By John Allen Mollenhauer, Performance Lifestyle® Coach JAM
FOR ME, overexertion STARTED EARLY  I began working as an entrepreneur at the age of 9. I grew up in a modest, middle-income family, and my parents were pretty frugal. So, I enjoyed the freedom of having my own money. I never thought I would be anything but an entrepreneur and a business owner.  By age 19, while going to college, I had not only been running a small business for a decade while going to school, playing three sports, and “growing up,” I had already bought my first gym (open 19 hours per day) and then, by 21, co-founded what would become a chain of gyms. I was a driven achiever, applauded and rewarded for it, but while my friends were just getting started after college, I was facing what felt like a midlife crisis— tiredness, and fatigue.

By John Allen Mollenhauer, Performance Lifestyle® Coach JAM
​We are well into the New Year, and you are probably feeling the momentum build. I wish you a year that creates the velocity you want to see toward fulfilling your God-inspired dreams.  In this post, I want to share a plan comprised of five simplified steps you can take in 2023 and beyond that will yield the energy and extraordinary power you need to achieve your goals.  You'd probably agree it would be a transformational year if you achieved all your goals, stayed vital and energetic, healthy, and performed well through the year.  If you want an article on giving up sugar, this is not your article; that's small stuff, albeit eliminating "refined" sugar is important, but that's not the kind of transformation I'm talking about.

By John Allen Mollenhauer, Performance Lifestyle® Coach JAM
The 5 Shifts to Make in 2023 If You Want the Robust Level of Energy, You'll Need to Achieve Your Ambitious Goals

You can watch the '5 Shifts' webinar in this Free Training I've assembled for you. *Note: this webinar is targeted to men, but the information, similarly applies to women.   
 
Here's a "key" idea to start the new year: when it comes to experiencing robust energy, health, and performance, it all comes down to Your Lifestyle...

by John Allen Mollenhauer, Lifestyle Coach JAM
For those of you reading this article and, for the first time connecting with me, John Allen Mollenhauer, also known as Lifestyle Coach JAM, I work primarily with men who want to overcome chronic exhaustion, fatigue, and burnout at mid-life without compromising success, and ultimately accelerating it. Women can benefit from everything I'm talking about in two ways - by applying the principles to themselves and by sharing them with the men in their lives which can benefit their life, too!

by John Allen Mollenhauer, Lifestyle Coach JAM
It’s Back to School, Post Vacation Work Schedule, and the Daily To-Do List Has Grown Exponentially.  It’s Begun Wearing You Down.  What Do You Do to Recharge and Restore Your Body Battery? 

• Press on and on, drink endless amounts of coffee, engage in extreme work ethic, cope at the end of the day with late-night eating, Netflix, 10mg of melatonin… and just grind it out?   
•  Or 
• Get regular and systematic about recovery so that you can stay strong throughout the balance of the year, coping in ways that create more energy, better health, and higher performance.  

Of course, the second option is the answer, but unfortunately, most will choose the first, and it stems from a story or “belief” that many people live by just that’s not true.  

by John Allen Mollenhauer, Lifestyle Coach JAM
Excellence originates from having energy, health, and the capacity to perform well without having to burn out or trade one's health for success, which compromises one's ability to live with Excellence.  It is sustained when you have developed a high-performance lifestyle or 'HPL.' Not everybody will live a high-performance lifestyle, but anybody can take an HPL from theory to practice to mastery in their own life.
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If you asked 100 people if they would like to live a life of higher personal or professional achievement, 90+% would likely say YES. Whether they do comes down to how they get there.  Do you have a results-only mindset or a mindset focused on a high-performance lifestyle plus the goal-specific actions that result in what you want to achieve?  The difference could not be more profound. 

by John Allen Mollenhauer, Lifestyle Coach JAM
Performance Lifestyles So You and Your Team Can Achieve Ambitious Goals, Full Out, Without Burning 🔥 Out or Trading Your Health and Well Being For Success.​
I want to introduce you to an approach to goal achievement and an ever-better quality of life, even as you age. I’m borrowing a page from the world of athletics, but for his article, understand that the term “athlete,” which goes back to Bible (2 Timothy2:5 and Psalms19:5) and beyond, does not need to evoke visions of grueling preparation for a sporting event.  Bill Bowerman of Nike said, “if you have a body, you are an athlete.”  So how I would like you to interpret my use of the term “athlete” is as someone who has a lifestyle that enables them to manage their energy, stay healthy and both function and perform at higher levels in life—family, career/business, art, sport, ministry etc. 
Ok, let’s get into it.