Health, wealthy and wise!

There's an old saying: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise!"

This morning I was up, out of bed and running by 6am! And after seeing my favourite friends on my runs, two kookaburra's (they laugh with me, not at me!) and a very unusual sighting of a wild deer (in suburban, semi rural Brisbane), I started thinking about how wonderful it is to be out so early in the morning, and my mother's voice, with that saying, popped into my head. And so I unpacked it on my run..........

Healthy................ that's the easy part. If you're up early, it generally means you're out exercising, or maybe starting work early (which gives you extra time to exercise after work). The air is crystal clear, there is little, if any pollution, and everything just feels fresh and good for you. While you're out there taking in the fresh air, you're waking up your cells, and getting rid of all the toxic fumes you've built up over the night.

Okay, now its starting to get tricky.....

Wealthy................okay, so if you're up early, then you have more time throughout the day to work hard and generate more wealth. Technically, you could just work a longer day - put in more hours and thereby generate the wealth. But if you've done the healthy bit, and got your body running on all cylinders, then your brain must be super charging to think of great ideas to generate more wealth with less effort.

And that flows on to the wise part............... so the brain is supercharged, working really well. And while you're out there exercising so early, there are few real distractions - yes, there are the birds (I also saw 2 Rosella's) and the deer etc. but they are hardly distractions - more like pleasantly exciting observations. This leaves you brain time to wisen up by thinking of all sorts of interesting things, like unpacking the saying: "early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise". But I'm a woman! Will have to figure that one on tomorrows run...............