As a business owner it can be easy to fall into a reductionist mindset and assume everything is a business problem to be solved.
Sometimes that’s useful, other times not.
Here’s an example (which I probably saw on social somewhere*), which you may find useful (I did), maybe not. It’s about your health.
Treat your body as a business with a health profit & loss.
Income =
- sleep
- exercise
- strength training
- good nutrition
- clean environment
- strong relationships
- rest
- kindness
- purpose.
Expenses =
- junk food
- stress
- anxiety
- overeating
- poor sleep
- illness
- meaningless work
- sedentary behaviour.
You get the idea.
Goal: control as many line items as possible, minimise costs, maximise inputs – so every month your body runs at a health profit.
Profit is what you can apply to meaningful work, maintaining relationships, helping others.
The problem with shortcuts and quick hacks and detoxes and extreme challenges is they might reduce an expense line item for a little while but they often impact a revenue line for much longer.
Aside: If you wanted to take it further you could break the lines into things like:
- Subscription revenue: sleep, quality food
- Project revenue: workouts
- Bonus revenue: clean environment, low pollution, purpose, kindness, strong relationships
- Cost of goods (COGS): your everyday work
Summary: Run your Body like a Business (P&L model)
(*as usual, if you know the original source of the idea, let me know, and I’ll link to it)
