Drive Your Life

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Those are just a couple of the Members in CTL, Inc. and they have something in common- they decided to make a change in their income.  Karla started earning big after her personal Challenge, while Joey earned in the first couple of weeks.  This does not mean one is better than the other; it means that each person drives their life at the speed they want.

There’s a saying that goes like this, “If you run, I run.  If you walk, I walk.  If you stay still, I’ll move forward with the others and together map out the easiest way to reach your destination.”  One of the marvelous characteristics the business teams in the Mentorship is that there are people always moving forward, adding on and improving ways to earn more income, faster.  This allows people who really drive their commitment to begin earning on Day 1.  Some people decide to take it slower, begin earning after their Challenge- and so they participate when they choose to.

Too many times at an hourly job, we find ourselves lost at whether to give our best, or just show up and wait for the shift to end.  The majority of the United States hourly workforce finds confusion or frustration when their effort far exceeds what they feel they deserve to get paid.  It’s very similar to working out too hard and expecting to lose 15 pounds from one day to the next or wanting to gain huge muscles in two weeks for bodybuilders.  How do you solve it?  Seeking promotions to get paid more for the effort, or go into “Zombie” mode and have a pace that neither is fast or slow- we’re just “kinda” there.

Join the mentorship and earn what you deserve, put the effort you feel you can- you decide the pressure, and you plan out your goals.  I personally teach you what I’ve taught thousands of others, including 6 & 7 figure business owners.  It’s your turn to drive your life, take the wheel, and steer it the direction YOU want.

With Your Health & Success In Mind,

Coach Peter Hanz

Valentine

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Valentine’s Workout. Wait, WHAT?!

It’s that time again: Chocolate, eating out, stuffing our faces with some gourmet chips, salsa, and ice cream!!!

Ok, well maybe not all of that- but some is ok 😉

As it hits midnight, the question arises of whether we should workout on Valentine’s day or go on a date.  What about doing both?  Or maybe the workout is the date, and the dinner is at home (of course a 32oz steak!)  The truth is that you can take a day off, if it’s your rest day or you simply planned everything ahead of time.  Just make sure you eat what you would normally eat: if you eat something way too unhealthy, it’s going to affect your weekend workouts.

Here’s a nice saying I like to live by:

 

And it’s very true.  My girlfriend and I have had a fitness aspect into our daily regime, amongst dozens of other couples that are in ChallengeToLive, Inc.  We have found out that the healthier we are, the sexier we feel, and being able to workout together bring a bond that is strong, fun, and lasting.  For the older couples (50+), the spark is lit up again, and the anti-aging process begins.  It’s true that eating great and working out is the fountain of youth and the same goes for the secret of a constant magnetic attraction.  Don’t let the factor of being in a relationship stop you from looking great, as much as people say looks don’t matter, science has proved that within the first 8 seconds of looking at someone we decide if we want them or not (personality, history, and many other factors come into play if our instinctive attraction says YES in those first 8 seconds).

So I suggest a small workout if you’re going to eat a decent meal.  Or a full rack of ribs if you’ll be involved in a mean, sweaty, growling filled couple’s workout (no pun intended).

With Your Valentine’s Health & Success In Mind,

Coach Peter Hanz

Adult Blog

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Real Adults Agree…

Before I talk to you about a rubric of how to tell if you’re an adult or not- I want to go more into depth on how I personally see maturity.  Without maturity, you cannot be an adult, regardless of age.  You also need experience.  Life experience.  Too many times, some people believe that sex or getting married is the way to tell if we’re adults.  Well, that’s nothing more than a sensual experience and getting married is a commitment, not a check-off marker to finally say, “I’m an adult! WOO!!”

Let’s get started!!!

I did not create a rubric to figure out if someone is an adult or not.   Sorry to say, but there are just too many ways to figure that out that a rubric would be correct in people’s eyes who agree with the way I think, and incorrect otherwise.  BUT there is a few key things I find that make the difference between mature and not.

The ability to move out of your parents’ house. Let’s not get rushed here, there ARE gray areas.  As a matter of fact, I lived with my parents for a few months after I graduated high school!  But I didn’t just live there.  I paid bills, got three jobs, kept going to college, paid off my personal bills, and purchased my own food (due to my healthy recipes).  I wasn’t just there.  In my business Team, and close friends, we all agree that if you put in your part, and help out- that’s great.  You’re much more mature than someone who just stays home, leeches off of their parents, and wishes the one job they applied for called them back.  If you can manage to move out, that will give you what all our high school teachers said, “A taste of the real world.”  But to be honest, it has been the best choice of my life to go from living at University dorms, to an apartment, to a house.  Progressive is key, move forward as you keep moving up financially.

Taking responsibility for everything in your life.  Straight forward.  This is much more detailed than people think.  Too many times I have group sessions with college freshman who live in an apartment by themselves and they consider they have responsibility in their lives.  As I get to know a few more personally, they admit that their rent is covered by their parents, their new car that’s worth all four years of tuition was a high school graduation gift, that their choice to procrastinate was due to a few seasons on Netflix, and that the most important parts of their life are handed up or down in responsibility, but not given to themselves.  This also carries on to parents.  Here we go, I might get some hate mail like I always have, but some parents have the audacity to use their children as unexpected bills.  That’s just wrong.  Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.  There is a period of 7-9 months where a promotion, business, associate’s degree, simple planning and budgeting could have made a positive environment.  Instead, other choices were made.  I may not have a child of my own, but that’s because I do not want one, and being responsible will prevent an “accidental” child.  Statement made, boom, period.

Living up to proper expectations.  This is something that the majority of people never see in their lives.  It is tough, but anyone can achieve it.  Work with, or for, those who say you are worth more and/or better.  NOT someone who keeps putting you down.  If you are truly mature, you will not complain about pay rate, your boss, or the way “the world” treats you.  Instead, you will complain and do something about it.  As my audience shifts from college students to adults, the mindset does as well.  College students have little to no work experience and yell, “THAT’S RIGHT!” but as I progress into 35 or older, it transitions to, “Well, you’re lucky to have a business. You don’t know how life really is.”  Then I hand them a free copy of my book, and in a few weeks I receive an letter saying that they were wrong to assume based on my current lifestyle.

Heck, a little over one year ago I did all the wrong things: I complained about work, pay, vacation time, moved up or down responsibilities to my parents or friends, and only wished life was better.  But I realized that was the same as being an upset 12 year old in the 60s when underage employment was legal.  I needed to grow up.  So I did.  And so can you.  You are the BEST person you can be, so be the adult and take charge of your life.

 

With Your Health & Success In Mind,

Coach Peter Hanz

Too Far?

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Did I Answer Like You Would?

Did I take my opinion one step TOO far?  Sometimes I wonder if my honesty can be the one thing that can change the life of millions, or even billions of people.  In a world where paycheck-to-paycheck living is the norm, and college student graduates are expected to pay their academic debt for at least 30 years after graduation, am I taking ChallengeToLive, Inc. into a global community for anyone to take advantage of?

 

I have to be transparent.  The answer is no.

 

Since the Application Deadline was hit on Midnight Saturday (May 31, 2014) the doors to become part of the future ChallengeToLive, Inc. have been closed.  It was a big decision to make, especially since a little over 1,000 applicants sent in their information.  I warned others, I ran market campaigns, and I spoke about the new 4-Hour Week in webinars and seminars.  I tried my best to spread the word.  But, this is not a test to see who’s better or a fight against one another for a promotion- this is something completely new.  Each Member in the Mentorship will learn, execute, and take their lifestyle to a whole new level in:

-Income

-Leadership

-Marketing

-Professional Development

-And much, MUCH more!

 

So the big question is, “Why did I close the doors so soon?”  The answer lies within the Mentorship itself.  Every Member that got accepted, and took action to join, will now have one-on-one training with others and I who have reached new pinnacles of success.  They will be learning all the mistakes we made so they don’t repeat them.  People say history repeats itself.  Well, I think it’s about time people evolve and learn from history to make sure it’s NOT repeated.

 

From personal experience, it is a heavy burden to pay off college debt, work two jobs, and stay health/fit.  ESPECIALLY when you have to balance the time it takes to achieve decent grades, spend time with family, and put the proper priorities in order.  But that’s exactly what the Mentorship is going to do:

-Teach the proper techniques to pay off debt faster than ever before.

-Create income that continues to grow over time, as Members grow professionally themselves.

-Have fun & gain respect with others throughout the process. (There is no point to learn anything that is unpleasant or unethical- That’s just WRONG!)

-Attain the knowledge to get promoted at ChallengeToLive with the core principle: Being Yourself.

 

I had an e-mail last night that read like this: “I really wanted to join the Mentorship, but I kept thinking about it.  It just sounded too good to be true, and now the doors are closed and I cannot apply.  Is there something you can tell me to make sure I take action when the doors open again?  If, they open again?”

 

Here’s my response:

“Don’t be saddened by your choice, but make sure you know that procrastination is what may end our life too soon without you seeing years go by.  The lesson you just learned is not just about the Mentorship, but also about life.  There are elderly that I have visited and interviewed, and they said similar to your situation; they admitted that they never took a chance or opportunity that sounded great, and now they’re trying to convince their children/grandchildren to take a chance for a better future.  Except, and this has been scientifically proven, our children are more likely to do something we ourselves have done.  They act on our action, not just our wise words.

As far as the Mentorship sounding too good to be true- well, I have to be honest:  Throughout my beginnings of creating ChallengeToLive, I was working 15-25hrs/wk at my old job.  Then attending college full time, accumulating debt along the way.  Not only that, I was being harassed at work that ChallengeToLive, Inc. would never grow, and that college was a waste of time/money.  But isn’t all of that… too bad to be true?

I want to ask you, from the heart, if the American norm is to be in debt, get underpaid, overworked, and view education as a waste; doesn’t that make anything where the possibility of paying off ALL debt, creating a global business within 2 years, and helping millions of lives do the same or better… too good to be true?  You might see my team on the greener side of grass.  Truth be told, you’re standing exactly where we are- there is no fence that separates the sides.

But there are respects I give to those that applies to ChallengeToLive, and each person is as important to me as my personal success was when I first began.  Working with each person until they reach a new lifestyle takes time, energy, and exhausting resources.  Here’s some advice for the future when, if, the doors open again:  Don’t think too much.  I’d rather you spend that time learning how to achieve a higher form of success I ever could.  Just last week, Vane, an energetic and determined Mother in her young 20’s, got promoted in a little over a week.  The check she earned had taken me almost 2 months to make over a year ago.  THAT proves that I teach those in the Mentorship to skip all the mistakes I made.  I feel that success, is succession.  If we don’t pass on what we know, there’s no reason to call anything success.  And thinking about something so much that we don’t act- that’s just procrastination taking your life into the future, without anything different from your past.

Please don’t take any of this the wrong way, but if someone informed me properly when I first thought of creating a business (I thought about it for a WHOLE YEAR before I took action)- I would not:

-Have gotten into so much debt

-Switched my college major 3 times

-Lost my grandmother and worked (talk about a corporate mindset, thank God I don’t think like that anymore!)

-Almost lost my brother due to my old job

-Way too many of the wrong sacrifices in my life to type in one blog.

 

But maybe, just maybe, you are like me from my past…  I pray you are not.  You might need to learn the hard way and experience the lowest low in life before you take action.  That’s what it took me to change.  I had to be in massive debt, put work over family, and ultimately feeling like crap because I started losing family while I was working thinking that working was the answer to success.  I await to see you in the next Mentorship, and as always, see you at the top.

 

Peter Hanz