsbig and smallwill go a long way to determining how well and how happy you live. Thats one of the reasons why I spend a lot of time thinking about lifes intersectionsthe places where seemingly opposite forces come together to influence the way you live.

Im happy to see that one of the most crucial intersections in lifethat between health and wealthis being tackled by two of the foremost thinkers of medicine and money. In AgeProof, Dr. Mike Roizen and Jean Chatzky examine one of lifes most important collisions. My friend, Mike Roizen, the longtime wellness expert of the Cleveland Clinic, and Jean Chatzky, the financial guru of NBCs Today show, have come together for a one-of-a-kind look at two seemingly different but absolutely related areas.

Not only are these two areas the most important issues when it comes to life satisfactionthat is, you want to live healthy and with as many resources as you can. But theyre also cyclically connectedthat is, how healthy you are has an effect on your bottom line, and your handling of money issues has an effect on how healthy you are. Thats because getting sick can be extremely costly (in direct ways, like the actual expenses of insurance and medical procedures, and in indirect ways, like being out of work because of health problems). Its also because money problems are the biggest source of stress for Americans. Stress has been linked directly to a whole bevy of medical issues, including heart disease, sleep problems, weight issues, and depression.

What I like most about their approach is that its not all about tips and tactics (though youll find plenty of them), but that they have found the common principles and themes for how to approach improving both your health and wealth. When you see the links, youll gain inside insight into how you can use the same principles in both areas. For example, you may think of budgeting as something you do with money, but you can take the same approach to how you eat as well. You also will learn how to develop teams of comradesprofessional and personalwho can help you face obstacles, make smart decisions, and fend off temptations.