It’s a popular saying that if you have your health you have everything. I never paid a lot of attention to this. I took this for granted and kept pushing myself harder and harder to achieve financial wealth. By the time I was forty years old I had a very healthy bank account. However, I hardly knew my kids and my wife was ready to divorce me.

I tried even harder trying to achieve that goal. I started getting headaches and found that my face was flushed a good deal of the time. My wife convinced me to go to the doctor. I found out that I had hypertension and was on the brink of having a stroke. The physician put me on medication to treat the hypertension. I felt awful on the medication. The physician told me that I could try to lower the blood pressure by altering my lifestyle or we could try another medication.

I have always been a type A personality. I ate standing up, slept three to four hours a night and ate whatever I felt hungry for. Suddenly I found myself trying to eat healthily, get exercise and more sleep.My physician was quite blunt with me. He told me that my wife and kids would be enjoying my life insurance money in the near future if I did not get my blood pressure under control soon.

My wife, being the great woman that she is, started to reduce the salt in my food and began having healthier choices for me around the house.My wife and I started taking walks together as well as cycling. With her help I managed to lower my blood pressure and I started feeling better. Now that I feel better and have better relationships with my family I realize that having your health is the most important thing.

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