Making fitness fun is paramount to laying the foundation for living a healthy, energized life. This is especially important for entrepreneurs. Here are a few reasons why exercising is so important not only for our physical health, but also our mental health.

Weight-loss: Even if you’re already at your ideal weight, maintaining your weight is important for preventing future weight-gain. Your metabolism won’t always be as efficient as it is currently, so help your future-self by starting good habits now.

Preventing Health Problems: Exercising boosts “good” cholesterol (HDL) and decreases unhealthy triglycerides. Exercising regularly can help prevent stroke, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, depression, certain types of cancer, arthritis, and falls!

Improves Mood: Even just a brisk 30 minute walk will stimulate the various chemicals in your brain that leave you feeling happy and relaxed.

Elevates Energy: Being physically active delivers oxygen and nutrients to your tissue, allowing your cardiovascular system to work with less effort. This in turn will give you more energy to get things done throughout the day without that extra cup of coffee.

Improves Sleep: Getting good sleep is important to being successful in all that we do. Exercising can help you fall asleep faster and deepen the sleep you do get. This will allow you to wake up early and improve your productivity as an entrepreneur.

Jogging is a great way to relieve stress and get an efficient workout all at the same time. This exercise is sure to make you sweat. You’ll burn plenty of calories, strengthen your bones and muscles, and workout your heart. Jogging is a great companionship exercise, find a friend to start jogging with you – this will hold you accountable and keep you on track. Whether you jog with a friend or alone, sign yourself up for a competitive run so you’ll have something to look forward to and be able to track your progress.

Choose If: You want faster weight-loss, you want a competitive exercise, you want a cardiovascular fitness routine, and/or your body can handle a high-impact exercise routine.

Tips: Drink plenty of water before, during, and after your run. Get the proper shoes for running, you don’t want to risk an injury or generate shin splints (trust me).

Have Fitness Fun: Throw on some headsets and rock out to your favorite music or maybe listen to that audiobook you’ve been meaning to get to.

One of the newest trends to hit the fitness world is high intensity interval training (HIIT). This type of exercise encourages the participant to burn maximum calories in a minimum amount of time. The idea behind HIIT is to do short intervals of exercise followed by short intervals of active rest, which makes the body work harder than a regular cardio routine.

Choose If: You want short workouts, you want faster weight-loss, you want an intense workout, you want a cardiovascular fitness routine, and/or your body can handle a high-impact exercise routine.

Tips: Warm-up first. Eat something easily digestible 20-30 minutes before your workout (like a banana or a smoothie).

Have Fitness Fun: Listen to loud music during these sessions to motivate you to move, if you need a great sound system check out this awesome Bose system.

Working out from home and on your own time is ideal for the entrepreneur. There are hundreds of fitness routines and exercises to do from the comfort of your own home. Working out from home can cost you less time by cutting out the travel time to the gym, a hike, or dance class. You can virtually do any workout you want from home – especially if you invest in a treadmill and/or weights. Kick the morning off with some yoga in your living room and end the day with a heart-racing P90X workout.

Choose If: You like to workout at home, you don’t like to schedule workouts, you are a self-driven person, and/or you have limited time.

Tips: Dedicate a room in your house to exercise, set a timer for your workout sessions so you complete the entire routine and don’t get distracted.

Have Fitness Fun: Working out from home gives you endless options on how to make exercise more fun, include your kids, include your family, watch t.v., wear whatever you want – nobody’s judging you in your own home.

Sports aren’t just for kids. Join a local softball team, meet new people and have fun while you workout. Maybe soccer is more your vibe – kick around a soccer ball by yourself or find some friends to scrimmage with. A really great sport for entrepreneurs is golf. Invite investors or friends out onto the course with you – do business while you exercise. Or try swimming, a great low-impact sport that will not only workout your entire body, but give you ample time to clear your mind.

Choose If: You are a competitive person, you want to meet new people (potential customers and investors), you love sports,  and/or you want to workout your mind as well as your body.

Tips: Make sure you acquire the right gear for whatever sport you choose. Always warm-up and stretch.

Have Fitness Fun: Joining a team sport will help you build relationships with new and old friends while also making your exercise time fly by.

Door-to-door marketing is a canvassing technique that is generally used for sales, marketing, advertising, or campaigning, in which the person or persons walk from the door of one house to the door of another, trying to sell or advertise a product or service to the general public or gather information. People who use this sales approach are often called traveling salesmen, or the archaic name drummer, to “drum up” business. This technique is also sometimes called direct sales. A variant of this involves cold calling first, when another sales representative attempts to gain agreement that a salesperson should visit.

With the realization of telephone “Do Not Call” lists it is becoming increasingly more difficult to connect with consumers and business people. An emerging trend is the deployment of very professional, highly skilled door-to-door canvassers to drive product sales and brand awareness.

Coordinating, training and motivating these teams to produce results are at the very core of Fulcrum’s proven capabilities. Fulcrum has the knowledge and experience required to implement these programs, such as best days and times to canvass, who will sell the most product; male, female, young or mature and what geographics and demographics respond best to door-to-door marketing. Put Fulcrum’s experience to work for you and avoid the costly mistakes of trying to manage these programs in-house.

Hire and Train Door-to-Door Marketing Team

If you’re in charge of hiring people, that typically means that you’ve found success in Door To Door Marketing yourself. You know what it takes to be great, but now you’re stuck with an entirely new problem. How do you find others who will be just as good (if not better) and will stick around and grow into important influencers invested in the long term growth of the company? A great D2D sales company is a great recruiting company. So what does that greatness look like?

First off, you need to realize that you’re not going to hire a superstar every time. If you think you have found one, be careful. It’s not hard for someone to seem golden during one interview and you don’t want to be fooled.

Even if you think the candidate does have a lot of great experience working in the field for other companies, you have to realize that success doesn’t always translate. What worked for them at previous companies probably won’t work as well for you. In fact, their success will probably make them stubborn; after all, what reason do they have to follow your approach when they’ve figured out their own?

It’s also possible that the rep’s previous company might have had much better-developed training and selling systems than you do, and that system was the key reason they killed it. If you’re not developing a competitive system, what does that communicate about your company? The more dialed-in you are about a rep’s success, the more likely you are to attract and keep strong performers.