Are you living to “be healthy” or Living Healthy “to Live” on purpose

Written by John Allen Mollenhauer "JAM" on September 13, 2007 – 9:23 am

You know I have to say that this mindset shift was the best things that every happened to me.

For some time, I was living to be healthy and it cost me a great deal of success. I was all wrapped up in food and fitness and missed the most important element of both health and success, which is managing your energy to look, feel and perform better, and achieve your real goals. It wasn’t until I made this distinction in my mind that I was able to revolutionize my lifestyle and really focus on success.

The distinction between living to be healthy (how I was thinking when I was exhausted and overweight) and living healthy "to live" on purpose is powerful. What is so powerful about the difference between these too ideas is that in both cases your value for healthy living is in place, but ironically, when you’re not focused on being healthy, and you decide to live healthy to live your purpose and achieve the bigger goals you have in life, you will live healthier than ever before and it will go way beyond food and fitness.

It’s a phenomenon, and it’s true. And I’m suggesting that it’s going to work for you too. It’s the reason why the entire Performance Lifestyle idea even exists so that you can achieve your goals powered by the healthiest, best performing, most successfully energized and productive body you can imagine.

"Just after I met you, I found my event. It’s an event “bigger than my waist size” and I started lifting with a new vision and intensity that I haven’t done for 20 years. I am eating to live instead of living to eat.

“Every great performer is always training for their next event.” Wow. That was powerful John. I wished there was a way to convey to you how grateful I am that I had that 1 minute opportunity to line up knee to knee with JAM. There are no strings attached to this expression John. I have just not stopped thinking about it since Toronto… and I thought is was time you knew the impact you had on my life… in less than one minute.

I feel I owe you. I really do. One day, I hope to return the gift of clarity.

Looking Forward," Joseph Stith Executive Director of Learning Innovation ENGAGE THOUGHTWARE LLC

Doesn’t it sound strange to be trying to achieve your goals in an overwhelmed and exhausted body, maybe overweight? Of course it does. Performance requires that you maintain yourself in top condition, just like athletes.

It takes just as much energy, endurance, and stamina to be a super mom, a parent, a business owner, heck a student these days as it does to be an athlete. We are all athletes.

Sports athletes just have a stronger purpose than most people do, they always have an event to prepare for and target, big goals that they are striving for and more. That’s why they live Performance Lifestyle’s, the healthiest and most successful lifestyles in the world and here’s the big irony -

They don’t wake up and "live healthy" at all! They just do what works, and I can tell you, mismanaging your energy, eating poorly, being inactive, living with a fuzzy purpose and unclear goals, not to mention making goals out of things that aren’t even real goals, that end up being distractions from your real purpose in life does not work.

Over the next two weeks I’ve got a series of events planned with some top experts in Performance Lifestyle, who are also helping to revolutionize the way we think and live today.

Tonight September 13, I’m talking with Rob Poulos of Zero to Hero Fitness, a warrior for better lifestyle.
Tuesday, September 18th I’m talking with Scott Colby of SC Fitness and My Ultimate Fitness Mindset
And on September 19th, I’ll be talking with Dr Brad Swift, Author of Life on Purpose -Brad Swift, the author of Life On Purpose: Six Passages to an Inspired Life

Performance lifestyle is not only about transforming your lifestyle for better results in your body, life and business; it is to live our lives on purpose. That’s why lifestyle training and coaching is so valuable, because it’s about your success.

Keep your calendars open for one night per week starting the end of September!

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