Shawn Phillips | Start Strong Monday

This day, like all days, awaits your best. It’s on your side—pulling for you to show up strong and seize it.

Carpe Diem!

But rather than stoke your body and mind for a day of noble dragon slaying, you rush out the door under assault by a cesspool of stress hormones.

Your day of super-hero like performance is not to be. Rather than a gripping, “Boom, Zap, Kapow…” your day is more, “Fizzle, snizzle, flip, flop.”

Let the follies begin.

This is not some mythic fable, it’s the story of your life. At the start of each day you get choose the story; what will it be today? A tragedy, a comedy or a triumphant story of success?

How Do You Rise Up?

When faced with a fresh, vibrant, limitless day, most people wake up and promptly kick the day square in the nuts.
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About the Author

Author, innovator and expert in Life Performance for two decades, Shawn Phillips is as respected for his physique as his wisdom. Working with his brother Bill (of Body for LIFE fame) he helped create the performance nutrition giant, EAS. In his 40's, a husband and father of two young children, Shawn has shifted his focus to helping busy, high-achieving men enjoy vibrant, energized, amazing lives! To help more men towards Life @ Full Strength Shawn created the World's First truePremium Nutrition Shake, the clinically proven Full Strength . For a "how to" guide to a Lifestyle of Fitness Freedom, check out Shawn's most recently instant best-selling book from Bantam BooksStrength for LIFE, called by Next-Level in Transformational Fitness, Here.

[ Bonus Audio Podcast Clip Below ]

This morning, both you and the sun rose to welcome the new day.

Like a newborn child, each day is born anew holding nothing but pure potential, possibility and dreams of grand achievement.

How did you embrace this priceless gift?

With awareness and reverence; nurturing your body, mind and soul with positive, quality, energizing nourishment that elevates and sustains you?

Or…

Did you greet the day by giving your body, mind, and energy the firm, stiff middle finger—while shoving convenient, hunger nullifying crap into your body and chasing it with an energy cocktail to temporary elevate?

I understand you’re busy—you’ve got important stuff to do.

That’s precisely why I am suggesting that you act like it. The few minutes your mindless disregard and neglect pretends to spare you, will inevitably cost you hours, weeks, months and years of your life.

A body given “the middle finger” will most assuredly be returning the gesture, all day long—and more.

It’s a True Miracle

When you really stop to think about it, it’s nothing short of a miracle that you some how pop out of a near-death experience called deep sleep, to re-animate your body and think a single coherent thought each day.

That first hour after you awake is sacred time—you’re stepping into new, vibrant space alive with fresh energy from which amazing results is both desired and expected.

The world awaits.

Yet, in a moment of macho defiance, many choose to treat their body like a second rate servant—making a choice that can only handicap their energy and limit potential.

Mystery Solved

When you find yourself struggling with energy, focus, results, fatigue, stress, lacking confidence and feel you’re compromising your health, you can most reliably track back to the start of your day and find the culprit. A seemingly innocent misstep or two, made early in your day triggers a cascade of events, sending you off course, zapping your potential and sacrificing results.

As energy is the true currency of our lives, this downward spiral usually begins with a nutritional “back-hand” that robs your energy, health, and vitality—leaving you struggling for focus, energy and performance. Most people make the mistake of believing they can will themselves to success, that their mind is the master, not their body.

Yet, even if the body were willing, it can’t do if not able. And given that your mind is only as strong and clear as your body, tanking your body has a direct and profound impact on your mind.

Here you are being graced by the divine miracle of a new day, the cycle of life in renewal, and the best you can do is slam a bagel in your pie hole, and wash it down with a couple cups of coffee? Hell, might as well bring a prostitute to the last supper.

The message is simple: The mistake you make for breakfast reverberates all day long.

Guaranteed, that body you so defiantly give the middle finger to, inevitably ends up giving you the middle finger back all day long, every day.

Each day, like each life, is a single—it happens only once. There are no “do-overs.”

How are you going to greet tomorrow morning?

Searching for a reliable way to start your day strong, day after day? Here’s what I, and thousands of my high-achieving friends, rely on to start the day “on top:” The Full Strength “Life Performance Shake”… try it RISK FREE for 14-days and if you don’t “FEEL IT” it’s on me.

Preview:
In The Next SSM you and I will explore the silent epidemic that is castrating
“The Modern Day Warrior”—taming the Type-A man—and how to prevent
and reverse it.

Bonus Audio Clip from StrengthLIVE Podcast
Director of Nutrition Treatment Center, Tom Bilella D.C., R.D., with your’s truly, Shawn Phillips“Emergence, Resolving Chaos, Creating Quantum Change…”


Until Monday, Stay Strong!

Shawn
Follow Me: /Twitter/shawn_phillips

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About the Author

Author, innovator and expert in Life Performance for two decades, Shawn Phillips is as respected for his physique as his wisdom. Working with his brother Bill (of Body for LIFE fame) he helped create the performance nutrition giant, EAS. In his 40's, a husband and father of two young children, Shawn has shifted his focus to helping busy, high-achieving men enjoy vibrant, energized, amazing lives! To help more men towards Life @ Full Strength Shawn created the World's First truePremium Nutrition Shake, the clinically proven Full Strength . For a "how to" guide to a Lifestyle of Fitness Freedom, check out Shawn's most recently instant best-selling book from Bantam BooksStrength for LIFE, called by Next-Level in Transformational Fitness, Here.

My Macbook still feels new and now here comes the new iPad. New! Ya gotta love it.

The latest technology, the hottest fashion, the top new movies and music; we’re all about the “latest greatest.”

Health, fitness and dieting is no different—be it the latest supplement, breakthrough science of performance, or new trends in eating, for life.

Heck, even the most proven and reliable programs, ones that may have changed your life, like Body-for-Life, eventually become “Lather, rinse, repeat.”

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How do you do it?

When the time comes to make a change, to explore a new approach, how can you choose your next fitness program or “guru” with confidence?

Millions of options. Only one you.

Choosing a new fitness path makes “Vegas odds” look good. It’s overwhelming.

Not only is there a mind-boggling array of options, there’s also a ton of crappy advice being peddled by of people intent on separating you and your money.

How did you choose your last fitness program?

During my decades in fitness I’ve seen people, programs, diets and “revolutionary” training systems come and go. I’ve taken a left when I should have gone right, accelerated when I should have braked, many a time—but its taught me something very valuable—how to identify inspiring wisdom from tiring nonsense.

In a moment I’ll share with you the most foolproof way to avoid being schooled, taken to the bank, robbed blind in broad day light by health and fitness scammers.
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About the Author

Author, innovator and expert in Life Performance for two decades, Shawn Phillips is as respected for his physique as his wisdom. Working with his brother Bill (of Body for LIFE fame) he helped create the performance nutrition giant, EAS. In his 40's, a husband and father of two young children, Shawn has shifted his focus to helping busy, high-achieving men enjoy vibrant, energized, amazing lives! To help more men towards Life @ Full Strength Shawn created the World's First truePremium Nutrition Shake, the clinically proven Full Strength . For a "how to" guide to a Lifestyle of Fitness Freedom, check out Shawn's most recently instant best-selling book from Bantam BooksStrength for LIFE, called by Next-Level in Transformational Fitness, Here.