Entrepreneurial Intuition

Entrepreneurial Intuition

**This article originally appeared on www.womenentrepreneur.com in 2010

Richard Branson swears by it. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates both confess to depending on it. Oprah Winfrey credits the majority of her success to it. Countless other gifted, successful, leaders in entertainment, finance, medicine and enterprise have used this enigmatic, largely misunderstood and often ridiculed tool. This tool possesses the ability to change the world of business and improve a persons’ health. It aids in reducing stress and increasing creativity, efficiency and profitability and is finally ‘coming out of the closet’ to be validated by science AND commerce to be a tangible, practical and applicable skill that everyone can use.

What is it this magical tool and where can you get it

The tool is INTUITION… and you’ve already got it, you just haven’t been taught how to use it properly.

BEYOND ‘THE GUT’

We have all heard about ‘gut instinct’ and as Entrepreneurs we have made decisions based on just having a ‘knowing or feeling’ about something that others didn’t get or have. Sometimes those gut impulses have worked in our favor and sometimes they haven’t, but we all recall moments in our lives when ‘we just got a feeling’ about something and we made a decision based on that impression.

But gut instinct isn’t the same as Intuition… gut instinct is a survival skill. It is a remnant of our days as cavemen whose only concerns were finding a mate, putting another meal on the table and avoiding the Saber-toothed tiger at the door.

While sometimes life in the Entrepreneurial trenches may still feel that way and often times our gut is a good indicator of what we should or shouldn’t do in a particular moment, it is not nearly sophisticated enough to guide us through the new and rapidly changing environment that is Entrepreneurship.

Intuition is the more evolved, refined and sophisticated cousin of gut instinct. Intuition is Champagne to gut instinct’s Malt Liquor‘, it is Mozart to ‘Mary had Little Lamb’. It goes far beyond the temperamental ideas of ‘Feminine Intuition’ or the supernatural ideas of a ‘sixth sense’ and can be fine tuned to operate specifically and at will as a beneficial tool of the mind and partner on the road to success.

YOUR PERSONAL GPS FOR SUCCESS

Imagine that your Intuition operates like a personal GPS system; if you know how to use it properly you can count on it to get you from point A to point B with relative ease and peace of mind. You can expect that it will steer you clear of road blocks, keep you free from traffic jams and direct you to the quickest and most direct route to your desired destination. All the while helping you maintain good fuel efficiency and giving you a pleasant view along the way.

These are the Six Steps to activating your Intuition.

Step #1 – Clearing the ‘Stress Static’

The number ONE obstacle to being able to unleash the power of your Intuition is Stress! Stress is like static on a phone line, when you are worried about a deadline, concerned about finances or overwhelmed by too much to do, you cannot access the parts of your mind that are integral to creative problem solving or higher intelligence.

Working harder is NOT working smarter. Stress makes you LESS efficient, less effective and in the long run costs you a lot more than time and money. Getting stuck in your head and analyzing, asking others for advice or thinking, pondering or processing things will never bring up creative or innovative ideas or solutions.

Take a tip from Albert Einstein who claimed all of his groundbreaking solutions came to him while he was out walking in nature or outside of the laboratory and who said “You cannot solve a problem on the same level of thinking that created it.” You have to go out of your mind; that is break the patterns of stressful thought that have been the source of the problem in the first place, relax the mind, clear the static and allow Intuition to speak instead.

Action Step: Take a break, get outdoors and breathe.

 

Step #2 – The Power of the ‘Ask’

The power of a properly worded question is crucial when accessing your Intuition and just like the GPS in your car, in order to get where you want to go, you need to know precisely where you are starting. In simple language you need to know what questions to ask your Intuition in order for it to respond in a beneficial manner. Where most people trip up, especially in the beginning, is by looking for solutions or answers by using ineffective questions.

Giving your Intuition a strong starting point depends on a strong ‘direction request.’ Questions should be worded ‘in the present moment’, be positively oriented and results based. For example – ‘How can I most effectively improve cash flow?” is a far more empowered question than, “How am I going to make payroll?”  “Is this new partnership beneficial to my business mission?” will give you a far more Intuitively potent result than, “Is this guy going to screw me over?”

Action Step: Get clear about what you DO want and the ultimate goal, NOT what you are afraid of or are trying to avoid.

 

Step #3 – Forget what you ‘Know’

People who think they ‘know everything there is to know’ about their field of expertise, have a very difficult time accessing their Intuition. Intuition is housed in the non-linear and non-rational, right side of the brain and finds solutions that do not follow ‘traditional or schooled avenues’ of thinking. If you are convinced that there is only one way to solve your problem or create a certain outcome, then you limit the pathways through which your Intuition can communicate with you.

This is why ‘Beginners Luck’ is such a potent phenomenon, because those who know little or nothing about a situation are not limited by what they DO know, so their minds are open and accessible to any and all possibilities that may present themselves. Give yourself permission to forget everything you have ever been taught, or what you THINK you might know and be willing to be surprised by what information comes your way.

Action Step: Adopt a bit of Humility

 

Step #4 – Go to your Heart

Science has recently discovered that there is a level of intelligence carried in the heart that out powers the brain by 10 to 1. The heart being the first organ in the body to develop has more lines of information going from the heart TO the brain, than the other way around. This is why when we are stressed and our heart is racing due to fear, anxiety or any of the countless other pressures that being an Entrepreneur can present, access to problem solving Intuition is impossible, because our brain literally SHUTS DOWN.

Intuition thrives on the level of mind that I call ‘Integrated Intelligence’, that is bringing ALL levels of intelligence together to function as a cohesive whole. Balancing the powers of the head (left brain, analytical thought and right brain, creative thought) with the intelligence of the heart brings us to the powerful middle ground of agile creativity and opens the channels of higher mind and wisdom needed to solve problems and come up with new and innovative ideas.

Action Step: Practice Gratitude

 

Step #5 – Pay Attention

Intuition doesn’t always speak the language we understand, often times it will speak to us in the language of the right brain – the language of symbols, images, art or music and it may use any or all of our five senses to guide, direct and influence us.

Once you have asked your Intuition for direction, pay attention to what begins to catch your attention throughout the course of your day, or even at night through the messages in your dreams.

You may hear a song on the radio or hear a line in a movie, or a statement from a friend that contains a tag line with the perfect solution to your problem. This is your Personal GPS in action, saying ‘Turn here’, ‘Look here’, ‘Watch this’. It’s up to you to notice it and take action.

Action Step: Become a great Observer – Watch more, speak less.

 

Step #6 – Have FUN

I believe the reason most of us became Entrepreneurs was so that we could design our own lives, so we could have a sense of creating our own destiny, so we could do some good and have some fun along the way. Sometimes though the pressures of being ‘self made’ make finding joy almost impossible.

Intuition thrives in an environment of ease, peace and grace. It speaks most clearly through a mind that is not overwhelmed or burdened with the pressure of having to get it right or needing to prove anything to anyone. Intuition gives direction through a system that is flexible, agile and open to anything. Intuition is the language spoken to athletes when they are in the zone, to musicians who are in the flow and entrepreneurs who are on the leading edge. It speaks to us through our Natural state – being Intuitive IS our Natural state.

Take a moment to rediscover the joy that being an Entrepreneur was meant to bring you, it might take you a bit of time, but if you can get back to that feeling and do your best to make it your ‘starting point’ for everything moving forward, you will find that your Intuition begins to speak as clearly and directly as any solid, tangible or real personal coach or advisor ever did. The difference here is your Intuition is concerned only about your needs, it is available whenever you need it and never charges for its services.

 

Action Step: Lighten up and remember to laugh (especially at yourself)

 

THE NEW MAP MAKERS

As many of the most successful people in history have proven, it is those who have trusted that small inner voice, to break free of the pack, and carve their own pathways that leave the greatest footprint for others to follow.

If we are going to survive and thrive in rapidly changing business climates, escalating economic shifting and rampant old world extinction, our navigation and direction tools have to evolve. It isn’t enough to count on the ‘experts’ to guide us through these changing times, because no one has been on this journey yet, the maps have not been drawn.

Maneuvering through this new economy and new global business will require each of us as individuals to chart our own course and in the process bring direction and inspiration to the whole. The old ways of doing business can’t help us do that… but our Higher Intelligence, our Inner Guidance, our Intuition can; and it does it with ease, grace and a sense of joy and purpose.

Intuition is a skill we all NATURALLY possess. Everyone can use it. It isn’t a gift given to a chosen few. When developed and used appropriately, it can guide us to improve our careers, our relationships, our health and our world. There is no greater power and it is waiting quietly beneath the surface to serve us, whenever we need it…. All we need to do is ask.

To learn more ways to develop your Entrepreneurial Intuition, please visit www.simonewrightconsulting.com

 

 

 

 

Dollars and Sense

Dollars and Sense

Tax time is here – that stressful time of year when we get to go through the last 365 days of our financial history in the hopes we might be lucky enough to see a little bit returned to us, maybe avoid having to pay anything back and prevent the disaster of all disasters … being audited. The fact that it is costing us more to take care of our daily needs and the economy is so unstable, cranks the stress up even more in regards to our money.

So here is the truth about STRESS and MONEY.

It is a physiological and biological fact that STRESS makes us STUPID. Stressing about money … makes us REALLY Stupid.

The pressure we feel in regards to our finances actually does things to our Intelligence system that causes us to make unwise, impractical or just plain dumb decisions when it comes to our cash. In a continuously circulating system that gains momentum as it feeds on itself … our money worries put us in a position of creating more money worries, which causes more stress, which causes more ineffective financial focus, which causes us to make bad choices, which causes more money worries. You get the picture.

The human brain over tens of thousands of years, has developed specific areas to process language, store memory, practice empathy, create works of art and a myriad of other intricate skills that make us human. But there is no area in the brain that has developed to handle the ‘concept/idea or practice of money’ – there is no ‘occipital cash lobe’ that gives us the ability to be brilliant with our ‘quan’.

Money is a relatively new human invention – dating back to about 9000 BC when the first bartering practices were recorded, and has gradually, over time, morphed into the paper (and now digital exchange) that we all know and fear so well. But the greater meaning of money for virtually every one on the planet – is that it has become a system, a means, a symbol of SURVIVAL . In our modern society, if you don’t have money … you don’t survive. And that can be stressful, especially as you watch the balance in your bank account begin to dwindle.

Now of course, most of us are very, very far from the threat of not being able to survive. (I am not speaking of those who face destitute poverty in our society – Yes, I know those poor souls are out there) But for the MAJORITY of us, because money has become so ingrained as a SURVIVAL tool – the fear of not having enough of it or losing the bit that we have – activates our ancient primal instincts … and those instincts are NOT money wise.

When a system (human or otherwise) is in SURVIVAL mode (stressed out/under threat/at risk of losing something important) – the parts of the brain that are involved in higher, more evolved and intelligent thought processing … actually shut down! The areas of your Intelligence system that can guide you to efficient, effective or wise money choices are turned off, so the body can take care of the survival issues it believes are crucially pending.

When you are worried about keeping your job, or how you will pay your bills, or whether the stock market is going to plunge, or whether the stack of chips you just placed on ‘RED’ is going to pay off … or when you are being pressured to make a decision about an investment, or told there is a threat of missing out on an opportunity (which is how the stock market, real estate and car sales ALL operate), your body switches into a form of ‘Survival Mode’. While you are in this agitated state – it is impossible to be financially intelligent.

The reason the #1 cause of Divorce is ‘Money Worries’ is because when people are stressed about money (or worried about ANYTHING for that matter) the ability to effectively think, communicate, empathize or consider another living being are completely obliterated. When any system is in survival mode – it truly becomes a battle for survival of the fittest … and it is impossible to develop, nurture or sustain a relationship of any kind in that circumstance.

Here are some simple and practical ways we can activate our Intelligence system to be ‘Money Wise’:

#1 – NEVER MAKE A FINANCIAL DECISION WITH A DEADLINE. The pressure of ‘missing out on something’ activates the adrenaline in your body and shuts down the mental skills required to make a wise decision. If someone pressures you to make a financial commitment because ‘time is running out’ … let them know you need some space and politely excuse yourself to a place where you can take a deep breath, relax and get centered before taking action. Scarcity and time constraints are the big guns used by high pressure salesmen, auctioneers and the stock market … and we all know how we feel about them. There will always be another opportunity to spend wisely.

You can use this knowledge to benefit YOUR bottom line and SAVE money if you know that the seller needs to meet a deadline. (Like at the end of the month at car dealers or a must sell situation in real estate.) Because the sellers Intelligence system will be under stress and YOURS is balanced, you will have the upper hand and should be able to negotiate a better price for yourself.

#2 – NEVER SHOP (for anything) WHEN YOU ARE HUNGRY. We have all had those days when we have gone into the grocery store when our stomachs were empty and ended up coming home with 5 bags of groceries with barely an ounce of nutritional value in any of them. When our bodies are depleted nutritionally, either because we haven’t eaten for several hours, or we have been eating a lot of empty calories – our body goes into a mild state of ‘starvation mode’, this triggers ‘survival’ chemistry to become active in our system. And as we have learned; if a body/brain/intelligence system is in Survival mode – higher intelligence and rational cognitive function does not work.

If you are going to make an important purchase, be sure you have provided your body with some good, healthy nutrition before you agree to the sale. (This may also be why people who broker big deals that are meant to be win/win will do it together over a meal.)

#3 – LEARN TO MANAGE YOUR STRESS. Making any sort of financial decision whether it is buying a home or a new pair of shoes can be risky business if you are doing it while in an incoherent or aggravated state of emotion. ‘Retail Therapy’ is a common term when someone goes shopping to feel good, numb their pain or distract their attention; depression, anger, loneliness, insecurity or grief are all great triggers for spending. Scientists have discovered that the very same parts of the brain that are activated by sex, drugs and addiction are the parts stimulated when we spend money. The brain cannot tell the difference between the former and the latter … it is all just chemical stimulation to our nervous system and it doesn’t matter how we get ‘the fix’ … we just know we feel good while we are doing it.

Developing a regular routine of relaxation or meditation will help alleviate all of the stressors that are presented to you throughout the day. When you are able to manage the thoughts, emotions and perceptions that cause your body to react stressfully and as a result can manage the chemicals that activate Intelligence, then your ability to navigate through any situation, financial or otherwise will be greatly enhanced. Take a walk in nature, go for a swim, take a moment to look at some beautiful artwork … all of these practices will regulate your nervous system and your ‘Wealth Wisdom’ will be activated.

#4 – DO YOUR HOMEWORK – Going into any situation, financial or otherwise, where you feel you are outwitted, or someone is smarter than you, has more information or knows some ‘secret’ that you do not – activates the stress hormones that keep us from being MONEY WISE. Why? Because our ancient animal brains perceive this ‘better person’ as a threat. The survival instinct is to associate with the smartest, strongest, most potent animal in the herd, and when we feel weaker, or dumber, or less informed … our bodies automatically go into fight or flight.

If you are making a big purchase, buying a home, investing in the stock market, buying a car … DO YOUR HOMEWORK. The Internet puts loads of detailed and objective information at your fingertips and there is no excuse for not gaining as much information as you can prior to sitting down to negotiate a deal or spending a single penny. The self esteem that comes from being informed levels the playing field and once again balances the stress chemicals that would normally leave you feeling like you have been ‘taken to the cleaners’. Knowledge is indeed financial power.

Our ability to be MONEY WISE does not come from having a huge team of financial analysts or planners telling us what to do, nor does it come from being born to privilege. (One look at Wall Street and the Banking system will clarify that) Financial Wisdom comes from learning how to access and balance our emotional intelligence and activating our higher cognitive function so we can make decisions that extend our wealth, benefit our families and improve our lifestyles over the long run and for the long term.

If you want to know how to manage your Money … you need to know how to manage your mind first.

Integrated Intelligence and my upcoming program The New Mind of Money will help you do that. To be informed as to when The New Mind of Money Program will be launched – please sign up for our Newsletter.

Beyond Limits

Beyond Limits

In the new movie “Limitless”, a somewhat talented yet lazy writer Eddie Mora played by (Bradley Cooper) discovers  a performance enhancing drug called NZT, that allows him to activate and access 100% of his brain – 80% more brain than the majority of us ‘regular’ human beings use. With the ingestion of the small ‘clear pill’ Eddie is catapulted into a world of unfathomable wealth, success, and sex as he conquers Wall Street, learns new languages and becomes an instant genius.

The price to pay for this level of ‘Enlightenment’ … and it seems there always is one … is that his new brilliance is highlighted by a twitchy dark arrogance and an adrenaline fixation; and even more worrisome … the side effects include paranoia, psychosis, brain damage and … well, um … death.

Call me crazy, but death sounds pretty limiting.

I am always intrigued by movies like this (which is by the way, the first release by Sir Richard Branson’s – Virgin Produced) – that open the door ever so slightly to allow us a sneak peek at what might be possible for human potential, only to slam it shut by painting that potential with the grimy ooze of ‘the dark side’ … as if to say … ‘Yes, this level of intelligence is possible … but once you achieve it … all hell will break loose and you will long for your old days of mundane ordinariness.’ Sort of like the ‘red pill/ blue pill’ conundrum of The Matrix. Or the ‘brain tumor’ explanation for John Travolta’s brilliance in the movie Phenomenon. It tells us … if you are going to be this gifted, this advanced, this Enlightened … well, you gotta die at the end.

I don’t buy it.

It is my belief that elevating and evolving human potential to an advanced level IS possible and to some degree is happening already. And like it or not – it is going to take an elevation of human potential to lift us all out of the rather rampant mess that we have gotten ourselves into. It is going to take a grand leap of the ‘development of Human Intelligence’ to change the status quo and turn our global, local and personal situations around.

Regardless of the intentions of Government, Education and Health Care (these intentions may be good or bad, depending on what side of the aisle you sit on) relying on these OLD systems is not going to help us, so we need to STOP looking there for the answers. Why? Because every one of these systems is committed to the ‘OLD’ intelligence, the OLD patterns and the OLD outdated ideas that clearly do not work. The Intelligence, Innovation and Imaginings that are required to turn things around will come from the individual, from the entrepreneur, from the visionary who is not tied to old ideas … it will come from you and me. But we will need to be willing to drop all of our fears about embracing our brilliance and be willing to adopt a new, grander idea of ourselves first.

If a new and limitless idea of human potential is to come to fruition, then maybe Hollywood is right … something WILL need to pass away … but it isn’t us as human beings or individuals. It is the old ‘imaginings or ideas’ that need to be sacrificed. As in all Evolutionary practices, in order for the new dream to be born, the old dream has to go.

So perhaps the deeper message of ‘Limitless’ is that the possibilities of advanced human potential DO exist, but we cannot expect them to come in an easily digestible tablet. In order for humanity as a species to be capable of that type of advanced intelligence, a whole lot of ground work would need to be done first.

It may be that operating on that level of heightened potential is like driving a Ferrari when you have only just gotten your learners permit … perhaps it is a bit too much muscle for a beginner, but with the right amount of practice – mastery of that type of power IS possible. But we need to be brave enough to be willing to truly let go of all of the things that so obviously don’t work in our lives any more, or more bravely question if they ever worked for us in the first place.

I like the idea of being Limitless and I believe that we all have our ideas of how that would look to each one of us. I also have a certainty that it is possible, we don’t need to take a pill to achieve it though … and we don’t need to self destruct in the process. We need only to get out of our own way and allow the Intelligence that is waiting to be revealed … to have its way with us.

 

Innovation. Standing Life on its Head.

Innovation. Standing Life on its Head.

The most successful businesses in the world today, thrive on one thing … INNOVATION!” ~ Simone Wright

It doesn’t matter if you are the CEO of a multi-national company, an entrepreneur running a one man operation, or a recent college graduate just tumbling into your first ‘real job’ – the fact of the matter is … if INNOVATION is not your number one priority, you will be left in the dust.

One of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time, Richard Branson, said of the innovative spirit, “I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again.” So the secret, at least according to Sir Richard is simply to turn everything upside down.

Okay. So how do we do that? And what exactly IS IT that will be getting the old upsy-daisy?

Suffice it to say, if something is standing on it’s head – the perspective will certainly be different. So if we are to heed Branson’s advice, in order to turn an industry upside down, WE are going to need to ‘alter our perception’ first. The greatest innovators have the ability to ‘see things differently’ which gives them the ability to perceive solutions or ideas that no one else does. So in order to innovate, we need to be able to do the same thing … And yes … I guarantee it is 100% legal.

Perception is a function of our Intelligence system, and is uniquely formed in each individual by the repeated patterns of both internal and external influences from our environment. To put it more succinctly, our perceptions are formed by what we see, think, hear, feel or experience physically, mentally, emotionally and even chemically. All of these influences hard wire our nervous system and our nervous system becomes our mechanism of perception.

The simple way to begin to alter our perception is to begin to change our informational influences so we can activate new ways of thinking. To put it simply, in order to activate innovation we need to begin to ask different questions – questions that will push our nervous system and creative thought processes into new and more dynamic directions.

Altering perception begins when you start asking yourself or your team a new set of questions. Empowered questions. Evolved questions. When an empowered question is asked, an Integrated Intelligence will go to work immediately to find the most effective and efficient solution to answer it.

Often times developing an empowered question will offer you 90% of the solution.

Instead of asking ‘unempowered questions’ that begin with WHY … like WHY won’t my boss give me that promotion? or WHY is our product not selling? or WHY can’t I save any money? Consider asking questions that begin with HOW or WHAT.

Questions like … HOW can my company, product, brand be different in the marketplace? Or WHAT details can we add/remove from our product that would make it more user friendly? HOW can this project be completed on time? WHAT does my boss need to help make his job easier? HOW can I bring more value to my job? WHAT resources are we overlooking that can make us more profitable? … you get the picture.

WHY questions do not activate the creative processes in the brain to find SOLUTIONS. WHY questions are often times subjective with no solid answer. So stop asking them.

HOW or WHAT questions beg the brain for ACTION steps, and ignite the innovation connections that offer new ideas. When these new connections are stimulated, the brain begins to alter its wiring, so new PERCEPTIONS become activated. It is when these systems are switched on that the solutions appear before us as though they were sitting there the whole time. Which of course they were … we just weren’t setting ourselves up to recognize them.

 

Exercise your Body ~ Strengthen your Brain.

Exercise your Body ~ Strengthen your Brain.

Okay, this really is a no brainer and it might seem like common sense … but I am going to go ahead with it anyway, because sometimes we forget to do the things that are in our best interest. Most times it is because we don’t know WHY we should do them … so here are a couple of GREAT reasons why getting off the sofa and getting into some exercise could help you be a more dynamic and creative thinker.

The goal with Integrated Intelligence is to fine tune the ‘Intelligence muscles’ of the brain and body to balance and improve function so we can be more Creative, Innovative and Intuitive  … and I.I offers lots of ways to do that, but did you know that exercising our BODY is also a crucial way to improve brain function?

We all know (or at least have a vague memory) of how good it feels when we participate in regular and consistent exercise, the increased flow of oxygen and release of beneficial hormones and chemicals not only improves how we look in the long run, but also improves how we think, process information and handle stress. With as little as 20 minutes of daily exercise, which includes cardiovascular and /or high paced muscle training, our brains gain just as many benefits as our body does. And when our brains and hearts … are working at optimal levels … every aspect of our lives gains benefit.

Here’s why…

When we exercise at a moderate or high level, our bodies break what is known as the ‘blood-brain barrier’. It doesn’t matter what type of exercise it is … anything that requires our heart rate to increase and  breathing to escalate, will do the trick. It can be jogging, yoga, hiking, cycling or even love making… (got your attention on that one didn’t I?)

The increase in oxygen begins to saturate the blood which makes it’s way eventually into the temporal lobe of the brain, which houses a structure called the hippocampus; (Which is NOT a University for large African animals) and a smaller lobe called the denate gyrus. As we exercise, oxygen floods the area and a chemical/protein known as IGF-1 is released ~ this activates a second neuro~chemical called BDNF. This team of natural ‘feel good’ boosters act like a stimulant and power booster for the brain and ultimately has a ‘trickle down’ effect on every other function of the body as well.

Any type of high paced workout will not only activate these awesome ‘brain boosting’ chemicals, but will also help release a torrent of other feel good chemicals like serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine. (Which is the chemical our body produces when we fall in love!) And who doesn’t want a bit more of THAT?

All of these chemicals help balance the brain by giving it more energy to function efficiently which helps in focus, clarity and productivity. And when a brain is integrated and balanced, it is more healthy and as a result can also relax and rest when it needs to as well.  Regular exercise opens the door to a natural pharmacy in our body – giving us energy and focus when we need to be on our toes, and allows us to recuperate and regenerate when the day is done.

20 minutes a day improves memory, elevates mood, balances emotions and increases the ability to innovate and solve problems. People who exercise regularly also greatly reduce incidents of depression, anxiety and other stress related disorders.

When we stop exercising, not only do our muscles get weaker and smaller, but so too do parts of our brain; which can lead to neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s. When our brain is flooded with all of the beneficial nutrients produced by exercise, it actually begins to create new cells, replacing old, damaged or worn out brain matter with new ‘age resistant’ ones.

So if you are wanting to stay young, to keep your life, your body and even your career on the ‘cutting edge’ of everything new, Innovative and potentially earth changing …  just start moving. 20 minutes a day … not only will your body start feeling and looking better, but you may find that your brain has lots of new things to be excited about as well.