My Health Wasn't Good - To Be Frank!

Paul speaks with Frank Nolan in this episode. Frank opens up about his enlightenment following a health crisis. The interview provides us with a candid account of how one of the most important aspects for anyone, is their health - both mental and physical. The discussion between Paul and Frank will resonate with many people in business and offers an opportunity for us as listeners to review our own life paths.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Our health is our wealth, but nobody is invincible 
You need to recognise the first signs of health suffering will be depleted fitness and feeling fragile mentally. Feeling fragile mentally and physically when you are responsible for a business can leave you wondering how you are going to move forward at all.
An ego-driven approach leads to forgetting what’s important. It’s an external show of wealth that is rooted in a need to fill a vacuum. The items possessed become part of a person’s identity.

A life-changing incident such as a panic attack is an opportunity to review everything and consider what’s important in life. Without your health you have nothing - everything else is external.

The metaphor that everyone is carrying bags throughout their lives, helps to illustrate the importance of helping each other. People have different amounts of bags but if we all gave each other a hand to carry the bags, rather than a hand-out, the world would be a better place. 

BEST MOMENTS

“Self-improvement is an inside-out job not outside-in job “

“Carrying lot of big bags, they get heavy, false baggage can’t be carried all the time”

“Life is like a book; each page starts out blank and I decide what I’m going to fill the page with”

“Had to do lots of soul-searching now; starting to rebuild myself from the inside. Now I look at my life completely differently”

“I wasn’t enough, the external items became my identity - I was what I had“

“When’s it ever going to be enough? My answer was. it’ll never be enough”

“I had forgot what was important” 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Speaking From Our HEARTS (Paul's Book): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Speaking-our-Hearts-Mastering-game/dp/1781332819
Emerging From The Forest (Paul's Book): Paul Lowe - ‘Emerging From The Forest’
http://www.paullowehearts.com/

ABOUT THE HOST

Something that’s never been attached to Paul is the label ‘normal’ – for which he is immensely proud.  He definitely subscribes to being one of those mentioned – in the Steve Jobs quote:

“Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

Paul Lowe is the founder of PaulLoweHEARTS – which has a three-fold purpose. 

Firstly, to help you make the transition from Pain to Purpose; secondly, to get your inspirational messages and stories out into the world and thirdly, to support charitable organisations in their development & fund-raising.

We achieve this by:

Delivering our empowering Mindset For Success programmes
Sharing your true-life inspirational messages and stories through our Mastering Life Podcast and our Speaking From Our HEARTS book series
Utilising our significant charitable knowledge and experience.

Find Your Purpose – Make  A Difference!

Paul is totally committed to his HEARTS brand vision (an acronym) of:

‘Helping Everyone Achieve Results Towards Success’.

He has a long and distinguished track-record of raising significant funds for a multitude of good causes; positively changing the lives of many disadvantaged children within the UK and globally – drawing on his colourful and wide-ranging life’s experiences to help others do the same and achieve success in the game of life.

“Remember – Mastering Life Starts, By Embracing Our HEARTS!”

CONTACT METHOD

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ABOUT THE GUEST - Frank Nolan

Frank Nolan is a successful Dublin-based businessman and co-founder & owner of the Nolans Group; a company dealing with Property Conservation & Renovations and Property Services & Specialist Cleaning.  Frank’s business success came at a price though – to his health; forcing him to completely re-prioritize his life and put things in perspective.