You’ve just attended your latest success seminar, wealth building expo, guru workshop on how to…, maybe even a healthy living getaway. You’re psyched up; you are going to move mountains now.
Then it happens.
Something is holding you back, “leashing” to you the past, only to repeat it. It’s the same old story. For some reason, a reason you can’t quite put your finger on, you just can’t move forward the way you had planned over and again in your head. You have all the information at your fingertips, you paid big time for it, but still, it’s hard to move forward.
All the realities of your lack of personal performance kick in, as you face the hidden lifestyle challenges; your true condition.
What are the hidden lifestyle challenges?
Hidden Lifestyle Challenge #1: Personal energy debt
Ever feel exhausted and unable to accomplish even routine daily activities? You’re overspent. That’s personal energy debt, the hidden variable that undermines all health and performance improvement, and your success. There is no challenge more undermining or “hidden” than this one, because nobody will be able to do anything for you, except, educate you on how to get your energy back, through lifestyle changes and very few people know how guide you. It’s a challenge.
Hidden Lifestyle Challenge #2: not enough support
Living as if everything depends on you will eventually lead to hitting the wall and many other lifestyle challenges that make it difficult to achieve your goals, and could even lead to disaster. You know the feeling when you have so much going on, you are barely hanging on. That’s a challenge!
Hidden Lifestyle Challenge #3: lack of energy balance
It’s 10:00 AM in the morning, and you don’t enough energy to get through the day, meanwhile the people around you are telling you, “you need to get more balance in your life“. Do you even know what they even mean or where to start?
Hidden Lifestyle Challenge #4: unsupportive story
Your personal story has been written from childhood and serves as the framework for how you view the world around you. What happens when you have developed an internal story that does not support you today, prevents peace of mind, and make even the simplest tasks (let along the big ones), more challenging then they should be? You’ve got to change your story, and that’s a challenge.
Hidden Lifestyle Challenge #5: motivation
Something is driving you— the fear of negative consequences or the draw of a positive outcome. How does it make you feel when you are running away from negative consequences, probably not good and what happens to your motivation when fear burns you out. You’re challenged that’s what.
Hidden Lifestyle Challenge #6: confusion
Can you see the real causes of your current situation? If not you are confused and nobody likes to feel confused. It’s a major challenge when you can’t figure out the next most important step and are unable to focus on it.
Hidden Lifestyle Challenge #7: overwhelm
These days, it’s so easy for us to zoom around in too many directions and lose track of what we want to achieve. This is called overwhelm, and it’s very disconcerting to say the least. A definite challenge.
Hidden Lifestyle Challenge #8: trying to perform at high levels all the time.
If you run at top speed all of the time, you’re bound to stall and hit the wall. It’s a challenge if you’ve set things up where you have to perform at high levels 7 days a week. Can you do it? Probably not.
Hidden Lifestyle Challenge #9: under recuperated
This is a big hidden challenge: Man o man, you’re told you need to start taking naps and sleeping more, yet the minute you do, you start feeling groggy and less productive. Go back to hidden challenge #1, but for now, you had better learn how to recharge your energy. If not, you are going to be majorly challenged!
Hidden Lifestyle Challenge #10: overfed, undernourished
You are full, but unfulfilled and dealing the withdrawal of foods that are meeting your needs and overwhelming your body with toxic substances. You are probably overweight and unhealthy and you know it. That can really impact you during your day and make it hard to move forward.
Hidden Lifestyle Challenge #11: busy, but physically inactive.
You are putting out a ton of vital energy, but not using much of the energy you’ve consumed and your body is deconditioned. Overweight is likely, but not feeling strong is what’s really getting to you. It’s a challenge because you don’t have the endurance you need to sustain and succeed.
Hidden Lifestyle Challenge #12: lack of clarity
You are a very capable person, but you just don’t know where you are headed. If you did, you would be more on purpose, be able to set better boundaries, and know your next steps. You’d also be taking better care of yourself, likely too. Not knowing where you are headed or how you are going to get there is the ultimate, hidden lifestyle challenge!
You no longer have to wonder about what’s holding you back; it’s almost always one of these challenges that limit your capacity to function and perform well amidst new stresses, that are getting the worst of you when you could be giving the best of yourself with the support of a new and improved lifestyle.
Are you ready to resolve and evolve beyond the hidden challenges that hold you back? Are you ready to move forward in a position of strength?
You can as a member of The Lifestyle Coaching Center.
