| Treating your body well will yield you an excellent | | | | really in a tight spot. It's the same with you. You must |
| return for your work. However, treating it like garbage, | | | | maintain your health or you'll breakdown. |
| as if it were disposable, will serve you exactly the way | | | | Many people drive cars. Our society relies upon them. |
| you'd expect---poorly. Achieving significant goals like | | | | However, many of us tend to treat our cars a whole |
| starting a business, raising children, finishing a degree, | | | | lot better than the way we treat ourselves. We make |
| switching careers or expanding your business, all | | | | certain the we take it to the detail shop for one of |
| require for you to be in the best possible physical | | | | those "Supreme Super Wash" services. Some of us |
| condition. | | | | spend hours on a Saturday morning buffing and |
| How you handle necessary, everyday stress is one | | | | waxing our cars to a spit shine. Many spend not only |
| good indicator of your physical health status. Examples | | | | time, but also money, buying those sophisticated, |
| of necessary stressors are: moving, working, paying | | | | high-priced tire rims, for example. But then, we neglect |
| bills, traffic, family illness and death. These are things | | | | our own health and well-being. |
| which you must deal with simply because you really | | | | Does this sound like you? |
| have no other choice. They are just a part of life. If | | | | Being in the best possible physical condition is |
| you find you are often becoming unglued and anxious | | | | practically the cornerstone of success. It takes energy |
| behind the wheel, experiencing road-rage or losing it | | | | to reach goals and change the behaviors which limit us. |
| with your friends, co-workers, children and other family | | | | Providing the framework for handling stress |
| members, chances are great that you are not taking | | | | effectively, a sharp and focused mind is an absolute |
| very good care of yourself. | | | | requirement. Exercising and eating nutritiously is only |
| You put gas in your car, don't you? How about oil and | | | | the beginning of realizing goal accomplishment, but it is |
| water? Maybe you'll just keep reusing the same oil for | | | | absolutely necessary. |
| 10 more years. For your car to run properly, you must | | | | Call-To-Action: Become more consciously aware of |
| take care of it. You'll want to avoid sudden car | | | | what you consume. Cut down on the junk food and |
| maintenance problems because it will slow you down. | | | | replace it with something nutritious instead. Start getting |
| You'll have to find other ways of getting to work, | | | | some kind of movement in at least three times weekly, |
| school and the grocery store. The kids will have to | | | | even if it's just for 15 minutes or so. You can gradually |
| take a carpool to school, and other after-school | | | | increase duration and intensity a few minutes at a time. |
| activities. If you use your car for business, then you're | | | | Remember it's about consistency, not quantity. |