Physical Factors

There’s no doubt that a daily exercise routine that contains aerobic and strengthening elements, along with a healthy diet, will help you lose weight if you’re overweight and maintain your goal weight once you get there. You’re going to look great in clothes, but more important, you’re going to feel great in your own skin. Your accomplishments are going to make you shine from within; and even the greatest outfit won’t look as good as your confident demeanor and winner mentality.

Goals

Goal setting and exercise compliment each other. From the novice exerciser who is determined to get through 30 minutes of brisk walking without gasping -- to the long-time exerciser who enjoys challenging himself -- goals are a part of the process. Accomplishing a goal is exhilarating but short-lived. The trick to sustaining the feelings of accomplishment that reaching an exercise goal incites is to make the journey itself the goal. Every aspect of exercise, from what you wear to recording your workouts to hitting milestones, can enhance your feelings of accomplishment if you give them meaning.

Motivation

Anyone can find the motivation to exercise given an incentive: whether it’s to fit into a new dress or attract a special someone into your life. But the feelings of achievement will be fleeting because they come with a condition. Making exercise a part of your daily routine with no other objective than being healthy and strong for the rest of your life will give you the greatest feeling of accomplishment. Channel the positive feelings that exercise engenders to spur you on from one feat to the next.

Strength

Performing scores of lunges and squats will strengthen your lower body muscles -- but that accomplishment is overshadowed by the inner strength that is cultivated by exercising. With the reduced stress that is one of the most sought-after effects of exercise, and the skill and determination with which you perform your preferred exercises, you’ll develop the kind of mental fortitude that will help you deal with challenges more easily and pursue your dreams with gusto. Feeling accomplished at life itself is a byproduct of exercising regularly.