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Contents
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19 • Discover Your Personal Why
35 • Eliminate Your Why Nots
73 • Eat Smart
86 • It’s Time to Get Started!
129 • The Whole Life Fitness Power 30
165 • Healthy for the Long Haul
169 • Notes
175 • Index
183 • Acknowledgments
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do you want to live a life of total awesomeness?
Some years ago, I asked myself that same question. I realized that while I had a lot to be thankful for in my life, I was falling short of my own potential. Don’t get me wrong—I was doing the best I could, and life had been trucking along fine. I had moved to a new city on the West Coast, attended university, started to discover myself, landed a great job, fell in love, travelled a little and started a family. But I never seemed to have time for the things that were most important to me. I was also spending more money than I had.
My health and fitness ebbed and flowed throughout my life. When I only had to worry about myself, I could always find time for fitness. But when other people—my family—became a significant part of my life, I felt pulled to prioritize “us” rather than “me,” and my health often suffered as a result. I figured that this was just the way it went; after all, it seemed like everyone else I knew was on the same path. But in the back of my mind, I was always thinking: Is this really how life is supposed to be?
As time went on, I kept trying to balance the priorities in my life, striving to attain “perfection,” but I was constantly disappointed in myself. I was never able to truly balance it all. When I let one part of my life become the shining star, all other aspects of my life would dim in comparison. If I focused on family, my career suffered. When I turned my energies toward my career, in particular when I was building my company, my family felt it, and so did my health. I just never seemed to have enough to make everything work. Do you know the feeling?
Like many people, I found happy distraction in activities that didn’t propel me forward in life—pub nights, boys’ trips, nights out with my colleagues and long days on the golf course. I kept telling myself that tomorrow would be the day to “reset” and get everything in order: Tomorrow is the day to start my new habits. Tomorrow is the start of my path to awesomeness. But you know what? Every