Recently I bought a new car.

I bought a Volvo.

I’ve been a BMW and Audi guy forever and ever and I decided to change brands, because recently I’ve been having the worst sciatic nerve pain.

I’ve got an L-4 that I blew years ago and I’ve got some scoliosis in my back, which causes my pelvis to tilt. Probably more information that you really want to know, but there’s a reason I’m telling you all this.

Because of the pelvic tilt, cars I drove really started hurting. I stopped going to chiropractic care, because I figured, “Well, I do enough exercise and massage, I figure I can do things on my own.”

I looked at all these different cars and everything was hurting until I got into a Volvo, and the Volvo felt so good. My sciatic nerve pain is still there when I drive for an extended period of time, but at least now I can actually go and do my day-to-day activities and not feel so bottled up and congested.

My car is awesome. I got the XV60. It had a bird shit stain on the hood and on the door painted I was fine with that.

But, I noticed something else. Volvo is a brand that actually cares about a driver. Most cars will give you a driving experience. They’ll tell you it’s the best driving experience in the world. BMWs will do that, Mercedes will tell you all these things, but most people don’t care about the health and overall well being of your physical body.

I picked up my loner car, which was an S90. Probably one of the nicest sedans you’ll ever drive, technology-wise, comfort-wise, finish-wise.

I saw “Since 1959” in the seat belt, which made me think of something really interesting.

In 1959 Volvo, was putting in the shoulder straps and putting it across you and actually had head rests. Most American cars were still just lap belly, no head rests, so basically you got thrown around like a piñata if you got into an accident.

Whiplash was very common in those days.

Yet, Volvo and the Swedes were always thinking about you, the end consumer.

They were always thinking about the comfort and the well being of the person in the car.

Which got me thinking even more.

It got me thinking about how we take care of ourselves on a daily basis.

I met a chiropractor at a farmers market.

I went to his office and paid for four months’ worth of visits. Why? I’ve been adjusted many times by many different chiropractors, but something about this felt different.

We’ll see how I feel after four months. They gave you an overall program. When you go in and you get popped and cracked and all the other stuff it just doesn’t last.

But, when you go and do exercises while you’re getting popped and cracked, things start to change on a regular basis.

It’s the work you do between visits is the work that actually saves the health of your spine.

Apparently, things are very compressed down there for me, and I don’t really like that feeling of knowing maybe one day I’ll be one of those guys dragging my leg because everything is all compressed.

I take heed and I take care of my health in many different ways. The people I see give me homework to do, and of course me I’ll take that homework and do absolutely everything I possibly can with that homework.

Because health has always been very, very important to me.

Health on many different ways has been extremely important to me. The way I eat, the way I work out, the way I do things.

Now, of course, over the past week very few of us have taken great care of ourselves and our health.

On Christmas, sure. You’re allowed 24 hours of cheating. Don’t beat yourself up for it.

But there are still 364 days in every year.

Days in between doctors and chiropractic visits.

And health is a daily journey throughout all of those.

You don’t just arrive at good health because of one doctor’s visit, or because you bought a certain car.

It’s a daily routine, a daily journey.

So with you, how do you take care of yourself on a daily basis?