By: John Allen Mollenhauer “JAM”
Pros, like Sabrina Williams, Lebron James, and Tom Brady, among many other elite athletes, perform in life free of lifestyle-induced diseases like constant tiredness and fatigue, weight problems, and health complications such as diabetes and heart disease.
When you see them perform, at some point, you might even think, “wow, they’ve got it, down to a science.” You would be right but not just in training for their sport. They have changed, or more accurately stated, “optimized” many of their lifestyle fundamentals, closing their performance gaps step by step over several years. To the point of having an approach to how they achieve their goals and the quality of life they live, that works well.
They are far from perfect like the rest of us, but still, they have, for the most part, balanced andhealthy, performance lifestyles. As I like to say, they live their lives “like a pro,” and therefore, they are, because they don’t have any significant performance gaps.
That’s a significant reason why we see them as the pros that they are. It’s also the difference between an athlete with raw talent and someone like Tom Brady. He cultivated his natural talent (which needed a lot of work I might add) through practice and is still healthy and playing top-tier football at 42 to possibly-45 years of age when the average NFL career is just six years. He optimized his lifestyle fundamentals.
Now, it’s likely you are not a pro athlete, neither am I, maybe not into sports or even a fitness enthusiast. But what’s the difference between a pro athlete and you? Sabrina, Lebron, and Tom’s business may be to score aces, baskets, or touchdowns, and your business may be marketing plans, but fundamentally we are not all that different.
For all of us, pros included; its life, family, career/business, and re/creative pursuits; do everything in our power to take care of ourselves, so we can take care of and serve others.
Isn’t that true for you? So why then is excess stress, tiredness, and fatigue (the primary reasons why people go to the doctor) and almost 2 million people a year dying of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer?
Well, the simple and most obvious “not-so-obvious” answer is that the majority of people live vastly different lifestyles than a pro athlete or any otherwise healthy, high-performing / achieving person who thrives in their domain. So different in fact, that instead of having a lifestyle that yields them the energy, health, and performance capacity they need to succeed and sustain with a desired quality of life, most people have closer to default lifestyles defined by an extraordinarily sick and addicted society.
That status quo is their “normal.” When it yields fatigue, weight, and health problems, they then try to put into action often impotent solutions in parallel that don’t solve the real problem, which is not having a lifestyle built on sound fundamentals.
Intensive lifestyle change has proven not only to reverse heart disease but so many other challenges people face.
As a result, many people succeed, yet, they struggle as they drive themselves into the ground through overwork and coping with stress in ways that create more stress. And these people age fast and wear out far short of the finish line.
Performance is a lifestyle, so when you try to solve any symptoms of a lifestyle gone awry, with a half-baked solution that does not work alone, forever, or at all, rather than optimize your fundamentals, you will have a lot of performance gaps.
Now, I can hear you thinking. I get it; most people don’t have the life structure, lifestyle support, and clear-cut goal alignment that most top athletes have without the worry about money; but the truth is—Read More >
John Allen Mollenhauer “JAM” is a Professional Coach and founder of Performance Lifestyle®—a leading-edge training and coaching practice that helps Entrepreneurs and small business owners achieve more through a healthy-driven lifestyle.
He also works with clients at RegenUs Center in Florham Park, NJ, a company he founded to treat, pain and fatigue, recharge, and restore.
You can contact JAM here.
