Hooman's Story

Going to The Top of The World

Mt. Everest is a mystical place that attracts thousands of mountain climbers every year with a dream of successfully reaching the top. The summit of Mt. Everest is 29,035 feet above sea-level, it is affectionately known as the top of the world. Can you imagine what the view must be like from up there? When a mountain climber wants to reach the summit of Mount Everest, they don’t step away from it. They take little steps towards the summit. Some climbers take more little steps than others do to reach the top. I guarantee those climbers who have successfully climbed Mt. Everest didn’t care how many steps it took, they only cared about getting to the top and returning back safely. Lets face it, as long as you get to the top, the view is always the same.

There are all kinds of people who have scaled Mt. Everest. These men and women had a dream to do what so few have done. Everyone who has scaled Mt. Everest had a different story but they shared the same dream. The success stories that can be told about these extraordinary people are simply amazing to say the least. We can talk about fearless Mark Ingles, who lost both of his legs in a previous mountain climbing accident. This man scaled Mt. Everest on two artificial legs in 2006 to become the first double amputee to climb Mt. Everest. Then there is my friend Mark, his brother Erik Weihenmayer became the first blind man to climb Mt. Everest. When he first told me about his brother, I thought he was kidding. Not only was he serious, but he proceeded to tell me that Erik had climbed Mt. Everest two times. A blind man who scaled Mt. Everest twice? FORGETTABOUTIT. Are you kidding me? I think I saw Erik walking on water yesterday. Talk about two individuals who didn’t let their challenges get in the way of their dreams. Talk about believing in your abilities to make your dreams come true. These two achievers showed the world That anything is possible when you have a dream. I want to see someone try to tell these two achievers they can’t do something.

Secret to Success

“What is the secret to success Hooman?” That is one of the questions I constantly get asked wherever I go. In fact, I used to ask that same question myself whenever I met someone who was successful. The most common answer I would get is that cliche answer that everyone gives, “It requires lots and lots of hard work young man.” I am sure you’ve heard that too, haven’t you? I got news for you, it requires a little more than just hard work.

What they forget to tell me about is all the little steps that had to accompany all that hard work. They forgot to mention all the little decisions they had to successfully make along the way to achieve their dreams. Whether your dream is to become a multi-millionaire, get a higher education, climb Mt. Everest, or you want to get into the best shape of your life, you will only achieve your desired goals by continuously taking little steps in the right direction. I call this “SMART WORK” not hard work.

What is SMART WORK?

Hard work is what they do in construction, SMART WORK is what smart people do. Smart people ask themselves in the morning, “What can I do today, that will get me closer to achieving my desired goals?” They don’t waste their precious time playing games or beating around the bush. They are all about taking action towards the promise land of success. They can’t afford to waste time because that is only going to delay them from the success that they deeply desire. Smart people know that standing still is the same as moving backwards. Even if they only make a little progress everyday, as long as they are making progress in the right direction. They are committed to constant and never ending improvement so they know it will only be a matter of time before they achieve their desired goals. Smart people never lose their focus when it comes to achieving their hopes, goals, dreams, and desires. What are you focused on daily? What is your dream?

What Little Steps Are You Taking Daily?

Where are your little steps taking you? Are they running you around in circles? Are they taking you away from your desired goals? If your answer to that question is yes, then stop taking them. Stop navigating your life in the wrong direction. Start charting a course that is going to take you to the promise land of success. You are the pilot of your life, you are in total control of your destiny. Don’t go down that road that is going to lead you to nowhere, cause nowhere is still somewhere. Its just not where you want to be. Trust me, I have been nowhere in the past and the view sucks big time compared to the view from the promise land of success. Time is not on your side so stop wasting it. Now is the time to start taking those steps that are going to get you to your promise land of success. Even baby steps are better than standing still. So ask yourself this question everyday, “What can I do today that will get me closer to making my dreams come true?”

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INTENTION TO ACTION

Millions of people wake up everyday with the greatest intentions to achieve all kinds of amazing accomplishments. Countless people intend on making the world a better place with their fabulous inventions that they’ve been thinking of for ages. While countless people intend on improving their lives by becoming self employed or finding a better career. The list of these great intentions could go on forever. So many people have so many good intentions that they are drowning themselves with these GOOD intentions. Aldous Huxley said, “Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.”

Great Intentions = What? Depends on YOU!

Whether your intention is to change your horrible attitude so you won’t be so negative all the time, improve the quality of your relationship with your partner, or to start exercising so you won’t feel like crap every time you look in the mirror, these intentions are absolutely WORTHLESS unless you are backing them up with MASSIVE ACTION.

In fact, some intentions could end up killing you if you don’t act upon them immediately. The smoker who intends on quitting ends up dead if they don’t take action and quit smoking. Obese individuals end up with all kinds of medical problems that all lead to death if they don’t take care of their health. The alcoholic can lose their life in many ways if they don’t quit their drinking. WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR INTENTIONS?

TIME FOR SOME ACTION

Now is not the time to take the tranquilizing drug of procrastination. Now is the time to take MASSIVE ACTION. You are not here forever, so WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? SOMEONE TO TAKE ACTION FOR YOU? Let me know how that works out for you. YOU AND ONLY YOU CAN TURN YOUR INTENTIONS INTO ACTIONS. Don’t be afraid to fail, BE AFRAID OF NOT TAKING ACTION. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. THE GREATEST RISK IS THE ONE THAT YOU DON’T TAKE. ACTION CONQUERS ALL FEAR. Get fired up and go after it with the FIERCE URGENCY OF RIGHT NOW. ACT AS IF IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FAIL. Stop intending and start doing. Whatever it is that you desire to do, JUST DO IT. People from all over the world are achieving greatness right as we speak. The only difference between you and them is ACTION.

REMEMBER, YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING YOU DESIRE IF YOU BELIEVE IN YOUR ABILITIES TO ACHIEVE. JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN.

THINK IT

BELIEVE IT

THEN YOU WILL SEE IT

NOW GO OUT THERE AND TAKE SOME MASSIVE ACTION TODAY.

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Stuck in a Moment And You Can’t Get Out

When I see someone rocking a ridiculous looking disco outfit that looks like it came from the movie Saturday Night Fever, I can’t help but wonder….. Is this guy trying to get arrested by the fashion police? Or is he just stuck in a moment that he can’t get out of? Whether its the scars of their past failures or the sweet memories of their GLORY DAYS, there are countless people who refuse to let go of their past.

Jan Glidewell said, “You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” Its very unhealthy and useless to waste your precious time dwelling on the pains and failures of yesterday because all you are doing is prolonging your pain. Wasting the present just adds to your wasted past because today is tomorrow’s yesterday. All this does is recycle your pain.

Now is definitely not the time to be living in the past. Now is definitely not the time to talk about what you use to be able to do. Now is the time to show the world what you can do NOW. No one can change the past but everyone can control their future. To succeed in today’s world is harder than ever. Don’t sabotage your future because you are stuck in the past. Focus your thoughts on making the rest of your life, the best of your life. Focus on the empowering thoughts that are going to elevate your life to new heights tomorrow. Your glory days are gone if you let them be gone.

I don’t care who you are, or what you have been through. Its never too late for you to make your dreams come true. Its never too late to get into the best shape of your life. Its never too late to experience that dream love that you have always desired. Its never too late to scratch that goal off your bucket list. Don’t worry about what others believe you can do, worry about what you believe you can do. YOU WANT GLORY? GO GET YOUR GLORY. You want success? GO GET IT NOW. You want to get in to shape? Then go get YOUR SEXY BACK. You want to climb the tallest mountain? THEN CLIMB IT ONE STEP AT A TIME UNTIL YOU GET TO THE TOP. You are in control of your future. You are the navigator of your life. Choose your destination and don’t stop until you get there. Use the obstacles in front of you as STEPPING STONES and NOT STUMBLING BLOCKS. Your dreams will only come true if you make them come true. Achieving greatness is always easier said than done, but I know there is nothing you can’t do if you believe in your abilities to achieve. All of my GLORY DAYS ARE AHEAD OF ME. WHAT ABOUT YOUR GLORY DAYS? ARE YOUR GLORY DAYS AHEAD OF YOU? OR ARE YOUR GLORY DAYS BEHIND YOU? Go out and make the rest of your life the best of your life. LETS TAKE SOME ACTION NOW BECAUSE YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING YOU BELIEVE.

Hooman Hamzehloui 2010

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I train the core of my body every other day. I do a circuit of several exercises. I do this for three sets with 2 minutes rest between each set. The first set I am able to complete with no rest in between exercises. Sets 2 and 3 I have to take little breaks here and there. The more rest you take, the less effective the cardio burn you get in return. My goal is to get through all three sets with only the 2 minute rest periods between sets. This is an AWESOME CORE WORKOUT.

Getting back into shape has empowered me in ways I couldn’t even imagine. I feel absolutely amazing. I suggest you take total control of your physical fitness ASAP so you can experience incredible health. Don’t say you can’t because you can. You just have to make a small sacrifice and the return you get will be priceless. Now is the time, to take total control of your mind, body, and soul. You deserve to feel AMAZING. Lets kick FATS ASS.

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205.6 pounds 9/23/09

177 pounds

1/1/10

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Since I started my Fight Against Fat on 9/23/2009, I have almost lost 30 pounds. I weighed 205.8 pounds and I am now down to 177 pounds. My goal was to get down to 165 pounds but I didn’t quite make it. I will be there very soon. Its not a matter of if I will make, its only a matter of when I will make it. My mind, body, and soul are in total harmony and I feel better than ever. Join me and lets kick FAT’s ASS. If I can do it, so can you. Take control of your health so you can live longer and stronger.

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I weighed 205.8 pounds when I started my Fight Against Fat on 9/23/2009. My goal was to weigh 165 pounds by 1/1/2010. This wasn’t a crazy lose weight fast diet I started. This was a new lifestyle I decided to lead after looking in the mirror and seeing an overweight person that I didn’t recognize.

I was so disgusted with the physique that I had earned myself by eating bad and skipping workouts. I knew that a drastic change was desperately needed. I didn’t have just a “SWEET TOOTH” I had the whole “SWEET MOUTH” I knew some massive, massive action was needed if I wanted to get to my desired weight of 165 pounds by the new year.

I started working out like a possessed man on a mission. I started eating nothing but fish, chicken, steak, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and lots of protein bars. I was eating six small meals a day versus the huge portions I used to pig out on. I stayed absolutely dedicated to my workout routine by exercising 6 days a week. I charted my progress in a workout journal so I knew exactly what I had to do to push myself a little further by the workout.

The results were awesome. I had more energy and motivation than ever before. I was seeing the fat come off as the muscles were slowly growing stronger. I now weigh 181 pounds and I feel great. However, the goal was to hit 165 pounds. I now have 20 days to lose the last 16 pounds. The only way I am going to make this happen is if I get totally focused on the outcome that I desire. It needs to become my obsession. There is no way I am going to fail.

Now is the time for me to add more fuel to my burning desire to succeed. Now is the time to workout harder than I already have. Its the final countdown and I am more focused than ever. As the finish line approaches quickly, I know exactly what I have to do to make this happen. I am going to achieve this. I am going to hit my desired weight of 165 pounds. The picture below is the body I am after. He weighs 155 pounds.

If I lost 25 pounds since 9/23/2009, you can too. Join me as we burn the fat. Join me and take care of your mind, body, and soul. Now is not the time to take the tranquilizing drug of procrastination. Now is the time to take control of your health so you can live long and live strong. Take your passion and make it happen.

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Life’s Turning Points

Have you ever been in a situation where you had felt absolutely defeated from one of life’s challenging moments? Did you feel the pain of what you were facing just too difficult to endure?  Did you figure that walking away was going to be easier than the pain of keeping on? When people face extreme challenges in life, the easy thing for them to do is walk away and quit. No one likes to face trials and tribulations in life. No one likes to endure pain and suffering if they don’t have to. Difficulties make average people quit when they face life’s turning points.

Walking away from something is usually the easy thing to do? The difficulties and pain that people experience often clouds their judgement. When people are faced with the difficult question of whether they should quit or whether they should proceed, they fail to realize that this could be the turning point of their lives. You see when life is dark, it becomes difficult to see the light. It is during these dark times when stars shine the brightest. People often fail to realize that they are at a turning point in their lives. They fail to realize that their decision could either make their lives or it could break their lives. No one has ever achieved great success in their lives without finding themselves on the verge of walking away and quitting. No one has ever been successful without experiencing the trials and tribulations of failure. It was during these turning points that separates the winners from the losers and the achievers from the failures.

The X Factor

Napoleon Hill said, “One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”  Failure is only permanent when you have accepted it as permanent. A little more perseverance, a little more determination, and belief in your abilities is what usually separates total failure from the glory of success.

If you are at a turning point in your life, walking away may seem like the easy thing to do. It also might seem like the logical thing to do at the moment because you think that your pain will not last that long. However, walking away doesn’t come for free. Walking away often comes with the scars to your soul that quitting brings. Walking away also brings the everlasting doubt of what could’ve been if you had just persevered a little longer. Napoleon Bonaparte “Victory belongs to the most persevering.” When you find yourself at one of life’s defining moments, think long and hard at what you are about to do because you will have to live with the consequences forever. Quitting something you love, something that you’ve dreamed about will scar you forever.  Remember that pleasure is on the other side of pain. Sometimes the most painful things in your life can end up being the most rewarding things in your life. Quitters never win, and winners never quit. When you face life’s toughest moments, you answer with your unstoppable resolve. You persevere until you succeed because the greatest things in life often come with the cost of your blood, sweat, and tears. Quitting might come with temporary pain, but the scar to your soul will never go away. I thing that I will promise you is that when you do overcome your adversity and succeed, the reward will totally eclipse the pain it cost you to make it happen.

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Today I reached 181 pounds, which is the lowest weight I have reached during my current diet and exercise plan. I have lost 25 pounds in 45 days. When I started my fight against fat on 9/23/09, I was weighing 205.8 pounds. I had got to the point where I had associated so much pain to my physique that my change wasn’t an option, my change had become a must. I decided that I wasn’t going to accept any other outcome except the outcome of complete success. However, that state of mind is often easier said than done. Fresh in my mind was the complete and utter failure of my last diet attempt. I attempted to lose 40 pounds last year and I failed miserably. I went from 205 pounds to 185 pounds. Once I tasted that success, I thought that my goal was going to be easier than I had previously considered. I couldn’t have been more wrong because I ballooned back up to 205 plus pounds almost within a blink of an eye. Learning from my last failure, I knew I had to add one more change to my goal action plan. I knew I had to change my goal psychology.

I learned a real hard lesson when it came to achieving my diet goals from my previous attempt. Some goals get easier to achieve as you get closer to the goal finish line. Not when it comes to losing weight and successful dieting. The closer you get to achieving your goal, the harder it is to cross that goal finish line. When it comes to dieting and exercise goals, you must work harder to achieve your goal as the closer you get.

This Time Around Failure Isn’t an Option For me

What I did with my goal psychology this time around is I decided to act as if I had already achieved my desired weight on the very first day of my diet. I still weighed 205.8 pounds, but in my mind I felt like I weighed 165 pounds, which was my desired perfect weight. I felt like I would have felt if I had been in the best shape of my life. I started thinking that I had already achieved my desired goal and I was in awesome shape. I started acting like someone who was in awesome shape. If I was tempted to violate my diet, I would ask myself, “Is this something I would eat if I was in incredible shape?” If I wanted to skip a workout I would ask myself, “Would someone in incredible shape skip their workout?” When I wanted to quit my workout early, I would ask myself, “Would someone in incredible shape quit their workout early?” This gave me the strength to overcome any temptations that presented themselves. This allowed my mind and my body to be in total harmony.

Think it, believe it, And Then You Will See it

Whether you want to attract something into your life or whether you want to achieve any goal, first you must think it. Then you must believe it. If you think it, and you firmly believe it, it is only then you will see it in your life. I have convinced myself that it is not a matter of if I am going to hit my desired weight of 165 pounds. Its a matter of when am I going to hit that number before my target date of 12/31/09.

My Dieting Dozens

I have two groups of people who are trying to achieve their fitness goals. Each group consists of 12 people. These individuals each have different fitness goals that they desire to achieve. However, the challenge that they face isn’t going to be easy. Dieting and exercise goals are difficult to accomplish. Because food is used as a comforter to many peoples problems, not only do you need major discipline, but you need an unlimited source of will power to overcome your desire to comfort yourself by reaching for food. Then you have the motivation factor. I can motivate them all I want, but they have to motivate themselves. I believe that motivation comes from within. If they don’t unleash the motivation from within to achieve their desired goals, they are going to fail. These individuals will often face that enemy from within them that will try to tell them to quit on a daily basis. How do I know? I face that enemy everyday. I can’t fight that battle of will power for them. It is entirely up to them to conquer that personal confrontation against that enemy from within on a daily basis. I believe that each and everyone of them can make it to their desired goal. What I don’t know is if they believe in themselves to achieve that desired goal. If you are a believer you will always be an achiever. They wouldn’t be letting me down if they fail, they wouldn’t be letting the GymFlex organization down that gave them free home gyms to use. They would only be letting themselves down. Trust me, letting yourself down SUCKS. Whether you are a part of our exercise program, or whether you are trying to achieve a some other type of goal. The biggest battle that you will ever face in your life, is the battle from within. Make sure you always slay that personal demon inside you because YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN. Go out there and kick some ASS.

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9/23/09 205.8 pounds

10/14/09 186 pounds

10/22/09 185 pounds

A STRONG REASON WHY

If you want to be serious about achieving any goal, you need to discover what is your dominate motivating factor behind achieving your goal. To achieve any goal you desire, you must have a strong enough reason why. If you have a strong enough reason why, the odds are very much in your favor you will make it happen. Create as many reasons why as you can. The more reasons why you have to succeed, the stronger your motivation to achieve your goal will be.

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You need a strong enough reason why - When you have a strong reason why you want to achieve a goal, it will give you all the motivation that you need to be successful. There won’t be any denying you the results that you desire.

When you are looking to achieve any goal, you need to consider whether your “why reason” is the pain of not achieving your goal or the pleasure of achieving your goal. You are either motivated by pain, or you are motivated by pleasure. In my case when my weight hit 205.8 pounds, there was no way possible that I was not going to get back into the best shape of my life. I had associated enough pain to staying in the 200 pound plus range that I all the sudden was overcome with passion and a burning desire to get into the best shape of my life. I know that is what I owe my success to so far. I have lost 20 pounds in less than a month. I am half way home to achieving my desired goal of getting to 165 pounds. This is where your strong enough reason why will give you all the determination and persistence that you will need to be successful.

Never underestimate your reason why because if you have associated enough pain or pleasure to it, you will be successful no matter how challenging your goal is. If you want it bad enough, nothing will stop you.

Take your passion and make it happen now.

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Creating Momentum to Achieve Your Goals and Keeping it.

Creating goal momentum towards achieving your desired goals is always easy because we all start out excited and enthusiastic. Keeping your goal momentum until you achieve your desired goal is easier said than done because the excitement and enthusiasm often wheres off when there is a setback or failure experienced along the way. This is where most people will accept their failure as permanent and they will throw in the towel, quitting when they should have kept going.

Do Whatever it Takes to Achieve Your Goals

When I decided to make a dedicated commitment to a healthy lifestyle, part of it was to lose 40 pounds. I weighed 205.8 pounds and I wanted to get to a 165 pounds. So I started off on 9/23/09 doing everything right. I started eating healthier than ever, choosing 6 little meals a day, instead of my old eating whenever I wanted habit. I started a dedicated fitness routine which included various forms of exercise, from swimming to working out with weights. Here are the before and after pictures. The results were spectacular. I went from 205.8 pounds to 186 pounds in 19 days. I was so proud of myself for the progress that I made. I was feeling absolutely incredible.

Don’t Stop Doing What You Did

My target date was before the new year, so I was well on my way to achieving my desired goal. The mistake I made next was a common mistake that most people make when they are trying to achieve a goal. Most people will experience a little success and that is when they start getting comfortable. They go back to their old bad habits that got them in need of making a change in the first place. What was I guilty of? I violated my diet on two separate occasions by eating some microwaveable Jimmy Dean sandwiches that I knew I shouldn’t have eaten. Every sandwich has 430 calories each. The first violation was 860 calories because I had two. My second violation was 1290 calories because I ate 3 of them. I knew I was pigging out and being bad, I just didn’t think that it was going to cost me 5 pounds. I went from 186 pounds to 191 pounds just like that. I felt horrible. I felt like I violated myself. I knew what I had to do. This was make or break time for me. Was I going to fall under the category of the 90% of people who lose weight and get it right back? Or was I going to go back to doing the right thing? The average person quits when trying to achieve their goals when they experience a setback or a temporary failure. You and I are not the average person. Average people quit at the first sign of failure because they think its too hard or they think that they can’t make it. Napoleon Hill said, “Failure cannot cope with persistence.”

The Key to Keeping Your Goal Momentum is

Remember, failure is only permanent when you have accepted it as your reality. You must refuse to quit until you achieve the results that you desire. Perseverance will move you through those trying times that make the average person quit. You and I are not average. We must refuse to quit until we succeed. A relentless effort is the key to achieving your desired goals. Never stop doing what you did to experience success. Yet, so many people will get lazy or comfortable and they will slack here and there. It doesn’t take much slacking to give you a major setback. In my case, it was just two meals. Those two meals cost me 25% of my progress. You should only change your approach if you don’t get the results that you desire, not when you experience success. It took me a few days to lose the five pounds that I had so quickly gained back. I went back to doing the right thing and I was reminded of what it takes to achieve your desired goals.

1. You must refuse to quit until you achieve the results that you desire. Be prepared to handle setbacks along the way. Use perseverance to get you through those difficult times that will make the average person quit.

2. A relentless effort is the key to achieving the results that you desire. You must take massive action until you make it happen.