HEALTH AND WELLBEING

When you measure success solely by your achievements at work, one of the areas that inevitably gets neglected is your health. Stress levels are high as you work to tight deadlines late into the night, but you keep slogging away, believing it’s the price you have to pay to get on. But without your health, even the pursuit of conventional success will be difficult and ultimately unsustainable.

True success requires you to put your health first. It’s not just about ‘not being ill’; the World Health Organisation defines health as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing’. It’s also not about putting pressure on yourself to train, meditate and eat a perfect diet every day.

‘Find something that makes you feel good,’ advises Buttler.

‘It might be a programme you enjoy, an instructor that you click with, or a particular exercise that you love doing. If you don’t enjoy it, you’re not going to want to do it every day.’ Move every day because you want to, not just because you feel you ‘should’. Slow down.