Eric Patrick Marr

My friend Randall Stevens recently started a tumblr blog for entrepreneurship and technology called I’ll Make a Claim. I’m absolutely stealing Randall’s title today.

I will make this claim: I have discovered – unwittingly stumbled upon, more accurately – THE solution that will reinvigorate America’s economy.

And it is so simple, at first you might not believe me.

Sweaty exercise.

Think about it. Here’s why sweaty exercise is the solution for the United States at this junction in history:

1. You don’t need a single person’s approval. You have complete sovereignty.
   
2. Sweaty exercise changes your brain – for the (much) better. Your emotions, your outlook, your entire thinking.
3. You become happier and you grow in self-confidence almost immediately. At least 90% of Americans need more of both of these.
4. Entrepreneurship, innovation and venturing into the unknown depend upon self-confidence and pursuing your happiness. “The American Spirit.”
5. Social media. You can very easily find a whole new world of really good friends who are conquering the same mountains you are.
6. Every ounce of research shows that connected people prosper much more than disconnected people.
7. We can’t boil the whole ocean at once – we can only progress one foot in front of another (literally). Sweaty exercise leads your mind forward one step at a time, and as you keep sweating and keep exercising, pretty soon you’ve taken (physically and mentally) many, many, many steps forward in your thinking and in your life.
8. It is inexpensive, almost free. No real financial barrier. (My gym costs me $0.50 / day.)

Not to even mention how much cheaper it is to be healthy and happy now – as opposed to sick and in debt to the doctor’s office later.