He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. - Arabian Proverb

Balance is everything.
A good health requires a balance in all these areas of our life.

1. Emotional health 
2. Financial health
3. Physical health
4. Social health
5. Spiritual health

Emotional health
Emotional health is an outcome of the food that we give to our mind.
In our everyday routine, we are faced with a lot of negativity. The negativity out numbers the positivity and the balance is disturbed.
Most of the negativeness that we allow our minds to be filled with, are avoidable.
It is  a well established fact that EQ is the biggest factor responsible for our success in any field. This is a subject which is not taught in our academic institutions. We learn and develop our EQ by observation and practice. Good books and good environment act as catalyst to our EQ development.
Our learning process is an outcome of:-

1. What we see
2. What we hear and
3. What we read

What we see around us are "events". We do not have control over them but what really makes the difference is "How we react to them".
Seeing is the best way to learn. In one house, the mother puts efforts to keep the house neat and clean, stacks all things properly, cleans out ashtray and dust bins. The children see it and learn to do the same. In another house, the mother keeps telling everyone that the house is dirty and people should put the things in right place but herself throws around her belongings every where and does not make the effort to clean up the ash tray and dust bins which results in children also copying the same.
Movies, TV programs, News or Internet surfing are the biggest media for us to see. Be careful what you are seeing there.

We hear a lot of comments or opinions on "events". Most of them are negative comments. WHY? Because all our life we are trained to find faults. A teacher finds mistakes in the answer books and marks it with Red Ink. As supervisors in any field, we are looking at faults or people who are making mistakes. I am not saying that it is not required but then, we develop a habit of finding mistakes in every thing.
There was this father who kept criticizing his boss, his work environment, his colleagues etc. Grumbles when extra responsibility is given to him. What effect will it have on his children?
We must learn to lead by example
Either find what you love to do or start loving what you are doing.

What we read has a direct effect on our minds.
It is said that what ever we see or read before going to sleep, works on our sub conscious mind at sleep.We must read some motivating, inspirational or religious book for 15 minutes before sleeping.
These are two books that I will recommend to start with.

Financial Health. Finance is the single biggest component which effects all of us. The feeling of future insecurities causes stress. If you are young, get into the habit of saving and investing intelligently.
Read some life changing books on Financial education.
The books that I recommend are

Physical health. Our physical health depends on 3 main factors

1. Food that we give to our brain.We all have heard that "Health is the Biggest Wealth" and yet we find our self so occupied in running after our job or our business in order to accumulate financial wealth that we don't have time to do physical exercise. Many of us feel lazy and find excuses. Feed our mind with importance of health and physical exercise.
2. Food that we put in our stomach. Many of us have vehicles. If you come to know that a gas station is selling spurious gas, will you put that gas in your vehicle even though it may be cheaper? No!! Then why do we do that with our most expensive vehicle .. "Our Body"?? When it comes to medicines, we don't compromise but when it comes to food or health supplements.. we chose cheaper products. I must tell here that the nutritional value of food today has reduced by almost 50% because of agriculture methods, chemical fertilizers and cold storage that we use in this modern day. The leading health practitioners today advocate use of "Health Food Supplements" to augment the nutritional deficiencies.
3. Regular exercise. Obesity is increasing rapidly because of the nature of our work and our "Food of Laziness" that we have given to our brain. If health is the biggest wealth then why are we not giving any time to build this wealth?

Social Health  Man being a social animal, wants a social life. An unhealthy minded person or a sick person does not enjoy a good social life.

Spiritual Health Again a very important factor in overall good health.