<p>Please tell me you've dialed in your sleeptime and you're still AIMING for 8 hours or more a night. I hope so. If you are, it will be starting to bring you the reward of more energy when you wake up.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

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Day 05 - Rest now, party later.

<p>When you start a new business like&nbsp;Wellteam&nbsp;you have to make a lot of sacrifices, it's tough.</p><p><br></p><p>It requires stepping away from a regular paycheck, any immediate income, it requires drawing down into savings or chewing back into your homeloan, selling stuff to free up cash so you can keep your vision alive.</p><p><br></p><p>If you do it in your 20's you're a hero, but if you do it when you have a partner and kids...you're selfish, foolish, driven by ego.</p><p><br></p><p>Now I've been criticised personally for doing what some in society see as 'the wrong thing by my family'. But what those people don't get is the buy in from my family.</p><p><br></p><p>Should success in life be solely based on how much money you can deliver to your partner and kids? Should your success be in raising spoilt kids, who want for nothing in life? I guess that's your call.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Sonia and I started Wellteam because we've experienced how life can be cut short, really early. We lost Sonia's parents in their 60's, one due to cancer, the other due to an unrelenting darkness.</p><p><br></p><p>It was completely devastating...and still is.</p><p><br></p><p>We felt powerless in both cases.</p><p><br></p><p>We lost my mother two years ago from COPD brought on by smoking and when I was younger my father stepped very very close to the dark light after a failed business venture.</p><p><br></p><p>In my 20's I returned to my family home one weekend to find a loaded gun in our garage. Dad only spoke about his pain, frustration, isolation and sadness almost 30 years later...after we started Wellteam.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h2>Life is tough, whatever your story. We all have them.</h2><p><br></p><p>It seems every corner I turn now there's a negative new story about a 40-60 year old man who's done something wrong. We tear them down, like they're villains. Maybe some are, but maybe some are just worn down, lost, frustrated, tired, exhausted and stuck. Stuck.</p><p><br></p><p>Maybe it's just hard to know what role to play in society today.</p><p><br></p><p>Maybe we've ticked all the status boxes; car, house, job title, partner, kids, passport stamps, income and realised that there's still something fundamental that's missing.</p><p><br></p><p>We're still not happy, not necessarily unhappy either but can't put our finger on what's missing.</p><p><br></p><p>We're stuck between being raised as a 'historical man' by grandparents, parents, partners, doctors, lawyers, politicians, teachers, partners, kids and society and now...</p><p><br></p><p>...now we're expected to be a 'neutral gendered person' with no bias, masculine drive or traditional 'male' tendencies.</p><p><br></p><p>We should all pay for the sins of a minority of questionable individuals...who happen to also be men.</p><p><br></p><p>We have to completely rewire ourselves at an age when the pressures mount to be great providers for our families. To be tough, strong, resilient...and yet soft, gentle and vulnerable.</p><p><br></p><p>Wellteam is out to provide a space in the middle, a place of trust, with camaraderie and men out to reboot themselves with more energy, drive and purpose. Good men.</p><p><br></p><p>Men who know that the best way to look after their families is by living their own life healthier and happier. To, as they say on the plane, 'fit their own oxygen mask first'.</p><p><br></p><p>Living healthier is not a choice of the modern man...it is an imperative.</p><p><br></p><p>We must regain or perhaps reinvent what it is to feel in control.</p><p><br></p><p>Men must seek out ways to explore what's possible without the 'toxic masculinity' that pervades so many traditional male 'packs'.</p><p><br></p><p>We are Wellteam.</p><p><br></p><p>We're starting a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=healthrevolution&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7027111016006111232" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(15, 248, 7);">#healthrevolution</a><span style="color: rgb(15, 248, 7);">.</span></p><p><br></p><p>It's happening already.</p><p><br></p><p>Here's what some of our members have to say...and we're just warming up. In fact, we haven't even publicly launched Wellteam yet.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><iframe class="ql-video" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ye51m68Vvpc?showinfo=0"></iframe><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Get on board now, join Wellteam.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.wellteam.me/survey" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(15, 248, 7);">Get started today</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>It's all up to you now. It's your life.</p><p><br></p><p>Over to you boss.</p><p><br></p><p>I'm here for you.</p><p><br></p><p>Troy</p><p>Wellteam Founder, husband, father, son, brother, friend.</p>

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Starting a business is hard, starting a revolution is next level! Here's the why behind Wellteam.

Why Troy and Sonia sacrifice so much for Wellteam. 

The joy, pain and sacrifice of starting Wellteam

<h2>Devices of doom or tech saviours?</h2><p><br></p><p>Devices and screens provide an effective mechanism to distract us from life as we hurtle rapidly towards death.</p><p><br></p><p>Dramatic opening sentence but sadly realistic and a multiple billion dollar industry hell-bent on driving it and stealing time and lives.</p><p><br></p><p>Todays tech companies compete seriously for way to capture our attention for longer...something they are expert at and they're just warming up as artificial intelligence and augmented reality hit mainstream.</p><p><br></p><p>Companies that capture the most time, win the most revenue or value and reward the richest people on the planet for investing in them.</p><p><br></p><p>This scenario is creating a 'brain drain race', where companies win, and ultimately, users lose.</p><p><br></p><p>As we get sucked into the vortex of the online world, we're spending more time, wasting it more accurately, for the sole purpose of being distracted...from the day-to-day boredom of living.</p><p><br></p><p>The companies gaining the greatest profits are typically distracting more people from living life fully.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h2>What place for wellbeing?</h2><p><br></p><p>So how does a wellbeing company today combat the impact of technology, while using it at the same time.</p><p><br></p><p>That's the challenge the team at Wellteam have been grappling with since 2020.</p><p><br></p><p>Ultimately when it comes to wellbeing, the options to improve personal wellbeing seem endless...if you have the time. There's over 80,000 self improvement books published in the US alone. That's a lot of researching.</p><p><br></p><p>When it comes to specialist practitioners, the options are vast too; sleep specialists, positive psychologists, exercise physiologists, general practitioners, personal trainers, relationship counsellors, life coaches, meditation guru's, mindfulness experts, nutritionalists, dieticians, hypnotherapists, chakra guides, mung-bean peelers and everyone's favourite...your neighbour who just lost 5 kilograms on the anchovy and marmalade diet.</p><p><br></p><p>Now any one of these people could help one or maybe more components of your life...but they're bound to "stay in their lane" (a term often used when a practitioner wants to protect their patch).</p><p><br></p><p>If you want to seriously lose weight, you should go see a sleep therapist first, then an exercise physiologist, then a dietitian and in between see your doctor who may need to write a referral letter first...but only if you've got an established medical condition...which is hard to determine in the 7 minute consult you have with them.</p><p><br></p><p>While the industry of health and wellbeing is segregated into 'lane ways or specialisations'...humans are not. We are whole, not separated into systems based on university degrees.</p><p><br></p><p>We're all different, experiencing different things at different times. Our needs change with the seasons and when it comes to health and wellbeing the team at Wellteam believe there's a natural order to get things done.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h2>Where technology can add value.</h2><p><br></p><p>Technology is great at gathering and filtering information. We should harness it to identify areas of need and then help sort through solutions. Those 80,000 self help books have probably 800 words in each worth reading and the rest is padding to justify the cost of the book.</p><p><br></p><p>So which 800 words in which book do you start with?</p><p><br></p><p>That's what the team at Wellteam have done. They've built a tool (Wellteam Scorecard) to enable individuals to explore their current experience across a breadth of wellbeing topics.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://dl2vy1zx2qtgi.cloudfront.net/public_image/d4b311138b3eacc64ba169c52f237a7c9ec275ad.png"></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>The Wellteam Scorecard balances current states and associated actions and uses an internationally renowned Life Satisfaction Survey for global comparison. It produces a personal report so the user can visually see their performance across 6 core themes and 23 individual wellbeing modules.</p><p><br></p><p>Data from the Wellteam Scorecard tool is then mapped across a database of over 80 separate mind and body hacks (short, practical activities or exercises - about 800 words each).</p><p><br></p><p>A complex algorithm (named NEO, as a 'nod' to The Matrix) then uses both sets of data to build a program for the individual and assembles it in the precise order to enable a compounding effect to occur. Wellteam call their process Micro-Habit CompoundingTM.</p><p><br></p><p>All that comes together instantly to ensure an individual has a personalised program of activities giving them the best chance of optimising their wellbeing.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h2>But...a program is one thing, taking action is another.</h2><p><br></p><p>Technology can help there too.</p><p><br></p><p>There's often little benefit perceived daily from small, healthy habits. It's the longer term impact that can have serious benefits and improve or prolong lives. A concept they refer to as Lead (short term actions) and Lag (longer term outcomes) Indicators</p><p><br></p><p>Because each small daily habit has a compounding effect, it's important to incentivise daily action and provide short-term, immediate feedback.</p><p><br></p><p>To incentive short term habits Wellteam built the Wellteam Global Challlenge.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://dl2vy1zx2qtgi.cloudfront.net/public_image/bc6d10f4ef0b5607dbf91d6b1be2b788eca2ba44.png"></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>This global competition enables members to record daily actions via the website. As they record actions they earn points toward Wellteam Merchandise and other prizes and compete across the globe, in their workplaces or with a group of friends or family members.</p><p><br></p><p>On top of that that tech can bring together communities of people from across the globe with a special interest in using mind and body hacks to optimise their lives. Again, this is a place where Wellteam see the role of technology to enable that engagement.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://dl2vy1zx2qtgi.cloudfront.net/public_image/bf88d9ae8428ff9b0fba2750d8e9d4fc700be545.png"></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Ultimately technology is a great tool for narrowing down options, personalising programs, sequencing them to maximise gains and providing an engaging mechanism to maintain behaviours and grow communities.</p><p><br></p><p>Technology can sit above 'lane-way' ego's and enable instant, timely, personalised solutions that can accelerate people into improved wellbeing across the breadth of wellbeing topics...when they need it.</p><p><br></p><p>This has to be the way of the future where tech enables wellbeing, rather than distracts us from it. That's the revolution Wellteam are driving.</p><p><br></p><p>Check out Wellteam, the smartest, fastest, most efficient way to achieve optimal wellbeing. Do the scorecard tool, get your report and start a custom program with a 14 day free trial.</p>

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What role should technology play in optimising wellbeing? In short...it should make is personal. 

How to use technology to reach more personalised wellbeing solutions. 

Devices of doom or tech saviours?

<h1>When was the last time you learned a new skill?&nbsp;</h1><p><br></p><h3>I’m teaching my daughter to drive a car right now…more aptly put…I’m giving myself an education in self-control, stress-management and patience…while my daughter sits excitedly next to me holding the steering wheel.&nbsp;</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>It’s one wild ride…certainly the first few were!</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Anyone who’s put themselves through this process understands the seriousness of the activity. A mistake can cost lives, while not making mistakes inhibits learning and growth. It’s a balancing act.&nbsp;</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Driving a car is a skill, the process of operating the steering system, switches, foot pedals, lights and even simple things like operating the radio while you’re driving, they’re all skill based.&nbsp;</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Driving correctly on a road, that’s another set of skills. Appreciating road position, responding to signage, changing road conditions in changing weather with unpredictable drivers, animals and here in Australia…crazy kangaroos.</h3><p><br></p><p><br></p><h2>The key to success is micro-habit compounding.&nbsp;</h2><p><br></p><h3>Start by building the right skills in the right order. Get to know the feel of the accelerator and brake in a carpark, learn to move the car around using the steering wheel, well before hitting the freeway.&nbsp;</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Build each micro-skill until it’s intuitive (habitual), then progress.</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>When it comes to your wellbeing, it’s similar, except with a big difference...</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>...you’re already driving!&nbsp;</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>When I was 40 I was gifted a ‘Learn to Rally Drive’ course. Instructors took me around a dirt track and coached me in how to handle a performance rally car on a dirt course.&nbsp;</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>I thought I was pretty shit-hot behind the wheel, after all, I’d raced motorbikes and go-karts when I was a kid, worked as an international tour guide and driver, driving trucks, buses and Unimog’s on some of the worst, most unpredictable roads in the world.&nbsp;</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Wrong! It took about 14 laps for me to get out of a simple road-driving habit.</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>When it comes to driving an all-wheel drive rally car on a dirt road, you have to build the driving process differently. You don’t steer into a corner, you shift the weight forward by touching the brake, holding the wheel straight while the car's rear slides around, then accelerate. You brake in a corner to adjust the direction, while accelerating!&nbsp;</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Wellbeing, as it happens for most of us more ‘mature’ types, is something we have to re-build.</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>There’s many habits that find their way into our lives over many years that prevent us from living with greater wellbeing. The classic is the ‘get up early and exercise’ story.&nbsp;</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Exercising first thing in the day is a powerful way to start your day…but most people struggle to start as they’re often too tired to get up and seek to maximise their sleep.</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>In order to get up early, consistently, the process actually starts a week before.&nbsp;</h3><p><br></p><p><br></p><h2>A micro-habit compounding process to get up early to exercise.&nbsp;</h2><p><br></p><h3>1. Schedule a regular bedtime and be consistent for the week prior</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>2. Switch your devices off one hour before bed each night and use the ‘do not disturb’ feature so they won’t interrupt your sleep</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>3. Spend 3 - 7 minutes outside in nature, in daylight in the mornings as soon as you wake</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>4. Finish with caffeine no later that midday the day before</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>5. Commit to get up the next morning and go outside earlier than usual</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>6. Set your alarm at the time you want to get up and remove the snooze option</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>7. Put your alarm in a place with the exercise gear you will wear in the morning</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>8. Get up and put your gear on when the alarm goes off</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>9. While you’re up, then get out in nature with your gear on</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>10. Do some exercise while you’re outside</h3><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3>The steps aren’t difficult, but…if you remove one, it makes the outcome harder to achieve habitually.&nbsp;</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>This is the reason many try but fail at exercise classes. Despite their intention, they're doomed before they get to the class.&nbsp;</h3><h3><br></h3><p><br></p><h2>Why does no-one teach you this stuff?</h2><h3><br></h3><h3>Simple. Because it’s all free. No profit to be made.</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Wellteam has 80+ individual mind and body hacks that we assemble into sequential programs that cover: mind, body, movement, purpose, relationships and nutrition.&nbsp;</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Follow an ordered process of small steps daily. Build up your process and ‘stack’ habits together.&nbsp;</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Just like learning to drive a rally car as an adult, sometimes we have to unlearn before we progress to the next level.&nbsp;</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Micro-habit compounding, combined with mind and body hacks, can enable busy people to build new systems, driving greater wellbeing, fast.&nbsp;</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Do the right things for you, in the right order, at the right time.</h3><h3><br></h3><p><br></p><h2>Need a hand with that?&nbsp;</h2><p><br></p><h3>Use the <a href="https://www.wellteam.me/survey" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wellteam Scorecard tool</a> to get your online Optimisation Scorecard Report.</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Click the Custom Program button and NEO, our AI Wellbeing Robot will build a full custom program…just for you…using micro-habit compounding.</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>You can even start today with a 14 day free trial.&nbsp;</h3><h3><br></h3><h3><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Step 1. </span><a href="https://www.wellteam.me/survey" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prioritise 8 minutes now and complete the scorecard tool</a></h3><p><br></p><h3>Have an exceptional day and...</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Go well.</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Troy.</h3>

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How do you get to optimal wellbeing when starting is hard? Take small steps, in the right order.

Get to optimal wellbeing faster with sequential mind and body hacks.

What is Micro-Habit Compounding?

<h2>Are you prepared for when things turn to shit globally?&nbsp;</h2><p><br></p><p>Regularly I sit down with a good friend who's building a business trading a commodity on the futures exchange. It blows my mind from a risk perspective and is a subject well outside my area of expertise. The variables that impact the buying and selling of commodities like&nbsp;oil, gas, wheat, rice, cocoa, corn, uranium and celebrities are vast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Ultimately they're impacted by supply and demand pressures driven largely by geopolitical factors. We’re certainly experiencing a few of those with political uncertainty, rogue leaders, covid policies, population changes and worrying news of an impending global environmental catastrophe.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Our ability assess risk and know the critical information on any one global subject is low. News sources are dodgy at best and we can't know who to rely on for accurate information.</p><p><br></p><p>We’re in the midst of something unusual for most of us…a&nbsp;future that doesn’t look stable or predictable and we don't know who to trust.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>With that in mind, how can you retain a 'good life' when the mental models we’ve lived in are eroding, change is upon us and the future is uncertain?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>First things first.&nbsp;</h2><p><br></p><p>Human Beings (home sapiens) have roamed the earth for 200,000 years in our current biological state. We survived without the luxuries we have in life today.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Remember, in 1984, the <a href="https://oneoftwelve.com/the-pintupi-nine/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pintupi Nine</a> (9 Australian Aboriginals), walked out of the Great Sandy Desert into ‘Australia’. They had no previous contact with white man or our version of ‘modern life’. They survived a hunter and gatherer lifestyle and for 40,000 years their ancestors survived in some of the harshest conditions on the planet with none of our modern luxuries (note the clothes in the image were provided after they entered a camp).&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://dl2vy1zx2qtgi.cloudfront.net/public_image/a6aadcff87f50f49ab7a25f83490d73d30fce48b.jpeg"></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Trust me…you will survive - no question. Be confident in that. The question is... how do you thrive?</p><p><br></p><h2>Preparing your mind is the key.</h2><h2><br></h2><p>…so let’s get to work on that now.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Here’s five key mind and body hacks you can build into your daily routine to set yourself up to thrive in uncertain times.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>1. Embrace cold-water showers (cold start, finish or whole shower).&nbsp;</h2><p>This simple hack helps build mental toughness, wires the brain for dealing with stress, is affordable and can be done everywhere that running water exists. Done regularly it will build self-confidence so you can endure, overcome and ultimately enjoy something that was once unfathomable. It's also shown to improve immunity and overall health with a 30% reduction in absenteeism.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://dl2vy1zx2qtgi.cloudfront.net/public_image/a034258b005fb4bae62622296d67a47847aeb440.png"></p><p><br></p><h2>2. Start building physical strength and endurance.&nbsp;</h2><p>Similar to cold showers, strength training builds in us a feeling of self-confidence. Don’t build strength for body image, that’s not healthy and image-based action won’t help with survival! Build strength to be stronger, mentally and physically. Do push-ups, sit-ups, chair dips, lunges, chins ups, walk more stairs and move more in general. Building physical capability builds confidence and when things go to shit, having confidence helps.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>3. Quit Caffeine (tea or coffee) and&nbsp;drink only water for a week.&nbsp;</h2><p>These two may sound radical, but they're very valuable. What they will do is build your confidence for change. These will highlight for you, how you can absolutely reduce and eliminate habitual things that you think are critical in your life. By embracing small changes like these (and they are small), you’ll build your ‘change-muscle’. You’ll gain an understanding of how you’ve sucked yourself into thinking you can’t function without these things. There's also some other far reaching benefits of these two mind and body hacks but that's for another time.</p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://dl2vy1zx2qtgi.cloudfront.net/public_image/fb311f71fb7f1dbe49ab15bc63e93a138964cd8c.jpeg"></p><p>&nbsp;</p><h2>4. Flip your psychology with the exceptional challenge.&nbsp;</h2><p>At Wellteam we love this challenge. For the next two weeks, when someone asks you how you are…answer that you’re ‘exceptional' (or similar, over-the-top positive answer). Just as the key to dragging yourself down is to surround yourself with people who are similarly down, lifting yourself up, requires influencing and lifting those around you. When you start a conversation in a very positive way, you change your psychology and that of the person you’re interacting with. When you’re confronting change, this is the key. Embrace it, look for the positive in it and show confidence to those around you…you’ll influence them too.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>5. Find a forward thinking, positive focused tribe.</h2><p>Enduring and thriving is not a solo sport. We are a social species, we thrive when we are with others, when we share ideas, concerns and fears. We are intrinsically conditions to support each other (something evolutionary psychologists refer to as reciprocity). We know that helping each other is good for us. The more 'us' you have around you the better, it's why finding a tribe is and always has been a key criteria for thriving.</p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://dl2vy1zx2qtgi.cloudfront.net/public_image/97a29f722ffe86e1b0a7592c1b8d95c8476f415c.jpeg"></p><p><br></p><p>These five things will do nothing to influence factors outside your control (most geopolitical factors). What they will do is prepare you to endure, respond, adapt and ultimately, thrive, when factors outside your control start to impact you directly.</p><p><br></p><h2>Wellteam's Ancient Man Challenge.</h2><p>To get yourself in mental and physical shape to survive geopolitical chaos or a zombie apocalypse, check out <a href="https://www.wellteam.me/challenges/available/224" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wellteam’s Ancient Man Challenge</a>. Six weeks of micro-challenges and the tools to help you embrace changes and embed new, healthy habits. Compete with others or your mates on global leaderboards and earn points toward a coveted Wellteam t-shirt.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Ultimately, the key to thriving is to take action and be prepared mentally for change.</p><p><br></p><p>Take care out there and go well.</p><p><br></p><p>Troy</p><p>Wellteam Founder.</p>

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Wellteam's founder Troy Flower shares five mind-hacks to prepare for change in turbulent times.

Are you prepared for when things in your life take a turn for the worst?

Five mind-hacks for thriving amidst geopolitical meltdowns.

<h2>It's hard to believe that one day you will die.</h2><p><br></p><p>If you're a male in your 40's or 50's, you've already made a significant dent in your life bucket. Our analysis of the Australian Bureau of Statistics <em>Deaths in Australia web report 2021</em> data showed that in 2019:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>15% of all male adults died before their 60th birthday</li><li>29% died before their 70th birthday</li><li>53% were pushing up daisies before they turned 80</li></ul><p><br></p><p>That's not the average age of death, it's reality.</p><p><br></p><p>We think we'll live forever. We plan to 'live it up' after we retire but in 2019 <strong>almost 1 in every 3 men were dead before they hit 70</strong>. Sobering?</p><p><br></p><p>Do you ever question your purpose in life? It's worth considering how you'll be remembered. When people raise a glass in your name, what will they say?</p><p><br></p><p>On the 1st April last year, I said goodbye to my mum at 74, after a brave fight. For me, she is a reminder of never quitting, never giving up while there's still life in your body. She was a warrior, she was stoic and she was a champion of those in need of love and support.</p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://dl2vy1zx2qtgi.cloudfront.net/public_image/d66b6b7021e5025bbb9f97b2aeb42a786f158545.png"></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>How will you be remembered and for how long?</p><p><br></p><p>I hate to break it to you but in reality, you won't be remembered for very long.</p><p><br></p><p>It's important to appreciate that what you have in life and even the memories of you after death, are not permanent.</p><p><br></p><p>Not convinced? Stop and recall what you know of any relative of yours that died over 100 years ago. What do you remember? What was their job? Did they routinely work over-time? What were they known for? What was said at their funeral?</p><p><br></p><p>Life is short and the recall of your heroic deeds in the office will likely be even shorter. If your sole purpose in life is your work, then perhaps you're in for a rude shock when you leave.</p><p><br></p><p>I spoke with someone recently who had worked for a significant time in a big bank. They fought their way up to the lofty heights. They had a real passion for their employees, their team, the company. They put in the long hours, the big days. They were proud of their efforts and rightly so. But...</p><p><br></p><p>...within weeks of leaving, their history was erased. Someone new was changing the game they created. Their hard work forgotten. Their purpose, for most of their career evaporated. It turns out their legacy wasn't written in gold leaf but invisible ink.</p><p><br></p><p>Is your current plan to focus hard on work and wait for retirement before you travel, explore hobbies, get fit and healthy again?</p><p><br></p><p>Sadly, for many, it just doesn't play out that way. When we lose our purpose and our status we slip into a hole that can be hard to fight our way out of. For some those retirement years will be short, sad and lonely.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h2>Start 'living life' now. Look for purpose outside of work, whatever that is. If finding your purpose is hard, here's a suggestion: Get fit and healthy and you'll have more time to work it out. Make Wellteam's purpose, your purpose.</h2><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Right now, the world needs leaders for a healthier way of living. By healthier, I'm not just talking exercise, I'm talking mental calm, clarity, kindness, friendships, relationships, better food. The world is crying out for people brave enough to put wellbeing first.</p><p><br></p><p>Got kids or grandkids?</p><p><br></p><p>Childhood obesity is at an all-time high. Depression is skyrocketing. Suicide rates are up and rising. Almost 50% of men will develop at least one chronic disease in their life. 50% of men in the US reported being lonely always or sometimes and 33% reported having no close friendships. No-one to turn to when they need it. There's real work to be done!</p><p><br></p><p>Would you live better knowing those around you are happier and healthier because you made a decision to step up?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Whether you like it or not, you're a role model in your workplace, your family and your community. Step up to the challenge now.</p><h3><br></h3><h2>Ready?</h2><ol><li>Get your <a href="https://www.wellteam.me/survey" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">baseline report</a>.</li><li>Join a <a href="https://www.wellteam.me/challenges" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Guided, Self-Guided or Custom Program</a></li><li>Log your daily healthy habits on your <a href="https://www.wellteam.me/auth/login" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wellteam Dashboard</a> and work your way up the global leaderboards.</li></ol><p><br></p><p>Participating in Wellteam’s Global Revolution is a great way to build healthier habits and also encourages others.</p><p><br></p><p>Join a growing global team united to inspire others for a happier, healthier world.</p><p><br></p><p>Go well.</p><p><br></p><p>Troy</p><p>Wellteam Instigator</p>

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<p><br></p><h2>Remember a time when you did things because they were fun?</h2><p><br></p><p>As we 'grow up' we choose things for financial reasons and the things we do for fun become a lower priority. This image is of the Murray Bridge Pedal Prix, taken at 6am after 18 hours of racing in the Australian Human Powered Vehicle Super Series run by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: var(--color-text); background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent);">Australian International Pedal Prix</a></p><p><br></p><p>Kids and adults pedal enclosed recumbent bikes or 'trikes' (lightweight racing machines with carbon fibre shells) for 24 hours in relay teams.</p><p><br></p><p>Driving one of these high performance machines is awesome. It's exhausting and exciting weaving in and out of traffic and trying not to roll over (it happens a lot). It requires teamwork, skills, training, maintenance, planning, nutrition and builds camaraderie within and amongst teams. Take a look inside a high performance trike and the set up.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><iframe class="ql-video" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i6dQ81i9XDk?showinfo=0"></iframe><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>This sport is very cool but there's something that's sad about it. It's not a professional sport, so some parents won't permit their kids to participate as they can't go onto a career in it.</p><p><br></p><p>How freakin sad is that? What happened to building life skills and exploring new experiences while having fun? As we age, how many of us have lost our way, choosing financial security over living our best life. I catch myself instilling the capitalist mantra of 'get a good, high paying job and set yourself up for life' with my kids.</p><p><br></p><p>But really, what do you remember in life? Is it experiences, or possessions that you gain the most satisfaction from? How much do the things you love cost?</p><p><br></p><p>Pedal Prix is exciting, it's healthy, it's competitive, requires multiple skill sets and is raced as a team. If you get a chance to try it, do it. You will however have to prioritise it over something else.</p><p><br></p><h2>LIFE TIP: Find things in your life that you do for joy, not money and not because you have to.</h2><p><br></p><p>Do this simple exercise, write on a piece of paper all the things that bring you true joy (not the stuff you think you should enjoy, but the stuff that makes you go 'YEAH'). Write them down then circle the ones you do regularly. Most men over 40 struggle to identify five and likely only circle one or two. Do this exercise to take stock on whether you're living your best life.</p><p><br></p><p>When you lie on your death bed (and you will), what will you recall with a smile? Your bank balance? All the days you worked late to satisfy your company? The sacrifices you made for your financial security?</p><p><br></p><p>Get balance in your life. Get your smile back. Find what makes you happy again. Do more of that.</p><p><br></p><p>NOTE: This is not a call out to resign or quit your job or even embrace the 'Quit Quietly' concept, it's just a reminder. You have one life, get some balance in it, find more YEAH moments in each and every day or week. Schedule them in as they are the most important things for living your best life.</p><p><br></p><p>You've got this.</p><p><br></p><p>Check out this video by the GTrikes team, just in case you prioritise some time for healthy fun. If you're interested we'd love to put together a Wellteam Racing Team...just for fun of course, we wouldn't try to win...too often!</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><iframe class="ql-video" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6G2eBogK6Zg?showinfo=0"></iframe>

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