And you’re going to fight me too with all 300 excuses and reasons with things you’ve tried:

Diet pills Diet Gatorade
Diet Coke Diet Water
Diet beer Diet French fries (so the package said)
Diet candy Diet coffee
Diet cheese Diet peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
Diet yogurt Diet blueberry pancakes
Diet pizza Diet cosmetic surgery
Diet bread Diet vacationing
Diet magazines Diet face cream
Diet Sketcher shape up shoes Diet cellulite cream
Diet Spanx Diet skinny jeans
Diet Gum Diet Tic Tacs
Diet body wraps Diet facial peels
Diet sunless tanning cream Diet whirlpool spas
Diet 100 calorie packs Diet breakfast burritos
Diet starving Diet caramel dipped apples

….and I am positive you’ve experienced favorable results with these and the many other things you have tried.

So, what happened? Did you starve to fit in the wedding dress, get married and then decide it was time to blow up again?

Awesome.

You’ve gotten your gym membership (from the guy who looks, speaks and acts like a used car salesman), that you’ve used three times so far this year, but you feel GREAT about spending the enrollment fee (it was on sale for chrissakes and it was the FINAL DAY ((the 1000th final day of the thing too)), and keep paying the monthly fee because it makes you feel like you’re getting something done of course).

Yes I understand.

You also have your friend to go walking with but it gets dark too early in the day and heaven forbid you get up before going to work to walk, (still dark, I get it). And what happened to taking clothes with you to work, or at least a pair of tennis shoes to walk in during lunch?

• Oh I get it, you only get an hour for lunch and you have to go across the street to buy a lunch that will stick to your already complaining muffin top, and you’ll barely have enough time to eat by the time you get back. (Uh huh, I get it).
• No wait, you can’t because it’s too hot outside and you have to go back to work. (I get it, really).
• Oh hold on, what about going to the already planned, there for you THREE DAYS A WEEK, Pilates/strengthening class, that’s in your office building on the 3rd floor out of 6 floors total, that all you’ll need to do is walk over to it, that your employer is providing you—for FREE? (Yes, I provide some of this FREE training that you somehow can’t make it to).

Perhaps the gym membership is only “good” when your friend goes with you and if that friend doesn’t go with you………you can’t go because it’s just not that fun and perish the thought you grow some initiative and go on your own. (I see.)

Maybe you have a gym membership but you regret buying it because only dummies work out in a “gym,” where you’d much rather exercise outside in the gorgeous elements and commune with nature, rocks, mud and lush green hills, and the smart money says it won’t cost you anything. But you haven’t taken one step outside in this effort because….because…. ummmmm. (And you haven’t cancelled your gym membership yet. Yes, the gyms LOVE your kind. Just keep giving them your money in the “hope” that either you’ll go back one day or “just in case” you cannot get an outdoor workout in, you’ll actually use that god-forsaken membership. And you bought one for your significant other too). (Yeah, I hear ya).

And of course going to exercise, wherever, after work is absolutely impossible because you have kids, got to pick them up, make dinner, (a quick stop at Taco Bell), do homework, (that they do on your way to driving them to practice), get home, hope to say “boo” to your male OR female spouse (who never helps with the household chores OR carting kids anywhere), and pray to squeeze in some “me” time before it all begins again the next day. (Oh NOW I’m getting it).

So let me get this straight:

You’re saying you have absolutely zero time- -ZERO time- – to get any kind of exercise in, period, and there’s NO POSSIBLE WAY that you can eat better because it costs too much, (but WOW are you willing to pay a few hundred bucks a month for the meds you can’t do without, but you really ‘could’ do without given clean food and exercise- -but we won’t go there), but instead send me emails on Facebook telling me your story of how you:

• “Just can’t get it together.”
• “My doctor is putting me on meds.”
• “I have not been motivated to go to my gym. I have high blood pressure and love salt. So I know what I need to do, but I am scared to work out too hard. My eating is the big thing. I don’t know what to eat.”
• “Well I bought the treats for the kids and they didn’t like it so I HAD to eat it so as not to waste food.”
• “So by Saturday evening, my left knee didn’t feel too good. I babied it a little bit. By Sunday morning couldn’t hardly walk.. Went to the doctor’s and took X-rays and found out I have Arthritis in my left knee…It’s a lot, and probably in my other joints, but concentrated on just my knee for now..so, on meds, and still limping, feeling better, but now know my weight loss is a must… Any suggestions please let me know….I can still exercise, just not as much hard impact and so many days….Talk to u soon…”
• “I’m fully aware that I need to lose weight, I just….I just can’t seem to do it.”

…..and still there’s hesitation to do what’s good for you.

Yup, I get it.

“No Annette I don’t even have 10 minutes to do anything and besides, what the hell good is 10 minutes anyway?”

And my favorite:

“I can’t afford it.”

You’re always looking for a discount….because you believe you deserve it.

So you’re saying that I can also deliver discount services, correct?

I’ve heard it a million times too: “If somebody would just give me a handout, train me for free and see that I REALLY DO want to lose weight. Ohhh I wish I wish I wish that could happen to me. Can’t they see the real me? Can’t they see that I would do all the workouts they gave me and keep it forever?”

Deep breath.

So I’ve even catered to this mentality by offering free training.

For 6 weeks during the holidays I trained 6 people for FREE. I gave them their own meal plans for FREE. I gave them the best trainer tips, input, training strategies they could ever get, (because they told me that I did).

Would you like to know what happened after the 6 weeks of training with me, 6 weeks of email coaching, exact structure of how, what and when to eat, after the constant encouragement of how to continue their progress AND I even threw in an added lifetime discount that would make you slap your forehead in amazement, ($3.46 per training)?

Here it comes.

Only 1 returned.

Their reasons are many to include “I can’t afford it” to “I was scared to come in after being gone for so long.”

And that’s okay, as long as you are comfortable with your choice/s.

Truth time.

You may not embrace this, and honestly, that’s your issue.

In a nutshell:

There’s nothing “wrong” with you.

What you’re looking for is a quick fix, a “wake up and the transformation will be there,” an instant gratification.

You’re lazy.

You’re afraid.

Earning isn’t in your vocabulary, self worth hasn’t been realized.

Stop being a puss.

You’ve tried “everything,” right?

Cool, so now do something different.

INVEST in a coach because apparently everything you’ve done on your own hasn’t worked, right?

And do it for more than 5 minutes this time.

INVEST your time because apparently (again), you HAVE done everything and it hasn’t worked, correct?

It is said a habit is built in 21 days. I say build a GREAT and LASTING habit. Take at least 3 months to do it, and if you feel you need more time than that, take it. Prepare for it. Make a plan for it.

Focus on the behavior, not the result.

Pretty simple here, it’s the behavior.

Look at what you do and how you do it, and you’ll quickly see that you look like your behavior.

This creates accountability.

You can take the accountability in one of three ways:

1. Self hate and throw a pity party. Hell, invite ALL your victim friends, it’ll be fun!
2. Say F it, I’m gonna die anyway. OR…..
3. Change the behavior

Who or what are you giving the power to?

Umm, why?

Start here, Small Group Training w/Annette: http://wp.me/pmtrp-cS

Oh that doesn’t work for you?

Okay, go here, Fire It Up w/trainer Annette: http://wp.me/pmtrp-dP

That doesn’t work for you either?

Okay, go here and scroll down, Personal Training w/Annette: http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/personal-trainer-orange-county.html

That doesn’t work for you either?

Then take your BUTT outside and move it.

The solution:

FOCUS ON THE BEHAVIOR, NOT THE RESULT.

The results are continually the side effect of the behavior.

Now bring it,

Annette

P.S. Three ways to do it:
1. Small Group Training w/Annette: http://wp.me/pmtrp-cS
2. Fire it Up w/trainer Annette: http://wp.me/pmtrp-dP
3. Personal training w/Annette: http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/personal-trainer-orange-county.html

P.S.S. Nothing happens without action. NOTHING.
P.S.S.S. Stop being a puss

Of course it was an easy decision, so I added my own small group training clients into the mix, and asked for the help of another trainer friend of mine.

Everybody started arriving with this funny look on their faces–I could only guess it was terror, as I had the privilege of training them once before?

Giggle!

Well the thing is, they came back knowing I was a guest trainer.

That says a TON about their character.

I put the final touches on the circuit and also put on my military voice. Then we headed from the inside of the gym to the outside, to give them the lay of the land and what was expected of them.

“Form is EVERYTHING here ladies. If you’ve been coming to train but are still not seeing the results you came in expecting to get, let’s consider a few things: the fat in between your thighs. If you don’t like it, then do this station like this. If you’re done with the belly dripping over into the muffin top, keep your feet here when doing this. You’ll feel the soreness and spike a different result. And if you’re still cryin about MENOPAUSE and you woke up 15lbs heavier and it just won’t go away, consider this…..INTENSITY IS KEY. Ya gotta jump out of your comfort zone and GET uncomfortable. Its pretty simple.”

So I continued to demonstrate the exercises at each station while showing options for safety and to either increase or decrease the intensity, and I was listening in the background to their muttled chatter as to why they couldn’t execute that particular exercise.

Ooooh I got fired up and bellowed…..

“Oh ‘BOO-HOO’ I can’t do that because….., I can’t do that one either because……, oh she expects me to do THAT?! No friggin way am I gonna do THAT,” I projected with my best sarcasm. And then I demanded,

“Okay, tell me why you can’t. WHY is this SO unattainable for you miss carpal tunnel, miss fibromyalgia, miss no cartilage or meniscus? PLEASE SHARE why you miss ‘my back hurts right here every time I do that exercise so I just don’t do it anymore’ WHY you can’t? I believe I just offered, with a special invite on top of that, for each and every issue you have each told me about, an option that will not hurt you but rather SERVE you and deliver the results you want so now…….WHY CAN’T YOU DO IT?”

Silence and giggles. And one final exercise instruction from me:

“Oh and by the way, after you reach this station, you’re running to the beach and back.” (‘The beach’ is actually Beach Blvd., and its .6 miles to and from the gym).

They heard that and immediately thereafter came the grand, harmonized symphony of moans & groans.

And then I delivered the “speech.” One of my favorite ones.

The 90% mental, 10% physical speech.

“Guys here’s the thing–you have GOT TO BELIEVE this is an attainable goal. A HUGE key to success is the simple belief and re-routing the negative about WHATEVER you are telling yourself and allowing to fill your brain to the point of crippling behavior, into the thing that makes you believe success is eminent. Training is 90% mental and 10% physical. PERIOD. All this B.S. you’re pouring into your heads that “you can’t do this, you can’t do that,” is the EXACT thing you’re going to produce. Today I invite you to cut the bulls**t and EXPECT more of yourself–because completing today’s format is what the movies like Rocky are made out of. Strive for a greater goal from yourself. Do what your body IS able to do, not what it “can’t.” TELL YOURSELF exactly what you’re going to do, then do it. Now grab your station, we start in 5, 4, 3, 2…….”

So what 12 things about all this impressed me?

12 people.

12 people impressed me by their ability to show up.

And on time.

12 people impressed me who within 8 minutes of pre-training instruction, fear of the unknown to the actual instruction and what to expect, to coaching of the mind set that was readily available to use, to the execution of the first station up to the last, decided they were going to change the fear faces they were wearing.

12 people impressed me who chose difference and because of it not only completed the course, but couldn’t believe they actually DID it, and they were beaming with the awesome sense of accomplishment only the kind of work they did can produce.

They stood sweaty.

They stood taller.

They stood with confidence.

They stood proud.

They earned it.

Because they chose it.

Thank you Joe for trusting us with your clients.

They killed it.

You guys want some of this?

You want to belong to a group of people who are continually striving for the best out of themselves?

Choose my Small Group Training.

Click here to see it: http://wp.me/pmtrp-cS

The group that chooses a level of excellence rather than mediocrity, the group that sure, trains hard but then eats like a cow & drinks like a fish over the weekend and comes back for redemption on Monday, are the ones who will continually feel like they can do anything. And actually “do” it.

Its a special group who chooses belief over fear.

Its an exclusive group who takes action instead of the back seat.

Its the “no excuses” group that continually finds me to train with.

90% mental/10% physical.

Click here for it: http://wp.me/pmtrp-cS

Sure its gonna hurt a bit, but with every single training, you’ll find the pain leaving, the greatness entering, and your clothes fitting.

Hello?!

Annette

P.S. See all the cool bonuses here as well when training in my Small Group Training: http://wp.me/pmtrp-cS

Annette Padilla
Personal Trainer/Lifestyle Coach
Cell (562) 650-2395
http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com for your FREE e-book!

A “trick” to marketing is learning how to connect with people at a core level.

Eh?

Yeah like:

• Want to please the parents
• Want to be accepted among society

These are 2 easy ones that can go a ton of places, here’s how.

• As a man, you do not want to be a “disappointment” to your father. You’ve heard it enough through life and no matter how painful each occurrence of “son, you are a disappointment to me” is, the son still wants the approval of the father for something that he found really cool.
• To be accepted among society can mean you shop only at Nordstroms. Maybe you’re fierce about making your holiday purchases online from only Allen Brothers catalog, then hire a staff to prepare your gourmet holiday feast for 12 to the tune of 5,000.00, and when your friends compliment you on the fabulous meal you tell them “Oh yeah I only buy from Allen Brothers, they are the BEST.”

These are just two examples, and I’d like to share another with you:

Lent.

The definition of Lent by answers.com:

Lent

In the Christian church, a period of penitential preparation for Easter, observed since apostolic times. Western churches once provided for a 40-day fast (excluding Sundays), in imitation of Jesus’ fasting in the wilderness; one meal a day was allowed in the evening, and meat, fish, eggs, and butter were forbidden. These rules have gradually been relaxed, and only Ash Wednesday — the first day of Lent in Western Christianity, when the penitent traditionally have their foreheads marked with ashes — and Good Friday are now kept as Lenten fast days. Rules of fasting are stricter in the Eastern churches.

So for those who want to keep with their core values, they are choosing something to “give up,” something to “discipline” themselves to for 40 days.

Some choices I have heard:

• Facebook
• Sweets after dinner (Thanks Val!)
• Television
• Starbucks (my question to them would be: “Does that mean you’re excluding ALL caffeine or just trips to Starbucks?”) C’mon guys….I gotta ask!

See the point?

People are choosing to give up something they have a habit for.

People are choosing a particular discipline to engage with for 40 days.

And it signifies a lot to that person.

It’s kind of like a “challenge”

What these disciplines will do is remind the person that they actually CAN have discipline for something they find valuable.

And I think that’s cool.

May share my truth & purpose about this message?

If you can choose a discipline, for FORTY days, something that when you wake up on Easter morning you’ll feel so much better about that, you “made it,” something that will reaffirm your core value of the religious partaking in Lent, may I offer you within the 40 days you’re choosing discipline for….

an included 5 days of a sure thing?

Just 5 days (included with your already planned 40) that will truly give you a sense of:

• “I made it”
• “I can be proud of myself”
• “I did it”
• “There’s now something I can truly be proud of ”
• “I earned this one”

…and you’ll do it in 5 days.

RESET Challenge can provide this for you.

http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/usana-challenge.html

Now let me count the ways this could be of benefit to your already awesome decision to yourself for 40 days….

1. Those of you giving up the chocolate, caffeine and sugar will have absolutely NO problem finishing the 40 days off of sugar after the short 5 that RESET provides. Why?
a. Because RESET removes the cravings FOR the sugar!!
b. Your system “resets” itself and you’re SO good to go!

2. The habit that you have already chosen to implement- -for FORTY days- – will be enhanced with the 5 days RESET provides.

3. RESET truly IS a Challenge that you will be proud of, be it instead of or in addition to the one that is either not-so-much of a “loss” to you in the next 40 days or the one that is of challenge to you.

It can be that simple.

So this is the message I’d like to share with you- -take the RESET Challenge.

http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/usana-challenge.html

The only deadline has already been placed, by you: 40 days, ending on Easter.

That means the pressure to “join us by ….. date” is already done by you.

This year do Lent with deliberate and alternate, accountable action.

Bring it on guys, this one will make your father and your circle of influence proud of you.

And the most important thing, YOU will be proud of you.

Annette

P.S. See the details here, remembering that the only deadline placed is the one you have already chosen, so there’s no more fear of a deadline.

Click here: http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/usana-challenge.html

Too hot?

Too cold?

It’s raining?

It’s snowing?

It gets dark too early?

Nobody loves me?

When is it going to be “my turn?”

“Jack in the Box was the closet thing”

“I can’t afford it”

“If I just had a …. (you fill it in)……I’d be a better person.”

Excuses are great, yeah really they are! They are the greatest enablers of what you call the “lifestyle” that fits you.

They will create anything you choose to believe in.

They will also push you to BE more, DO more and HAVE more.

And that “more” goes in any direction you choose!

And there’s nothing wrong with that.

LIVE I say!

Live your life in the comfort of over spending.

Live your life in the comfort of “My girlfriend didn’t make me dinner so I went to Tommy’s.”

Live your life in the comfort of complacency.

Live your life in the comfort of diving into Flamin Hot Cheetos and tequila!

Live, period.

There is nothing wrong with your choices.

There is nothing wrong with choosing comfort over accountability.

And there’s nothing wrong with being a diabetic, have high blood pressure, being overweight that exacerbates the knee injury, the back
injury or the ankle sprain either.

Unless there’s something wrong with it to you.

“I’m going to die anyway so screw it,” you say.

Sweet.

It’s like when you’re out with friends who drink too much and you’re telling them, “stop drinking, stop drinking,” and all they do it get belligerent.

Nah, I say “here, have another double.” It’ll make them pass out and then they won’t want to fight anymore. Call the cops, let em get locked up, released on O.R., and that relieves you of babysitting them.

“Did you just say that Annette?”

Of course I did!

You cannot change their behavior, nor is it your duty to.

They enjoy how they live so again…..LIVE!

But you don’t have to be a part of it, because you make your own choices.

That’s the beauty of living—choice.

But a gentle word about the excuses- -

After asking yourself the question, “how have my choices been working for me” and the answer you give yourself is less than what you call stellar, you have this choice to make- -

Click here for deliberate difference: http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/usana-challenge.html

Yes, it’s the “Just in Time For Spring” RESET Challenge.

It’s a total body cleanse.

Its 5 days.

It’s 1500 calories per day (or more).

It can re-route what you feel about many things, and shrink the sexy giggle-giggle of your belly with each step you take.

The coaching is fabulous.

You’re not alone.

And if you’re truly choosing “you” for a lifestyle of confidence, greatness and continually expecting a higher level, this is a ticket to choose from.

Just In Time For Spring RESET Challenge: http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/usana-challenge.html

Come out and play, or create an excuse that you believe serves you,

Annette

P.S. Deadlines are a great tool. The deadline for the RESET Challenge is this Sunday. YES it’s Valentine’s Day…..what’s the big deal?

Click here: http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/usana-challenge.html

I was a MESS yesterday!

It started with the idea to put in some more miles this past Sunday w/my half marathon running buddy Isabel.

10 miles was the goal, and for both of us it would be the longest we had gone thus far.

Kind of a scary thought–at least for me!

I’ve deliberately chosen to switch my “face” for running from: “I HATE running,” to “okay, I have a goal, its time I step up to the plate, walk the talk and get it done.”

That decision became easy…..after repeating this to myself in the mirror for 15 days: “I AM a runner. My body is made to do this. I am strong, I am blessed, and I can go for miles.”

But getting to that point took deliberate action.

Onto the 10-mile run we went, along with 2 additional friends of mine, I’ll call them 1 & 2, just cause I don’t have their permission to throw them here on my blog!

The day was chilly, about 53 degrees when we started. I had my black 3/4 workout shorts and my red long-sleeved nike training layer. (This top turns me into Wonder Woman-that and my Suunto watch which still doesn’t have the correct time set on it but I wear it anyway), but the sun was out, it was beautiful.

#1 friend took off like a shot. Nobody else existed except her headphones and the embrace of the pavement.

We were all relying on #1 to keep the mileage counts for us. It was a bit uncomfortable for me, but I still, after about 4 months, have not set my Suunto!

Trot trot trot we go. Note to self: get a new pair of earphones with the hook-thingies that go behind your ear.

The short, #1 is headed back, I look at her and mouth to her “where’s the 5 mile mark?”

She shouts back “West Lincoln then turn back.”

“Okay cool, I’m almost there,” I said to myself. “Whew!”

So I continued until West Lincoln showed up.

Didn’t show up.

Still didn’t show up.

Still messin with the right earbud, it kept fallin out.

“WHERE’S WEST LINCOLN?!”

“$hit, I’m tired! Okay, I’ll stop at the next bridge-looking thing. Its kinda far but eh, I’ll make it.”

I stopped at Taft, chugged my bottle of water and came back!

About 15 trots back I realized that mayyyyybe I went to far!

Laughing OUT LOUD at myself there went yet ANOTHER face, another mind set of “awww yeah, time to suck it up and finish.”

And now there was a head wind.

Didn’t seem like it was going to end! Every mind game available was present, taunting me with every single step I took.

Legs feeling like concrete, I allowed the mind games to have their say, and beat em back with “I AM a runner. My body is made to do this. I am strong, I am blessed, and I can go for miles.”

Upon return I was welcomed by my friends, and a big “WHAT HAPPENED!?”

So I regaled the “West Lincoln” story.

And here comes #1–”Nooooo Annette I said ‘just PAST’ Lincoln. To go a little bit PAST Lincoln and turn around!”

Yup, there I was, the tontita with my Wonder Woman shirt, Suunto watch that doesn’t tell time yet, my shaking legs and the BIGGEST smile of accomplishment!

Well ended up I ran close to 13 miles. I haven’t mapped it out yet, but its a pretty good estimation.

Do you have a mission to accomplish? I think you do!

You can start here: http://wp.me/pmtrp-di

The only reason you need is…..you.

And then some,

Annette

P.S. I EARNED those miles yesterday. Learn what earning “you” can mean here: http://wp.me/pmtrp-di

Annette Padilla
Personal Trainer/Lifestyle Coach
Cell (562) 650-2395

http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com for your FREE e-book!

Success is getting up … one more time!

So tomorrow, Jan 4th is the order deadline, and if your name is included on this email, you are ill-equipped in setting yourself up for success in the “I’m taking responsibility” RESET Challenge.

http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/usana-challenge.html

So the brass tacks:

1. If you ARE waiting for tomorrow–why?
2. Jump on it now.
3. Living in the “now” creates more “now.” Not what it was like “yesterday” (when you were in high school and college and it was soooo easy to get a flat stomach) ~OR~ “tomorrow” that “‘one day ‘ I will be skinny and feel better about myself.’
4. Now is now. That’s Coaching 101.
5. There is shipping time involved, remember that when planning for absolute success.
6. Self-sabotage sucks.
7. Quit it already.

Did you guys check my social calendar on Facebook? It says I’m leaving for vacation tomorrow.

Check it here: http://www.facebook.com/trainerannette?ref=profile#/trainerannette?ref=profile

Sure, I’ll be accessible, just not as much as always, and your coaching WILL begin tomorrow if you have joined the group (no worries, I got your backs).

Now that you know this, I’d suggest you take a good look at your normal ammo in preparation and follow through–maybe there’s some 11th hour re-evaluation to be done?

NO SELF SABOTAGE in waiting till the 11th hour, believing that you “missed” the deadline, then scramble to get a hold of me and I happen to not answer you immediately, then you panic……

And give up.

Citing that “you missed it again, maybe next time.”

You didn’t miss it, you sabotaged yourself.

That was Coaching 101A.

Say no to self-sabotage: http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/usana-challenge.html

Stand up tall.

Breathe in all the power that surrounds you that comes from you.

Michel de Montaigne said:

“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.”

I believe in the ever-present power we are born with and bringing it to the surface to shine.

It’s time to shine!

Join us on the “I’m Taking Responsibility” RESET Challenge.

Order deadline is tomorrow, January 4.

And I also like dressing up the word valor because I can so………….

Here’s to your “magnificent” valor,

Annette

P.S. Valor starts here: http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/usana-challenge.html

What are you looking for?

Do you like what you see?

Are you looking for me?

It’s only one step away.

In a world of anger, in a world of pain, I will lift you up, it will never be the same.

I will guide you, to a better place, just take my hand, and I’ll lead you, it’s only one step away.

If you’re feeling lonely, and the world is rain, I’ll be the one, to light up your day.

I will guide you to a better place, just take my hand, and I’ll lead you, it’s only one step away.

One step away: http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/usana-challenge.html

These are lyrics to a song by DJ Jurgen called “One Step Away.”

It’s one of my favorite songs (or tracks as we call them) from the hundreds we instructors have for the weightlifting format we teach called Body Pump.

So what’s the “one step away?”

It’s you.

The person you really want to see in the mirror.

The person who wants to prove yourself right, about you.

To prove to yourself that you ARE someone special.

That you DO deserve bigger and better.

To actually live, breathe and expect bigger things to happen to you and for you because of you because of the belief in you.

One step away, and then another, and then another, until you reach the goal. And when that goal is reached, there’s another one waiting.

It’s waiting patiently, for you, to come and meet it, smile, give it a big hug and thrive in the sheer joy of reaching it
And then off to the next goal because it too is just one step away.

Another step leads to another and again here we are at the next goal jumping up and down, screaming at the top of our lungs, and tears of joy streaming down our faces.

Because you took one step.

Each step you take creates the avenue for tweaking, change and failures….and failures are simply the knowledge of how not to do it next time, to take another step in a different direction, and mold what you want as you go.

Success.

It’s one step away.

Re-read the 4th line in this blog, “Are you looking for me?”

“Me” is the one you’re looking for.

“Me” is you.

Yes, you.

And you are one step away.

Take one step here: http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/usana-challenge.html

We have a deadline for the “I’m Taking Responsibility” RESET Challenge.

A deadline is a step, not anything to fear.

It’s just a step.

Take the step.

The BONUS 30-minute coaching sessions are happening via email, text , Facebook and in person depending on the individual, and they ARE taking their one step.

And they’re gonna kill it.

It’s not too late.

• Order deadline: Sunday, January 3, 2010
• “Creating the Mind-Set For Deliberate Success” Coaching Begins Monday, January 4, 2010
• Pre-Challenge Coaching Begins Monday, January 4, 2010
• Starting date: Monday, January 11, 2010
• This is the New Year, “I’m Taking Responsibility” Challenge!

The simplicity of writing this blog is this: ONE STEP AWAY.

Think about it.

Say it.

“One step away.”

It’s relieving ya know?

One step isn’t that much to do at a time.

This is your invitation to take ONE step.

I GUARANTEE IT. You have nothing to lose except fat, guilt and self-hate.

You really are one step away,

Annette
P.S. Go ahead, take it: http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/usana-challenge.html

This is follow up from yesterday’s email. If you didn’t receive it because you just joined on as an “attending” or “maybe,” no worries- -this is the meat of the Challenge. This is what everybody wants to know.

Take 5 minutes and have a quick and beneficial read. Plus, you’ll get “the honest” from me about half-way through.

This is EXTRA coaching for the most rewarding 5 days you’ll ever put into yourselves- -really.

Many don’t wanna read “how to” do anything, myself included! I mean, how many times have I put together something without reading the instructions??

INSTRUCTIONS ARE A PAIN IN THE ASS.

So allow me to make it easy about your next step in creating success with RESET.

1. The choices are $149.00 or $307.00

2. $149 gets you:
a. RESET kit
i. 15 Nutrimeal shakes
ii. 10 packets of the most AWESOME vitamin supplements, 1 pack in the AM, one in the PM.
iii. 10 Power bars, oatmeal raisin and peanut butter crunch.
iv. Another easy piece of coaching on how to do RESET, it’s a 2-page fold out. It will become your best friend for reference.
v. DVD of more coaching and tips for the week
vi. And a really cool RESET magnet!
b. 1 extra bag of Nutrimeal shake to have for during the Challenge or for after.
i. The coaching provides you with every single possible way to keep your guaranteed results going without having to buy anything else- -but the truth is, everyone waits till the end of the Challenge, experience amazing results, and then wish they had more Nutrimeal shakes! So this option is a great one!

3. $307.00 gets you:
a. RESET kit
i. 15 Nutrimeal shakes
ii. 10 packets of the most AWESOME vitamin supplements, 1 pack in the AM, one in the PM.
iii. 10 Power bars, oatmeal raisin and peanut butter crunch.
iv. Another easy piece of coaching on how to do RESET, it’s a 2-page fold out. It will become your best friend for reference.
v. DVD of more coaching and tips for the week
vi. And a really cool RESET magnet!

THE REST BELOW IS FOR AFTER THE 5 DAYS TO KEEP YOU GOING WITH SIMPLICITY AND EASE

Remember, we are creating a lifestyle, not a once & done. If we wanted once and done we’d starve ourselves, learn poor habits, lose the weight, go on vacation and gain it all back again and then some.

No no—this is for life. If you can’t “see” it, check your level of commitment.

THE HONEST—I’ll take your money all day long if you want a once and done, but my goal is to create wealth of health through coaching, mentoring and calling you to action and PREPARE you for the “ever after” RIGHT NOW.

b. THIRTY DAYS of Nutrimeal shakes (1 per day and then you make 2 low-glycemic meals—YES easy coaching for this!!)
c. THIRTY DAYS of awesome vitamins supplements
d. THIRTY DAYS of power bars—these are GOLD and you’ll find this out during the Challenge

AND THE COACHING IS MAGIC, IT WILL EMPOWER YOU- -ITS PRETTY COOL!

Alright, let’s do the math!

• 307.00 divided by 30 days = 10.23 per day
• Now take a look at what you spend per day on garbage food—AND THE BEER!
o Yeah—it’s more, I know
• USANA guarantees you’re getting “good” stuff in your body
• You know you’re eating well….thus keeping the weight off.

Okay done!

Time to pick.

Lastly, when you DO act on this and get 20% off your 1st order (prices are already quoted at the 20% discount), here’s what I need back from you:

• Credit/Debit card TYPE
• Credit/Debit card #
• Credit/Debit card exp
• DOB
• Email address
• Mailing address (USANA will not deliver to P.O. boxes)
• Phone number

Happy Day guys,

Annette!

P.S. If you have experienced RESET before and wanna give some input to the group—AWESOME! Leave a comment in the box below!

Huh?

Yeah you know, that thing you constantly think, think, think about, wish upon a star about, hope it comes around, think some more about it, and then some more……

And then it fizzles and dies and then the “thought” process repeats……

Think, think, think, wish, hope, think, think, think. Fizzle.

You can’t get any project off the ground by thought alone, right?

What do you think would have happened if Oprah sat on her thoughts of “one day” becoming a talk show host, multi-GO-zillionare?

Or if Larry Page and Sergey Brin had sat on their thoughts of creating Google?

What if your infant (by the way babies have an AWESOME amount of ‘do’ power), only thought of standing and walking while continued to crawl forever?

These examples above have one thing in common: they WERE thoughts of course but…..

ACTION followed.

With action you get more creation, more adapting, more tweaking, more goal-setting, more failures and more opportunities that present themselves to define, refine, and re-do until you are happy with the result.

(That’s you on the right, your hands creating anythinig you want)

All because there was action taken in the first place.

I’m calling you to action: http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/usana-challenge.html

“You” are the project.

Do you think Oprah got it “right” in her early years?

What about Larry Page and Sergey Brin? One of their adjustments was that Sergey ended up leaving the original Google partnership.

And your infants-did they end up walking? Yes they did and why?

Your support, your repeatedly standing them up, watching them do the wobble and fall back down on their butts, and your deliberate action of making them “act” in standing up again.

They WILL walk.

Now its time to take all that deliberate action you lovingly spend for your infant, because you truly DO know that they will walk soon, and put it into you.

The RESET 5-Day High Fiber Cleanse New Year, “I’m Taking Responsibility” Challenge is a plan of action to choose.

Time to KNOW you will lose the belly fat while gaining true wealth of health and confidence like you haven’t experienced before, in this plan of action:

1. BE the person to engage in the action of contacting me. Get some free coaching already!

2. DO a small 5 days of earning.

(Hint-#1 & 2 is the action plan is just two little steps).

3. HAVE the absolute joy in the freedom of bringing down the skinny pairs of pants you’ve kept high up in the closet and FIT into them, because you acted on your thoughts.

Freedom begins here: http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/usana-challenge.html

Action means there is no waiting.

Action means there is no procrastination.

Action means sure, there may be excuses but YOU MOVE FORWARD ANYWAY.

It’s called deliberate intent and creation.

Move forward anyway on your project.

The project is you.

And you really DO matter.

Yes you do.

Annette

P.S. There is no need to wait till the deadline to act. Act now. Believe in you, because I do.

Believe and click here: http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com/usana-challenge.html

A “story” could go something like “I can’t…………” or, “What if I ……….” Or, “I just know I can’t………..” How about, “I can’t believe this is happening to me AGAIN!” Or, “I’ll never be able to do that.” And, “back to the grind, how else am I gonna make the cha-ching.” And what about, “nobody loves me, why am I still single at 47 years old, what is wrong with me?”

Pretty real huh?

It’s real only if you feed those thoughts with more of them. This is a story.
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“Annette are you kidding I can’t run that far, and if you’re running now I gotta keep up with you? ”

STORY!!

When people train with me they get to deconstruct their current story that keeps them on a “less than” mindset, and reconstruct a new one- -from the bottom up –making their foundation so definitely reinforced and sure with belief in themselves there is NO question to what they can actually do and accomplish.

And then it translates into life, not just training.
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But this is why I have a job, which I don’t consider a job at all.

We all have gifts, and one of mine truly is a gift.

I can see the potential in a person and draw it out.

This is why my job isn’t a job, it’s a reward to me and I get to open gifts everyday by being witness to the true blue, honest-to-goodness accomplishments of the heroes I have the privilege of working with.

“OMG I wonder if I’m going to finish?” “Oh good, I’m running by myself cause I’ve been sick and don’t wanna run outside. SIGH, FINE. I got this, what am I doing, Annette?”“Oh god I hope I don’t give up, I always give up. How much longer do we have to go? “How does that girl run so fast?” “I’ll never be able to keep up with her.” “Annette said keep a pace that’s comfortable. If I do that, I’ll be last.”“OMG I don’t wanna walk but Annette said I could……sigh, no I can’t stop! But I’m gonna,” as she gasped to the rest of the group, “I’m sorry!!” “Oh no, they’re doubling back just for me cause I’m walking, now I feel like an ass!” “My lungs hurt.” “My ankle is just gonna have to suck it up. Good thing I’m wearing my wrap.”

STORIES.
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“OMG I wonder if I’m going to finish?” That was Adina. I shared with Adina that she has the choice to put herself in a new “bracket.” The one that says “Yes, I AM an athlete; there is no doubt that I can handle this and whatever is thrown at me.” After the run guess what her new story was? “I felt invincible knowing that I accomplished something that I fear. I told myself that I am now gonna start running for real.”

Whoa.

“OMG I don’t wanna walk but Annette said I could……sigh, no I can’t stop! But I’m gonna,” as she gasped to the rest of the group, “I’m sorry!!” “Oh no, they’re doubling back just for me cause I’m walking, now I feel like such a disappointment!” That was Cara. I kept telling the group ahead to slow down & turn around and come back. This was a support mission for Cara. By NO stretch was Cara “done,” she needed a breather. We all flanked her until she was ready again. Her story after the run, “I felt relief and excited to know I finished. I kept telling myself I could do this to keep going, you are almost done. Now I say ‘bring it’ because the more you do something the better you get at it!”

Hello!!

“Oh good, I’m running by myself cause I’ve been sick and don’t wanna run outside. SIGH, FINE. I got this, what am I doing, Annette?” That was Andrea who got pummeled over Thanksgiving Day weekend by a chest cold. She came back today and wanted to work out, but running outside would have aggravated her lungs (in fact, running period would aggravate her lungs), but she decided to get some work done. I gave her a walking protocol on the treadmill and kept her inside. Her story after her indoor, by herself walk, “I was pleased. For me, the way I have been feeling this morning, I was thrilled! I was really excited for the others. That was GREAT!”

Awww yeah!

“Oh god I hope I don’t give up, I always give up. How much longer do we have to go? How does that girl run so fast? I’ll never be able to keep up with her.” That was Jenn. Guess what happened? She said, “Adina motivated me by being in front…it felt good. I kept my same pace and was able to catch up. And her story after we finished, “I felt fantastic…another accomplishment down. Whoo hoo! HELLS YAH I’d do it again!”

BOOYAH!!

What’s the magic?
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It’s you.

It always has been.

Yes this is a deliberate invitation to treat yourselves to the magic, the motivation, the inspiration and the measureable accomplishments to stack in your being. You can draw from that account where there’s never a shortage ….all because you choose a different story.

It’s Christmas.
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Ask for a present where the investment will REALLY be made use of instead of another pair of jeans that don’t fit, nor do you like.

Or you yourself invest in a gift that truly keeps giving.

That’s me, I’m the gift. I’ll put a red bow on my head if you like at our first meeting. (562) 650-2395
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Annnnnd I’m supposed to be a little more subtle? Why?

I got the goods.

I’m exquisite at what I do….because I LOVE what I do.

And I wanna share.

It will be the BEST investment you ever made…..or I’ll refund every penny no questions asked.

Yeah, I will.

But I haven’t had to.

Change your story.

Make it one that you want to see.

It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks, says or does because….it’s your story to create!

Make it a good story too!

YOU are the reason I chose training as a profession.

Makes me cry almost everyday.

Yeah, really.

Cheers to who you really are, the real you,

Annette
http://www.absolute-fitness-results.com

P.S. Tell me your story change. Leave your comment in the section below. The more shared, the more ease we create, the more GREAT stories we hear, the greater opportunity you are creating for….more! And that’s what life is all about – -isn’t it, a GREAT story?