What the stock market crash can teach us about our health.

*It goes without saying that this IS NOT financial advice*

Our line of work regularly brings up this interesting phenomenon.

Your whole world lives and dies on certain trends, forecasts and evolvements that the outside world doesn't even know about.

We get really caught up in what is going on in our world without stopping to consider whether the wider world has even heard of it!

If you work in finance, you can rest assured this isn't the case after this weekend haha!

99% of us are probably aware of the stock market crash that happened over the weekend.

I am obviously going to steer away from the politics of it but it did bring some interesting thoughts on our health and fitness.

For the people that make true wealth from the stock market they have to ride the waves of the bad times, they don't just put money in and watch it grow linearly.

Covid, political issues, crashes and way more mean it's not a straight trajectory to wealth, there are ups and downs.

In fact, it's often during the BUMPIEST times that people seem to make true wealth.

Those that invested in 2008 or 2020 may have got some pretty big returns.

Your health and fitness is pretty similar.

Unfortunately it is not just a straight line path to a fitter and healthier version of you who lives better and longer from day one when you join the gym!

You'll have days, weeks and even months where you feel you are treading water or even slipping slightly backwards.

The key?

That you don't stop.

In that period stopping entirely means when we do restart (and we will, health and fitness is a lifelong pursuit) that we are starting from zero instead of a slightly higher base.

What we realise over a long enough time horizon is that anything above zero compounds, no matter how big or small an action doing SOMETHING adds up over time.

So the next time you think about giving up because progress has slowed down or stalled entirely just consider this...

It's in the dips where we see the true results.

*Again, it goes without saying that this IS NOT financial advice*