When it comes to exercise, most conventional wisdom states that "more is better." But, an overwhelming amount of research in recent years has shown that long cardio workouts are not only a waste of time, they can actually cause health problems.
I recommend you place the emphasis of your training on the intensity of your exercise rather than the duration. This is the way I structure the routines in the Firestorm Fitness Systems Fat Burning Fit Camps.
If you're not currently attending the classes, may I respectfully recommend that you make doing this one of your health resolutions for 2008. This one change will not only improve your heart and lung capacity and your overall health, but also it's the best way I know to quickly shed fat.
Where did we get the notion that jumping on the StairMaster or Elliptical Trainer was the way to go for fat loss? I think I know:
Way back in the 60's, Dr. Ken Cooper did some research that showed that aerobic exercise was good for your heart. We'll go into the basis for this research some other time.
Thus began the "aerobics" craze.
In 1987, the same Ken Cooper found that "people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly, but ignored their diet and their weight, had heart attacks by age 55."
O.K., I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but if you're following exercise guidelines EXACTLY, shouldn't there be a reduction in weight? And wouldn't following the guidelines EXACTLY lead one to have a dietary guideline as well?
In 1992, Dr. Ken Cooper found that "research has shown that strenuous aerobic exercise is associated with oxidative stress and tissue damage."
Why are we still listening to this guy?
He also found, in that same year, "the bodies need for oxygen during aerobic exercise seems to produce free radicals which can result in DNA damage, cancer, direct damage to muscle tissue and make the cells more susceptible to aging."
Oh boy!
In 2000, Dr. Ken Cooper found that "there is no correlation between aerobic endurance performance and health, longevity or heart disease protection."
And yet, walk into to any corporate health club and what takes up the most space in the entire facility? You guessed it . . .
Cardio equipment.
Now you may understand a little better when people ask me what I do for "cardio" I always respond, "I run at the mouth and jump to conclusions."
I haven't done "cardio" in twenty years. My heart rate beats at 65 per minute, my body fat percentage is around 10 percent and my strength is great.
For those of you who feel that jumping on a bike, StairMaster, elliptical or treadmill for 30 minutes of movement is the best way to go, listen in on a conversation I had a short time ago:
"Steve, I used to do what I call "high-low" exercise. In other words, I would exercise in short intense bursts, then rest and repeat. But I made a change when I read something that said long, slow workouts are better - and that's when I put on fat. Then I read somewhere and learned that long duration cardio signals the body that you NEED fat, so the body holds onto it. When I went back to "high-low" type training, I not only I cut my exercise time in half, but my slim figure returned in less than a month."
Bottom line:
A) Jump on the "cardio" equipment for 30 minutes of steady state aerobic training and stay fat, or:
B) Use intervals for your sessions and slim down.
It really is that simple.
God bless,
Steve
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Kekich's Credo
July 7, 1978 started as just another day for Dave Kekich.
He was working out in the gym… without a care in the world. The next day, he found himself staring at a hospital room ceiling, connected to machines, unable to move anything below his arms.
In the twinkling of an eye, this long distance running, weight lifting, exercise fanatic became a spinal cord injured cripple. He spent the next 15 months on a round the World odyssey, looking for a cure that didn’t exist—and finally came back home to Pennsylvania. He spent the next 19 years raising money for paralysis research, with one main goal: to walk again.
You can learn a lot from Dave Kekich.
And here's your chance...Dave's 100 Credos in their entirety:
1. Strive to increase order and discipline in your life. Discipline usually means doing the opposite of what you feel like doing. People will do almost anything to stay in their comfort zones. If you want to accomplish anything, get out of your comfort zone by replacing your bad habits, one- by-one, over time, with good habits. Focusing on habits is the easy road to discipline.
2. Cherish time, your most valuable resource. You can never make up the time you lose. It's the most important value for any productive happy individual and is the only limitation to all accomplishment. To waste time is to waste your life. Use your time effectively.
3. Think carefully before making any offers, commitments or promises, no matter how seemingly trivial. These are all contracts and must be honored. These also include self-resolutions.
4. Real regrets only come from not doing your best. All else is out of your control. You're measured by results only. Trade excuses for results, and expect half-hearted results from half-hearted efforts. Do more than is expected of you. Be willing to pay the price. Life is easy when you live it the hard way...and hard if you try to live it the easy way.
5. Always show gratitude when earned, monetarily when possible.
6. Produce for wealth creation and accumulation. Invest profits for wealth preservation and growth. Produce more than you consume, and save a minimum of 20% of all earnings. Pay yourself first.
7. Cut all ties with dishonest, negative or lazy people, and associate with people who share your values.
8. Learn from the giants.
9. A little caution avoids great regrets. Hope for the best and prepare for> the worst. Keep fully insured physically and materially and keep hedged emotionally. Insurance is not for sale when you need it.
10. Learn the other side's needs, offer as little information as possible, never underestimate your opposition, and never show weakness when negotiating.
11. Never enter into nor invest in a business without a solid, well-researched and well thought-out written plan. Execute the plan with passion and precision. Plan and manage your life the same way.
12. Success comes quickly to those whom develop great powers of intense sustained concentration. The first rule is to get involved by asking focused questions.
13. Protect your downside. The upside will take care of itself. Cut your losses short - and let your profits run. This takes tremendous discipline.
14. The primary purpose of business is to create and keep customers. Marketing and innovation produce results. All other business functions are costs. Prospecting and increasing the average value and frequency of sales are the bedrock of marketing and business.
15. Pay only on performance. Whatever you reinforce or reward, you get more of.
16. Competence starts with guaranteeing your work.
17. Life operates in reverse action to entropy. Therefore the universe is hostile to life. Progress is a continued effort to swim against the stream.
18. Find out what works, and then do more of it. Focus first on doing the right things, and then on doing things right by mastering details. A few basic moves produce most income.
19. Use leverage with ideas (the ability to generalize is the key to intellectual leverage), work, money, time and people. To maximize profits, replicate yourself. Earning potentials become geometric rather thanlinear.
20. Rationalizations are generally convenient evasions of reality and are used as excuses for dishonest behavior and/or laziness.
21. Always have lofty explicit goals and focus on them intensely. Assume the attitude that if you don't reach your goals, you will literally die! This type of gun-to-your-head forced focus... survival pressure mindset, no matter how briefly used, stimulates your mind, forces you to use your time effectively...and illuminates new ways of getting things done.
22. The value of any service you have to offer diminishes rapidly once it's provided. Protect your compensation before performing.
23. Incalculable effort and hardship over countless generations evolved into the life, values and happiness we take for granted today. Every day should be a celebration of existence. You are a masterpiece of life and should feel and appreciate this all the way down to your bones. Aspire to achieve and build onto the great value momentum-taking place all around you.
24. Enthusiasm covers many deficiencies - and will make others want to associate with you.
25. All human beings are driven by two basic emotions - pain and pleasure. Most people will do far more to avoid pain than they will to gain pleasure.
26. Religiously nourish your body with good nutrition, exercise, recreation, sleep and relaxation techniques.
27. The choice to exert integrated effort or to default to camouflaged laziness is the key choice that determines your character, competence and future. That critical choice must be made continually - throughout life. The most meaningful thing to live for is reaching your full potential.
28. Keep an active mind, and continue to grow intellectually. You either grow or regress. Nothing stands still. Books are man’s best friends, not dogs.
29. Most success is built on clear persuasive communication. It starts with careful listening, questioning and observing your feedback. Become a communications expert.
30. Socialism appeals to psychological and intellectual weaklings. Take full control of, and responsibility for, your conscious mind and all aspects of your life. Do not depend on others. Being incompetent or dependent in any part of your life or business opens you up to sloppiness, manipulation and irrationality.
31. If there is not a conscious struggle to be honest in difficult situations, you are probably being dishonest. Characters aren't really tested until things aren't going well or until the stakes are high.
32. Do not compromise if you are right. Hold your ground, show no fear, and ask for what you want, and the opposition will usually agree.
33. If the situation is not right in the long term, walk away from it. Maintain a long-term outlook in all endeavors. Live like you don't have much time left...but plan as if you'll live for centuries.
34. Invest only after strict and complete due diligence. Make decisions carefully. Then pull the trigger.
35. Always have one more project than you can comfortably handle.
36. Keep your overhead to a minimum. Rely more on brains, wit and talent and less on money.
37. Business is the highest evolution of consciousness, responsibility and morality. The essences of business are: honesty, effort, responsibility, integration, creativity, objectivity, long-range planning, intensity, effectiveness, discipline, thought and control. Business is life on all levels at all times.
38. That which is most satisfying is that which is earned. Anything received free of charge is seldom valued. You can't get something for (from) nothing. The price is too high.
39. By adhering to a strong honest philosophy, you will remain guiltless, blameless, and independent and maintain control over your life. Without a sound philosophy, your life will eventually crumble.
40. It takes almost the same amount of time and energy to manage tiny projects or businesses as it does to manage massive ones...and the massive ones carry with them - proportional rewards.
41. There is no such thing as "just a little theft" or "just a little dishonesty". A half-truth is still a whole lie.
42. Lead by example.
43. Take full responsibility for your actions or lack of action. He who errs must pay. This is an easy concept to grasp from the recipient's end.
44. An hour of effective, precise, hard, disciplined - and integrated thinking can be worth a month of hard work. Thinking is the very essence of, and the most difficult thing to do in business and in life. Empire builders spend hour-after-hour on mental work...while others party. If you're not consciously aware of putting forth the effort to exert self-guided integrated thinking...if you don't act beyond your feelings and take the path of least resistance, then you're giving in to laziness and no longer control your life.
45. Out-think, out-innovate and out-hustle the competition, and vividly visualize yourself as winning before entering into every deal or competitive situation. Maintain a blood-smelling, fighter pilot life-or- death attitude when any deal gets near to a close.
46. First impressions are lasting impressions. Put your best foot forward. People treat you like you teach them to treat you. A success key is positioning yourself at the top of their agenda.
47. The right thing is usually not the easy thing to do. You may sacrifice popularity for rightness, but you'll lose self-esteem for wrongness. Don't be afraid to say "no".
48. If someone lies to you once, he'll lie to you a thousand times. Lying is for thieves and cowards.
49. Have strict and total respect for other people's property.
50. Producing results is more important than proving you're right. To get things done, try to understand others' frames of references, points of view, needs and wants. Then determine what is honest, fair, effective and rational...and act accordingly.
51. Long-term success is built on credibility and on establishing enduring relationships with quality people based on mutually earned trust.
52. Don't be preoccupied with things over which you have no control.
53. Spend more time working "on" your business than "in" your business.
54. Don't enter into a business relationship with anyone unknown to you without being furnished with references dating back at least 10 years. If he doesn't have good enduring relationships, stay away. Check all representations on which you will rely made by everyone.
55. Enjoy life. Treat it as an adventure. Care passionately about the outcome, but keep it in perspective. Things are seldom as bleak as they seem when they are going wrong - or as good as they seem when they are going well. Lighten up. You'll live longer.
56. Identify exactly what it is you want. This takes a lot of thought. Then don't let anything stand in your way of getting it.
57. You can get any job done through the sheer force of will when combined with uncompromising integrity and competence. Strong leadership is the key.
58. You are responsible for who, what and where you are in life. Situations aren't important. How you react to them is. You have to play it where it lies.
59. The foundation of achievement is intense desire. The world's highest achievers have the highest levels of dissatisfaction. Those with the lowest levels are the failures. The best way to build desire is to make resolute choices for the future.
60. Integrate every aspect of your life (body, mind, spirit, relationships, and business) and each within itself. Integrating means understanding and digesting a process...and seeing relationships among seemingly unrelated phenomena. It's a sign of innovative genius.
61. Never be deceptive when trying to achieve a personal gain. Shortchanging others results in loss of self-esteem.
62. If your purpose of life is security, you will be a failure. Security is the lowest form of happiness.
63. Never enter into a contract unless all parties benefit. But no partnership is ever 50/50. There will always be inequities.
64. Review the basics of your profession at least once per year.
65. Bitterness and anger empowers your enemies and enslaves you. Negative thinking results in the destruction of property. It is anti-property, therefore anti-capitalistic and anti-life. It also erodes your health. Forgive, forget, and get on with your life.
66. Most people spend 90% of their time on what they're not best at and only 10% of their time on their best ability. Geniuses delegate the 90%...and spend all their time on their "unique ability".
67. High self-esteem can only come from moral productivity and achievement.
68. There are an infinite number of new opportunities. Actively seek them out, and position yourself to recognize and take advantage of them.
69. There is no such thing as a good idea unless it is developed and utilized.
70. For maximum profits, identify and market universal needs, wants and trends. Satisfying needs and wants and replacing problems with creative innovations is the essence of profit generation.
71. To maximize opportunities, seek and master the complicated. The major solutions you find will be surprisingly simple, and the competition is minimal.
72. Always have options. Options are a primary source of power.
73. Nothing wins more often than superior preparation. Genius is usually preparation. Olympic athletes train for years for one day of competition.
74. Patience is profitable. Achievement comes from the sum of consistent small efforts, repeated daily.
75. Persistence is a sure path to success with quality activities. Never, ever, ever give up.
76. "I will do this" is the only attitude that works.” "I'll try" or "I think" doesn't work.
77. Always work on increasing the size of the pie, rather than just your portion.
78. Rewards are rare without risks, but take only carefully calculated risks. Make sure the odds are on your side.
79. The "how" you get it (with integrity) is more important than the "what".
80. Be explicit and semantically precise in all communications, agreements and dealings. Summarize and write down important discussions...and make sure all sides agree. Putting agreements in writing avoids misunderstandings. Memories are fallible, and death is inevitable (so far).
81. The best way to get started is to get started. Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin. Life rewards action. Be proactive rather than reactive. Wait for nothing. Attack life. Don't plan things to death or ask for permission. Act now...and apologize later.
82. Question everything. Don't believe it's true or right just because it's conventional. Strip all limits from your imagination on every deal and look for an unconventional creative opportunity in every mistake, crisis or problem. Be flexible. Be willing to turn on a dime when advantageous.
83. Have fun. The single key to a successful happy life is finding a vocation you enjoy - one that excites you the most. Then couple it with independent self-stimulated thinking, and follow with action.
84. Nobody gets old by surprise.
85. When it's a matter of producing or starving, people don't starve.
86. Fill your life with positive expectations. Demand the best. Attitude and desire contribute to 90% of your success. Anyone can learn the physical mechanics.
87. The surest way to accomplish your business goals is making service to others your primary goal. The key to success is adding value to others' lives.
88. The source of lasting happiness can never come from outside yourself through consuming values - but only from within yourself by producing values. In fact, producing more than you consume is the only justification for existence. A fire, if not fed, will soon burn out.
89. An avoided problem will not go away, but usually gets worse. Anticipate and eliminate problems - or meet them head on at the outset.
90. Find an excuse to laugh every chance you get, especially when you least feel like it.
91. When someone makes a big issue about his honesty or achievements, he is probably dishonest or a failure. Shakespeare said it a long time ago, “Methinks thou doth protest too much.”
92. Put the magic power of compound interest to work with every available dollar.
93. The best investment you will ever make is your steady increase of knowledge. Invest in yourself. Thirty minutes of study per day eventually makes you an expert in any subject - but only if you apply that knowledge. Study alone is no substitute for experience. Education is always painfully slow.
94. For each important action you take, ask yourself if you would be embarrassed if it were published. It takes a lifetime of effort to build a good reputation but only a moment of stupidity to destroy it.
95. You are exactly what you believe and think about all day long. Constantly monitor your thoughts. The book of Proverbs states, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.”
96. If it can't be observed, it's not true. Never act on blind faith. Whenever something sounds too good to be true, you can bet it is. Refuse to be swayed by emotion when it conflicts with reason.
97. Anxiety is usually caused by lack of control, organization, preparation and action.
98. The first rule of sharpening your mind is to be an alert and sensitive observer. Constantly pay attention. Observation is the genesis of all knowledge and progress...and is the first and last step of every thinking man's tool - The Scientific Method.
99. Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you. It takes a wise man to learn from his mistakes...and a genius to learn and profit from the mistakes and experiences of others.
100. The purpose of life is to delay, avoid and eventually reverse death.
God bless you,
Steve
He was working out in the gym… without a care in the world. The next day, he found himself staring at a hospital room ceiling, connected to machines, unable to move anything below his arms.
In the twinkling of an eye, this long distance running, weight lifting, exercise fanatic became a spinal cord injured cripple. He spent the next 15 months on a round the World odyssey, looking for a cure that didn’t exist—and finally came back home to Pennsylvania. He spent the next 19 years raising money for paralysis research, with one main goal: to walk again.
You can learn a lot from Dave Kekich.
And here's your chance...Dave's 100 Credos in their entirety:
1. Strive to increase order and discipline in your life. Discipline usually means doing the opposite of what you feel like doing. People will do almost anything to stay in their comfort zones. If you want to accomplish anything, get out of your comfort zone by replacing your bad habits, one- by-one, over time, with good habits. Focusing on habits is the easy road to discipline.
2. Cherish time, your most valuable resource. You can never make up the time you lose. It's the most important value for any productive happy individual and is the only limitation to all accomplishment. To waste time is to waste your life. Use your time effectively.
3. Think carefully before making any offers, commitments or promises, no matter how seemingly trivial. These are all contracts and must be honored. These also include self-resolutions.
4. Real regrets only come from not doing your best. All else is out of your control. You're measured by results only. Trade excuses for results, and expect half-hearted results from half-hearted efforts. Do more than is expected of you. Be willing to pay the price. Life is easy when you live it the hard way...and hard if you try to live it the easy way.
5. Always show gratitude when earned, monetarily when possible.
6. Produce for wealth creation and accumulation. Invest profits for wealth preservation and growth. Produce more than you consume, and save a minimum of 20% of all earnings. Pay yourself first.
7. Cut all ties with dishonest, negative or lazy people, and associate with people who share your values.
8. Learn from the giants.
9. A little caution avoids great regrets. Hope for the best and prepare for> the worst. Keep fully insured physically and materially and keep hedged emotionally. Insurance is not for sale when you need it.
10. Learn the other side's needs, offer as little information as possible, never underestimate your opposition, and never show weakness when negotiating.
11. Never enter into nor invest in a business without a solid, well-researched and well thought-out written plan. Execute the plan with passion and precision. Plan and manage your life the same way.
12. Success comes quickly to those whom develop great powers of intense sustained concentration. The first rule is to get involved by asking focused questions.
13. Protect your downside. The upside will take care of itself. Cut your losses short - and let your profits run. This takes tremendous discipline.
14. The primary purpose of business is to create and keep customers. Marketing and innovation produce results. All other business functions are costs. Prospecting and increasing the average value and frequency of sales are the bedrock of marketing and business.
15. Pay only on performance. Whatever you reinforce or reward, you get more of.
16. Competence starts with guaranteeing your work.
17. Life operates in reverse action to entropy. Therefore the universe is hostile to life. Progress is a continued effort to swim against the stream.
18. Find out what works, and then do more of it. Focus first on doing the right things, and then on doing things right by mastering details. A few basic moves produce most income.
19. Use leverage with ideas (the ability to generalize is the key to intellectual leverage), work, money, time and people. To maximize profits, replicate yourself. Earning potentials become geometric rather thanlinear.
20. Rationalizations are generally convenient evasions of reality and are used as excuses for dishonest behavior and/or laziness.
21. Always have lofty explicit goals and focus on them intensely. Assume the attitude that if you don't reach your goals, you will literally die! This type of gun-to-your-head forced focus... survival pressure mindset, no matter how briefly used, stimulates your mind, forces you to use your time effectively...and illuminates new ways of getting things done.
22. The value of any service you have to offer diminishes rapidly once it's provided. Protect your compensation before performing.
23. Incalculable effort and hardship over countless generations evolved into the life, values and happiness we take for granted today. Every day should be a celebration of existence. You are a masterpiece of life and should feel and appreciate this all the way down to your bones. Aspire to achieve and build onto the great value momentum-taking place all around you.
24. Enthusiasm covers many deficiencies - and will make others want to associate with you.
25. All human beings are driven by two basic emotions - pain and pleasure. Most people will do far more to avoid pain than they will to gain pleasure.
26. Religiously nourish your body with good nutrition, exercise, recreation, sleep and relaxation techniques.
27. The choice to exert integrated effort or to default to camouflaged laziness is the key choice that determines your character, competence and future. That critical choice must be made continually - throughout life. The most meaningful thing to live for is reaching your full potential.
28. Keep an active mind, and continue to grow intellectually. You either grow or regress. Nothing stands still. Books are man’s best friends, not dogs.
29. Most success is built on clear persuasive communication. It starts with careful listening, questioning and observing your feedback. Become a communications expert.
30. Socialism appeals to psychological and intellectual weaklings. Take full control of, and responsibility for, your conscious mind and all aspects of your life. Do not depend on others. Being incompetent or dependent in any part of your life or business opens you up to sloppiness, manipulation and irrationality.
31. If there is not a conscious struggle to be honest in difficult situations, you are probably being dishonest. Characters aren't really tested until things aren't going well or until the stakes are high.
32. Do not compromise if you are right. Hold your ground, show no fear, and ask for what you want, and the opposition will usually agree.
33. If the situation is not right in the long term, walk away from it. Maintain a long-term outlook in all endeavors. Live like you don't have much time left...but plan as if you'll live for centuries.
34. Invest only after strict and complete due diligence. Make decisions carefully. Then pull the trigger.
35. Always have one more project than you can comfortably handle.
36. Keep your overhead to a minimum. Rely more on brains, wit and talent and less on money.
37. Business is the highest evolution of consciousness, responsibility and morality. The essences of business are: honesty, effort, responsibility, integration, creativity, objectivity, long-range planning, intensity, effectiveness, discipline, thought and control. Business is life on all levels at all times.
38. That which is most satisfying is that which is earned. Anything received free of charge is seldom valued. You can't get something for (from) nothing. The price is too high.
39. By adhering to a strong honest philosophy, you will remain guiltless, blameless, and independent and maintain control over your life. Without a sound philosophy, your life will eventually crumble.
40. It takes almost the same amount of time and energy to manage tiny projects or businesses as it does to manage massive ones...and the massive ones carry with them - proportional rewards.
41. There is no such thing as "just a little theft" or "just a little dishonesty". A half-truth is still a whole lie.
42. Lead by example.
43. Take full responsibility for your actions or lack of action. He who errs must pay. This is an easy concept to grasp from the recipient's end.
44. An hour of effective, precise, hard, disciplined - and integrated thinking can be worth a month of hard work. Thinking is the very essence of, and the most difficult thing to do in business and in life. Empire builders spend hour-after-hour on mental work...while others party. If you're not consciously aware of putting forth the effort to exert self-guided integrated thinking...if you don't act beyond your feelings and take the path of least resistance, then you're giving in to laziness and no longer control your life.
45. Out-think, out-innovate and out-hustle the competition, and vividly visualize yourself as winning before entering into every deal or competitive situation. Maintain a blood-smelling, fighter pilot life-or- death attitude when any deal gets near to a close.
46. First impressions are lasting impressions. Put your best foot forward. People treat you like you teach them to treat you. A success key is positioning yourself at the top of their agenda.
47. The right thing is usually not the easy thing to do. You may sacrifice popularity for rightness, but you'll lose self-esteem for wrongness. Don't be afraid to say "no".
48. If someone lies to you once, he'll lie to you a thousand times. Lying is for thieves and cowards.
49. Have strict and total respect for other people's property.
50. Producing results is more important than proving you're right. To get things done, try to understand others' frames of references, points of view, needs and wants. Then determine what is honest, fair, effective and rational...and act accordingly.
51. Long-term success is built on credibility and on establishing enduring relationships with quality people based on mutually earned trust.
52. Don't be preoccupied with things over which you have no control.
53. Spend more time working "on" your business than "in" your business.
54. Don't enter into a business relationship with anyone unknown to you without being furnished with references dating back at least 10 years. If he doesn't have good enduring relationships, stay away. Check all representations on which you will rely made by everyone.
55. Enjoy life. Treat it as an adventure. Care passionately about the outcome, but keep it in perspective. Things are seldom as bleak as they seem when they are going wrong - or as good as they seem when they are going well. Lighten up. You'll live longer.
56. Identify exactly what it is you want. This takes a lot of thought. Then don't let anything stand in your way of getting it.
57. You can get any job done through the sheer force of will when combined with uncompromising integrity and competence. Strong leadership is the key.
58. You are responsible for who, what and where you are in life. Situations aren't important. How you react to them is. You have to play it where it lies.
59. The foundation of achievement is intense desire. The world's highest achievers have the highest levels of dissatisfaction. Those with the lowest levels are the failures. The best way to build desire is to make resolute choices for the future.
60. Integrate every aspect of your life (body, mind, spirit, relationships, and business) and each within itself. Integrating means understanding and digesting a process...and seeing relationships among seemingly unrelated phenomena. It's a sign of innovative genius.
61. Never be deceptive when trying to achieve a personal gain. Shortchanging others results in loss of self-esteem.
62. If your purpose of life is security, you will be a failure. Security is the lowest form of happiness.
63. Never enter into a contract unless all parties benefit. But no partnership is ever 50/50. There will always be inequities.
64. Review the basics of your profession at least once per year.
65. Bitterness and anger empowers your enemies and enslaves you. Negative thinking results in the destruction of property. It is anti-property, therefore anti-capitalistic and anti-life. It also erodes your health. Forgive, forget, and get on with your life.
66. Most people spend 90% of their time on what they're not best at and only 10% of their time on their best ability. Geniuses delegate the 90%...and spend all their time on their "unique ability".
67. High self-esteem can only come from moral productivity and achievement.
68. There are an infinite number of new opportunities. Actively seek them out, and position yourself to recognize and take advantage of them.
69. There is no such thing as a good idea unless it is developed and utilized.
70. For maximum profits, identify and market universal needs, wants and trends. Satisfying needs and wants and replacing problems with creative innovations is the essence of profit generation.
71. To maximize opportunities, seek and master the complicated. The major solutions you find will be surprisingly simple, and the competition is minimal.
72. Always have options. Options are a primary source of power.
73. Nothing wins more often than superior preparation. Genius is usually preparation. Olympic athletes train for years for one day of competition.
74. Patience is profitable. Achievement comes from the sum of consistent small efforts, repeated daily.
75. Persistence is a sure path to success with quality activities. Never, ever, ever give up.
76. "I will do this" is the only attitude that works.” "I'll try" or "I think" doesn't work.
77. Always work on increasing the size of the pie, rather than just your portion.
78. Rewards are rare without risks, but take only carefully calculated risks. Make sure the odds are on your side.
79. The "how" you get it (with integrity) is more important than the "what".
80. Be explicit and semantically precise in all communications, agreements and dealings. Summarize and write down important discussions...and make sure all sides agree. Putting agreements in writing avoids misunderstandings. Memories are fallible, and death is inevitable (so far).
81. The best way to get started is to get started. Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin. Life rewards action. Be proactive rather than reactive. Wait for nothing. Attack life. Don't plan things to death or ask for permission. Act now...and apologize later.
82. Question everything. Don't believe it's true or right just because it's conventional. Strip all limits from your imagination on every deal and look for an unconventional creative opportunity in every mistake, crisis or problem. Be flexible. Be willing to turn on a dime when advantageous.
83. Have fun. The single key to a successful happy life is finding a vocation you enjoy - one that excites you the most. Then couple it with independent self-stimulated thinking, and follow with action.
84. Nobody gets old by surprise.
85. When it's a matter of producing or starving, people don't starve.
86. Fill your life with positive expectations. Demand the best. Attitude and desire contribute to 90% of your success. Anyone can learn the physical mechanics.
87. The surest way to accomplish your business goals is making service to others your primary goal. The key to success is adding value to others' lives.
88. The source of lasting happiness can never come from outside yourself through consuming values - but only from within yourself by producing values. In fact, producing more than you consume is the only justification for existence. A fire, if not fed, will soon burn out.
89. An avoided problem will not go away, but usually gets worse. Anticipate and eliminate problems - or meet them head on at the outset.
90. Find an excuse to laugh every chance you get, especially when you least feel like it.
91. When someone makes a big issue about his honesty or achievements, he is probably dishonest or a failure. Shakespeare said it a long time ago, “Methinks thou doth protest too much.”
92. Put the magic power of compound interest to work with every available dollar.
93. The best investment you will ever make is your steady increase of knowledge. Invest in yourself. Thirty minutes of study per day eventually makes you an expert in any subject - but only if you apply that knowledge. Study alone is no substitute for experience. Education is always painfully slow.
94. For each important action you take, ask yourself if you would be embarrassed if it were published. It takes a lifetime of effort to build a good reputation but only a moment of stupidity to destroy it.
95. You are exactly what you believe and think about all day long. Constantly monitor your thoughts. The book of Proverbs states, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.”
96. If it can't be observed, it's not true. Never act on blind faith. Whenever something sounds too good to be true, you can bet it is. Refuse to be swayed by emotion when it conflicts with reason.
97. Anxiety is usually caused by lack of control, organization, preparation and action.
98. The first rule of sharpening your mind is to be an alert and sensitive observer. Constantly pay attention. Observation is the genesis of all knowledge and progress...and is the first and last step of every thinking man's tool - The Scientific Method.
99. Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you. It takes a wise man to learn from his mistakes...and a genius to learn and profit from the mistakes and experiences of others.
100. The purpose of life is to delay, avoid and eventually reverse death.
God bless you,
Steve
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Eggs are beautiful!
The following article is by a colleague, Mike Geary:
I was on a weekend trip with some friends recently and one of my friends was cooking breakfast for the whole group. I went over to see what he was cooking and saw he was getting ready to make a big batch of eggs.
Well, to my shock and horror, I noticed that he was cracking the eggs open and screening the egg whites into a bowl and throwing out the egg yolks. I asked him why the heck he was throwing out the egg yolks, and he replied..."because I thought the egg yolks were terrible for you...that's where all the nasty fat and cholesterol is".
And I replied, "you mean that's where all the nutrition is!
"This is a perfect example of how confused most people are about nutrition. In a world full of misinformation, somehow most people now mistakenly think that the egg yolk is the worst part of the egg, when in fact, the YOLK IS THE HEALTHIEST PART OF THE EGG!
By throwing out the yolk and only eating egg whites, you're essentially throwing out the most nutrient dense, antioxidant-rich, vitamin and mineral loaded portion of the egg. The yolks contain so many B-vitamins, trace minerals, vitamin A, folate, choline, lutein, and other powerful nutrients... it's not even worth trying to list them all.
In fact, the egg whites are almost devoid of nutrition compared to the yolk. Even the protein in egg whites isn't as powerful without the yolks to balance out the amino acid profile and make the protein more bio-available.
Not to even mention that the egg yolks from free range chickens are loaded with omega-3 fatty acids.Yolks contain more than 90% of the calcium, iron, phosphorus, zinc, thiamin, B6, folate, and B12, and panthothenic acid of the egg. In addition, the yolks contain all of the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K in the egg, as well as all of the essential fatty acids.And now the common objection I get all the time when I say that the yolks are the most nutritious part of the egg...
"But I heard that whole eggs will skyrocket my cholesterol through the roof"
No, this is FALSE!
First of all, when you eat a food that contains a high amount of dietary cholesterol such as eggs, your body down-regulates it's internal production of cholesterol to balance things out.
On the other hand, if you don't eat enough cholesterol, your body simply produces more since cholesterol has tons of important functions in the body.
And here's where it gets even more interesting...There are indications that eating whole eggs actually raises your good HDL cholesterol to a higher degree than LDL cholesterol, thereby improving your overall cholesterol ratio and blood chemistry.
And 3rd... high cholesterol is NOT a disease!
Heart disease is a disease...but high cholesterol is NOT.
You can read the following article about why trying to attack cholesterol is a mistake, and what the REAL deadly risk factors actually are here.
So I hope we've established that whole eggs are not some evil food that will wreck your body... instead whole eggs are FAR superior to egg whites. Also, your normal supermarket eggs coming from mass factory farming just don't compare nutritionally with organic free range eggs from healthy chickens that are allowed to roam freely and eat a more natural diet.
I recently compared eggs I bought at the grocery store with a batch of eggs I got at a farm stand where the chickens were free roaming and healthy.
Most people don't realize that there's a major difference because they've never bought real eggs from healthy chickens... The eggs from the grocery store had pale yellow yolks. On the other hand, the healthier free range eggs had deep orange colored yolks indicating much higher nutrition levels and carotenoids.
So next time a health or fitness professional tells you that egg whites are superior, you can quietly ignore their advice knowing that you understand the REAL deal about egg yolks.
Thanks Mike.
SP
I was on a weekend trip with some friends recently and one of my friends was cooking breakfast for the whole group. I went over to see what he was cooking and saw he was getting ready to make a big batch of eggs.
Well, to my shock and horror, I noticed that he was cracking the eggs open and screening the egg whites into a bowl and throwing out the egg yolks. I asked him why the heck he was throwing out the egg yolks, and he replied..."because I thought the egg yolks were terrible for you...that's where all the nasty fat and cholesterol is".
And I replied, "you mean that's where all the nutrition is!
"This is a perfect example of how confused most people are about nutrition. In a world full of misinformation, somehow most people now mistakenly think that the egg yolk is the worst part of the egg, when in fact, the YOLK IS THE HEALTHIEST PART OF THE EGG!
By throwing out the yolk and only eating egg whites, you're essentially throwing out the most nutrient dense, antioxidant-rich, vitamin and mineral loaded portion of the egg. The yolks contain so many B-vitamins, trace minerals, vitamin A, folate, choline, lutein, and other powerful nutrients... it's not even worth trying to list them all.
In fact, the egg whites are almost devoid of nutrition compared to the yolk. Even the protein in egg whites isn't as powerful without the yolks to balance out the amino acid profile and make the protein more bio-available.
Not to even mention that the egg yolks from free range chickens are loaded with omega-3 fatty acids.Yolks contain more than 90% of the calcium, iron, phosphorus, zinc, thiamin, B6, folate, and B12, and panthothenic acid of the egg. In addition, the yolks contain all of the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K in the egg, as well as all of the essential fatty acids.And now the common objection I get all the time when I say that the yolks are the most nutritious part of the egg...
"But I heard that whole eggs will skyrocket my cholesterol through the roof"
No, this is FALSE!
First of all, when you eat a food that contains a high amount of dietary cholesterol such as eggs, your body down-regulates it's internal production of cholesterol to balance things out.
On the other hand, if you don't eat enough cholesterol, your body simply produces more since cholesterol has tons of important functions in the body.
And here's where it gets even more interesting...There are indications that eating whole eggs actually raises your good HDL cholesterol to a higher degree than LDL cholesterol, thereby improving your overall cholesterol ratio and blood chemistry.
And 3rd... high cholesterol is NOT a disease!
Heart disease is a disease...but high cholesterol is NOT.
You can read the following article about why trying to attack cholesterol is a mistake, and what the REAL deadly risk factors actually are here.
So I hope we've established that whole eggs are not some evil food that will wreck your body... instead whole eggs are FAR superior to egg whites. Also, your normal supermarket eggs coming from mass factory farming just don't compare nutritionally with organic free range eggs from healthy chickens that are allowed to roam freely and eat a more natural diet.
I recently compared eggs I bought at the grocery store with a batch of eggs I got at a farm stand where the chickens were free roaming and healthy.
Most people don't realize that there's a major difference because they've never bought real eggs from healthy chickens... The eggs from the grocery store had pale yellow yolks. On the other hand, the healthier free range eggs had deep orange colored yolks indicating much higher nutrition levels and carotenoids.
So next time a health or fitness professional tells you that egg whites are superior, you can quietly ignore their advice knowing that you understand the REAL deal about egg yolks.
Thanks Mike.
SP
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Monday, January 14, 2008
Why won't they listen to me?
Sometimes I swear I want to scream until I'm hoarse. Sometimes I, like radio and T.V. talk show host Glenn Beck, need a roll of duct tape to wrap around my head in order to keep it from exploding.
Why?
Aerobic exercise.
I was at the gym a few days ago and I overheard a trainer there tell one of his clients, "Well, in order to get really lean you've got to step up your aerobic training." This female client of his has not lost an inch since she started with him over a year ago. In fact she's gained size and weight. How do I know?
I was eavesdropping. . . remember?
No big surprise to me, but then again . . . I don't SUCK as a trainer.
Here are some numbers for you:
In January of 2007 a SIX MONTH clinical trial concluded wherein two (count 'em, 2) different groups were tested.
Group "A" followed a strict diet.
Group "B" followed the same diet AND added 50 minutes of aerobic exercise 5 times per week.
50 minutes . . . 5 times per week!
You know what happened?
NO DIFFERENCE! Nada. Nix. Nill. Bupkis! Each group lost an equal amount of fat and the addition of the aerobic activity made no difference in fat loss.
Now personally, if I'd been a member of this study and had just spent 250 minutes a week for 26 weeks doing aerobic activity for effectively no additional gain, I think I'd need to be held back from ripping someones arm off.
Same goes if I was the client of this other trainer.
So what works?
1) Increased meal frequency of whole, real foods followed to 90 percent compliance.
2) A reduced carbohydrate diet. I suggest a low Glycemic Index diet to reduce insulin.
3) Interval training.
4) Resistance training.
5) Supplement with fish oil, CLA and possibly casein.
Oh, and don't hire trainers who stink at what they claim to be able to do.
God bless,
Steve
Why?
Aerobic exercise.
I was at the gym a few days ago and I overheard a trainer there tell one of his clients, "Well, in order to get really lean you've got to step up your aerobic training." This female client of his has not lost an inch since she started with him over a year ago. In fact she's gained size and weight. How do I know?
I was eavesdropping. . . remember?
No big surprise to me, but then again . . . I don't SUCK as a trainer.
Here are some numbers for you:
In January of 2007 a SIX MONTH clinical trial concluded wherein two (count 'em, 2) different groups were tested.
Group "A" followed a strict diet.
Group "B" followed the same diet AND added 50 minutes of aerobic exercise 5 times per week.
50 minutes . . . 5 times per week!
You know what happened?
NO DIFFERENCE! Nada. Nix. Nill. Bupkis! Each group lost an equal amount of fat and the addition of the aerobic activity made no difference in fat loss.
Now personally, if I'd been a member of this study and had just spent 250 minutes a week for 26 weeks doing aerobic activity for effectively no additional gain, I think I'd need to be held back from ripping someones arm off.
Same goes if I was the client of this other trainer.
So what works?
1) Increased meal frequency of whole, real foods followed to 90 percent compliance.
2) A reduced carbohydrate diet. I suggest a low Glycemic Index diet to reduce insulin.
3) Interval training.
4) Resistance training.
5) Supplement with fish oil, CLA and possibly casein.
Oh, and don't hire trainers who stink at what they claim to be able to do.
God bless,
Steve
Friday, January 11, 2008
3 Simple guidelines to a happier, healthier you
Too often I see people who are less than satisfied with themselves because of any number of variables: from wide hips to the shape of their nose. Here's some observations that, hopefully, will help you deal with those sorts of things, if indeed you need it.
1) Focus your attention on YOU. It's fine to get inspired by others' physiques, but you have to set your own personal standards. People tend to fixate on their weaknesses, while at the same time obsess over the strengths of others. That's a surefire way to stay eternally frustrated. It's a healthier approach to acknowledge your own strengths, and use them as benchmarks by which to bring up your weaknesses. Learn to give yourself a pat on the back for the improvements you make. Focus your attention on YOU, don't let the achievements of others dictate your obsessions.
Remember: you are great at being you and you really stink at trying to be someone else.
2) Question fitness advice given to you by others. "Why" is one of the most powerful words you can put in your vocabulary. Investigating the reasoning behind the advice will often reveal that the answer is "just because", rendering the advice anywhere from helpful, to dangerous, to just a plain waste of time and resources. I encourage my clients, friends, and colleagues to question everyone's advice, including mine. I firmly believe that the better you can sharpen your thinking, the better you can continue to sharpen your physique.
One thing I tell my fellow up and coming training colleagues is that it's O.K. to have someone do anything, provided you know why you're having them do it. In other words, it's O.K. to break the rules as long as you know what the rules are.
3) Minimize the number of variables you alter en route to the goal. This helps control the experiment, so to speak. For example, even though my focus is training, I still encourage people to leave their training alone if they're happy with it, and alter their nutrition regimen first. Then they can see how far they can get on that change alone. For all they know, that one change could have been all that was necessary, and eureka, there was no need to screw with the training. Once you get to a progress plateau, then you can re-examine your options. This example goes both ways. If someone loves their nutrition program, keep it in place but alter the training as minimally as possible for progress to occur. Of course, there are folks who don't have a clue as to what they're doing (or they've been lax in their effort and consistency), and need to start from scratch by laying out a plan that covers everything. Even in that case, the idea is to minimize the number of program alterations, and keep things simple.
I hope these few pieces of advice help you "get on down the road", so to speak, with greater ease, less stress and more enjoyment.
God bless,
Steve
1) Focus your attention on YOU. It's fine to get inspired by others' physiques, but you have to set your own personal standards. People tend to fixate on their weaknesses, while at the same time obsess over the strengths of others. That's a surefire way to stay eternally frustrated. It's a healthier approach to acknowledge your own strengths, and use them as benchmarks by which to bring up your weaknesses. Learn to give yourself a pat on the back for the improvements you make. Focus your attention on YOU, don't let the achievements of others dictate your obsessions.
Remember: you are great at being you and you really stink at trying to be someone else.
2) Question fitness advice given to you by others. "Why" is one of the most powerful words you can put in your vocabulary. Investigating the reasoning behind the advice will often reveal that the answer is "just because", rendering the advice anywhere from helpful, to dangerous, to just a plain waste of time and resources. I encourage my clients, friends, and colleagues to question everyone's advice, including mine. I firmly believe that the better you can sharpen your thinking, the better you can continue to sharpen your physique.
One thing I tell my fellow up and coming training colleagues is that it's O.K. to have someone do anything, provided you know why you're having them do it. In other words, it's O.K. to break the rules as long as you know what the rules are.
3) Minimize the number of variables you alter en route to the goal. This helps control the experiment, so to speak. For example, even though my focus is training, I still encourage people to leave their training alone if they're happy with it, and alter their nutrition regimen first. Then they can see how far they can get on that change alone. For all they know, that one change could have been all that was necessary, and eureka, there was no need to screw with the training. Once you get to a progress plateau, then you can re-examine your options. This example goes both ways. If someone loves their nutrition program, keep it in place but alter the training as minimally as possible for progress to occur. Of course, there are folks who don't have a clue as to what they're doing (or they've been lax in their effort and consistency), and need to start from scratch by laying out a plan that covers everything. Even in that case, the idea is to minimize the number of program alterations, and keep things simple.
I hope these few pieces of advice help you "get on down the road", so to speak, with greater ease, less stress and more enjoyment.
God bless,
Steve
Monday, January 7, 2008
We All Have Cellulite by Gabrielle Reese
I'm in pretty good shape, and it amazes me that I can spend minutes of every day pondering cellulite. I get up in the morning and look at my butt. Take a shower and look at my naked butt. I ask myself, "is there more than yesterday or less than three years ago?" Maybe if I wake up on the wrong side of the bed, I flex just to see what is really going on. Oh, how about the changing room at the store? Yeah, get an infinite look at cellulite.
My point is that we all have cellulite. Cellulite meaning big hips, small breasts, less than perfect skin, not bright white teeth, funny ears, a big nose, no top lip, cankles... You name it; we can zone right in on our "cellulite" area and fixate on it several times a day.
If you saw me in a bikini, I don't think you would say "Poor Gab and her cellulite." Not only would you (hopefully) not notice, you might even think I'm in good shape and I don't even think about cellulite.
We as humans, especially woman, love to torture ourselves. It'd be like having a hand full of aces and kings and somehow obsessing over the fact that we had a two. We could win the game with the cards we were dealt but we don't. Why? Because we can't see the whole picture since we are focused in on our two. Meanwhile someone next to you is playing the table and having a great time with a mixed bag of 10s, an eight, and a Jack.
We create the prison about our body that we live in.
You know what? If you want to lose some weight, do it. Stop grumbling about it and play those aces. Smart, kind, beautiful, talented, loved, spiritual, healthy, athletic, and beautiful.
If you want to say it's easy for me, go ahead. I could have used you when I was 12 years old and 6 feet tall. You could have come by my school in 10th grade when I was 6'3" and told me how easy it was when the kids were calling me "dork," "daddy long legs," "giraffe," "freak" -- you get the point. What happened? I realized that God had given me some other cards, and they were aces. I embraced my size, and it's become a very big blessing to me. If I'd focused on the bad, I wouldn't have been able to recognize my good along with my gifts. It's human nature but let's try and make it a little easier on ourselves, shall we? I'm trying to start liking or at least laughing at cellulite. Someone told me once that people only see what we project.
What do you think?
God bless,
SP
My point is that we all have cellulite. Cellulite meaning big hips, small breasts, less than perfect skin, not bright white teeth, funny ears, a big nose, no top lip, cankles... You name it; we can zone right in on our "cellulite" area and fixate on it several times a day.
If you saw me in a bikini, I don't think you would say "Poor Gab and her cellulite." Not only would you (hopefully) not notice, you might even think I'm in good shape and I don't even think about cellulite.
We as humans, especially woman, love to torture ourselves. It'd be like having a hand full of aces and kings and somehow obsessing over the fact that we had a two. We could win the game with the cards we were dealt but we don't. Why? Because we can't see the whole picture since we are focused in on our two. Meanwhile someone next to you is playing the table and having a great time with a mixed bag of 10s, an eight, and a Jack.
We create the prison about our body that we live in.
You know what? If you want to lose some weight, do it. Stop grumbling about it and play those aces. Smart, kind, beautiful, talented, loved, spiritual, healthy, athletic, and beautiful.
If you want to say it's easy for me, go ahead. I could have used you when I was 12 years old and 6 feet tall. You could have come by my school in 10th grade when I was 6'3" and told me how easy it was when the kids were calling me "dork," "daddy long legs," "giraffe," "freak" -- you get the point. What happened? I realized that God had given me some other cards, and they were aces. I embraced my size, and it's become a very big blessing to me. If I'd focused on the bad, I wouldn't have been able to recognize my good along with my gifts. It's human nature but let's try and make it a little easier on ourselves, shall we? I'm trying to start liking or at least laughing at cellulite. Someone told me once that people only see what we project.
What do you think?
God bless,
SP
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
January 1, 2008 . . .what will the next year bring?
Well, another year has come and gone.
What will the coming year have in store for you? An even better question might be, what will you bring to fruition in the coming year?
If you're at all like millions of people across the world, you'll be making "New Year's resolutions", despite the statistical odds against such an endeavor.
Does that sound like a negative statement on my part? It's not . . . it's just the cold hard facts.
Did you know that roughly 85% of people who say they make resolutions (and let's call them what they really should be called, goals) drop their intended desires shortly after they venture after them. Many drop their focus and attention on goal attainment only a week into the chase.
What a shame.
What can be done about this?
Quite frankly, I don't care. I rarely take interest in those who are quitters. I prefer to focus my attention upon those who strive to achieve their goals. Those are the ones I want to "hang with", to learn from and to emulate. They are one of the reasons I get up in the morning and do what it is that I do.
If you are serious about settings goals this year, and I encourage you to do so, then make the decision to do something about right NOW! This instant.
Right now, this very moment, is all you're guaranteed anyway. Make the most of it.
I encourage you to also do three things:
1) Listen to Dax Moy here describe the necessary tenets of goal achievement. Follow his instruction. I also encourage you to purchase his product "The Magic 100."
2) Read this article on goal attainment by Dan John. It is quite possibly the finest article on the subject I've ever read.
3) Ask yourself three difficult questions and have the guts to give three honest answers.
Questions 1: What are my goals?
Questions 2: What are my behaviors with respect to attaining these goals?
Questions 3: Am I willing to match my behavior to the goal I intend to attain?
You see, when an archer shoots his arrow at the target and does not hit a bulls-eye, he does not blame the arrow. He turns to look at himself.
Likewise, if you fail to achieve your goal, never in the course of history has it been the goals fault.
Improve upon your behavior, develop a "goal achievement" mindset, and work your plan.
When you do that, you will look back on 2008 with a tremendous sense of satisfaction.
God bless,
Steve
What will the coming year have in store for you? An even better question might be, what will you bring to fruition in the coming year?
If you're at all like millions of people across the world, you'll be making "New Year's resolutions", despite the statistical odds against such an endeavor.
Does that sound like a negative statement on my part? It's not . . . it's just the cold hard facts.
Did you know that roughly 85% of people who say they make resolutions (and let's call them what they really should be called, goals) drop their intended desires shortly after they venture after them. Many drop their focus and attention on goal attainment only a week into the chase.
What a shame.
What can be done about this?
Quite frankly, I don't care. I rarely take interest in those who are quitters. I prefer to focus my attention upon those who strive to achieve their goals. Those are the ones I want to "hang with", to learn from and to emulate. They are one of the reasons I get up in the morning and do what it is that I do.
If you are serious about settings goals this year, and I encourage you to do so, then make the decision to do something about right NOW! This instant.
Right now, this very moment, is all you're guaranteed anyway. Make the most of it.
I encourage you to also do three things:
1) Listen to Dax Moy here describe the necessary tenets of goal achievement. Follow his instruction. I also encourage you to purchase his product "The Magic 100."
2) Read this article on goal attainment by Dan John. It is quite possibly the finest article on the subject I've ever read.
3) Ask yourself three difficult questions and have the guts to give three honest answers.
Questions 1: What are my goals?
Questions 2: What are my behaviors with respect to attaining these goals?
Questions 3: Am I willing to match my behavior to the goal I intend to attain?
You see, when an archer shoots his arrow at the target and does not hit a bulls-eye, he does not blame the arrow. He turns to look at himself.
Likewise, if you fail to achieve your goal, never in the course of history has it been the goals fault.
Improve upon your behavior, develop a "goal achievement" mindset, and work your plan.
When you do that, you will look back on 2008 with a tremendous sense of satisfaction.
God bless,
Steve
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