Those who don’t make time for exercise must eventually make time for illness. Exercise really is a game-changer. I mean, when you get up at five o’clock in the morning and you spend those first 20 minutes in intense exercise, you sweat, you release BDNF, which is Miracle-Gro for your brain. Your brain just lights up. You release dopamine, so you start feeling inspired. You increase your metabolic rate. You start to feel absolutely phenomenal.
So there’s one tradition that once said, “When we are young, we would sacrifice all of our health for wealth. And when we get old, we would sacrifice all of our wealth for one day of good health.” And health really is the crown on the well person’s head that only the ill person can see. And my invitation to you, and it’s a lesson that I’ve learned from life, is few things are as valuable as getting into the finest fitness of your life. That is a decision that changes every other element of your life.
You want to be fit like a pro athlete. You want to wake up in the morning, you want to do the run, do the yoga, do the swim, do the burpees, do the jumping jacks, do the skipping, and it will change every other dimension of your life.
