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… everything! Especially, when you consider that most people are living a lifestyle addicted to performance…

Are you? Be careful how quickly you answer this question.

In my last post, I mentioned that a Performance Lifestyle is how you live when you are not performance addicted. 

Don’t confuse the two, ever.

When you have an addiction to performance at the core of how you live, you’ve got a big fat problem. Maybe literally, because it can drive you to over-everthing, including eating, drive your body in the ground and your mind a little crazy.

Yes, a little crazy.

"Much has been written about the burden of the 24/7 lifestyle. Phones follow us everywhere. We contantly check e-mails. Work pursues us from office, to home, to car, plane, and trane. It’s sometimes difficult to remember that none of this is being forced on us. We can turn off phones and computers. But many of us can’t turn off the self-voice that says, "You’re being irresponsible", or "You’re missing an opportunity". - Dr Arthur Ciaramicoli Performance Addiction.

There are many aspects of a Performance Lifestyle, what I also like to refer to as new the "training center" of our lives, or the "bridge between health, well being, and our idea of success"… but acknowledging this addiction if it exists, and dealing with it, is at the core.

You may say "I’m not performance addicted, I live a healthy lifestyle." If you are, great, but you can be living a "healthy" lifestyle and still be performance addicted. I have no vested interest in you being performance addicted, I just want you to start seeing the difference between a healthy lifestyle and a true performance lifestyle that is healthy. Performance addiction is not healthy in any way.

If you’re truly not performance addicted, then you’ll benefit from all aspects of Performance Lifestyle Training. But stay open to the idea, because I want you to get the full benefit. I didn’t know what performance addiction was, but I knew something was not right. Read this aspect of my story, and you’ll see what I’m talking about.

Just knowing about performance addiction will help you stay out of this pervasive "Age of Achievement" way of thinking that can seriously drain your life. I know this first hand.

Of course, there are many aspects of a Performance Lifestyle, including food, fitness, training, goals, vision etc… but the deeper stuff, performance addiction and the lifestyle skills we need to stay out of it are not being talked about, until now. This is the stuff that’s missing, not to mention the need to correct our faulty models of food and fitness. There is so much more, plus, it’s the way you relate the idea’s you know and learn in the context of a Performance Lifestyle, that makes the difference.

I was on the phone with Dr Ciaramicoli earlier today. He’s a new member of the Performance Lifestyle Health and Science Advisory Team. We were talking about how there are people with virtual Ph.D’s on nutrition, fitness, etc, but they are still living  physicallly, mentally, emotionally and or spiritually on a downward trend. Energetically spent!

They are looking for solutions from the outside meanwhile their "inner lifestyle" is driving them crazy.

I have to tell you that when you get out that hell (performance addiction), and really get your life and lifestyle working for YOU, and the achievement of your goals, that’s when life really get’s better.  Whether or not you’re performance addicted, goes a long way in determining how you live and relate to others.

It’s fascinating!