My CEO Life » Health & Wellbeing http://myceolife.com Just another Classified Adventures Pty Ltd Sites site Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:09:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 The Importance of Exercise and Diet http://myceolife.com/2008/09/02/the-importance-of-exercise/ http://myceolife.com/2008/09/02/the-importance-of-exercise/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:10:28 +0000 Endonegof http://myceolife.com/?p=244

The easiest thing in the world to do is to become totally engulfed in your work.  When this happens, what usually gets left behind is the family, friends or even your own health.  Now for years i was hopeless at …

]]> The easiest thing in the world to do is to become totally engulfed in your work.  When this happens, what usually gets left behind is the family, friends or even your own health.  Now for years i was hopeless at looking after all three of these and it has taken me a while to realise this.  I’ll chat in a later post about how i have struggled to manage the work – life balance.  In this post i will chat about exercise.

Now i am sure that many of you out there are exercise nuts or even just naturally healthy however i am not – well i was not – until about a year ago.  For a long time i would go for the occasional jog and convince myself that i was exercising however the reality was that i was doing nothing about my health.  The way this manifested itself was that i used to catch a lot of colds, cough way too much and people would comment that i was always sick.  This exacerbates itself when you are operating under stress, lack of sleep, and with hectic travel schedules, jet lag.

I therefore decided to do something about it.  The first thing i did was take up running again.  I have set myself the goal of 1,000 km this calendar year and i make sure that i get out and run 5 days a week.  I love the fact that i can go for a run around a new city and see the sites.  The best run i ever did was around Manhattan – it ended up being around 16 km but i got to see all the sites.  I love to run at 6 am in the morning when you can see a city wake up.  That is when things are at their prettiest.  I also take my ipod and listen to various pod casts from around the world – therefore keeping up to date with what is happening.

The second thing i did was to change my diet.  Now this is the hardest thing to do when you travel a lot and takes discipline.  I have dropped all soft drinks and caffeine based drinks from my diet as well as increased my intake of salads and fish.  Now i still have the occasional beer but water and tea are now my preferred drinks.

The result of all of this is that i am healthier, i dont get sickas much during the year and i have lost weight – 8kg!  The other benefit is that i tend to sleep a little better and my thinking has become clearer. 

Now i think that if you want to become a truly effective leader you need to watch your diet closely and work out when you take some time off for yourself so that you can exercise.   Doing this will make you far better at your job.  Remember work will come and go but you are stuck with your body for life!

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