NOTES FROM THE FIELD
How to Read the Health401k® Blog
This blog is not organized around tips or trends.
It is organized around how people actually change.
Some posts explore the core ideas that shape Health401k®, how we define health, effort, environment, and long term investment. Others document real world observations from the field, or reflect on moments that clarified what works, what fails, and why.
If you are new here, start with Health401k® Philosophy to understand the framework.
- Field Notes capture patterns we see in practice.
- Reflections explore meaning, tradeoffs, and the human side of change.
- HealthBroker by Health401k™designs and coordinates environments at the individual and organizational level so the right effort is reinforced at the right time and for the
right reasons. - Piggy Bank Advisor® introduces Health401k® ideas early, helping children and families understand health as something you invest in over time.
These are not separate ideas. They are different lenses on the same system.
The People Change People™ Manifesto
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The People Change People Paradox: A Recursive Model for Sustainable Wellness
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Propping Up the Pillars: A Health401k® Reflection
Some health investments do not look like effort or discipline. They look like the relationships that quietly stabilize everything else. What’s Protecting the Tank? We have all heard the expression: put your oxygen mask on first. That is sound advice. But it raises a...
A Flautist, a Civil Engineer, and Sugarloaf: Thriving Seniors
Some people don’t seem to work very hard at health, yet somehow live deeply regulated, connected lives.This is a story about noticing that kind of alignment up close. Derek and Lisa Brunsley are unconventional in the best ways. In their 80s, they seem to suck the...
Chronic Knee Pain in a Former Athlete: HealthBrokering™ Case Study
34-year-old female. Former athlete. Chronic knee pain. Her words were simple and firm. “I’ve done everything.” Strength training. Physical therapy. Cortisone injections. Years of effort, with little lasting relief. She was referred to our HealthBrokering™ team by a...
Minimum Viable Entry Points
Across disciplines, cultures, and environments, there is a pattern I keep encountering among the most effective professionals I’ve worked alongside. They look upstream. They resist force. They search for the smallest, most precise entry point that allows a system to...
The Power of Human Connection: The Health401k® Guiding Principle
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The Power of Personal Attention and Human Connection
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Welcome to Health401k®: Your Health Portfolio Starts Here
Most of us were handed a script about health that sounded something like this: eat better, exercise more, try to be less stressed, sleep if you remember. If you do all of that perfectly, you win. Real life is messier. It took me years to admit that many of my...
The Programmer, The Therapist, and a Styling Guide
I am always stunned at how principles, true principles, scale and span every dimension. Principles are the Rosetta Stone to life’s many conundrums. Curiously, experts in each professional lane recognize them in their own field, yet we often miss their application in...
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