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Success without fitness is a possibility, but it will be limited. It’s true that you can ignore either your physical or mental fitness and yet find success, however, you need a sound mind and a healthy body if you desire truly great results in all areas of your life.

You will find that people who reach goals with regular success are mostly mentally and physically fit. They're always at least one or the other, usually both. They know the real advantages that fitness produces.

If you want to stay upright, good health is the bare minimum. Maintaining your status quo isn’t the only thing fitness makes you do; it also gives you a head start.

The more you feel like taking on the world, the more fit you are. Fitness makes living with more zing and power a possibility as it builds energy. Going after your passions and goals is easy with this.

You’re not going to get much done if you’re constantly dragging and yawning. You will never be successful if you do that.

Good fitness isn’t where sustained action sucks the energy out of you till there’s nothing left, rather it is a self-replenishing energy source which avoids it from happening. Action is what you require to fulfill your mission and achieve your goal.

You may not be a lazy person if you believe in procrastination. It’s the right energy at the right time to take that action that you lack. Imagine living with more energy all the time instead of waiting for it to happen. If you let yourself live with more energy, here are some things you’ll have:

•A jump in your step,

•Eagerness to get started,

•Preference for action,

•Ability to get up in the morning, and

•Power to keep going after a hard day's work.

The annual list of movers and shakers is usually one that fuzzy-brained people don’t make. Ongoing mental performance and concentration are required for most goals. A sluggish thinking is what holds you back.

On the flip side of things, you learn faster and create new ideas for future plans with improved mental skills.

A strong mind sees connections you didn't know were there before, remembers mistakes, and has clearer insights into your life, your strengths, and your priorities. Also, the ability to create and sustain goal-related visions (a skill held by most successful people) is what it helps you to form.

Just as you do in the case of your body, you need to feed your brain and exercise it if you want it to perform well. Provided you have the right amount of oxygen supplied through physical fitness, complemented by mental workouts, you can dramatically increase your brainpower in the following ways:

•Thinking with more vision,

•Increased attention and concentration,

•More mental clarity and quicker thinking,

•Improved memory, and

•Boosted creativity.

Fitness helps determine your attitude which is another vital role it plays. Success or failure is what your attitude spells.

Henry Ford once said, “If you think you can do or can't do something, you're right.” Optimists achieve goals faster than pessimists.

Great candidates for your support team are positive people who you can attract with positive thinking. Basically, your attitude is what really matters.

You may be wondering what attitude has to do with fitness. Well, studies show that unlike pessimists, optimists have greater mental and physical fitness.

An extreme example of this would be that the death rate of nursing home patients increases by over 50% with major depression. Attitude and health feed off each other. By reducing worry, you can live longer.

In the same way, by reacting well to stress, getting better sleep, and being more creative, you can stay positive. Stretching the mind can turn a broken-down wet blanket into a vibrant dreamer and achiever.

YOU decide which approach is better. If you want to see the full potential of your goal achievement journey, keep in mind that fit and positive people:

•Are less irritable,

•Have an increased ability to interact with others,

•See opportunities rather than problems, and

•See roadblocks as challenges, not a reason to give up.

You need not build your own obstacles. Handicapping yourself by ignoring fitness is not something you’d want as you already have enough challenges to meet.

Poor fitness keeps you from reaching your potential which is an added con to the obvious health risks and damage to your life expectancy. Your performance will suffer in a big way even if you feel a little off-kilter.

Achieving goals becomes so much easy if you are mentally and physically fit. With a clear mind that can function quickly, and a healthy body that can push through down times, remaining focused and strong becomes easy.

You can exercise your mind and body in many different ways. It could be physical or spiritual exercises, meditation, yoga, voice practice and so on but all these exercises would be useless if you don’t practice positive thinking.

A law on positive thinking, known as ‘law of attraction’ – explained later – perfectly illustrates the power of positive thinking.

In this chapter you’ll learn the law of attraction and its effects on your life. You’ll also learn how meditation can help bring calmness into your life and how yoga makes you physically as well as mentally fit. Also, in this chapter I’ll discuss the importance of practicing your voice and how you can do it best.