Here’s what happens when your lifestyle is not working for you.

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The sudden death of Paula Nowakowski has been a wake-up call for hard-charging Hill staffers.

“For a lot of us, this was a mortality check,” said Justin Harding, 34, who’s often on call seven days a week as chief of staff for Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and frequently gets home from work after his kids have gone to sleep. “It’s causing us all to reflect and sort of check our own circumstances.”

Hill staffers say Nowakowski’s lifestyle mirrored much of their own. She smoked, she didn’t always eat well, and she often worked seven days a week.

“Paula believed in what she was doing, but there are sacrifices that you make,” said Nowakowski’s friend Jamie Roe, chief of staff to Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich.), his voice cracking with emotion.

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This is a perfect example of the downward trend and why we don’t simply teach you how to live a “healthy lifestyle” here at the Lifestyle Coaching Center, but rather help you live the healthiest lifestyle possible by focusing on your capacity to function and perform well for goal achievement and quality of life.

Paula needed to do more than simply eat better. She needed a PerformanceLifestyle. She was steeped in a downward trend that overstressed her. She was overstimulated, under recuperated, over fed, and under nourished (likely), overwhelmed by foodstuffs. She was super busy and physically inactive and ultimately ended up overweight and with a health complication that took her life.

To change that pattern requires more than simply eating less or a little bit better, and exercising more. No one in that state can stick with it. my friend Ian Graham says, “we have to sculpt our whole lives, not just our bodies” and that means, we have to get our our lifestyle’s working for us they way they do for athletes to survive and thrive in the fast paced culture that ultimately took the life right out of Paula Nowakowski.

People all over the world are suffering from this trend. You don’t have to work on Capitol Hill to have this problem and it takes a PerformanceLifestyle mindset and skills set to solve this problem.

Obviously one cannot simply quick their job and go become a sky staring Buddhist, and leave the game. To step up your game you also don’t need to work harder. You need to work and live smarter and that requires the skills to manage your lifestyle no matter what environment you work in.

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