After a self-indulgent Christmas of putting on weight and growing another belly, I decided that I needed to motivate my rotund body into doing a few exercises so to improve my overall fitness, mood and general well-being.
I am now 4 weeks into my exercise regime, and have to say that I’m already seeing and feeling the results of my labours.
As for you guys out there, you can use the following exercises as an example, or inspiration, for you to create your own personal regime to adapt to your daily life.
“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
Exercise both Mind and Body to Achieve Total Self-Improvement
There are two levels of self-improvement one can pursue in life, these are:
improvement of mind
improvement of body
Some would say that the improvement of mind is the more important area to concentrate on, but I feel the body is also an important vehicle to keep as healthy as possible so that one can instigate, with ease, the promptings of the mind toward physical activity.
So there is no reason not to exercise both parts to achieve a more total improvement in your life, hence the following eloquent quote,
“The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.”
It’s easy being pessimistic when you are a grumpy old man like me, with nothing but endless conflict, the continuing economic crisis, and Mayan predictions of something terrible to come.
So all I can see in front of me is the impending march of doom. For every minute the clock passes, brings me ever more closer to extinction.
This awareness of my own mortality brings with it cynicism, as I cast envious eyes over the world that I will soon no doubt leave. For vengeance I wish nothing but misery for the rest of you poor souls who will remain in this apparent existence of suffering.
But then again, why would I want to spend anymore time here being tortured by this miserable and superficial planet anyway, with its competitively violent human beings and their ignorant ways – maybe I am the fortunate one. Read more…
The following excerpt is from an interesting article by Donald B Ardell, who feels that we can all learn to develop our minds and achieve general well-being if we applied practical philosophy at the workplace and to our everyday lives.
Ardell calls upon none other than the iconoclastic philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to demonstrate a key concept in his own philosophy on overcoming difficulties toward finding total fulfillment in life: Read more…
This humble blog will hope to provide you with philosophical advice for you to change your life for the better. Through the guidance of inspirational words of wisdom, self-improvement and self-help I will try to encourage you to embrace wisdom within your mind and spirit towards personal growth, motivation and self-empowerment.
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