Workout and Grow Rich: Healthy Habits to Fuel Your Best Success - Softcover

Lieber, Perry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1630477184 ISBN 13: 9781630477189

Verlag: Morgan James Publishing, 2016

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Most of us know that we need to work out to be healthier and live longer lives, but did we know that our success at work depends on it? Elite personal trainer and workplace wellness expert Perry Lieber knows it, but he doesn’t want you to take his word for it. In Work Out and Grow Rich, interviews with his most successful clients (such as Greg Renker, founder of Guthy-Renker, and Mark Bissell, CEO of Bissell) reveal the habits that helped them become rich in every meaningful sense of the word―and how you can too.

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Elite personal trainer Perry Lieber is a proven expert in bringing wellness to the workplace and fueling peak performance at the highest level. He is the founder and president of Foundwellness: The Workplace Workout, which helps businesses create healthy work cultures, and the elite training facility The Workplace in Santa Barbara. His clients have included professional athletes such as Al Horford of the Atlanta Hawks, Kyle Singler of the Detroit Pistons, Fab Melo of the Boston Celtics, celebrities such as Glenn Frey, lead singer of the Eagles, and corporate executives such as Greg Renker (Founder, Guthy-Renker) and Mark Bissell (CEO, Bissell).

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Workout And Grow Rich

Connecting The Dots Between Health And Wealth

By Perry Lieber

Morgan James Publishing

Copyright © 2016 PERRY LIEBER
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-63047-718-9

Contents

Foreword by Andy Puzder, 
Introduction: Why Working Out May Be Your Secret to Success, 
Part One: The Seven Healthy Habits of Success, 
Chapter 1: Create a Routine, 
Chapter 2: Grow Your Career from Your Passion, 
Chapter 3: Collaborate, 
Chapter 4: Learn from Your Mistakes, 
Chapter 5: Lead from Within, 
Chapter 6: Set Meaningful Goals, 
Chapter 7: Sweat Every Day, 
Part Two: How to Make Working Out Part of Your Success Routine, 
Chapter 8: Food Is Fuel, 
Chapter 9: The Workbody Program, 
Chapter 10: Putting It All Together: Two Case Studies, 
Conclusion, 
Appendix: Bonus Resistance Training Workouts, 
Acknowledgments, 
About the Author, 
Further Resources, 

CHAPTER 1

CREATE A ROUTINE

Have you ever missed a work meeting, missed a workout, showed up late for an appointment, or stayed up until two a.m. to finish a work or school project because you ran out of time? I know I've used that excuse many times: "I just didn't have time."

The truth is, we all get stressed, tired, and behind in our schedules. The reason isn't that we don't have enough time. The reason is that we're not making time for what's really most important. If you can learn to make time on a regular basis, you will become more successful, have more discretionary time, and simply be a happier person. The secret to having enough time is creating a routine. I know, it sounds too simple — like the way life was back in grade school. Remember grade school? Wake up, eat breakfast, go to school, play at recess, go back to class, eat lunch, return to class until school ends, go to some afterschool activity (music, sports, daycare, etc.), go home, do your homework, eat dinner, play, go to bed, repeat. Those were the good old days, when things were simple and easy.

As adults, we forget how powerful the simplicity of routine can be. There's no longer one schedule that fits all: Some people work nights, others work multiple jobs, and some people have families while others do not. So how do you create the right routine for you?

Based on what I've learned from my clients who are rich in every positive sense of the word — in health, wealth, happiness, and purpose — a successful routine includes three main components:

1. Setting boundaries

2. Setting priorities

3. Getting up early

Set Priorities

Have you ever felt overscheduled and overcommitted? We all have; it is a major cause of stress. If you often find yourself in this situation, it's a good indication that you need to set your priorities, which is the first step in creating your routine.

Mark Bissell is CEO of Bissell, a family-owned business probably best known for its vacuum cleaners and floor cleaners. Like most business owners, Mark has a lot on his plate.

I have a tendency to overschedule. I mean, I love doing things. Whether it is work related, or we get invited by friends to do really fun things, or it's working out, a year or more in advance, I start slotting things in. At the time, it makes sense. And then I think of something else, and then I think of something else, and it kind of stacks up. Every now and then, I realize, Hey, I'm overcommitted. And then I start getting stressed, which manifests itself in different ways.

I just have to step back and say, "Okay, focus. What are the three things that are important?" I do not like canceling things. If I make a commitment, I am driven to do it. But sometimes, I find that I just have to cancel. So one thing I am trying to do better with is not overscheduling. Creating more time. Because things kind of fill in as the day and the week and the month progress. If you are already scheduled half a year in advance, you know there are going to be problems.

To set his priorities, Mark says to himself, "Okay, focus. What are the three things that are important?" What three priorities are most important to you? Mine include:

1. Family Time

2. Working out

3. Eating healthy

You might be surprised to see that "growing my business" or "becoming a top speaker" didn't make it to my top three. Why? I believe that the physical is the foundation of the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of life. So in order to be a better husband, business owner, friend, student, and trainer, I need to sweat first and keep moving (see chapter 7 for more about this habit).

Mark told me that one of his top priorities is his family business.

Family is important. Business is important. I've got a great company, a great legacy, and my goal is to build on that and to nurture the next generation where possible to continue to invest in the business so that it continues to do well and prosper. So I put a lot of time into that. That is one of the things that I would like to have more time for, just for the succession planning and the work that goes around that, because it is work. If you just [say], "Well, we'll see what happens," that doesn't work out well.

You have got to manage the family process actively. Fortunately, there are a lot of resources out there that can help, because there are so many family businesses now. While they might be very different in terms of industry, there is a lot that they have in common. Whether they are large or small, 80 percent of the issues are pretty much the same. ... It's important to know what these businesses look like and the typical traps they fall into. Because you've got not only the business issues, but you have the whole dynamic of family and all that that represents, so I have put some thought into that as well.

He also works hard to protect his family time at home.

A night at home doing nothing is a real luxury. I try to protect those times a little bit more than others. Otherwise, the evenings can be relatively full also.

Mark also prioritizes his workout time. Not only does he and his company sponsor and endorse a professional cycling team, he is also an avid cyclist.

Now, in biking weather, I do block a lot of time for that. There are groups that I ride with or certain events that I do. Whether it is the morning workout or an actual event, you've got to block the time, you know. It has to be as important as any other meeting. Nobody is going to give you that time if you do not take it for yourself. So I block those times and everybody knows that. They do not know the details. They just say I'm not here.

To drive this home, Mark also prioritizes working out, nutrition, and recovery to fuel his overall success as a CEO.

I probably average between six to seven hours of sleep; it is probably closer to six. I get up at six in the morning — I have a little workout routine. Nothing too much. Some stretching and Pilates-type stuff every morning. Two mornings a week I will do an hour of weight training. I have a small gym at home, which is perfect for that, and then depending on the season, my workout routine changes.

I eat a light breakfast, normally a coffee, eggs, and some grapefruit. I eat a reasonably light lunch and I usually have a pretty big dinner. I know that is not the normal program most people do, but I have always enjoyed cooking and eating good food. So for me, dinner is really important and I refuse to just have a...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Morgan James Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1630477184
• ISBN 13: 9781630477189
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172
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