Confessions of a Fit Millionaire – Part 1

It’s a fact that you cannot have true abundance in ANY area of your life without first feeling immensely confident in yourself. The main determining factor in your confidence is how you feel about your body.

As many of you know, over the last 17 years, I’ve worked with several of today’s top Hollywood stars and Fortune 100 executives, helping them to develop tight, lean and youthful looking bodies. Although I taught them a lot in that time, I’ve also learned a lot.  On one hand, I taught my clients how to develop strong bodies and powerful health, but they in turn taught me how to develop fame and large-scale businesses.

One of the most powerful lessons I learned was that the foundation to all health and to all wealth resides in a person’s self-confidence. The main determining factor in a person’s self-confidence is how they feel about their body.  So, I’d like to share with you over the course of the next two blog posts, the daily action list that many of my most successful clients follow.

I hope you take this list to heart and implement it in your life. I know that if you do, you’ll experience the same amazing journey that I’ve been so blessed to experience in my life.

Breaking the 70% Rule

First and foremost, you have to understand that nearly 70 percent of all the energy you use during the course of a single day is used to digest the foods you eat. For example, if it takes 100 grams of energy (bear with me for using such basic terminology here) to digest each and every meal you eat during the day, by improving the efficiency of your metabolism we can get your body to digest each meal using only 50 grams of energy. This means you could have nearly double the energy to put towards all your normal daily activities!

So, if one of your main life goals is to grow your business, would it be beneficial if you had more “physical energy” to do the daily tasks necessary to build your revenue streams? How about the added “mental energy”? Could you put it toward creatively designing new ways to handle all of your daily challenges?

My (Short) Story

I’ve built and sold several large-scale businesses (including a chain of health clubs, a venture capital firm and a publishing company), but until I took control of my body, I personally never had any success in life. I remember feeling like a failure in everything I did. I remember not even wanting to leave the house because I didn’t like the way I looked in my clothes (I admit that’s a bit strange but it’s true …

Today, it’s a different story.

Now, I rarely think about the clothes I put on each day because I know my body enhances the way I look in clothes. Why? Because all clothes just hang better on a body that’s in shape! That means men no longer have to wear suit jackets all day just to cover up their belly fat (you know who you are). And women who wear dark colors because dark colors make them look thinner can now wear any color they like, because a fit BODY makes any color becoming.

Isn’t that the way everyone should feel?!

Take Charge!

When I finally took charge of my physique, everything in my life got better—my business grew much faster, my health improved, my family life improved, my spiritual life improved, and my financial life skyrocketed! I went from feeling like I had to earn my employees’ respect to having people follow and respect my every lead. What would be better in your life if you felt immensely confident in your appearance? What tremendous things could you make happen if you had loads of energy all day long and unstoppable motivation?

In today’s society, without a nice body, people subconsciously make life a bit harder for you. You see it all the time…people who are in good shape almost always get treated differently by others. Now I’m not saying that’s fair—it’s absolutely not—but it’s a fact of life. So why not take advantage of it?

What would it mean to your company if all your employees came to work feeling immensely confident in themselves? Would they close more deals, would they have a better attitude, would they contribute more? You see, you can’t change the fact that most everybody else in the world seems to treat good-looking people better, but you can change the one person who really matters, and that’s you.

You can make yourself and your employees as strong and healthy-looking as possible–making life easier for yourself and setting a good example for all those around you. People who are in shape portray more authority when they stand in front of their staff. They get more preferential treatment, and they have far more stamina to take on all the work necessary in order to build a powerful company.

Trade Secret

When I speak at a corporation or consult with top business leaders, the one trait that’s common among them all is the desire to find ways to improve themselves and their businesses. They don’t want to grow a huge company and then be so sick that they can’t enjoy the rewards. The secret all of these folks share is that getting in good shape didn’t start when they became successful. It started way before that—and probably had a lot to do with their success.

Next week, I’ll share with you the secret success formula that many of my most successful and productive clients stick to and swear by.

Until then, stay healthy…

Christopher Guerriero
www.christopherguerriero.com

Christopher Guerriero is the founder of the National Metabolic & Longevity Research Center, the host of the new television show called “The Energy Factor,” and author of more than 20 books and audio programs including the global bestseller Maximize Your Metabolism. His other titles include The 2 Day Workout, The Psychology of Weight Loss and The Art of Living Thin.

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