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…