How Fitness Helps Me Achieve My Goals
It is not a hidden fact that fitness plays a major role in one’s overall health and appearance. But to me, fitness means more than that!
Just like many others, I have also seen my own share of days where fitness was a major obstacle in my life. While it is true that your fitness doesn’t have much to do with how well you do your job, my fitness journey has taught me that it can influence other factors that can ultimately help you perform much better. Getting myself back in shape has indirectly had a major positive impact and influence on my professional life, as I felt much sharper, physically and mentally,
Being an entrepreneur and business advisor to successful companies and startups brings several complex challenges in your life on a daily basis that can only be tackled if you inculcate certain practices and follow them without fail. Fitness has helped me develop and maintain these practices, which have now become an important part of my daily life. Here are a few observations that I have made about the different ways in which becoming and staying fit helps you achieve your goals at work and in your personal life.
Improves your focus
Nothing sharpens your focus like fitness, as you become mentally sound and much more aware of your surroundings. When I was out of shape, I didn’t realise just how much a lack of fitness affects your mental awareness; but I have become much more alert about myself and everything that happens around me. There is a scientific explanation for this phenomenon as well because exercising daily shoots up blood circulation throughout your body, including your brain. That obviously polishes your focus, which automatically elevates your work performance.
Builds discipline
Most people underestimate just how important discipline is for all of us. Momentary motivation can only get you so far, but building consistency helps you reach long-term goals that cannot be easily achieved. But if you actively pursue fitness, you will manage to develop discipline in your lifestyle one way or the other. Whether it is keeping strict to your diet or hitting the gym every single day, you will learn how to be disciplined once you start working on your fitness. This very discipline will help you reach the career goals that you aim for, no matter how challenging they may seem.
Mentally toughens you up
Everyone’s professional life is filled with difficulties that can seem impossible to overcome. No matter how skilled you are and hard you work, there will be times where you just won’t get any results and get in a slump. Working on our fitness always gives us a similar experience. There will be phases where you just won’t lose weight or gain muscle, which can be extremely frustrating. But persisting through this slump is what makes you mentally strong, and nothing is impossible if you have a strong psyche. Fitness will toughen up your mind and train it to get through even the toughest days at work.
Here are some basic but important ways that fitness has helped me chase and achieve my goals!
