Healthy High Achiever Blog

I was on the phone today, as I am on most Monday’s at 12:00 Noon with Michael Port of The Think Big Revolution. I love this guy (he is also a friend) so much, that I take one of my 168 hours each week for his televent. My hours come at a premium… the content is that good.

Today, he emphasized a definition of the keyword Power that I share - as you know I promote a concept called Fit for Power, so I am not foreign to this term.

Power - is the capacity to do what you want

For years I searched for the most powerful definitions of this term and ultimately I came back to this idea of "capacity". It’s a big enough and an encompassing enough of an idea to reflect the net result of how we are thinking and living.

How important is it that you have the ability to do and act? Almost a ridiculous question isn’t it?

Everything we do and if we’re going to it "well" in the process of achieving our goals, requires that we have power, so are you thinking and living powerfully?

The question is: Are you thinking (conceptualizing, giving meaning, responding, associating, etc) and living (recovering, eating, training, moving, acting etc) powerfully?

Or, are you thinking and living in a way that is depleting your energy?

Ponder this…

John Allen Mollenhauer is the Founder of Performance Lifestyle Solutions, the better healthier ways to achieve your goals in life, business and sport. As a former worn down workaholic turned healthy, high achiever John Allen (aka “JAM”) will teach you how to Live Like a Pro, optimizing your lifestyle the way athletes do. He is the creator of the Healthy High Achiever - Unleash the Full Potential of Your Lifestyle to Look, Feel and Perform Better!

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Hi All,

It’s a snowy day here in New Jersey. I haven’t seen snow in three years!, It’s exciting. And its Friday… a buffer day for me… meaning I take it slow. I operate from a lightly driven place, so I can start to recuperate my energy from the week and prepare for the weekend.

Yes, you need energy for the weekend. If you’re ever wondering why you’re yawning with the family, or unable to slow down, it’s because you don’t have a performance lifestyle yet, and didn’t recuperate from your week.

So, I’ve gotten questions about Performance Lifestyle and how I describe it in one sentence.

The answer is this…

"A Performance Lifestyle is about how to achieve your goals with your health and well-being intact."

Of course, I could expand on this by adding ideas like, living at or near your ideal weight, sustainably and successfully, fit for the challenges ahead, etc… But if you understand what health and well being means, it’s all included.

What Performance Lifestyle does for you is expand your idea of what it means to live successfully.

Its more than fitness, food and sleep, there’s a much bigger picture and that bigger picture will determine how fit you are, how you eat, how you sleep and more… that bigger picture also needs to be discovered, learned and acted upon.

It’s amazing to me, now at least, how we beat ourselves up at times for not doing this and that better, or sticking to the XYZ program, when our lives and lifestyles are all out of whack. What’s happening is not a lack of motivation; it’s a lack of time, space and energy, and knowledge.

It’s what we call the Achiever’s Paradox - In this “age of achievement,” where we have access to more information and opportunity than at any other time in history, we can accomplish our goals seemingly faster than ever before.

However, we get a paradox… the busier we are, the less time we have to take care of ourselves.

Performance Lifestyle is for achievers – those people who want to get the most out of life and produce their best in everything they do, but not at the expense of their health and wellbeing.

It’s for people who know the many aspects of their life impact on each other and each one needs to be carefully planned and managed if all their goals and aspirations are to be realized.

More soon,

Let’s discuss,

JAM

Howie Panes of HOW FIT in Livingston NJ and inventor of some great training gear, like the NRG Ball…said in an off-the-cuff response to my last email, which I got a great laugh from…

I don’t hit walls I run through them my friend!!!!

I am taking so much action my wife might get pregnant again without sex!

I don’t fall off wagons I am too busy leading the way! 

Howie’s a pro and he know’s what he’s doing.

In Performance Lifestyle Training (in a manner of speaking) you’re going to cultivate a similar attitude, and maintain your energy in the process. I can’t speak for Howard 100%, though I know, he knows how to live a hard charging life without compromising his health - energy and fitness, or his well being.

He has a skill set that he’s learned over a long period of time, to improve his lifestyle, his experience and his results.

Most people do not have these skills, mainly because they lack athletic experience, so they drive themselves right into the ground and overwhelm leads to fatigue and the overweight condition.

Howard Panes has a Performance Lifestyle, do you? If you don’t is probably about time you get one.

You may have read about the upcoming Performance Lifestyle Training that starts off by saying the biggest difference between those healthy high achieving people we admire for how they look, feel and perform, and those who struggle with energy and weight issues, is the FACT that healthy achieving people live athletically.

I go on to say that you don’t have to be into sports or even be a fitness enthusiast to live athletically. 

How can that be possible?

After all athletics and sport are synonomous.  

That may be true, but here’s what you don’t understand. Take away the specific sport that the "athlete" is playing, like track or football, and what you have is a person or a team who is trying to achieve a goal, to cross a finish line first or score a touchdown.

To achieve those goals, athletes think, live, train and condition themselves so they remain in top shape to be able to perform at the level required to achieve the goals and stay healthy. As a result they look and feel better than most. Simply put. 

But how is that different than what most of need to do in our own lives. Maybe you are not putting a ball through the uprights, a hoop or being judged on whether you cross a finish line first, you are judged on your productivity in other ways - your sales, your support, your ability to do whatever it is that you do and I’m sure it takes a great deal of energy to do it well, amidst a relentless busy life.

The stereotypical athlete plays sports, but I’m here to suggest that you are playing your own game in life and in many cases you have a tougher playing field than most sports athletes who live a much more structured life and have more support to live the lifestyle that enables them to achieve their goals in a healthy successful way.

Are you achieving your goals with a lifestyle that’s promoting your health and success? Most people are not, thinking only those in sport need to live athletically - in a healthy, balanced, balanced high perfoming way - and the results are obvious… overwhelm, exhaustion, and overweight and for many healthy complications.

Your lifestyle is the way in which you achieve your goals. The way you achieve your goals shows up in how you look, feel and perform.  Only 3% of the population knows how to live and athletical lifestyle that maximizes their personal and professional performance and quality of life.

On the 18th, you can learn how they do it as a participant in the upcoming Performance Lifestyle Training that works for YOU and the acheivement of your goals.

Performance Lifestyle is the never-before-assembled formula healthy high achieving people know and live by to look, feel and perform better and achieve the goals they’re passionate about… with their health and well being intact.

For business owners, professionals, and parents… who may not be into sports or even fitness enthusiasts, and want that steady state of increased energy and momentum; Performance Lifestyle brings the “athletic” experience born of elite athletes, for all to enjoy.

Performance Lifestyle Training combines real world experience of the pitfalls of over achievement, cutting-edge insight into personal energy management and the true science of success - sports psychology with the core essentials of health and higher performance – energy regeneration, nutrient rich nutrition and physically active living, fitness training and conditioning to deliver the defacto model for successful lifestyle.

You now have the ability to unleash your full potential in life, sport and business and live at or near your ideal weight all year around.

If you want to know, how to make the lifestyle decisions that will optimize your personal and professional results, get free of overwhelm, exhaustion and the overweight condition without the worry of sticking to a diet or exercise program and achieve bigger goals, a Performance Lifestyle is for you.  

For perhaps the first time ever, your lifestyle will be working for you, not against you, and propel you to greater success. 

Learn more about the next Performance Lifestyle Training 

NO.

Living athletically is the "mindset" that makes living a Performance Lifestyle possible. It does not mean you have to be into sports or even be a fitness enthusiast!

But did you know that the top 3% in life, sport and business, the healthy high achievers we admire for how they look, feel and perform, are either athletes or have an athletic background and understand this mindset? Did you know that your trainer or weight loss guru probably has an athletic background?

The athletic mindset is the defining difference. It’s what separates healthy high achievers from those people who suffer from energy, diet, weight, and long-term health issues. What you learn when implementing a Performance Lifestyle is not, how play a sport, it’s how to "live" athletically… successfully.

If you are into sports you’ll play better, but for most people in the 97% who are not sports athletes, let alone elite athletes, living athletically is how you live at or near your ideal weight all year round.

It’s how you achieve your goals in a healthy, balanced, high performing way.

It’s how you maintain your quality of life even in the midst of relentless demand on your time and energy.

When we don’t live in this flexible, agile, and nimble way, or understand the insights and skills that go with this more dynamic way of life to remain healthy, energetic, and strong, fit and powerful, we descend in overwhelm, fatigue and overweight. Then we have to distract ourselves from our purpose and mission in life as a business owner, professional, parent etc, to deal with weight.

Some of us don’t allow ourselves to get distracted and energy and weight issues turn into health complications.

Either way, eventually, the results of a depleting lifestyle will become a colossal distraction, maybe even deadly.

What percentage of people lives athletically? About 3%. The other 97% are the ones making up the obesity and poor health statistics.

You don’t have to be one of those people, and can live a much better quality of life, when you get the athletic experience in the Performance Lifestyle Training, starting on October 11th (bonus week for early registrants) and officially on the 18th.

When you change "Improve" how you live, life will gets better for you and so will your results. Remember, the health and performance results you are experiencing right now are the direct result of your lifestyle.

If your lifestyle is in charge of your health and performance, then imagine what that will do to you success.

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. 

Go here for part two

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.