Problem with working at home is being a blob.
It’s oh-so-easy to plop your butt in a chair for 3 or 4 or 10 hours a day and completely mangle your body in the process with potentially deadly blood clots growing in your legs, messing up your circulation and (if you’re a man) damaging your prostate, testicles and other bits & pieces of your “nether region.”
Think I’m joking?
It happened BIG TIME to one of my friends.
He spent several hours per day creating a product and screwed up his legs so bad he is in near constant pain (and he’s not even 30 years old).
The solution?
I call it the “email workout.”
(With mega creative titles like that, how can I go wrong?)
For me it’s email, but it works for anything you’re working on (articles, sales letters, blog posts, programming, research, wasting time on social media sites, whatever).
Here’s how it works:
Every time I finish a task, I do the following:
- A set of pull ups
- A set of chin ups
- A set of pushups
Many cool things result.
Yes, there’s exercise and circulation.
I also get LOTS more work done, too.
(Way more than I would otherwise.)
But besides that, there is a creative benefit — it forces me to get away from work and, sure as shizzit, just like Gene Schwartz taught, ideas come slipping into my mind for whatever I’m working on.
This comes in especially handy with big workloads.
Like, for example back in February.
Between client work and my own projects I was writing well over 25-30 articles/emails per day (plus sales letters).
Brutal.
But this routine got me through it with my legs intact.
The key is doing a set of 3 exercises (doesn’t matter what kind — just short intense reps) after each “action.” By action I mean, you write an email — you do a set. You write an article, you do a set. You write a page or chapter, you do a set, etc.
You can also just do it every 30 minutes if that’s easier.
Anyway, that’s the email marketing workout.
Not the cleverest of titles.
But that’s all I got.
For more email secrets (for making sales, not muscle), go to:
Ben Settle
