One year health plan - month 1 report

Motto: All the wealth in the world have no worth to you, if you are not healthy.
(Financial freedom wizards manual)

Weight: 80 kg (5 kg less than 30 days before - 85 kg) at 1.80 m (5'9'')
Body fat: 20%  (10% less than 30 days before - 30%)

My training is a complete one, on three directions of action:

1. Body
- Yoga techniques (postures, breathing and meditation) 26 sessions
- Freeletics - some kind of high intensity athletic training 12 sessions
- Running - 13 sessions
- Wing Chun Kung Fu - 13 sessions
- Freerunning / Parkour - no training this month

2. Diet
- A 70% plant based diet (with a twist of 70% alkaline food daily), no chemicals, less sugar, better hydration (300 ml water every 3 hours when possible) - I achieve this 80% of the time, i would say.
- One day a week - 24 hour fasting - did it 4 times in June

3. Mind
- Mindfulness techniques aka meditation: 26 times
- Memory training techniques: 26 sessions
- Brain boosting supplements - For the first month i tried: Multivitamin, vitamin C slow release, vitamin D, Zinc, Chromium, Omega 3-6-9 and my herbal remedies (but for the herbal treatments i did it completely only 75% of the time). I plan for July to add bee pollen, ginseng and probably from August i will also buy some Gotu Kola from Amazon.

This first month was a success, as i lost some of the weight achieved during my last holiday and i am slowly improving my physical strength and stamina. As for the month number two, i am planning in increasing my yoga practice by 20%, running and high intensity training once every two days, i will increase the martial art minimal practice to every day from every two days and i will aim for at least two parkour based trainings this month. Meditation will be done in the same way, but i will try to decrease distraction and increase focus.

I will follow up soon with the economical monthly report.

Health and money

This is mostly a personal post, as i will add some new data to my monthly report. I am talking about:
Weight: 85 kg (187 pounds) at 1.80 m (5'9'')
Body fat: 30%

As i hit this historical quote of 30%, i decided that is time to stop fooling around and to begin training. I just made a progressive one year plan, and i hope the see notable improvements from one month to another. At the end of the day, make no sense to retire early if you are not healthy enough to enjoy it, right?

My training is a complete one, on three directions of action:

1. Body
- Yoga techniques (postures, breathing and meditation)
- Freeletics - some kind of high intensity athletic training
- Running
- Martial art practice (i choose Wing Chun Kung Fu for the conditioning effect of all joints and increased burst speed and stamina)
- Freerunning / Parkour only occasionally when it is possible

2. Diet
- A 70% plant based diet (with a twist of 70% alkaline food daily), no chemicals, less sugar, better hydration (300ml water every 3 hours when possible)
- One day a week - 24 hour fasting (the latest researches found a lot of benefits related to this, i will not write about, they are one "google search" away from you)

3. Mind
- Mindfulness techniques aka meditation (seems to be a trend now, everybody is doing some form of meditation)
- Memory training techniques (it is a lot to talk about this, i am thinking to write a book about, huh!)
- Brain boosting supplements - Magnesium, herbal remedies, Ginseng, bee pollen, Omega 3,6,9 stuff.

Basically this is the plan for first month, i will add or subtract depending on what i would need at the moment.

Financial independence plan

Someone asked me yesterday what is the most important advice from my financial plan. I was a bit boring, but i said that the most inportant part when you start this in your twenties is to sleep well, at least 7-9 hours consistently, to eat good quality food, preferably water rich food ( 3/4 ) and in the same time more alcalyne food than acid ( 3/4 ) and exercise regularly ( best antidepressant is the combination of running + meditation ). This is the fundation of your physical peak state, because if you don't have your health, all the money in the world are useless.

What do you think about this?

The perfect formula for very early retirement - the four pillars of the financial independence

I remember a story about the four pillars that are holding the temple roof. Thinking about that, I can easily create analogies to my financial independence/early retirement project.

And the four pillars of financial independence are:
1. The most important is Health. We need to take care of us physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. If we are not in perfect health, in a peak state, everything else doesn't matter so much, right?
2. Investing regularly is second as importance, every week, every month, without a break until we reach our goal.
3. Dividend and interest reinvestment will make us to achieve results faster, based of the compounding rule.
4. Dividend growth is equally important, giving us an uncanny advantage on the road to financial freedom.

And as a bonus,inspired by Maximum Mustache March challenge, i was just thinking at one extreme technique of saving and reducing expenses. I recently meet some spiritual tradition exponents that are usually having a period of lent, not eating anything for a whole day, also known as fasting. After i talked with them i started reading about the benefits of fasting (not eating anything for 12 or 24 hours). See about this here and here and here.
Doing this for one day a week will result in 52 days over one year, almost two months of no expenses for food. Add the health benefits, longevity, faster metabolism speed, fat gain dramatically decreased and so much more. I am almost convinced to do this.

Have a good night!

Mr G.