Embracing Your Challenge

Saturday morning – and  I’m excited to get to the gym to try out a new workout!  As I’m getting ready, I’m trying to figure out this new me that I’ve been experiencing the last few weeks?  It hit me, I’m “embracing my challenges”.

Last week Cheryl started talking about the fact that we are either being challenged or we are are on a challenge.  My add on to that: we are either being embraced by our challenge(s) (they control us) or we are embracing our challenge(s) (we control them).  This month I am no longer just doing my 90 Day Challenge, I am embracing it . . . and that is a world of difference!

I’m embracing the new me that is being created (and restored) – I’m having fun experiencing smiling more from the inside, fun learning to enjoy being me, fun embracing my physical goals, fun embracing building my business!

Embracing = moving to a whole new level of ownership, joy and victory.

Embracing my challenges is about changing my life forever.  One of my Challenge Goals is to complete a triathlon next May and that means swimming a mile in an open lake – embracing that challenge means I will get to overcome, at a whole new level, a lifetime of being challenged by asthma.  Now I’m challenging it  - and it’s going to have to go!

So today – best workout at the gym that I can remember having in a long time – had a little help from my favorite new performance drink (Visalus Pro – starting to really like it)!  Had my best one mile time on the tread mill, then a full body work out with max weights for 8 reps, then a 1/4 mile in the pool and almost back to my top time from 2 months ago. Came home energized and felt amazing all day!

My new tool – Cheryl’s Prosperity Script – check out her training on it at www.lifestyleforhealth.com

My motivator – the Visalus Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge – transforming my life and 100′s of thousands of lives across North America – details on www.lifestyeforhealth.com

My 90 Day Challenge

This morning, as I was thinking and planning my day , I decided I needed to journal my next 90 Day Challenge – so let’s do it here!

This last month has been transformational for me – even Cheryl is telling me that I’ve made ‘the shift’. What is the shift, how is it going to play out? I’m really excited about that discovery process!

So that means time to start a new Challenge – new goals, new focus, new me! This one I want to track, I want to be publicly committed to, and create some specific results in my life that I’ve never done before! I want it to be a story that excites and inspires others – the Body by Vi Challenge is transforming lives across America – amazing stories – Cheryl’s is one of them, Anna’s is one of them, mine is one of them and it’s getting ready to get a lot bigger! This Challenge will be lived with Zero Regrets!

Goal one – post daily – this was supposed to happen this morning – it’s afternoon – it’s important, so I’m taking a quick break for work to get it started!

What’s different this time? I don’t know right now, but it is different – just returned from the Visalus Regional event in Atlanta, GA – yes I’ve been to these events consistently for years . . . was the event part of the shift? Yes. Why? I was in a different place going in and it impacted me differently. How? Time will tell as this journal of notes evolves over the coming months.

I read a book that really tugged at me about making a commitment to what I’m passionate about, and then living each day with Zero Regrets in the pursuit of that passion. The book is Zero Regrets by Apolo Ohono – Olympic Speed Skating Gold Medalist. One of the big take aways for me was realizing that we all talk about achieving excellence – about pursuing our passion – but are we really willing to give it our all, to achieve?? Don’t answer this one casually until you read Apolo’s book – it brings new clarity to ‘total commitment’.

Cheryl has been doing a bunch of coaching with our team and I’m seeing some pretty amazing results with a lot of people – humm – maybe time to apply those skills to myself? Are they responsible for the some of the shift – yep!  She’ll be posting this coaching process on our website this week – very simple, but very effective – look for it under the title of, as she’s fond of calling it, The Script!

Yes, it’s starting to look like a package deal – lots of pieces coming together to create change – can’t wait to see the finish picture!

So let’s get this Challenge Started – some of it will run 90 Days (the physical goals) and the business goals will run about 120 days – through the end of February – so that they are ready to be announced at our next Regional Convention in Kansas City, March 23-25.

1. I’m doing a triathlon next May – so hitting the ability to swim one mile in the pool is the first step – regular swim practice!

2. Cheryl is becoming proud of flexing her biceps at meetings – time to match that – let’s add an inch to my biceps and take 4 inches off my waist and, for fun, let’s see if we can do a handstand push up (met a guy on the airplane last week – 67 years old – he does them, so why not?). Made it into a handstand today – but no going up – stay focused!

3. Here’s a big one – learn to live with a smile on my face (Cheryl says I frown most of the time) – so time to reprogram those face muscles and have them reflect true inner joy!

4. In Visalus we have a leadership promotion position called 5 Star Ambassador – time to get that done! Can it be done in 4 months? With God’s favor, anointing and direction yes. Why is it important? Because everywhere we go we’re meeting people who just aren’t making it – between economic and health issues, there is a lot of hurt in the world.

Can the Visalus 90 Day Challenge change that? YES – they’re proving it every day! The weight is coming off people by the millions of pounds, people are saving money on our products, and currently one BMW is being qualified for every hour – that’s a lot of people stepping into a $30,000+ annual financial blessing.

Why is this Challenge the most important venture I’ve ever undertaken? It sets the stage to create our retirement income and it eliminates the last of our debt – the promotion comes with a one time bonus of $250,000. Two, it means that we will have helped over 60 people enter into our BMW program – that’s a lot of families doing a lot better financially! And it means a lot more people living in healthier more fit bodies!

When it’s all done it means that I’m in the process of learning to live the rest of my life with Zero Regrets. This is my shift from living in my past and dreaming about my future to living full-out in my present!

Progress – had a great two hour work out this morning from 6 -8 am – need to be starting that at 5. Team calls are going great – identifying and setting up the game plans for our leadership time. NO time for negativity or strife in the home – this is total focus – zero regrets living for the next 4 months.

Oh . . . and did I mention, every time I walk past Cheryl’s chocolate almonds, I smile and say, “You’re not part of this 90 days plan!”