Personal Training Journal Entry #1
Jay, a long term member of my gym, runs a financially successful business. He told me he leaves his house at 6:00 AM every morning, gets to work at 6:30, and stays till 8:00 at night. He does this 6 days a week. The business makes him a great deal of money and he appears to have everything a person could possibly want. He has beautiful house in Santa Monica. He wears nice clothes and drives a Mercedes. He has a beautiful wife and three amazing children whom he loves morethan anything.
Years ago, I recall him saying, “This is how you should run your business, Sean. If you want to be successful, you need to be there all the time.”
Disagreeing, I smiled. “That depends on how you define success.” Convinced that I didn’t know what I was talking about, he shook his head and the two of us had a good laugh. The funny thing is that Jay and I actually have a lot in common. We both own our own businesses. We are both married and in love with our wives. We both love making money so that we can enjoy our cars, clothes, and other “toys.” But Jay is viewed by many to be far more successful than me, putting in more hours for more dollars. I view things a bit differently.
Think about this:
There are 24 hours in a day.
Most people sleep between 6 and 8 hours a night.
That leaves us with somewhere between 18 and 15 hours left in our day.
During this time, we should be – yes, working – but also playing, moving, laughing, and spending it with our favorite people or even by ourselves, taking the time to be comfortable in our own skin. We should be exercising our bodies as well as our minds; doing things today that make us stronger and healthier than yesterday. Of course, we need to work to pay bills and support ourselves as well as our loved ones. The goal, however, should be to make enough money to support our lifestyle, but in a way that allows us to still enjoy our LIFE. Society today is ridden with chronic disease. Diabetes, heart disease, cancer, high cholesterol, and one that is not a disease but extremely detrimental to our health – long-term stress – can all be controlled with lifestyle decisions.
I want us to build healthier and happier lives. This blog is designed to give some helpful suggestions to bring some balance to our frenzied daily grind. To that end, at the end of every blog, I will leave an easy tip to help improve your health, your balance.
Life in Balance,
Sean M. Smith
Personal Fitness Trainer
16632 1/2 Marquez Ave.
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
www.seansmithfitness.com
The Daily Balance:
When was the last time you hugged someone?
“Research shows that hugging can lower high blood pressure.”