Daily exercise is the key to a healthy body and mind. Once you have that covered, you can set to work, (at the same time), to work on your income goals. Its not hard unless you are a lazy person with no desire and lack of self control. (There, I've said it)! This article may upset or offend, if you are easily offended then please don't read it. I'm not interested in your negative comments about this article, as I have spent most of my adult life, (47 years to 2010), working on and understanding these principals. People need the truth, because only truth can set you free. You know it!
"If things don't change they'll stay as they are".
I'm sorry, but I don't have time for whingers and whiners, I say get off your lazy ass and make things happen. People who I meet for the first time and realize my age and lifestyle does not match their expectation of what a 47 year old business man should look, act and be like, is my fault.
Its my fault because I take responsibility for my own actions or lack of them! There is the pivotal point, lack of action. If you sit watching TV in all your spare time, consoling yourself with excuses like; 'Well, I've worked hard all day and now its me time'. - That's OK, ((let me explain), Its only OK 'if' you have got all of your other bases covered that will fulfill all of your goals). Then you cannot expect to change things in your life.
"If things don't change they'll stay as they are", my dad used to say, tong in cheek. But, did he really understand the meaning and truth in that statement?
"Only truth can set you free".
Here's one of my self-talk statements from my goal wall. "My outline for my daily goals is, HEALTH, FAMILY, LOVE, WELL-BEING and WEALTH. (In that order). Why that order, and what the terms mean to me is my business, but I suggest you use these or get your own similar keywords that outline your goals and aspirations. I'll explain.
HEALTH.
Without your health, nothing else will matter, because if you are laying on your bed wheezing like a pig stuck in a barbed wire fence, you will not be able to do anything. On the negative side, you won't enjoy life if you are unfit, simple as that. That is my belief and experience! You cannot work if you are ill, you become unattractive to people socially and physically. (Unless you are mentally stimulating, upbeat and exceptionally charismatic).
On the positive side, if you have a daily exercise session, (no-matter what your physical health-level, condition or ailment may be, (if any at all other than just being lazy)). You can start to improve your situation in all areas! That's why I've said that:- "Daily exercise is the key to a healthy body and mind".
Daily exercise will also help you to develop consistence and motivation. Everything in moderation though, don't over-do it. I know people who spend 2 hours a day in the gym. That's OK if it is part of your balanced life-style, but not OK if you have not got the family-life, social-life, love, well-being and income in place, (or are not working on those with a balanced perspective).
"Daily exercise is the key to a healthy body and mind".
Have a minimum daily exercise session of 30 to 40 minutes. If you are not used to exercising, then this will be a real strain for you. If you can keep up a regular exercise session, it will enable you to realize that you can achieve something! You can use it as a spring-board to greater things. You can make study sessions for work and leisure to improve your income and develop your skills in any area you wish. You will know you can do it, because you have already had success in other areas.
All you have to do is put those same ethics and practices to work in any-other area of your life as you desire. You will find that you can achieve anything that you set your mind to. Focus and concentration on a subject will make you an expert in that field.
Daily exercise will also motivate you, to pounce straight into the next thing on your 'To Do List'. Its a great way to start your day. It will in-vigor you with energy and get you mind working.
There was a university study, (you will have to look it up for yourself, somewhere on the Internet if you doubt my sincerity), that showed, that children who walked to school, did better in school, than those who were driven by parents. The only correlating evidence that separated the children was the exercise they got walking to school. The study concluded that the school children that had walked had more oxygen in their blood, were more alert and better able to concentrate.
"This is your wake-up call"!
The spin off from early morning exercise, pays off in big dividends to your work at your job, especially if the work is mentally demanding, taking concentration and requiring ingenuity and creativeness. In fact, its even more important in those circumstances, because standard office work, sitting behind a desk most of the day is a sedentary life-style.
"A sedentary life-style has significant effects on longevity".
Again, another study showed that a sedentary life-style had significant effects on longevity. Implying that little or no exercise reduced longevity. You know its true, you just need a slap in the face to wake you up to it, this is your wake-up call!
Its like this, (unless you are already wealthy and have everything you want in life, (then why are you reading this)? If you cannot even get the first part of this done, that is; setting a simple daily exercise session of 30 or 40 minutes minimum, then you will not be able to achieve success in any other areas of your life.
A friend of mine had great grades at school, did college and university, and had three degrees at the end of it. Wanting always to be a university dean as his end goal in life. He was addicted to study, but neglected family and exercise, resulting in dying at the age of 34 without a partner and weighing in at 22 stone.
For a 5'8" man that's massive and unhealthy. You know it is, so don't bother giving me any bad vibes of how I'm a fattist or whatever the word is. I'm not, If you want to be like that, that is entirely your choice, I know you won't complain to me about compression damage on your ankles, chafing sores between your legs, not being able to sleep at night, constant irritating pains and niggles in your body and mainly chest. Sweating / perspiration problems, lack of energy, cravings and all the rest of those things overweight people complain of.
"Take professional medical advice to improve your situation".
Of course I know there are people for whom this is not-a-choice, because of health problems in the past or current ailments. I realize this and am very sorry for you not being able to be the person you want to be, if you are unhappy with your body size, you must take professional medical advice to improve your situation.
Conversely, if you are overweight by what the medical norm states is unhealthy, but you are perfectly happy and healthy with yourself, then I am very happy for you, you have your success. I have several family members who are massively overweight, yet seem to be in perfect health otherwise. But I must add, none of my overweight cousins, aunts and uncles made it past age 46. (The slim ones are still living)! Maybe that's why I'm empowered and motivated to write this now, at the age of 47. That 46 age point had been mentioned within my family, but then I never really give it any thought myself, because I'm not overweight!
"Ask yourself, Whats your excuse"?
I'm not saying you cannot achieve anything unless you are fully able bodied! There are countless thousands of miraculous achievers who have over-come massive odds of physical impairment to achieve their dreams, plans and goals. Just think of people like Stephen Hawkins and Christopher Reeves, who are great thinkers, writers and philosophers.
There are many successes in the Para-Olympics, I applaud with tears in my eyes, thinking of the pain and strife they must have gone through to achieve even just being there and taking part. It should be a great resource for you as it is for me, to see these individuals and what they can achieve under massive disability and set-backs. Then ask yourself, Whats your excuse? (Is that grammatically correct? I don't care, you get the point don't you)!
"No-man ever got really wealthy, working for someone else"!
In summary.
Start your daily exercise plan, sessions of 30 to 40 minutes. Use a heart-rate monitor and record your progress because only by measuring your heart-rate to time and exertion level, can you know your safe limits and judge your improvement. There is really no other way! I suggest static cycle or rowing machine, at home, then you are not distracted or have problems by way of travel to a gym. Other things you may be able to do are sit-ups, press-ups, dips, lunges and squats, to name a few. All of the old school stuff, is still good for you and you don't need any equipment!
Set out a daily 'To Do' list, that will forward your bond with your partner, your family-life, social-life, your own well-being and state of mind. Then you must have work goals, one for you job - if you work for someone-else and one for yourself, your own business idea. Quote, "No-man ever got really wealthy, working for someone else"! I don't know who said it originally, but I believe it to be true. You need your own business!
To keep a balance, work on each area in rota. At first you may have to do an exercise session every other-day, in order to get all the stuff done that you want to do. Just spend a little time each day on everything if you can! You know how to eat an elephant don't you? One bite at a time! I heard an amusing story of (I think), a German fellow who ate a large passenger air-craft by swallowing filings of it with each meal. What an idiot. Don't do anything stupid like that! But it does show you what you can achieve if you put your mind to it, focus and concentrate and take action!
AndyGold.
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