THE FIRST DOOR OF SUCCESS: CLARITY

The powerful ideas that are behind the Executive Athlete program may give you great insight and knowledge, but information alone doesn’t create success. To turn your best intentions into action you must walk through the five doors of success and overcome the two greatest tragedies of life — waiting and deferring.

A personal mentor of mine, Matthew Michalewicz, CEO of Complexica, is committed to bringing to light the urgency of starting now. He explained the tragedy of waiting and deferring me:

“I see people doing it every day, everywhere I go, in airports, restaurants, factories, offices, classrooms. They believe they’ve got all the time in the world, so they wait and defer, putting off things the ‘want to’ for another time, for ‘later’. And when later comes, they often feel it’s too late — that they’ve waited and deferred for too long.”

CLARITY

The first door is the most difficult. You must accept that your weight is a problem that you must solve. The sacrifices you are making for success in your executive career are creating the fatigue, disengagement, pain, and obesity that are plaguing you. It is time to take control and define what you want.

If you want to become an Executive Athlete you don’t want just weight loss. Losing 20% of your bodyweight is the necessary step to becoming an Executive Athlete but what you want goes deeper than that.

To gain clarity, you must be able to define how your life will be different when you lose 20% of your body weight. You must be able to identify what you will be able to DO differently and how you will FEEL when you perform like an Executive Athlete.

When you walk through this first door you will experience the moment of resolution that powers the transformation to become an Executive Athlete.

FIND CLARITY

Dedicate some critical thinking to answer: what do I want? Complete your own personal strategy meeting. Assess your current position and consider; what do I want to do in 12 months time, three years time, or on my 50th birthday?

These questions can prove difficult for some executives who are so far down the path of ill health that they can’t find their way back. If this is you, ask yourself:

• How will becoming an Executive Athlete help my performance at work?
• How would losing 20% of my body weight improve my personal relationships with my family?
• How will having more energy and no pain increase my enjoyment when playing with my kids?
• How will having a body that looks and moves like an athlete’s make me feel?

The answers to these questions will give you the #clarity that you need to be able to commit…to end the waiting and deferring.

If you would like to read more about how deconditioned executives can turn into athletes If you want to learn more about the program that allows deconditioned executives to turn into athletes you can download a free chapter sampler of my book here or on the website.