Achieving 5% body fat is looking better and better. It’s been an outstanding week. I’m really focusing on my short and long term goals and bombarding my mind with them. I’ve been talking with some of my colleagues and we’re sharing our inspiring journeys with each other. My nutrition intake has been fantastic and my workouts have been outstanding. Right now I’m on cloud 9.

I had a great conversation with my business mentor Deborah Micek on Tuesday night. We were talking about our life goals which is very common for this time of year and New Years resolutions being announced by everyone.

But this conversation was much different. Coach Deb didn’t ask me to reveal my goals for 2008. She asked me a much more powerful question. “What are your goals for 2018?” There was a moment of silence as I thought to myself, “What a powerful question.”

Asking yourself what are you going to achieve in life 10 years from now has a totally different impact on the way you think when you ask yourself what are you going to achieve this year.

What I observe from people when they set New Years Resolutions and their goals for the year, they kind of panic and try to make it happen all at once, and when it’s not happening immediately they get discouraged and give up.

When you set your goals for 10 years from now it kind of takes a bit of pressure off of you. It encourages you to dream big and explore your thoughts for what you really want out of life. It no longer becomes, “I’ve got to lose 30 pounds in 30 days to look great for my best friends wedding.”

A lot can happen in 10 years. Think of all the successes that you’ve achieved in the past 10 years. How has your life changed? I’ll tell you how mine has changed. I graduated from the University of Windsor’s Human Kinetics program, got married to my beautiful wife Angie, had 2 beautiful children Shayne and Noelle, Opened a health club, became depressed, closed the health club, claimed bankruptcy, found my passion and fire, helped thousands of people achieve their dream body, get to connect with wonderful people such as yourself on a daily basis all around the world, found the true meaning of life and treasure every second that I have with Angie and my children.

What are my life goals for 2018? I picture you, me, and all my fellow readers on cruise trips and island vacations together where we celebrate your health, vitality, zest for life, and our sexy bodies. I see us all lounging around the pool or sitting around a fire pit and sharing our stories about how making our health the #1 priorities in our lives has created incredible success in all areas of our lives.

I see each and every one of us truly making a difference in this world and spreading the message of optimal health and well being.

I’d love to hear what your life goals are for 2018. Feel free to share them here.

I just returned from an incredibly intense chest and back superset session from The Fit Bastard Year Of Workouts. This is my last week for this phase. My arms are quite shaky while I’m typing here.

Someone made a comment to me last week that supersets are old school and that I should get with the times. Are you serious? Yes there are some pretty crazy and creative workouts on the market these days and they all promise amazing results and rapid fat loss. Some of them are absolutely outrageous.

All I have to say in response to that is, just because it’s a technique that’s been around for a while does not mean that it doesn’t work. It’s been working for many decades and will still work for many more decades. There are so many different ways to do supersets and get creative and trust me… they frickin work!

As with any program of course you need to mix it up. If you were to do supersets all the time they would lose their effectiveness, but simply because the theory has been around for a while does not mean that it will lose it’s effectiveness.

I’ve got to admit that I do have a secret for my high levels of intensity during my workouts. For the past 4 months I’ve been listening to Stephen Pierce’s Optimindzation audio program. Prior to my workout I have the “Extraordinary Energy & Mental Caffeine” audio playing either at my computer or in my car. There’s no music. It’s just pure Isochronic Tones baby, and it Rocks!

During my workout I listen to the “Physical Power & Athletic “Zone”” audio in my mp3 player. It does something to me that I can’t explain. Without words or music it gives me the powerful boost that I need to drive me through my workouts and achieve my personal bests.

These are just 2 audios in a series of 12. Others consist of Creative Focus & Innovative Mind, Relaxation Mastery, Amazing Sleep & Insomnia Help, Absolute Stress Relief & Anxiety Reduction, Immune System Maximizer, and more.

I have many of them playing throughout the day in my computer or in my car or while I fall asleep at night. They are part of my daily routine and I wanted to mention them to you since I am journaling everything that I do that helps me to achieve fat loss success.

I’ll keep you up to date on my progress during the holidays. I plan on being in better shape by the end of them while most people will put on at least 5 pounds… so the statistics say

Have an absolutely amazing day!