Everything that is to be grown needs nourishment. The human being is a dynamic that fuses the physical and the psychological in one seamless whole and any unbalance is capable of affecting the system negatively.

Exercise is the methodical process of keeping the system in shape whether it is the mental or the biological, it needs to be periodically tuned up and a maintenance needs to be carried out to reset and reinvigorate.

Usually, we lack motivation because exercise is strenuous and lacks any visible payoff as the effects are gradual and need time before they start to show. The key to overcoming this lies in beginning with modest gradual and disciplined increments that would lead to achievement of set goals. And this is why the balance of the mental with the physical is important as it enables the individual to be in an appropriate frame of mind that would ensure perseverance towards the target.

The mind is exercised when we engage in creative thinking which has a practical output in our daily lives while the body is exercised which purges it of excesses that clog and inhibit optimal performance. These are balanced on spiritual health which provides the source and motivation for action. Purposefulness in life ensures that the human is mindful of his origins and his destination. And so ultimately, mindfulness enables one to continue a regimen until actions become habits and eventually behaviour becomes a lifestyle.

So why not go ahead and start something small and build up the motivation till you have what I would call an infectious circle of effectiveness by exercising soul and body!