Healthy High Achiever Blog

Another day, another round of obesity statistics flying around the Internet, this time in my home state. I’ve never seen NJ ever singled out for obesity rates.

Why is this happening?

Well it’s because we don’t understand the real problem… the downward energy trend.  

Eating less and exercising more don’t solve this problem they make life harder. It’s no wonder most people don’t do it and millions of attempts at "sticking with the program" just fail. Human beings don’t like to stick to programs.

All the discussion about fat loss and weight loss are great, but if you don’t have a lifestyle reinforcing your health and success, you have a problem will continue to chase your tail.

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When we hear of a "training center", we think of a place to learn, perhaps on computers, or a place to workout. But I want to introduce to you do a new training center that exists in your minds eye.

For years, through personal experience, talking and observing others, I’ve noticed a pattern. It’s created by the pull we experience in our lives between maintaining our health and success. It’s the age-old dilemma. How do you do it?

We get pulled into so many worlds and their conflicting message that can leave us ungrounded and off center and this is disconcerting.

The success training world say’s "achieve your goals and you can eventually live the lifestyle of your dreams." When we hear this, we forget what lifestyle really means, and before you know it, we’re busting our asses incessantly with visions of BMW’s and homes on the Caribbean. It’s no wonder people drive themselves into the ground. 

The healthy living world is telling us to live a healthy lifestyle but at times, it can seem unrealistic when we consider all that we have to do to maintain our success. The focus is on detoxification, reducing stress, eating less saturated fat, disease proofing ourselves, getting fit, getting enough sleep etc (all important) but for some reason it all seems to distract us from our focus on success. 

Of course, when we’re then faced with the reality that achieving our goals in an unhealthy way has its limits, we hit the wall. Enter the next world we get pulled into… weight loss!

The weight loss world isn’t focused on your health or success in life, they define success by losing pounds and usually in manipulative ways. Dr Atkins was the poster card example of this. Never coming remotely close to solving the real problem for millions of people, millions of people took the bun off their burger to lose weight. They clogged their arteries, were constipated, and experiencing halitosis (bad breath)… and the rest is history. Atkins dies of a heart attack from his own diet and everyone else is left duped, thinking the problem was refined carbohydrate alone.

In Atkins defense, he made some great points, but he was just selling an impotent solution.

Now, we’re pulled in more than two directions and distracted to the left, thinking we’re overweight because we’re eating too many carbs alone and the only place left to turn is to turn to our head.

So we turn to the world of Peak Performance and psychology. Surely poor thinking is the cause of this. Like all the other worlds, there’s valuable information to learn here and it’s good. The message is, change your mind to change your life. You might even have to go to a psychiatrist to get your head straight from being pulled in so many directions. This camp is about getting your thinking right. 

Ironically, we still haven’t solved the real problem; why we’re overwhelmed, exhausted and overweight! Surely, the answers are out there. You may already have the answers. All of these worlds, with the exception of the weight loss industry (quality players notwithstanding) which in my view is a grand misdirected project, offers great and needed information. But do you ever feel like something is missing? Like you’re floating in space and can’t bring it all together? 

What’s missing is called the Training Center, otherwise known as a Performance Lifestyle. A Performance Lifestyle bridges that gap between health and success. It’s all about how you structure your life and how you live (your lifestyle) to achieve your goals in a healthy way, that’s successful.

It’s the hub; it’s the training center, which every other area of our life depends on. It’s not a weight loss program or a healthy lifestyle program alone, even though it is the healthiest lifestyle. It incorporates success training and is about how you achieve your goals in a healthy, balanced way so that your focus can stay on success, and you don’t compromise your health to begin with. Your training can be about improvement, not making up for what you’re losing every day on the downward trend so many people live on.

A Performance Lifestyle enables you to improve your thinking, your health, your body and your success, without all the conflict and for the right reasons.  

If you’re not living a Performance Lifestyle right now, you’re likely living a depleting lifestyle and feeling a bit bounced around. It’s what happens in the Age of Achievement where the busier you get the less time you have to take care of yourself and you think the problem is the symtom.

I’m going to show you how to establish a Performance Lifestyle. There’s a formula and you need to learn it. I’ve enlisted the help of some of the top professionals in health and success training to help me do it.

So, stay tuned, turn up the volume on your speakers, in preparation for the next Performance Lifestyle Training, I’ve got some audio’s and interviews coming your way.

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Do You?

You may be thinking "well that depends"… "If overwhelm exhaustion and overweight are the symptoms, what’s the real problem?

     "I’m already eating less and exercise more than ever before and it seems to be working?

Notice what you just read, (hypothetically)… neither statement addressed the real problem. Neither was focused on you achieving your real goals, in life or business in a healthy high performing way. So far, your focus is on the symptoms of your lifestyle, which are getting in the way your success, because your health is compromised.

You think your problem is overweight it’s not. If you’re are eating less and exercising more on purpose to lose weight, your lifestyle has gone awry, and you’ve yet to discover the real problem.

I know you’re expecting me to say, "the real problem is what is causing overwhelm, the exhaustion and the overweight right?"

If you thought that, you’re right.

Your life, and how it’s set up, your lifestyle, and the way you are achieving your goals… are what I’m speaking. That’s what this whole conversation is focused on. That’s the real problem! 

Your Lifestyle in the Age of Achievement, is the biggest difference between Healthy High Achievers and achievers of all other kinds. It’s the way their lives are set up, lived and focused. All of these aspects are in alignment to support their health and promote their success; what they’re really up to in the world. 

If you are experiencing overwhelm, exhaustion and the overweight condition, you are out of this alignment and no amount of "eating less, and exercising more" is going to solve the real problem.

You actually may be set up for for healthy and success, but if you are simply not educated, for example, about the difference between a Nutrient Rich diet and a nutrient poor one, a big error in judgment like that can really trip you up.  

Performance lifestyle training and coaching focuses on getting your life, your lifestyle and your goals into alignment and that requires a focus on what we call the Training Center. 

I’ll introduce the Training Center in my next post -

Up next, Part 5 of 5… 

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In my last post, I was talking about how Healthy High Achievers see things very differently. They aren’t bopping around buying impotent solutions to deal with symptoms (that are the direct result of their lifestyle) that don’t solve the problem.  

They buy into "potent solutions" that are called lifestyle solutions. LIfestyle solutions solve problems, because they are sound. The don’t cause more problems.

As a result of lifestyle solutions, Health High Achievers get better results. They essentially, have more things going for them, than against them. Each aspect of their life and lifestyle is coordinated around the goals they seek to achieve and the experience the life they want.

Are all aspects of your lifestyle working for YOU and the achievement of your goals, including, what you eat and your activity levels?  

The biggest problems of our time today, are low energy, fatigue, depression, overweight, and a myriad of other health problems associated, and ALL are the result of relentless demands on our energy and lack of support, in one form or another.

We’re being called upon to perform at ever high and higher levels and this is affecting both our health and our ability to succeed, sustainably. 

To be able to perform and be both healthy and successful, we have to see things (lifestyle in particular) differently than they way we have in the past. If you’re going to perform better without killing yourself on the slow plan, you have to live better and the last time I checked that meant changing "improving" every aspect of your lifestyle, not only your diet.

The lifestyle that you have right now, that got you here (wherever you are) is not going to get you to where you want to go if improving your life situation is on your mind. Not only that, times have changed, the pace of life has sped up and we need better solutions to deal with the impact of it all.

We need several solutions over the course of our lifetime, maybe more or less than you’ve required to date. But how do you know if you’re buying into solutions that will actually solve the problems you are facing? To know the answer you need to understand the new "Training Center". I’ll be talking about that in part 5 of 5 in this series.

First, ask yourself. Do you want to solve the real problem…

Stay tuned for part 4 of 5.

It’s that last week of August and many of us are in slow mode. That’s a good thing, so, I just wanted to touch base and let you know what’s in store for the next couple weeks.

Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been introducing you to some basic Performance Lifestyle concepts; idea’s that bridge the gap between health and success, and which, you’ll ultimately learn in what we call… Performance Lifestyle Training.

Leading up to the next training starting end of September, get ready for some can’t-find-anywhere-else insights (not like this) from conversations I’ll be having with top experts who have learned to bridge that gap, with successful lifestyles centered on performance. 

People like:

Scott Tousignant, Scott Colby, Linda Cook, Jessie Hipolit, Kevin Gianni, Rob Poulos, Tom Perkins, Carol Cash, Dax Moy, and you’re truly… JAM
 
Ultimately, where this conversation is headed (and will always head) is we’re going train you on how to establish a Performance Lifestyle that works for YOU and the achievement of your goals, successfully.

Keep an eye out for the live round table discussion via teleconference, called Your Lifestyle, In the Age of Achievement. It will be unlike anything you’ve ever heard before; a spontaneous no holds barred discussion, on the subject of lifestyle that will change your life, body, and business forever!

After that we’re going to give you the opportunity to learn what it’s taken most Healthy High Achievers 20 years or more to learn on their own.

So get ready, here’s part 3 of 5 of Performance Lifestyle, "what is it?"

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The people who live a Performance Lifestyle, see things very differently. and it’s why they’re called Healthy High Achievers (HHA’s). They live "healthy" lifestyles but healthy living alone doesn’t explain why they get the results they do.

I’m a big proponent of living a healthy lifestyle. I promote several healthy lifestyle’s such as www.NutrientRich.com, the new trend in eating and others, but sleep, a focus on diet and exercise alone, as foundational and beneficial as they are, are only part of the Healthy High Achievers formula for success.

By themselves, sleep, food and fitness training aren’t nearly as potent as they could be, in helping us face challenges and improve the quality of our lives, if they were seen as essential, but only components of a lifestyle focused on managing your personal energy, which promotes both health and success.

Healthy High Achievers work out yes, they do the stuff you see in the magazines (well, almost) depending on what magazine you’re reading. It’s what you’re not seeing (or learning) that makes the difference, that can only be explained in the context of the Performance Lifestyle they live. 

Healthy High Achievers have a different mindset, a far more potent lifestyle and a more complete approach to acheiving their goals, than the average person has.

I’ve actually gotten tired of saying "live healthy", especially when I myself know that the reason why I get better results than most people is only partly because of how I sleep, eat and exercise. The Healthy High Achiever, does not wake up every day focused on health (unless they’ve lost it).

They wake up every day, like you I’m sure, focused on success… the things they’re up to in the world. In other words, they are focused on their goals. And their goal is not be healthy. They want be healthy, but their real goal is to be more successful.

Health is our birthright, it’s only part of the real goal!

So what bridges the gap between their health and success? A very potent solution, called Performance Lifestyle.

Stay tuned for Part 3 of 5