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What do people all Healthy High Achievers have in common, for the most part?

They have Performance Lifestyles.

Find out about how you can get one.  

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Success is not merely a function of motivation; your motivation is the function of your lifestyle.

Did you know the best way to build incredible momentum in your life, so that you’re the healthiest, best performing, most successfully energized and productive person you know, is to improve your lifestyle?  

It’s a new concept I know, but I’ll show you how to do this starting October 4^th, 2007.

Most people think they have to become more successful to live a better lifestyle. They have it all backwards!

If you think this, then you’ve been missing the boat on the fundamental success training there ever was and will be. It’s called Performance Lifestyle Training. Everything you do and do well depends on it.

Essentially, you learn how achieve your goals, by living a lifestyle that promotes your personal and professional performance. Naturally, the healthiest lifestyle there is, it drives your success.

Just living healthy to live healthy, won’t cut it.

Ask any athletically minded individual, and you’ll discover that they don’t wake up thinking how they are going to live healthy today; they live healthy to wake up and be as successful as they can today and that requires the focus on Performance.

Ultimately, that means a focus on your lifestyle, how you live… get ready to learn the lifestyle strategies of Healthy High Achieving people… October 4th.  

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Athletes live the way they do because they are performers. But it’s not just athletes, other people, who may or may not be into sports or fitness, can live athletically too and today it’s becoming a “natural” mandate.

Why are only 3% living this way when clearly we need to if we want to look, feel and perform well, and hold onto our quality of life?  

Because only a small percentage of people know how, they may have never been an athlete when they were younger, never learned the concepts of the mindset, or spent much time in various fields of health and fitness to keep them selves “in shape” as they’ve lived their lives.

Maybe they did when they were younger, but then were caught up, as they got older. Whatever the reason they live caught up, eating whatever drinking whatever rest whenever they can, and it’s getting the best of them.  

The irony is that 100% of us has had lifestyle training, problem is it came from Dunkin Donuts; Kraft, our bosses who want to make their quarterly numbers, and Dr Atkins. En masse, that is most people’s training.

How do you change your lifestyle? Eat a little less, exercise a little more, and sleep an extra hour whenever you can… that’s what most people do. It’s not enough if you want to be successful.

Matter of facts it’s not remotely enough. That’s the “part timer’s” mentality. Lifestyle is a full time deal it’s how you live!

If you want to be and or feel more successful in life and business you want a Performance Lifestyle, a lifestyle that works for YOU, personally and professionally, that prepares you for the events in your life to perform in peak form, looking and feeling the way you are capable.

Sports athletes are no longer the only people who need training like this, we all do. Healthier lifestyle is not enough, unleashing the full potential of your lifestyle is what you want and need if you’re going to rise to occasion.

Even if you lived to your potential twenty to thirty to fifty percent more, your success would skyrocket; this is why Performance Lifestyle Training is the new “success training”…

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When "most people" think of changing their lifestyle, they think about improving their health. They have focused so hard and long on success, it’s likely they’ve neglected their health in the process and they are forced to change. This is a common occurrence. I did this in 1990’s and once again, in early 2000, before I understood the full breadth and depth of Performance Lifestyle.

It’s not that people don’t value their health, it’s just that they have don’t understand the role lifestyle plays in their success. Your lifestyle is how you achieve your goals. It’s not a lot of fun experience when you’re living overwhelmed, exhausted and overweight, it makes life a graceless experience and achieving your goals hard.

But so many people live this way, we almost don’t think much of it. Almost as if, it was inevitable. We also don’t think twice about falling for the so-called solutions to the problem, weight loss, diet and exercise programs, many of which can really be "traps" in altruistic disguises. 

First, why do most people get overwhelmed, exhausted, and overweight? 

It’s because most of us achieve our goals in unhealthy ways. We don’t manage our energy well and this leads to all kinds of poor lifestyle decisions in a market that is clearly "duping us for dollars." If you achieve your goals in a way that leaves you overwhelmed, exhausted and overweight, with health complications, you’re not doing so successfully.

Yes, I know the pace of life, I’m faced with it as well, but that’s life and we have to adapt. When you’re put in a position to perform at higher levels you need a lifestyle that reinforces your health and success, or IT WILL ware you down. As the pace of life speeds up, how you live has to change.   

Change to what… an athletically mindet Performance Lifestyle, you don’t have to be into sport or fitness to experience the benefits. 

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What? You say? I"m not an athlete! I’m a business owner, a service professional, a parent, a student… 

Yes, and you are an athlete!

If you are facing demands on your time and energy, and achieving any goals, you are an athlete.  

If you’re reading this and you’re keeping pace in todays day and age, you are an athlete and you might want to start thinking this way. That is, if you don’t want to join the rest of the population who is driving themselves into the ground and focusing on weight loss.

In the upcoming posts we’re going to focus on this as we get ready for the next trainining. 

For starters, here’s a conversation on this very subject. A recent internview I did with Kevin Gianni of Live Awesome…

Heres the interview…:  

Most people are struggling with diet, weight and long term health issues that are getting in the way of their success. Because they’re getting farther and farther removed from the natural experience of life, they are looking outside themselves for answers that will never come.

Yes, you may need to add several things that you are not currently doing to promote our health and success, but there are far more subtractions than additions, and this is where the challenge is. Most people are "caught up."

There’s a model that’s been established in our culture and it goes something like this.

Live as caught up as possible. It’s a sign that you’re "with it". Do whatever it takes to keep going. Do it all. Sleep? You do that when you’re dead, since that’s a waste of time and you can get energy from a can. Drink whatever eat whatever and burn off the calories through exercise. A mere function of aging, gaining weight, that’s all it is. All you need to do is eat less and exercise more to lose weight. If you’re doing that, your’re living a "healthy lifestyle". 

Of course as the fatigue builds, and your body doesn’t respond as usual, you then motivate yourself to keep going, with every energy boosting, fear inducing, get-leverage-on-yourself tactic there is, and so, you’ll continue to be a "success."

Then you hit the wall, your body gives out. Not a problem, just another mere bump in the road and "expected" in our whole caught up current model of thinking, where we have whole industries reinforcing the problem but few actually solving it. 

All along, you’re wondering, "how do I solve this problem", is looking, feeling and performing my best, that difficult?
No, but that’s the point, to get the reality of the situation, you have to understand it, and do a lot more subtraction, than addition.

Consider the 80/20 rule… 

I’m quoted as saying that 80% of what you need to do to live a healthy high performance Lifestyle in todays day and age, is what you don’t need to do anymore; only 20% is what you actually need to do. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a significant twenty percent, but it’s not insurmountable. If you focus on the eighty percent, you’ll live all caught up.

At some point, you want to be able to say,"I get it" and get on with your life, problem free and then continue to improve. But that’s not what most people are doing, they are trying to solve problems because they are all caught up and only a fraction of their focus is on the success they want to create in their lives.

Even if you’re passionate about health, lifestyle etc, what’s it all about? Its about what you can do with your health, not about being healthy, and that’s just one more reason why focusing on your ability to perform "well" is so effective.

The two biggest determinants of Performance are avoiding overwhelm and exhaustion and in the current fragmented and confusing model of thinking about what it takes to look, feel and perform better, it’s unfortunate, but most will suffer from overwhelm and exhaustion trying to keep up with it all. They don’t understand the 20%.

So what do you do?

You want to learn the Performance Lifestyle Model. Stay tuned…  

Just in case you were not able to make the events of this past week, I did 3 introductions (from different perspectives) to Performance Lifestyle, that you can play back when it works for you.

The first was with Rob Poulos creator of the Fat Burning Furnace System: Rob grilled me on a range of subjects around why you want a healthy high performance lifestyle.

Click here to listen…

The second was with Scott Colby, founder of My Ultimate Body Makeover: Scott asked me questions, like “what does it mean to focus on performance?”

Click here to listen…

The third was with Dr Brad Swift, Author of "Life on Purpose": Here I was the interviewer. Living on Purpose is a major component of a Performance Lifestyle, and Dr Swift delivered.

Click here to listen…

There will be two more introductory events coming up Monday night and Tuesday night, then it’s time to join the next Performance Lifestyle Training.

It starts end of September / Start of October.

There are three types of people who benefit greatly by Performance Lifestyle Training.

1. That person, who has been living on a downward trend (overwhelm, exhaustion and overweight) for far too long and wants to learn how to turn it around for good.
2. The person, who is trying to lose weight, may be on a weight loss program and looking to burn fat, who wants to reinforce and "ensure" their success.
3. The person, who is already looking, feeling and performing well, but wants even better results, greater mastery and the confidence that comes with it to achieve bigger goals.

Note: If you are training for competitions, sporting events etc, Performance Lifestyle Training will serve you well, but events like that also require more regimented training and conditioning protocols. Sports specific training is outside the scope of the Performance Lifestyle Training.

I talk a lot about losing the need to lose weight and I beat up on weight loss programs often simply because so many of them keep you stuck chasing your tail with your focus in the wrong areas, but the truth is there is a time when focusing on weight loss is important and you want to learn how to do so in a healthy, sustainable way.

The people who know how to do that, are the people whom I see as true experts.