Why You Should Treat Your Health Like a Business KPI

When I was building my first company, I lived and breathed performance metrics daily dashboards, profit margins, team productivity, year-over-year growth. I tracked everything. That mindset helped me scale a category-defining brand. But I’ll admit something now that I didn’t fully understand back then:
I never tracked myself.

I wasn’t measuring my energy, my sleep, my stress. I got so caught up in growing and scaling my business that I wasn’t paying enough attention to what my body was telling me - and I KNEW the importance of the right fuel for your body and mind, it was after all why I started my business. But the company completely (briefly took over) and I ignored the needs it was craving for rest and repair. Eventually, I hit a wall. And like so many entrepreneurs, I realized too late that success means nothing if your body can’t sustain the pace.

That’s when I started applying the same principles I used to build a company… to my own health.

I got my first full hormone panel and began tracking blood sugar. I tested food sensitivities. I used wearables to monitor sleep and recovery. I met with functional medicine experts and created a system, a personal dashboard not unlike the one I used in business.

And what I learned is this: Health isn’t guesswork. It can be measured. It can be optimized. And when you treat your well-being like a non-negotiable business priority, everything else improves clarity, creativity, stamina, decision-making, relationships.

This is the essence of Proactivity, one of the five pillars in my Think Vitality framework. It’s about leading with intention, body and mind first. Not waiting for symptoms, but staying a step ahead of them.

Here’s a simple but powerful question:

If your health had a dashboard, what would it say today?

You can explore more of this conversation and the five pillars that have shaped my own health journey—on my new website:

www.lizannefalsetto.com

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