Healthy High Achiever Blog

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.

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!

Have you ever considered the role your energy is playing in your weight, your health and success? When I ask that question most people say, they have low energy because they are overweight when it’s the other way around.

How they manage their energy in the process of achieving their goals, is causing them to drive themselves into the ground, and the more you downward trend energetically the more challenged your health and the harder your success.

Managing your energy is at the heart of changing your lifestyle, if you don’t know how, you will continue to be challenged. Here’s what a recent participant in the Performance Lifestyle Training has to say -

“When this Performance Lifestyle Course began, I understood very soon that energy-debt was my biggest issue - no doubt about the fact that "I was deep in debt". First, I learned what "manage your vital energy" was all about — my first lesson and it was a BIG ONE!! My body began to respond positively and it all FELT GOOD!!  This was my first big breakthrough!!" This Age of Achievement non-stop, all-out, will drive you crazy if you let it ". The big secret is to learn how to prevent that.!!  AH!!  Welcome to the Performance Lifestyle Course!!” – Mary Davern 

 Get ready, there’s a Performance Lifestyle Training coming your way, end of September

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When we hear of a "training center", we think of a place to learn, perhaps on computers, or a place to workout. But I want to introduce to you do a new training center that exists in your minds eye.

For years, through personal experience, talking and observing others, I’ve noticed a pattern. It’s created by the pull we experience in our lives between maintaining our health and success. It’s the age-old dilemma. How do you do it?

We get pulled into so many worlds and their conflicting message that can leave us ungrounded and off center and this is disconcerting.

The success training world say’s "achieve your goals and you can eventually live the lifestyle of your dreams." When we hear this, we forget what lifestyle really means, and before you know it, we’re busting our asses incessantly with visions of BMW’s and homes on the Caribbean. It’s no wonder people drive themselves into the ground. 

The healthy living world is telling us to live a healthy lifestyle but at times, it can seem unrealistic when we consider all that we have to do to maintain our success. The focus is on detoxification, reducing stress, eating less saturated fat, disease proofing ourselves, getting fit, getting enough sleep etc (all important) but for some reason it all seems to distract us from our focus on success. 

Of course, when we’re then faced with the reality that achieving our goals in an unhealthy way has its limits, we hit the wall. Enter the next world we get pulled into… weight loss!

The weight loss world isn’t focused on your health or success in life, they define success by losing pounds and usually in manipulative ways. Dr Atkins was the poster card example of this. Never coming remotely close to solving the real problem for millions of people, millions of people took the bun off their burger to lose weight. They clogged their arteries, were constipated, and experiencing halitosis (bad breath)… and the rest is history. Atkins dies of a heart attack from his own diet and everyone else is left duped, thinking the problem was refined carbohydrate alone.

In Atkins defense, he made some great points, but he was just selling an impotent solution.

Now, we’re pulled in more than two directions and distracted to the left, thinking we’re overweight because we’re eating too many carbs alone and the only place left to turn is to turn to our head.

So we turn to the world of Peak Performance and psychology. Surely poor thinking is the cause of this. Like all the other worlds, there’s valuable information to learn here and it’s good. The message is, change your mind to change your life. You might even have to go to a psychiatrist to get your head straight from being pulled in so many directions. This camp is about getting your thinking right. 

Ironically, we still haven’t solved the real problem; why we’re overwhelmed, exhausted and overweight! Surely, the answers are out there. You may already have the answers. All of these worlds, with the exception of the weight loss industry (quality players notwithstanding) which in my view is a grand misdirected project, offers great and needed information. But do you ever feel like something is missing? Like you’re floating in space and can’t bring it all together? 

What’s missing is called the Training Center, otherwise known as a Performance Lifestyle. A Performance Lifestyle bridges that gap between health and success. It’s all about how you structure your life and how you live (your lifestyle) to achieve your goals in a healthy way, that’s successful.

It’s the hub; it’s the training center, which every other area of our life depends on. It’s not a weight loss program or a healthy lifestyle program alone, even though it is the healthiest lifestyle. It incorporates success training and is about how you achieve your goals in a healthy, balanced way so that your focus can stay on success, and you don’t compromise your health to begin with. Your training can be about improvement, not making up for what you’re losing every day on the downward trend so many people live on.

A Performance Lifestyle enables you to improve your thinking, your health, your body and your success, without all the conflict and for the right reasons.  

If you’re not living a Performance Lifestyle right now, you’re likely living a depleting lifestyle and feeling a bit bounced around. It’s what happens in the Age of Achievement where the busier you get the less time you have to take care of yourself and you think the problem is the symtom.

I’m going to show you how to establish a Performance Lifestyle. There’s a formula and you need to learn it. I’ve enlisted the help of some of the top professionals in health and success training to help me do it.

So, stay tuned, turn up the volume on your speakers, in preparation for the next Performance Lifestyle Training, I’ve got some audio’s and interviews coming your way.

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In my last post, I was talking about how Healthy High Achievers see things very differently. They aren’t bopping around buying impotent solutions to deal with symptoms (that are the direct result of their lifestyle) that don’t solve the problem.  

They buy into "potent solutions" that are called lifestyle solutions. LIfestyle solutions solve problems, because they are sound. The don’t cause more problems.

As a result of lifestyle solutions, Health High Achievers get better results. They essentially, have more things going for them, than against them. Each aspect of their life and lifestyle is coordinated around the goals they seek to achieve and the experience the life they want.

Are all aspects of your lifestyle working for YOU and the achievement of your goals, including, what you eat and your activity levels?  

The biggest problems of our time today, are low energy, fatigue, depression, overweight, and a myriad of other health problems associated, and ALL are the result of relentless demands on our energy and lack of support, in one form or another.

We’re being called upon to perform at ever high and higher levels and this is affecting both our health and our ability to succeed, sustainably. 

To be able to perform and be both healthy and successful, we have to see things (lifestyle in particular) differently than they way we have in the past. If you’re going to perform better without killing yourself on the slow plan, you have to live better and the last time I checked that meant changing "improving" every aspect of your lifestyle, not only your diet.

The lifestyle that you have right now, that got you here (wherever you are) is not going to get you to where you want to go if improving your life situation is on your mind. Not only that, times have changed, the pace of life has sped up and we need better solutions to deal with the impact of it all.

We need several solutions over the course of our lifetime, maybe more or less than you’ve required to date. But how do you know if you’re buying into solutions that will actually solve the problems you are facing? To know the answer you need to understand the new "Training Center". I’ll be talking about that in part 5 of 5 in this series.

First, ask yourself. Do you want to solve the real problem…

Stay tuned for part 4 of 5.

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The people who live a Performance Lifestyle, see things very differently. and it’s why they’re called Healthy High Achievers (HHA’s). They live "healthy" lifestyles but healthy living alone doesn’t explain why they get the results they do.

I’m a big proponent of living a healthy lifestyle. I promote several healthy lifestyle’s such as www.NutrientRich.com, the new trend in eating and others, but sleep, a focus on diet and exercise alone, as foundational and beneficial as they are, are only part of the Healthy High Achievers formula for success.

By themselves, sleep, food and fitness training aren’t nearly as potent as they could be, in helping us face challenges and improve the quality of our lives, if they were seen as essential, but only components of a lifestyle focused on managing your personal energy, which promotes both health and success.

Healthy High Achievers work out yes, they do the stuff you see in the magazines (well, almost) depending on what magazine you’re reading. It’s what you’re not seeing (or learning) that makes the difference, that can only be explained in the context of the Performance Lifestyle they live. 

Healthy High Achievers have a different mindset, a far more potent lifestyle and a more complete approach to acheiving their goals, than the average person has.

I’ve actually gotten tired of saying "live healthy", especially when I myself know that the reason why I get better results than most people is only partly because of how I sleep, eat and exercise. The Healthy High Achiever, does not wake up every day focused on health (unless they’ve lost it).

They wake up every day, like you I’m sure, focused on success… the things they’re up to in the world. In other words, they are focused on their goals. And their goal is not be healthy. They want be healthy, but their real goal is to be more successful.

Health is our birthright, it’s only part of the real goal!

So what bridges the gap between their health and success? A very potent solution, called Performance Lifestyle.

Stay tuned for Part 3 of 5