The adventure of life can exhaust and excite you. As it turns out, daily physical exercise may be one of the best ways to excite and engage your body, mind, and spirit.
Research finds that adults who work out regularly are more successful than their couch-potato colleagues. The Research was conducted by Michale Goldsby – of Ball State University. It involved a study of over 300 business owners on their exercise habits, business results and life satisfaction. He found that business owners who were weight lifters or runners were significantly more satisfied with their business results and had significantly higher sales results.
A separate research study found that when you engage in aerobic exercise there is an improvement in creativity. The key is to engage in any exercise that involves a rhythmic effort – such as swimming, running or cycling. It is thought that these types of exercises quiets the conscious mind and allows you to access ideas from your subconscious.
In my life I have had an on-and-off relationship with exercise. At the start of 2025 I committed to making aerobic and weight training part of my daily life. It took 6 weeks to move me from being reluctant to actually looking forward to exercise. Interestingly, I might have stumbled onto a way to increase my motivation. In addition to exercising I also dedicated 10 to 15 minutes each morning on mindfulness exercises. Yesterday I read a study released last month that found that when adults did 10 minutes of mindfulness exercises each day they exercised for 373 minutes a week versus 297 minutes of exercise for the control group.
This research, and my personal experience, finds that the structured practice of mindfulness – non-judgmentally paying attention to one’s mental and physical experience, and surroundings – encourages more health-promoting behaviors and better health outcomes.
So what are you waiting for. Mindfully Engage Your Brain. Then Get Up. Get Out and Get Going with Exercise.
Cheers
Doug Hall
Founder – Eureka! Ranch
Co-Founder – Dexter Bourbon Company from the Brain Brew Distillery
Co-Founder – Eureka! Ranch Distilled Spirits Group
I’m On My Way to London & Glasgow in early June…
Here’s information on my UK speaking events:
✅ Monday 9th June (AM) in Glasgow, with National Manufacturing Institute Scotland
✅ Tuesday 10th June in London, with Space Network
✅ Friday 13th June in London, with THE CENTRE FOR TEAMS LIMITED for Teams and Institute of Physics
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