• Longer edurance: Eating healthy, avoiding sugar, and exercising helps to prevent your blood sugar levels from spiking, which causes that mid-day crash we are all too familiar with.  More energy means a better ability to work.
• Focus: Your mind and body are very much intertwined.  Proper eating and fitness can help in two ways.  It prevents a lot of health problems that can distract from work and second, it can help your attention span, chemical balance, and numerous other physiological aspects.
• Confidence: It is obvious that looking good impacts not only your confidence, but other people’s confidence in you.  We look to celebrities, athletes, models, and other that exemplify beatuy which also connects to success.  No matter how vain that can be, it is true.  It impacts getting a job, hiring successful people, getting raises and promotions in the start-up/corporate world.
• Long-term health:  So many people work hard on their business only to end up finding success in their 50’s or 60’s, but are a step away from a heart attack, cancer, diabetes, or other diseases.  There is no point to gain financial success only to not have a body to celebrate your success with.

Your life has to be a fine balance.  Of course you can be a 250-300 pound millionaire and pay for lipo, but it doesn’t change the bad habits that exist and will come back after any surgery.  You have to take care of the root of the problem.  If you can take care of your health on to your journey to financial success, then I promise you it will mean that much more.

This is why companies spend millions and billions of dollars on the health of their employees to stop health insurance costs, lack of performance, and overall employee satisfaction. 

• Health programs dropped absenteeism by 15% at Johnson & Johnson. 
• The annual turnover rate for wellness program participants of the Canada Life Assurance company of Toronto was 1.8 % , compared to the company wide average of 18 % according to the American Journal of Health Promotion.
• A NASA study reported a 12.5 % increase in productivity in their fitness program participants versus non participants along with an increase in morale according to The Association for Fitness in Business.
• There are over 300 other documented examples in mostly US companies showing these types of positive results with benefits outweighing costs 3-1 in HR Magazine.

That also translates into entrepreneurs starting their own businesses or small start ups. If you are looking to save health insurance costs, then invest in your personal health wisely.

To find out more about the best way for you to gain muscle and/or lose fat, then please feel free to stop by one of my other websties: Know My Body.

My goal is to help you figure out how to design a nutritional and fitness program that you enjoy and that works best for you based on your body type.

Know My Body is designed to help you figure out what works best for you to get the fastest results.  Come by and give me your feedback.

Even repetition of small changes can make all the difference on whether your dreams become a reality. These are a few of the key changes I made in my life that impacted everything.

Time Management

• One of the most important things you can do is to prioritize your day. Lack of daily planning leads to a lot of wasted time.

• Start putting the important or harder items toward the start of the day.  If you are having trouble getting in cardio or pressing items for your business like sales calls or link building, then get it done right when you wake up in the morning.

• Start your day early. Most of the successful people I know get up early. Set a goal to get up at 6am if you can. If you work night shifts, then set an equivalent time to get up “early” for you.

• Make sure that you are still getting at least 6 and preferably 8 hours of sleep a day. Enough sleep makes your day exponentially more effective.

• Start your day with exercise. Not only does it provide a better physical health, but it actually creates more time. You are less sleepy, more motivated, and more alert to what is going on around you.

Time Killers

What in your life is detriment to your goals and dreams? What is actually helping you to get there? Sometimes the most detrimental things aren’t always the most malicious actions. They can be things that seem harmless or even things we enjoy dearly.

One of the most common time killers is television. An American watches on average 4 hours of day or 28 hours a week. That is over 1,400 hours a year and over 100,000 hours in a lifetime.

That is a lot of time just staring at a box.

Now I agree we can learn a lot from television, but the History channel never gets the highest ratings. Most people use those hours to get away and almost go into a trance.

Think of what you can do with those 4 hours a day of TV when you only need about an hour for exercise or an hour focused on an Internet Business.

Now most of you I know have terribly busy lives. I feel for you because you have so many priorities that you need to attend to like putting food on the table and taking care of your family. Often there are chores or responsibilities you have consistently that you feel obligated to do like dishes, mowing the lawn, or walking the dog. Let me introduce you to a concept that I love: delegation.

Delegating

Find other people that can do this. Often you can pay people very cheap money and have them do it for you. In a rough economy there are plenty of people looking for work for cheap. Famous people don’t spend much time mowing lawns or doing the laundry. They became successful because they spent a lot of time building several very specific skills. You just have to do the same.

To better understand this concept and other ways to better organize your time I suggest that you read The 4-Hour Workweek. This was one of the biggest eye openers I had to better use of my time.

The Best Way I Know How To Set Up A Business To Free Time

Some of you may realize that you need to find another occupation or might be interested in starting a business that allows for you to have more flexibility in your future. I personally feel one of the best ways to start a business is through internet marketing.

Setting up a website and driving traffic to it is one of the most simple and inexpensive ways to build a residual income long term. I started a business that teaches internet marketing principles (mostly Search Engine Optimization) and sold my part of the business several years ago. It has transformed now into The Keyword Academy a well-known, reputable internet marketing education business.

My former business partners, Courtney Tuttle and Mark Butler, do a great job explaining this process and can help you get started for an inexpensive cost. I have seen similar programs charged for $15,000. There are many tools and forums there that will help you along the way. Look for ways to simplify your life and spend more time doing the things you are truly interested in. Don’t get brainwashed with the idea that your life has to be full of drudgery to pay the bills.

Consider the top 5 major time killers you have in your life. If you only have two or 3, then write those down. If you are not sure think of it this way, if a pattern of action is not working for you, then it is probably working against you.

Next to each of these time killers I want you to write either something to replace it that is a more productive use of your time. It is hard to break bad habits, unless you have something to replace it that is a bigger priority.

Some of these time killers might be television, video games, social networks, e-mails, alcohol, cigarettes, or a specific person that sucks your time Once you have done that, make sure to visit The Keyword Academy to get your internet home business rolling.

Well it is time to try for another route that is worth mentioning.  I recently signed up for Twitter and Squidoo.  Both of which are social media giants.  They help to connect people and are worth spending some time on.  Here is my Twitter page and my Squidoo lens for anyone that is interested or bored.

Internet Business Opportunity Squidoo lens

Twitter Feed

I am really curious about opinions and feelings on both of these tools.  Do you have any good ways to use them that have been beneficial?  If so spill your guts below and we can follow each other, tweet, squidoo it up, or whatever floats your boat!