Samyak Veera- Small Steps Health And Wealth

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Class Content

• Discuss relationship between health and wealth

• Discuss common behavior change strategies

• Encourage Participants to :

a) Set health and finance goals

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Overall Class Goal: Overall Class Goal: EmpowermentEmpowerment

• Set realistic goals

• Identify small, do-able “action steps”

• Identify obstacles and overcome them

• “Put your mind to it” and take action

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Health and Finance “Issues” Health and Finance “Issues” SimilaritiesSimilarities

1. Problems develop gradually

2. Less stigma due to increasing frequency

3. Impacts job productivity, discrimination

4. Lots of technical jargon

– Medical terms and directions

– Financial terms and acronyms

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Still More Still More SimilaritiesSimilarities Health and Finance “Issues”Health and Finance “Issues”

Lack of limits causes problemsLack of limits causes problems

10. Restrictions help avoid problems10. Restrictions help avoid problems

11. Drastic solutions have major drawbacks11. Drastic solutions have major drawbacks

12. 12. Good health and wealth are related toGood health and wealth are related to::

– Higher productivity, fewer work absencesHigher productivity, fewer work absences

– Lower medical expenses to erode wealthLower medical expenses to erode wealth

– Live long enough to collect Social Security benefitLive long enough to collect Social Security benefit

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Ten Small Steps to Health & Ten Small Steps to Health & WealthWealth

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Thank You• Samyak Veera

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• https://www.linkedin.com/pub/samyak-veera/b/418/809