The truth is accountability and especially accountability partners can be a HUGE pain in the ass. But truthfully I know of very few of us including the greatest athletes in the world who have the discipline, presence of mind and sheer will power to keep themselves on track and accountable all the time – especially to those big audacious commitments.

We all slip now and then… but to keep us from slipping too far or repeating the same mistake twice we may need someone to call us on our shit when it shows up.

In this episode of Max Mind Set I address the issue of accountability and how without it we can easily fall off the commitment wagon.

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How BIG a game did you play in 2011

Chances are, like your neighbors up the street and millions of other people, you were directed less by a sense of desire and ambition and more by a need for survival.  As a collective we contracted last year like we have for the past 3 years and as a result we experienced very little GROWTH… personally or collectively.

Can you even remember  the goals or “resolutions”  you set for yourself last year… more importantly did you achieve them?

Perhaps you did. Maybe you stopped smoking, gave up the booze, started a diet, asked your boss for a raise or read a book a month. If so – bravo. But the odds are you either didn’t set any goals or don’t even remember your goals.

And there’s an even greater likelihood  that if you did set some goals, like the ones I mentioned above, you didn’t come close to achieving them.

WHY?

It’s simple,  those objectives aren’t ambitious enough to invoke even the slightest bit of excitement much less passion…

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An athlete, CEO, actor, or speaker can have all the outer game tools in his or her toolbox but if she doesn’t have the inner game needed to put those tools to work she will find herself frustrated, falling short of her full potential, and choking under pressure.

Imagine your inner game like the software in a computer. You can have the greatest hardware on the planet, a shiny new 32 inch monitor, slick new wireless keyboard and mouse, a really cool black tower with pretty blue lights, and a great workstation to put it all on but if you don’t have the proper software inside or if you have some old obsolete software to run the system and perform the tasks you want it, all that outer equipment or hardware won’t mean squat.

The inner game of confidence is your ability to control your focus, your state, and your emotions rather than letting them control or rule you.

It’s the ability to believe in yourself and your ability to succeed.

I’ll go one step further and say it’s the knowing that you will succeed.

The key for anyone looking to create more success in their lives whether in athletics, business, or even relationships is the ability to master their own inner game.

The empowering emotional state of being confident is triggered in most cases by an internal thought or vision. And so are the disempowering emotions of self doubt, frustration, fear, and disappointment.

Because of the way our brains process information every time that inner voice suggests something negative and you entertain that thought, your brain creates a picture or internal representation of that thought. If for example the pitcher facing that best hitter in the league were to say to himself, “don’t let this guy get a hit” and he entertained that thought his brain would immediately make a picture of the guy hitting it out of the park, dramatically increasing the likelihood of it happening.

So next time you’re in a potential choke situation and that little inner voice says something that could keep you from succeeding, simply acknowledge it and usurp its power by saying “thanks but no thanks! Then refocus and take action.

More strategies at Inner Game of Confidence

But of all the advise I have ever gotten of given I would have to say Jacks is still the best. You could even say “if you don’t listen to Jack, you don’t know jack.”

The legend Jack LaLanne was a coach and mentor to thousands of Americans and inspired countless more over the span of some 60 plus years. His advise is as sound today as it was in 1960 and needed even more than ever before.

Listen, Learn, Follow… or risk not knowing JACK!

In a free webinar, Dodaro and Terwilliger will explain the principles of permanent weight loss, and introduce their brand new MindBody FX Facilitator Training program. The webinar will be taking place on January 19th, 2011 at 6pm PST/9pm EST. More information about it can be found at http://www.builda6figurecoachingbusiness.com.

Here’s a sneak peek at the information uncovered during this complimentary webinar:

• How health, wellness and fitness professionals can retain their clients and turn them into raving fans by delivering the weight loss success that has previously evaded them
• The #1 thing health, wellness and fitness professionals must do if they want to close the revolving door – and have clients keep coming back instead of chasing after the next fad
• How coaches can differentiate themselves from all of the other professionals offering weight loss solutions by guaranteeing permanent results – something no one else dares to offer
• How to get clients 100% totally committed and invested in their success
• Simple ways to add additional revenue streams to your health and wellness business by offering services that more than 60% of the population needs
• How to stop trading time for money and how coaches can leverage their time by working with groups where they can earn $500, $600, even $1,000 an hour

“Weight loss is big business (a 65-billion-dollar industry as reported by CNBC), yet most coaches and personal trainers are struggling to attract and retain clients because many people are frustrated year after year by the infamous yo-yo dieting syndrome,” says Melonie Dodaro.

This comprehensive 12-week coach certification program gives personal trainers, life coaches, health coaches, wellness coaches, nutritionists, and other health and wellness professionals the tools to become highly sought-after weight loss specialists. Once certified, facilitators will have the know-how on how to build a 6+ figure coaching business that helps clients achieve guaranteed permanent weight loss results.

With the creation of MindBody FX, author and weight loss master coach Dodaro has pioneered a revolutionary weight loss system that actually works. It cuts through the fallacies of traditional dieting approaches and helps people feel in control of their eating and their lives. Perhaps most importantly, it helps them finally achieve lasting weight loss.

With a family history of obesity and her own past weight management struggles, Dodaro had searched for ways to lose weight for good. “I finally realized that the mind was the missing component in traditional weight loss programs,” Dodaro said.

Now, Dodaro has teamed up with fellow weight loss and achievement expert Tom Terwilliger, a former National Bodybuilding Champion (Mr. America), celebrity personal trainer, speaker, and best-selling author of 7 Rules of Achievement. Together, they are launching the MindBody FX Facilitator Training Program, making Dodaro’s highly successful weight loss system available to coaches and other health and wellness professionals around the world.

“MindBody FX is the only program of its kind that not only provides the outer game tools but also gets to the emotional/psychological root cause of the issue,” says Terwilliger.

“That’s why I am proud to partner with the MindBody FX creator Melonie Dodaro to help reach the many overweight women and men who desperately need this program,” Terwilliger adds.

The free webinar is open to coaches, nutritionists, personal trainers, and health care professionals who want to offer their clients weight loss solutions that deliver guaranteed and lasting success. To register for this free event, go to http://www.builda6figurecoachingbusiness.com.

For more information about Melonie Dodaro, Tom Terwilliger, MindBody FX, and the free webinar, or to arrange an interview, please call 866-982-9686 or visit http://www.MindBodyFX.com.

About MindBody FX Weight Management Company:

MindBody FX Weight Management Company is the developer of The Complete MindBody FX Lifestyle Program: A Total Transformation System for Permanent Weight Loss. The company was founded in 2009 by weight loss expert Melonie Dodaro. Dodaro spent three years developing The Complete MindBody FX Lifestyle Program after running weight loss centers for more than a decade. MindBody FX Weight Management Company is based in Kelowna, BC, Canada. For more information about MindBody FX, visit http://www.MindBodyFX.com.

Thanks,

~ The Achievement Mentor

There is so much conflicting and economically motivated fitness information out there it can often be extremely confusing to choose what’s right for you.

In my recent interview with Men’s Health cover model and the author of Men’s Health Muscle Chow Gregg Avedon talks about letting go and the confusion created by all the misleading information in the fitness industry.

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Watch for more of my interview with Gregg and other fitness and personal development experts.

I did three things after that startling revelation that helped me turn it around so I was able to achieve my financial goal even with only 6 months of the year remaining.  Click Here Now

1. I started measuring my progress. Could you imagine setting a weight goal, say 25 pounds in 90 days and never ever checked your progress. You just jumped on the scale after the 90 days were up. What do you think you would find? I guarantee you wouldn’t find the full 25 pound gone. You would be lucky to find 5 or 10.

2. I sought out information. I needed to know something more than I already knew if I were going to achieve my already failing financial goal. Try to imagine training for a triathlon not knowing how. Using only your old training tools…none of which would prepare you to swim, bike, and run.

3. I got coaching. I knew that if I were going to make it happen in just 6 months I was going to need someone to keep me accountable and to push my ass hard. If I said I was going to do something and the success of my goal depended on it I needed someone to get on my shit if I was showing any signs of slacking at all.  Click Here Now

Those three things made the difference and I was able to achieve in only 6 months what I had given myself a full 12 months to achieve. If you’ve suddenly found yourself in July and sweating not because of the heat but because your way behind in achieving what you said you would this year…don’t fret! You’re not alone! And I have some help for you. My good friends Jeremy and Alissa Nelms have pulled out all the stops in an effort to get your ass moving.

Because they know that what I just described is not an isolated incident and that you’re are not alone in falling behind on achieving you’re desired outcome they have brought together 25 of the world’s leading experts, coaches, and motivators in the area’s of weight loss, wealth development, and even romance. And I am honored to be one of them.

Just last night Jeremy interviewed me over the phone on the subject of “Inner Confidence” and how it applies to all the area’s this series will cover. He’ll be releasing that interview sometime early in the series as a foundation for everything else that follows.

Take a few minutes and check it out at Click Here Now and register…FREE. Get the new ideas, the coaching, and start keeping yourself accountable and what some magic happen in just 180 days.

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Just to give you an idea of the magnitude of the event my co-host was no other than the world famous, Harv Eker, author of the bestselling book, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind. There were over 26 amazing presenters in areas as diverse as evaluating DNA for pre-dispositions of disease, to building muscle with re-bounding, to pulse reading.

I‚Ä≤ve been in the fitness industry for well over 25 years and involved in the media for almost as long I haven‚Ä≤t had the opportunity to meet many of the industries legends…

Kathy Smith is one of those legends. Certainly being able to spend some time with Kathy at Extreme Health was one of the events highlights for me. At 50 plus, Kathy still looks amazing and is a true testimonial to what is possible for almost anyone. Kathy was a real sweetheart and rolled with the punches when her visual PowerPoint failed to come up on the screen.

Of course her flirtation with me was shameless and I think I may have broken her heart when I had to tell her that I was happily married. I′ll leave it up to you whether to believe that or not. Let me just say this, when she offered a special package to the audience which included spending a day with her at her homeshe offered me a very large discount. Enough said.

Also while hosting the event I had an opportunity to try something a little different that I wasn′t sure I was gonna like and instead wound up loving it. Raw chocolate. My good friend, David Wolf the founder of Sunfood Nutrition the world′s premier source of raw superfoods and cutting edge nutritional information was there and insisted that I give this raw chocolate stuff a try.

I have to say coming off a recent incident in Singapore where someone insisted that I try their favorite childhood candy “it is fantastic” they claimed. Well, it was awful and I almost lost it right there in front of them. But I trusted David and went for it anyway.

Man, the raw chocolate was awesome!

Not only that but really good for you as well. Evidently loaded with antioxidants and other good stuff. Raw chocolate may very well be just the solution your chocoholic clients are looking for. Give this stuff a try you′ll never go back.

I also spent quite a bit of time with best selling author and creator of the body for life challenge, Bill Phillips while at the event. Now I have met and spoken with Bill before at his brother, Shawn′s house on an occasion or two and even had a chance to visit with him at his house in Beverly Hills but I did get to see another side of him at Extreme Health.

His presentation and message was very authentic and sincere. You simply have to admire someone who thinks as big as Bill does his current mission is to reverse the overweight and obesity statistics in America which means changing the lives of millions of people. He also knows he can′t do it alone and has been asking for help.

Check it out at “Transformation”