Exercise for the joy of feeling good and getting better. Eat right with the intention of fueling your body with the things it needs to perform.
Interpretation
Engage in exercise and healthy eating for both enjoyment and improvement in well-being.
This quote emphasizes the importance of exercising not just for aesthetic goals, but for the joy and health benefits it brings. Eating well should also be viewed as a means to nourish the body, enhancing its performance and overall quality of life.
In practice
During a fitness workshop, I shared this quote to inspire attendees to view exercise as a joyful activity rather than a chore.
Bad habits are easy and discipline is hard-and βeasyβ is where people gravitate. A good work ethic requires a painstaking daily effort. Easy typically leads to a life long list of problems but the discipline of having a plan leads to an extraordinary rewarding life. In the long run, the easy way makes life harder and the harder way makes life easier.
Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.
Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
Your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code.
Since long workdays lead to more errors, shorter workdays could reduce accidents. Overtime is deadly. Tired surgeons have been found to be more prone to slip'ups, and soldiers who get too little shuteye are more prone to miss targets.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
One of my rules is pay more, eat less. You do get what you pay for, and if you're willing to pay more for pastured eggs or grass-fed beef, you're getting something that's more delicious, and you'll feel better about eating it.
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