Do not marry your sofa

Apple Watch fitness screen
The pace includes multiple stops to do assorted exercises. Logged 7.5 miles before returning home.

Do not marry your sofa.

Marry the miracle you call your body.

A sofa is a place to sit, not a place to live.

A Fortune Podcast, Leadership Next, interviewed Adrian Gore who founded an insurance company in South Africa two years after Nelson Mandela left prison. His company, Discovery, aims to incentivize people with lower premiums based on better personal health. The healthier you are, the less you pay. Yesterday, he shared these compelling statistics:

4/4/60: Four behavioral choices (including not valuing the future) lead to four conditions which drive 60% of deaths. Eating badly, physically inactive, smoking, and drinking.

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By jeff noel

Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.