Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live.

—Jim Rohn

This chapter is concerned with your physical body, in particular with your diet and activity. We all want a healthy and attractive physique, and the desire to attain this often serves as a motivating factor behind changes in the way we eat or exercise. But the value of taking care of the body is far more than just cosmetic; appropriate movement and nutrition will improve all the other facets of life, supporting all the other tools in this book.

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Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live.

—Jim Rohn

This chapter is concerned with your physical body, in particular with your diet and activity. We all want a healthy and attractive physique, and the desire to attain this often serves as a motivating factor behind changes in the way we eat or exercise. But the value of taking care of the body is far more than just cosmetic; appropriate movement and nutrition will improve all the other facets of life, supporting all the other tools in this book.

You will find tools here to help you find the motivation to work out or assist you in choosing more interesting ways of getting the exercise you need, along with quick activities you can engage in when you don’t have a lot of time to spare. There are also tools that support you in sticking with a diet or nutrition plan and ideas about finding the right plan for you.

We all know we need to eat healthily and lose some pounds if we’re overweight, but there are endless ideas about what good nutrition looks like. Equally, we all understand that in an era when most of us sit at a desk for several hours a day, regular exercise is important. This intellectual knowledge, however, may not be enough to actually get us moving. It can be very difficult to make ourselves do the things we feel we should do, even when the reward is improved health. We may blame our busy schedules for feeling like we don’t have time for the extra shopping and cooking required to eat healthy meals or for working out at the gym. If this describes your situation, take heart; many of the tools in these pages are aimed at helping you fit exercise and good nutrition into the most packed schedule. They open with HIIT—a brief, high-intensity workout routine and the first tool in the Body chapter.