Challenge #14: From Exercise Movements to Eureka Moments

This is how you work out an answer.

Exercise empowers your mind to return to itself.

I could say it’s “best,” but what’s most important, most meaningful, is that you approach life as yourself. Fully.

I think that’s vastly more achievable than some vague notion of best. And it’ll lead to wildly better decision-making and problem-solving because what you say, choose, and do will align with who you are — so you’re outside world will finally reflect your inside world…and what you truly want.

When you choose yourself, you never lose.

Let’s take a look at this week’s challenge.

What are you facing in your life right now? Is there a decision or problem that has you stuck? Is there a knot you can’t quite untie?

Good, let’s start there.

If you don’t have one, use the positive spin of this: a goal you want to chase, or even the process of identifying what the goal should be.

1. Right before a workout (like literally while you’re in the car in the parking lot or right before you leave), grab a notebook, turn to a blank page, and at the top, write down where you’re stuck. One to two sentences will do just fine. It helps to word it as a question.

2. Go work out, hard. I mean really leave it all on the floor. There should be at least a mild level of concern for your well-being from onlookers.

3. When you’re done and back in the car, or back home, immediately turn to your problem page and start brainstorming. Just dump everything that’s coming to mind. Let it all fall out of you.

4. Go wash up, eat, and revisit the page in a few hours. Your brain was in a completely different state then than it is now, so chances are you’ll see things you didn’t even realize were there.

The goal of this exercise is to help you trust your brain more deeply.

Not because it will always have the perfect solution. But because it will always have the right next step for you.