EXERCISE YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS

Our world today seems to be too busy for our own good. Day afternday is a balancing act with tons of demands on your time such asnworking, personal relationships and maintaining your health just tonname a few. With all these priorities, a very important area of lifengets put on the back burner. That is exercise.

Unfortunately, for a lot of busy people, exercise is viewed as annimpractical burden that complicates rather than complements a nbusy life. More than 60 percent of adults do not achieve the nrecommended amount of regular physical activity (30 minutes, nfive times a week).

In fact, 25 percent are not active at all, according to the Centers nfor Disease Control and Prevention. Although people know theynshould exercise, many don*t recognize the benefits. Exercise notnonly improves your health, but it can improve your career as well.

A survey by *American Demographics* magazine showed thatnworkers who did some form of exercise missed 40 percent fewernworkdays than those who did not exercise.

When you exercise, you generally live a healthier life and feel better,nthus increasing your productivity at work. You notice better sleep npatterns and you are able to cope more effectively with stress whilenmaintaining higher levels of stamina and energy. Exercise combatsnfatigue by increasing cardiovascular and muscular strength and nendurance. Therefore, your body becomes stronger and able to nhandle activities of daily life.

The trick is to use whatever time you do have to your best advantage.
This means doing the things you already know to do: walking morenoften, taking the stairs and standing up every now and then to movenaround. You can also break up workouts into shorter segments nthroughout the day. Five minutes here, 10 minutes there, it all addsnup.

According to Dr. Gavriel Salvendy, a researcher for Purdue
University, exercise can also improve a person*s ability to make ndecisions. Salvendy tested decision making capabilities of 80 npeople over a nine month period. At the end of the test period thenfitness level of the exercisers had risen 22 percent, and the abilitynto make complex decisions had increased 70 percent over thennon-exercises.

When you choose a life with exercise, you choose a life of advantage.
You have advantage of a healthier body, a healthier mind and, a healthie
and more productive career. And with the odds of 60 percent not takingnpart in this area of life, you are already ahead of most of your coworkers.

So start exercising and start gaining ground in all areas of your lifenespecially your career.

Until next time keep looking and living forward.

Mark Thompsonn- *America^s Most Insightful Guiden for Success and Inner Strength*