Healthy High Achiever Blog

1. Capacity to change
2. Confidence to change
3. Will to change
4. Behavior change

While reading the article I couldn’t help but draw the parallel between what the Journal was saying here about our how we operate our businesses, to how we live our lives. The technological change is having as big an impact on our personal lives, affecting the amount of time, space and energy we have to actually take care of ourselves; so having a lifestyle that is reinforcing our health and success, most of the time, becomes essential.

Most people believe that lifestyle change is not easy. So let’s look at the 4 factors above and see how they apply to a Performance Lifestyle to ensure that we actually have the capacity to change how we live and win in this Darwinian age of rapid evolution.

• Capacity is as much about vital energy as it the insight, skills and outlook to change. You must have energy to invest if you are going to move forward in a position of strength. 
• Confidence comes from having a step by step plan to move forward. If the pace of change has you overwhelmed, and you don’t know your next step, confidence suffers. If you are on a downward trend to low energy and poor health change becomes even harder. You’ve got to increase your energy to improve your confidence and make the changes you need to move forward. 
• Will, is a power that comes from having the energy to invest in making a change even when the circumstances are not favorable, but still you press on and forward because it needs to be done. Eventually it gets easier. If though, you don’t have energy to invest, the will to change dissipates.
• Behavior changes best when you are focused on a bigger goal or a vision that’s inspiring you and you change on purpose to accomplish the outcomes you seek. When changing the behavior itself is the goal, it’s just plane hard. It is for that reason that living a healthy lifestyle and adopting healthier habits is harder when better health alone is your end game. When performance and success are your end game, you will make behavioral changes all day, because it’s getting you closer to your goals and living your life the way you want it to be. You are inspired.

I’m not saying that change is easy, under any set of circumstances; I’m merely pointing out that it is allot easier when you have circumstances that make it so. A more inspiring end game that requires you to perform and leads you to your ultimate success is a big factor.

We have to change how we are living today. The times have changed, we’re all faced with relentless demand on our time, space and energy and this is causing us to live in a downward energy trend that causes us to make poor lifestyle decisions.

We have to change our lifestyles so that we are no longer responding to this rapid change with decisions that promotes overwhelm and fatigue, over consumption and inactivity and ultimately the overweight condition and health complications. Lifestyle choices that exacerbate the problem are out, choices that move us forward in a position of strength, are in!

Achievement oriented people who are making things happen and are easily caught up overspending their energy, are the people who need to pay attention to this message most. Your life is a performance game. Your lifestyle determines a big part of how well you play and for how long. 

Today, it’s not enough just to attempt to live healthy in a world that promotes the opposite most of the time. In order to stay healthy and perform at a high level, we have to manage our energy first and foremost for peak performance and quality of life. When we learn how and do that will have the capacity - the energy time and space, the confidence and the will to change as we need to in our modern day environment.