Many of you will know the story.

You put a frog in a pot of boiling water and it will jump out. Put it in a pot of cold water and then gradually turn up the heat the frog will eventually boil to death.

This is how I relate to most of us  with regard to having regular health check ups. We go along putting up with the minor creaks and pains and before we know it - Bingo , a heart attack. The same applies to bowel cancer, without regular checkups we wake up one day in pain, go the specialists, have a colonoscopy and find we have bowel cancer.

This is so for those over forty. You would'nt let your car go without servicing for a couple of years yet this is the way you treat your inner health, you never get it serviced.

As someone who believes in acting the minute something sounds or feels wrong, I would have had open heart surgery by now if I had not noticed a minor change in my efforts at the gym  a year ago. One of my sisters would still be with us today if she had gone to the sepcialist when she first had pain. No, she was a nurse and knew better. She chose to ignore it, thought it would go away and she died too early. Again, I would have had the same issue had I not had regular tests.

You are no use to your family and your business if you are out of action due to your own stubborn atttude and do have regular check ups. I don't mean just going to your GP, go and have an echo stress test on your heart, have a colonoscopy, get you skin checked by a specialist, have your eyes checked, get your hearing checked and measure your various blood levels for potential early warning signs.

If you don't then your are not only a dill, but also selfish. Just make sure your life insurance is paid up.