The Single Best Habit You Could Develop Today To Become Successful Long Term

Want to know the single best habit you could develop today to become successful in the long run? If you are dead serious about becoming successful over the course of the rest of your life then develop the habit of a daily physical exercise routine. Now you are thinking “Oh crap”. You’re sick of hearing that, aren’t you? You haven’t been able to get yourself to stick with an exercise routine since you were a teenager. At least back then you had gym class. Exercise is probably not what you wanted to hear. Nonetheless, it is a fundamental habit and I’m going to tell you why.

For starters, exercise does way more for you than just keep you younger and healthier. It takes discipline to get your ass out of bed every morning and do something that you just don’t feel like doing most days. See, discipline is a fundamental building block of success. If you can’t get yourself to stick to a regular fitness routine, then you have not yet developed the ability to motivate yourself to take action. You aren’t disciplined.

If you aren’t disciplined in this area of your life then chances are that you lack discipline in most other areas in life. This is part of the reason why the military makes recruits get up so early and do PT. It is more than getting them in shape physically. It is also about disciplining them.

But do Donald Trump and Warren Buffet exercise every morning when they get up? I have no idea nor do I care. These guys are highly disciplined in certain areas that you and I are not. Donald Trump sticks to a rigorous schedule of minute by minute meetings throughout the day. He is extremely disciplined in business life which has allowed him to create massive wealth. Warren Buffet is one of the most disciplined investors ever. He buys companies that nobody else wants at the time he buys them. He buys companies whose stocks might be making 52 week lows. He is a value shopper. That takes supreme discipline. He knows his philosophy works and he sticks to it religiously.

So maybe you don’t have a goal of becoming the most physically fit person in your circle of friends. Maybe you don’t want to be any more physically fit than Warren Buffet or Donald Trump. That is your choice. But, people who think that way will come up with any excuse not to exercise on a daily basis. They will make an excuse for not doing it just like they will make an excuse for not saving enough for retirement. They will make an excuse for not starting their own part time business on the side. They make an excuse for not having a girlfriend. They will make excuses for every area in their life that they are unsatisfied with.

Habits build discipline and reward you in other ways

If you can force yourself to set aside a block of time every single day, whether it is five minutes or two hours, in order to improve your level of fitness, then it proves you can discipline yourself. If you apply this discipline over a significant period of time, say 90 days, it will start to become a permanent habit.

After sticking to this routine for about a month straight with no slip ups, you will begin to feel a building sense of great personal achievement. That sense of achievement and personal satisfaction will continue to build and gather steam over time. You will gain higher self esteem, higher self respect, higher self worth and a much higher level of confidence in yourself. You will look in the mirror and see a healthier happier person looking back at you. You will see and feel the fruits of your labor.

Once you start to experience this kind of success in your life it will become contagious. Success breeds success. You will find yourself looking to improve other areas of your life including both your social life as well as your professional life. People will begin looking at you differently. They will begin to see that you are a person who is in control. Yes it really does work. Yes they really will look at you with a new slightly enhanced perspective.

Look at people who have already built these habits into their lives

If you read the stories of people who have finally motivated themselves enough to adopt a regular fitness routine, they always tell you how much their lives have improved in other areas as a direct result of their new body. They will say it is because of their new body, but really it is because of the attitude that they cultivated within themselves as they built that new body. The body didn’t help them do better at their jobs. It helped them improve their outlook and their attitude about themselves which helped them do better at their jobs.

The benefits of getting fit go way beyond the physical ones. Can’t you see that? Those reasons should be the reasons you decide to start getting enough exercise. Obviously the health reasons alone aren’t enough to motivate you to do it. Nobody ever regrets getting into good physical shape. It can only improve your life. It can only make you sexier. It can only make you healthier. It can only make you feel more self worth. It can only make you want to pursue success in other areas of your life even more than you do right now.