1. Decide what you want. This may sound relatively easy, but you really need to look for some deeper answers. You will need to know specifically what you want. If it’s physical change that you are looking for then I would recommend getting with a fitness professional to help you determine exactly what changes you can make. Some people have a desire to lose a certain amount of weight, but in reality they don’t have that much to lose. It’s important to have a realistic approach to setting your goals and to know what changes your body will allow.
2. Knowing “why” you want it. Again, this sounds like something relatively easy to determine, but to get the real answers you are looking for it may not be so easy. It is extremely important to ask yourself this question and maybe on a regular basis. There should always be a TRUE purpose to every action. To understand why you want something you must really ask yourself why you want it. Must of us think we know why we want something, but in reality if we check, we might be way off. If you think reasons like. To help understand this a little better I would suggest reading my ebook which you can get for free by simply asking for a copy at www.AskPatKing.com .
3. Developing a Plan. You must have a specific plan of action as to how you are going to achieve your goals. What changes will you make immediately, what kind of changes can you make over time, who will help you and how long will specific things take are all things you will have to know.
4. Take Immediate and consistent ACTION! You must be willing to start now. Stop thinking and just do. It’s human nature to keep finding excuses as to why we can’t do something and these things will keep preventing us from getting where we want to go and getting what we want. It’s important to identify these thoughts, be aware of them when they come in to our minds and replace them with positive thoughts. Again, you can learn more about this by reading my ebook, just ask me for a copy at www.AskPatKing.com. You will also need to take consistent action, this means being willing to identify things you could have done better on a daily basis and be willing to change them. A helpful tips is to give yourself a gut check before you go to sleep at night. Ask yourself, “did I give my health 100% today? Did I do everything I could to become the healthy person that I deserve to be? What can I do better tomorrow?” Ask yourself these questions every night and be honest with yourself. Write down your answers in your journal and read them in the morning to remind yourself what you have to do better that day. If you are serious, do this it will help tremendously. Hold yourself accountable.

Whatever you want in your life you can have. Follow these simple steps in every approach to striving for a goal, put a 100& in to it and you will succeed.

Here are your Top Ten Health Tips for the month of May! Enjoy!

1. Be Positive. More and more research continues to show the benefits of keeping a positive mental outlook in life. Positive thinking has been found to help boost the immune system and helps fight off diseases and infections.
2. Forgive yourself and others around you for any wrong doings. Holding resentments only increases stress levels. Let’s face it, holding a grudge doesn’t benefit anyone. Make it a goal to forgive someone today that you’ve been holding a grudge against.
3. Cross Fitness is extremely beneficial in helping achieve your fitness goals. For example: Designing a workout routine that involves yoga, weight training, agility training, core training and cardio. Not only does your body tend to respond better to training like this, it keeps it interesting and fun.
4. Spring Cleaning Time? Many studies have show that clutter and disorganization leads to high levels of stress, specifically it increases the cortisol levels which impairs you ability to think, concentration and also effects your memory.
5. Lean Mean Fat Burning Machine. Want to be one? Then strength training is a must. Muscle is your number one fat burning machine. If you are serious about burning fat, then a strength training program is a must. Nobody is saying that you need to look like a body builder and you won’t because that takes more work than you can even imagine, but strength training is the foundation of a good fat burning program.
6. Volunteer. There is something really incredible about helping others. In a study of men over the age of 55, those who did volunteer work were 44% less likely to die than those who did not. Doesn’t surprise me. I am an advocate of the law of karma and this would be a good argument that karma is true. Not to mention the positive feelings and mental benefits can only be good for your overall health.
7. Health or Wealth? “So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health” A great quote from A.J. Reb Materi. Do you value your health more? Do you put your health first? A wealthy dead man is of no benefit to anyone.
8. Food Only at meal time. As a force of habit we feel like we need to have something to drink with dinner whether it’s water, juice or some type of alcohol. This doesn’t really do anything for us. In fact, fluids will dilute your natural digestive enzymes which will make it harder for your body to digest it’s food. Poor digestion puts added stress on your entire body. It’s best to drink fluids about 30 minutes before you meals or 30 minutes after meals.
9. Sugar, The Culprit Again! Once again we have learned that refined sugar is to blame for something else. The British medical journal states that refined sugar increases acidity substantially about normal levels which leads to heartburn and even stomach ulcers. Splenda anyone?
10. More Than Just A Fancy Garnish. Parsley that is. Since I can remember, this is something that has always been put on our dinner plates, never eaten and then just thrown away. What a waste! Parsley actually works great as a cleanser for the body. It helps in reducing gallstones, kidney stones, and maintaining healthy blood vessels.

Can Your Risk Of Stroke Really Decrease By Being Wealthier?

In a recent study of people between the ages of 50-64, those that were more wealthy had less risk of stroke. “We confirmed that lower wealth, education and income are associated with increased stroke up to age 65, and wealth is the strongest predictor of stroke among the factors we looked at,” stated Dr. Mauricio Avendano of the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

“After age 65, the association of education, income and wealth with stroke are very weak, and wealth did not clearly predict stroke,” said Avendano. According to the American Heart Association every year there are about 780,000 strokes in Americans and 27 percent of them happen before the age of 65.

In an ongoing study of 19,445 Americans at the University of Michigan, all of those were stroke going in to the study. The lower 10 percent of the wealth classification had 3 times as many strokes as those of the higher wealth classification. Basically, the more wealthy they were, the less likely they were to have a stroke.

“Lack of material resources themselves, and particularly wealth, appear to strongly influence people’s chances to have a first stroke,” Avendano said. “From a public health perspective, this would mean that diminishing the large wealth gap at age 50-64 also could help diminish the large disparities in stroke.”

This is no surprise to me. Most of the worries in the people whom I know and work with are usually associated with money. We are in a world driven by money like it or not. So, what are your options? Become wealthy to be more healthy? I think not! Although it may help reduce your chance of a stroke, you are more likely to achieve better overall health by working on the inner principals of health.

If you have more inner peace and true happiness, you will naturally be less stressed about money and other material factors that control peoples lives. All your external suffering and worldly problems come from what’s going on inside your mind. Until our world starts becoming more educated on this and starts doing something about it, we will continue to endure the suffering of anger, resentment, jealously, war and the many other things that continue to tear our world apart.

This study to me is just another failed human attempt at making the world healthier without doing the work necessary to achieve it. More reinforcement that we don’t need telling us that money is going to solve our problems. It’s no wonder we think the way we do.

The Secret Psychology of Health |A Segment From My Ebook

The first step to changing your attitude towards your health is Awareness. You must first be aware of all your disempowering and non supportive beliefs to be able to change them. Then, we will instill a new belief system that will completely Transform your attitude.

Here are some non supportive beliefs. Feel free to add any additional ones that you might think of.

• Working out is so hard
• It hurts
• I don’t have enough time
• I don’t have enough money
• I’m not ready
• I’ll do it tomorrow or next week or next month or I’ll make it my new years resolution.
• I don’t know how
• I feel uncomfortable
• I’m tired
• I’m sore
• I eat good most of the time
• Something is better than nothing
• What if, what if, what if
• But, but, but, but, but

These are the most common things that I hear. I have been there too, but as soon as I became aware of the non supportive beliefs, it made keeping a positive mental outlook A LOT EASIER!

It’s hard, I don’t have enough time, I’m tired, I don’t know how…..these are all your own personal beliefs. Truthfully, they are really just excuses. The only reason that these thoughts even exist is because you hold them to be true and you hang on to them with everything that you have because you fear change. Don’t fear it, embrace it. It’s positive change, it will give you so many wonderful things in your life.

Beliefs are simply just thoughts that you hold to be true. They are not right and they are not wrong. They are just simply what you believe them to be. If you think it’s going to be hard, then it will be. You beliefs can either be empowering or disempowering, it’s whichever you choose that will make your own reality.

Since you discovered your “why”, it’s now time to choose a new attitude and a new set of beliefs if you want to succeed at this. If you really want to understand your belief system, simply look at your life. In your life, you will always act or not act as a result of your beliefs!

Those actions create your results and your reality. It’s all a result of what you hold to be true in your mind. Your attitude!

“Whether you believe you can or you can’t, either way you’re right.”

-Henry Ford

You have to have empowering thoughts. You have to empower yourself to achieve greatness. Here are some empowering thoughts that you should keep in your mind, because they ARE TRUE! Write them down and read them out loud every morning. Put your hand on your chest so that you can feel the vibration when you speak them. I know, it’s sounds silly, but it works. Do it for one week straight everyday and then tell me I’m wrong. Don’t stop at a week, do it everyday!

1. I deserve to be healthy
2. I deserve to be happy
3. I respect my body and will take good care of it
4. I will think healthy thoughts
5. I will choose healthy, supportive friends
6. I will achieve my Ultimate Health goals
7. I will exercise regularly
8. I will only eat and drink wholesome, healthy foods
9. I will feel and look younger
10. I wake up each day feeling grateful for my health.
11. I have plenty of energy for all that I need to accomplish every day
12. I will go to sleep each evening grateful for another healthy day, knowing that my Ultimate Health goals are with in my reach.
13. I WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO SUCCEED IN HEALTH!

There are 2 reason why people usually don’t get what they want.

1. They don’t know what they want.
2. They don’t know why they want it.

Guess what, neither of those are you. You now have overcome the 2 main obstacles of achieving great success in health. Now all you have to do is take the action.

You have now gained your clarity. You know what you want ( to live a happy, healthy life free from physical suffering) and you know why you want it.

Clarity equals Power! You already posses the Power to achieve the Ultimate Health goals that you desire. Believe it or not that’s the hardest part!

Power is the ability to do or Act. The only thing that will keep you from achieving your goals now is not taking action. Reaching Ultimate Health is simply a choice.

The only thing that’s left that could be holding you back is FEAR! The definition of FEAR is “the anticipation of pain”. Do you know what state anticipation is in? It’s in the future, when you are anticipating something, it hasn’t happened yet, therefore it’s not even real. It only exists in your mind. There is nothing to FEAR, the future doesn’t even exist yet.

Think about this, there’s a guy standing on the ground looking up a 40 foot ladder scared to death. He is full of FEAR! WHY, he’s standing on the ground?

Truly successful people hold one great asset over the rest. There ability to Act regardless of any FEARS they may have.

Everyone has FEARS, it’s a completely natural feeling. The difference is whether you let it stop you. You have to do whatever it takes!

“We can change our lives. We can do, have and be exactly what we wish.”

-Anthony Robbins

That wish must be stronger than your fear. Your why must be big enough for you to act in spite of fear, doubt or worry! You are worthy of better health, except it, embrace it and enjoy it NOW!

Whether you really believe or do not believe that you are worthy, it’s all just a story in your mind. If you say that you are worthy you are and if you say that you are not, you’re not. Change your story, become who you want to be. I have already shown you that you have the power, now all it takes is consistent action and the right attitude! Repeat your declarations every time you feel scared, unworthy or any other non supportive thought comes in to your mind.

Let’s face it, if what you were doing was working then you wouldn’t be reading this. Everything happens for a reason. You are reading this right now because it’s time for you. It’s time for you to start making better choices with your health. If you are one of those “most of the time” kind of people, the you need to step it up and strive for greatness and stop settling for mediocrity. You can handle it. You can handle anything and you will!

Your made up story in your head with all the obstacles in the way of Ultimate Health owns you! Make a new story for yourself. Become who you want to be and own yourself! Be true to yourself!

All the negative and non supporting thoughts are what’s keeping you from greatness and Ultimate Health! Are you willing to continue to let it stop you?

The truth is that as soon as you stop focusing on all the problems that you have and the health that you don’t have and start focusing on your goals and your vision, the sooner you will reach them! Get out of your own way and commit to achieving your goals. If you are 100% committed, then you WILL NOT FAIL!

There’s a saying that “God helps those who helps themselves.” It doesn’t matter what your beliefs are, maybe your Buddhist or something else. The point is that it rings true no matter where you come from or what your beliefs are. If you are taking consistent action to help yourself, then good things will start happening for you. Don’t get me wrong, there will still be challenges, but you will push right through them and take them as a learning experience and not see them as “problems”.

Your attempts don’t have to be perfect, nobody’s are. Nobody has all the answers and people always fall off the horse. Speaking of a horse, it’s like riding a bull ( I thought he said horse?). Have you ever watched a bull rider? It’s not pretty, but he gets on there and does what he has to do for 8 seconds and gets no points for style! He just takes action. Take action and redirect as you learn more and grow.

The key is to take consistent action and redirect as you become more educated about your health needs. Do you remember the space shuttle Apollo? The Apollo mission was only on target 3% of the time. The rest of the time they were learning and redirecting. This is what you need to do. Keep learning and redirecting!

“First you put in the wood, then you get the fire.”

Give it 100% the first time or the next time if you are just getting back on the horse ( or bull). What if you don’t get another chance? Hundreds of thousands of people DIE every single day from sickness and diseases related to lack of exercise and poor nutritional habits. Will you be next?

Have you asked someone how or why they did something and there response was “I just did it” or “I just do it”? It sounds so simple, but the truth is that some people have gotten to the point of self mastery that they cannot honestly explain why they did something or how they do certain things. In many cases, this is one of those people who also makes this statement “because that is who I am”. Have you heard that one too?

So, it is my goal to inspire and transform you in to that person that you want to be. To take consistent action in your life to achieve your Ultimate Health Goals and when people ask you how you did it, you say “That’s what I do, because that’s who I am” I just do it” and when you say those things, it will be the truth, that’s who you will be and it will come without hesitation. That’s who you will be!

By knowing what you want, why you want it and choosing the right attitude, you can become unstoppable! You will NEVER give up! You can be each player in the game of life, heck you can be the referee and make up your own rules. It’s your life and you can chose to live longer and be healthier if that’s who you want to be.

“Train Hard and Succeed Easy”

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As if the alarming statistics around poor health and obesity weren’t enough, perhaps the dangers of a sugar packed diet can help convince you. For many years I’ve been referring to white or processed sugars as “White Death”. Many people know that sugar is bad for you, but few people actually understand why and know exactly how dangerous it is. I will soon be releasing a brand new ebook packed with information about the dangers of sugar. Be sure to keep an eye out for it.

A recent study done by Magalie Lenoir and her colleagues at the University of Bordeaux in France gives more insight to the beliefs of many health professionals and scientists about how addictive sugar really is. Rats in this study were given a choice between cocaine and highly sweetened water and they overwhelmingly choose the tasty sweet beverage over the cocaine. The end results simply showed us that the sugar was far more addictive and pleasurable than the habit forming drug.

Our over sensitivity to sweet taste and excessive sugar intake in our diets may over stimulate the sweet receptors in our brains, which leads to a loss of control and increases the risk of addiction.

Perhaps the most alarming fact in this study was that when the rats that had learned how to self administer cocaine and become regular users preferred the sugar water over the cocaine each time.

Okay, okay I know….we are not rats, but many of these studies have been proven to hold true with human behaviors. Just look around you at the people who are consuming massive amounts of sugar. I can tell you from my 12 years of experience helping people achieve their health and fitness goals, that sugar was the number one contributor to poor health along with poor exercise habits among the hundreds of people that I have worked with and thousands of people that I have indirectly been involved with.

Are you addicted to sugar? Watch for my new ebook “White Death” How Sugar Will KILL You coming soon.