Think about the below as you’re exercising.

Longer life and longer health; every minute you work out extends your life (on average of course) 5-9 minutes and your healthy years perhaps even more than that. Also, people treat you vastly better when you’re fitter. Fair or not, ethical or not, it’s true. I’ve had a cute airline staff girl offer to walk me to my gate that I could see clearly from where I was standing, and a DMV woman who spent a long time on the phone on my behalf and waived all my fees because she thought I was hot.

None of that ever would’ve happened before I worked out and got super fit.

Also, and this matters more to me than any of that, it’s worth it to be the best version of myself I can be for me and just as importantly, for my partner. Why reach for mediocrity when you could instead reach for greatness? Why be a formless lump when you could be as a god?

Dream big, strive hard, do amazing things. It’s worth it and so much better than the alternative.