Boost Your Energy, Master Your Mind and Body, and Lead Your Team To New Heights With This Simple Proven Exercise

You’ll smash barriers and feel better than ever before!

POTUS Donald Trump obliterated any chance his opponent had of winning the 2016 election with a single comment. If you go back and listen to the 2016 campaigns, you’ll know who I’m talking about.

This little “nickname” made Trump’s campaign opponent seem unfit to lead, and worse, lame and boring. While I don’t feel anything about his opponent one way or the other, and might disagree with the remark, Trump changed the world’s perception as they were watching — whether it was true or not.

While opponents remarked about his hair, his controversial sound clips, and businesses, Trump went straight for the throat.

He called his opponent “low-energy.”

And the crowd roared with laughter.

Most professionals probably disagree with Trump’s use of savage insults, but just as he dishes them, he takes them back 1000 fold. But this isn’t an analysis of the Trump campaign, here’s the point.

You don’t want people thinking you are “low-energy” in business, politics, or virtually anywhere, especially if you seek promotions, authority, or more money.

Live A High-Performance Lifestyle

Imagine living a high-performance lifestyle like some of the world’s top athletes and celebrities.

You don’t need to pick up wingsuit flying as your next hobby. And you don’t need hire a celebrity fitness trainer or even get a gym membership — although they may be helpful. You don’t even need to spend time to watch a DVD or read a workbook to create a workout plan.

You can get started right now. However, as a disclaimer, you should consult with a licensed physician before attempting any new activities.

But what can a high-performance lifestyle mean to you? What does the confidence of living a high-performance lifestyle, being more energized, and having mastery over your mind and body mean?

• Attract more people and improve your dating life — not just because you are physically more fit, but also because your mind and mood improve.
• Take your kids and family on exciting adventures that they’ll remember for a lifetime — and keep up with the grandkids.
• Maintain laser-like focus on the activities are will help you succeed — and take massive action on those activities you once considered difficult.
• Smash goals and break through those barriers you felt held you back — and raise the bar with everything you do.
• Lead meetings or projects with the enthusiasm your team needs to succeed — because everything about you is aligned for greatness. If you aren’t leading a team, then maybe there is a team out there that needs you, and go pursue it.
• Live a longer more fulfilling life — because your heart and other important unseen parts of your body are in top working condition.
• Unleash your creative energy, dance, climb, compete, improve your stamina, and so much more is here for your taking, if you only make the choice to “want it.”

And you can do this too, you don’t have to let your life go by without seeing what your body and mind are capable of achieving.

Making Exercise A Habit

Fitness is important for every area of your life. Because how you feel about your body, and the effects exercise has on your mind and emotions have big consequences.

And the area of management, leadership, or even in creative roles like marketing are no different.

You know how some people can’t live without their phones? Is there something you cannot live without?

Maybe you can’t go through your day without making your bed. Or maybe you can’t imagine not sitting down at the end of a very long day, kicking back, and watching your television. Or imagine a musician who dedicated their life to an instrument practicing hours per day, every day like a full-time job, and how that is a habit for them.

Just as those sorts of activities become habits, so can exercise.

There are people, often called “gym rats” who can’t imagine what their life would be like if they could not have access to a fitness center of some sort. There are people whose body and mind craves physical challenges and activities, some more than others.

And exercise becomes a habit when you go day after day, and start smashing goals, and noticing results as the months pass, and your body transforms. Yes it may take a few months to get into, but most people that can thrive through 90 days could make exercise a habit for a lifetime.

Now is as great a time as ever, as I discuss in my book The Power of Starting Today, to get started exercising. Even if you don’t have access to a gym, you’ve got pushups, sit ups, planks, chair dips, and more. But I get that most people won’t just “drop this message” and start doing pushups and sit ups. We’ve all got reasons: “I don’t want to get sweaty,” “I just finished in the shower,” “I’m at work,” “I’ll do it later.”

And some of them are good reasons, some of them are just bs. Only you know.

But it’s time to get excited because you’re launching a new you!

Push Your Limits

Some people push their limits with money, other’s through influence, and other’s push their physical limits combining both mind and body. You seem them in the record books, on television, in the news, on the cover of magazines, and more.

Maybe a part of you even wishes you were like them.

Whether you want to be on magazines, or just want to feel more alert through your day, you can reach them by pushing through the activities that make you uncomfortable like exercise.

For most of my life, I’ve had a deep distaste for running. I’ve felt it was a waste of time, boring, and tedious. I even held this belief that it didn’t improve my physical appearance, but isn’t that weird? That I believed running as an activity didn’t really help me look fitter and healthier?

You see, I was justifying why I shouldn’t run. I made up my own excuses and barriers that were never real. And today, I believe running is one of the most effective exercises anyone can do. Everything has their benefits, but with running, you don’t need to join a class and you can start right now, to reap the rewards.

Here’s something interesting you will quickly learn when running. You learn that even when you’re going “hard” your body can often push just a little bit further.

Did you sprint to the finish line? Your body could have sprinted another 2 seconds.

Did you finally reach your goal of running 1.5 miles? If you did 1.5, you can probably do 2.5.

Did your legs ache more than usual during the run? Well you’ll remember the last time the aches just disappeared after a mile.

Did somebody pass you on the run? You probably could have outpaced them if you tried (distance factors not included).

When you’re keeping a consistent rhythm on a run for 15, 30, or 60 minutes or more, you also have a lot of time to think. Time to think is critical for anyone with a stressful job or highly creative people like marketers, authors, artists, or executives.

Don’t take my word about the limits of your body and running. Check out the book “Can’t Hurt Me” by David Goggins. I won’t get into too much detail about his book, but just hearing his story will make you a bit tougher — that’s how badass it is. Usually I would say there is no book that can substitute for the action of doing but just knowing there is a real life terminator out there makes you want to harden up a bit, and you don’t need to get into a cage match with a lion to do so.

Quick Results For You, Me, And Everyone Else

I didn’t enjoy running but I realized the rewards are much greater. And I loved that I was quickly noticing results.

About a year ago, I estimate I didn’t hadn’t run more than 60 miles in about 6 years. That is less than 10 miles per year, or less than 1 mile per month! Sure, I probably walked more than that in 5 years, but I didn’t do “cardio.”

I was in terrible shape. I was putting on weight and took lots of naps when I could. I was far from completely unhealthy, but that can be a hinderance because you don’t have the “pressure” of wanting to notice massive improvements.

I exercised, but I rarely ever felt the “exercise high” that comes with the release of those feel-good chemicals when you work out. Something was up. I realized I was being lazy and avoiding what I knew needed to be done: run (or at least jog).

And here’s the beauty of running. You notice results real quickly, whether you get a nicer core and legs, or your mind is mentally more focused. You set your own goals and distances.

When I first started running again after 6 years, I could barely go .4 miles without running out of breath. Sometimes I would just do a small jog of .4 miles, and be done with it. But as long as you try to increase the distance just a tiny bit, not even a whole lap, you will start to notice improvements.

Today, I’ve got a routine where I’m hitting almost 20 miles a week or 2+ miles per day. And I’m also doing longer distances with up to 6 miles non-stop. My run pace is a fast-walk pace for some professional runners, but here’s the wonderful thing…

Your biggest competitor is yourself.

Unless you are planning on running competitive races of course. But if you simply want to boost your energy and live a healthier life with a fitter body, running could be your answer.

And it’s not just me that’s had the opportunity to improve myself. You have the chance too.

You can find people have achieved great results from running. Most testimonials will be from runners who found a good running training program and improved their speed.

But what you can do to really strike your iron is find those stories from those who overcame massive challenges like obesity.

Staying in motion is a tough challenge with many gym routines, and running fixes that. And there is something about the way you go through your day after a good run that makes things seem brighter and more uplifted.

And with the simplicity of running, you can control how much you want to improve every time. If you do 2 miles one day, you can choose to do 2.1 miles the next day, even if you only walk the 2.1 miles. If you want to improve your speed, you can change it up and just do sprints one day. If you love repetition, you can just go and do countless miles.

Tons of great routines out there!

Live Energized, and Look Good Doing It

With running, your body is going to look more physically fit. That’s a given. And that’s what usually motivates us. When we look at magazines and say “I want my body to look like that!”

But if people also knew the effects it had on the heart, confidence, focus, tenacity, and the effects smashing goals can have on your personality, more people might do it. Picture yourself not just “looking” a certain way, but also “being” a certain way, more specifically, being fit. What would that be like?

• Feeling like your floating because you are 5, 10, 30, 50 or more pounds lighter on your feet.
• Traveling more distances, faster than you ever have before because you’re pushing yourself harder every week.
• Witnessing what your body is capable of as you’re take a wrecking ball to your self-imposed walls.
• Eating delicious foods without feeling guilty because not only do you have a workout routine that helps burn the calories, but you’ve also disciplined yourself to not be a slave to the sight of a strawberry cheesecake.
• Running with a dog down the beach boardwalk.
• Leading the way…

Especially for leaders, finding ways to keep your performance up are all the more critical with technology and business moving ever faster than before.

And even if you aren’t necessarily a company leader, running has the opportunity to improve your creative energy so you can come up with great solutions and ideas for your business or customers.

Best Wishes,

Emmett

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