Now I know that this is predominantly a finance blog, and readers will be thinking about financial ideas. But having thought about it a lot, I have come to the conclusion that the best investment by far for 2019 is really not financial in nature, but in one’s health. Cliche I know – but let me explain.

Life isn’t a excel spreadsheet

Its easy to get caught up in the numbers of planning scenarios with rosy projections showing us living long into the future. And to a large extent – that is true. But averages disguise certain hard realities of life. One that life really is random and you really never know what is just around the corner. Something that has profoundly shaped my own thinking many years ago way a blog post by Tim Ferris. While it was an essay written hundreds of years ago, it still resonated with ...