Revealed: The Two Daily Health Habits of Millionaires

Two Daily Health Habits Shared by the World’s Millionaires

There are two incredible health habits shared by many of the world’s most successful millionaires and billionaires.

Some of them are habits also shared by the world’s athletes, visionaries and saints.

The truth is that these two habits both have the power to totally, radically change your life – and in fact, most of the people that adopt them say they have changed their lives.

Can you guess what they are?

Millionaire Health Habit #1

The first daily health habit is something that has been practiced for thousands of years, but only recently has science “proven” it’s benefits beyond just improving health.

1. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO, News Corp

Trying to learn transcendental meditation. Everyone recommends, not that easy to get started, but said to improve everything!

— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) April 21, 2013

The CEO of News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, recently tweeted that was checking out TM meditation – a technique that become popular in the 1960s and now has a large celebrity following too.

 2. Ray Dalio, Founder/CIO, Bridgewater Associates

Ray Ralio, in an interview once said: “Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had.”

3. Tony Schwartz, Founder & CEO, The Energy Project

Tony Schwartz originally started meditating over 20 years ago to help quiet his busy mind – he says it also helped him to fix his chronic migraines and improve his work performance.

In a Harvard Business Review blog, he wrote: “Maintaining a steady reservoir of energy — physically, mentally, emotionally and even spiritually — requires refueling it intermittently.”

9. Arianna Huffington, President of the Huffington Post Media Group

10. Clint Eastwood, Actor

In a youtube interview, Client Eastwood said:

“I’m a great supporter of Transcendental Meditation. I’ve been using it for almost 40 years now – and I think it’s a great tool for anyone to have, to be able to utilize as a tool for stress. Stress, of course, comes with almost every business.  I think there are enough studies out there that show that TM is something that could benefit anybody. It’s a great system to use. Otherwise, why would I’ve been doing it for all these years, for almost half of my life?“

11. Michael Wainwright, Managing Director of Boodles Jeweler

Michael Wainwright said this about meditation:

“One thing that has changed my life is Transcendental Meditation. I’m a pretty bad sleeper and I went to my doctor 12 years ago for some help and instead of sending me to a sleep psychologist he told me to try meditation. I’m now addicted to it. It’s added to my clarity of mind a huge amount. I do quite a lot of public speaking and I’m not the most relaxed public speaker, so an hour beforehand I go and meditate for 15 minutes and it calms me down and focuses me. Meditation requires a bit of discipline but the benefits accrue and the longer you do it, the more beneficial it becomes.“

12. Marc Benioff – Salesforce

Millionaire Health Habit #2

The second daily health habit is something that many of you hear about every day – but approach entirely wrong – which is why you fail to consistently do it.

#1 Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin

When asked what his #1 secret to success was, he said “Work out.”

By his estimate, he said it gave him an additional four hours of productivity a day.

(Don’t forget, he’s a billionaire).

#2  Warren Buffet, CEO Berkshire Hathaway

The billionaire doesn’t try to hide his less-than-nutritious food choices, but to make up for those indulgences, he’s taken to exercise, CNBC reported. When his doctor gave him the choice between cleaning up his diet or working out, he told CNBC he picked exercise, the “lesser of two evils.”

#3 Oprah

In a 2003 issue of O Magazine, her trainer detailed some of her training sessions, which involved 45 minutes of cardio six days a week, and four to five weight lifting sessions a week.

 #4 Bill Clinton, Former U.S. President

Bill Clinton was famous for his jogging habit which was something his secret service weren’t so thrilled about, because he loved going for jogs outside of the White House grounds.

One of his agents that protected him said he regularly ran for three days a week for about 40 minutes.

#5 Robert Iger, Disney CEO

Disney CEO is one of the classic “early risers” who wakes up as early as 4:30 am to enjoy some quiet time and begin to work.

In an interview with the NYTimes, he said, “I get up at 4:30 every morning. I like the quiet time. It’s a time I can recharge my batteries a bit. I exercise and I clear my head and I catch up on the world. I read papers. I look at e-mail. I surf the Web. I watch a little TV, all at the same time. I call it my quiet time but I’m already multitasking. I love listening to music, so I’ll do that in the morning, too, when I’m exercising and watching the news.”

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The Key That They Know, That You Don’t

“Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning,” John Ratey, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School once said in an interview. “Even 10 minutes of activity change the brain.”

We already know how good this stuff is for us… but we don’t do it – because of one key thing.

Those of us that already do these two things daily, know how much they contribute to our quality of life. Most people that meditate daily or exercise daily describe these practices as “life changing.”

People that already do these feel the positive effects – the massive boost in energy, happiness, life satisfaction, clarity of thinking.

But the people that don’t already do these don’t know the positive effects because they haven’t felt them yet.

So the real million dollar question is how can you get yourself to actually do it?

Well, there is some cool science on this too.

The Surprising Power of “Nudges”

The majority of long-term exercisers LOVE the feeling that exercise gets them… but how do you get someone to exercise who doesn’t know that feeling? How do you get someone who hates the idea of exercise, to feel how good it really is?

Well, it turns out that researchers did just that.

The study proved that with a relatively easy fix – a regular phone call – you can keep people motivated and consistent with just about anything.

In the Stanford study, 218 participants were divided into three groups.

In one group, a health educator would call the participants every three weeks to ask about their progress, and then offer some brief words of encouragement and tell them to keep going.

In another group, an automated voice message called the person and encouraged them, and helped keep them going.

In the third group, there was no follow up call to encourage the people.

After 12 months, people that got a call from a live person were exercising about one hour and two hours and 58 minutes a week.

The people who received programmed, computerized calls had doubled their exercise levels to about two hours and 37 minutes

The third control group, who didn’t get any calls, exercised 118 minutes a week.

At the end of the study, one of the participants said:

“I used to be able to tell you what was on television every night. Now I have no idea. I’m up and moving, and so are my children.”

Just this tiny act – a phone call reminder every two weeks – was enough to totally transform her life.

It’s amazing how simple, and effective, a small regular reminder is – whether it’s automated or a real person.

How to Accomplish Just About Anything… Easily

Starting is the easy part of anything, right?

You might be inspired by this article, and sit down to meditate for five minutes during your work break.

But like anything in life, the secret sauce is keeping going.

And how do you keep going? By a super easy method of holding yourself accountable – have a friend call you every two weeks to ask about your progress. It’s even more powerful if you form a “mastermind” group where you meet once a week over the phone, or skype, or email, and quickly discuss what worked, what didn’t, and how to proceed on the road ahead.

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