Hooman's Story

Since the beginning of time, trials and tribulations have been a major part of our daily lives. Humans have found themselves in all kinds of challenging situations where their actions determined their outcomes. People have demonstrated an amazing ability to take an almost certain catastrophe and turn it into a successful triumph. How we deal with these challenging situations where there’s so much on the line will have a great impact on the quality of our lives. Martin Luther King said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

Houston, We Have a Problem

Here’s the situation, you are dealing with a major crisis that appears to be getting worse by the minute. Anything that could’ve gone wrong, already has. Nothing is going as expected and it seems like things are just getting worse by the minute. Even though you thought you prepared for everything, You are rattled beyond your wildest expectations because no one could’ve imagined this unbelievable crisis. What do you do? How do you act? Do you just cry and complain as you watch your demise? Or do you give it everything you have as you try to pull off the impossible?

Here is What You Don’t do

Most people will just sit around and sabotage their chances by focusing on all the negatives. Focusing your attention on the negatives during any challenging situation will only magnify your problem. Why would anyone in their right mind want to create an atmosphere that makes their situation more difficult than it already is? The last thing you want to do during a challenging situation is to defeat yourself before you even get started.

Now is The Time to

We are all created equal, what sets us apart is our hearts and minds. That might seem like a little difference, but that little difference, makes a huge difference in this game called life. I don’t care who you are or what your situation is, as long as you give yourself a chance, there will always be a chance. Follow this time tested secret to solving any situation. Time for some Action.

5 Steps To Solve Any Situation

1. Start off by getting excited about your opportunity to provide a solution. Your attitude is everything. Believe without a doubt that you can find the solution. Stay cool, calm, and collected because your attitude towards the situation is critical to your success. Having the best attitude will always put you in the best state of mind which is very important when it comes to being a master of solutions. Remember to always believe in your abilities to find the solution. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks you can or can’t do. It only matters what you believe you can do. A believer will always be an achiever.

2. Now is not the time to play the blame game. Forget about what you could have done, there’s no time for that. It’s all about what you are going to do now. No one can change the past, but we all can change our futures. It is very important that you get the highest and best use of your time when it comes to finding solutions. Its critical not to waste a precious second on things that you can’t do anything about, like the past. Too many people will waste too much time blaming and complaining that they often leave themselves with little time or chance to find a solution.

3. Analyzing the situation should only take up about 5% of your time. This is what I like to call situation analysis. Find out exactly what the problem is. This step is crucial to your success because if you don’t know exactly what the problem is, there’s no way to find a solution. Discover the problem! Find the need, fill the gap.

4. Spend 95% of your time seeking the solution. This is your time to shine so step up and find the solution. Don’t be afraid to take a risk, because the greatest risk is the one that you don’t take. Stay flexible in your approach. Keep trying different approaches until you succeed. Many people have achieved the unthinkable during chaotic times. There is no reason why you shouldn’t be able to do the same.

5. Learn from the situation and move on. Don’t keep making the same mistakes. It is imperative that you use every experience in life to make you a better person. “Win or Learn, there is no failure,” Henry Ford.”

Whether you believe its possible or whether you believe its impossible. You are right. Take your passion and make it happen.

Hooman Hamzehloui 2010

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Goals are like candy.

To say I loved candy would be a gross misrepresentation of the facts. I have eaten enough candy for about 6 lifetimes. Sometimes I would over fill my mouth with so many pieces so I could get an overload of that candy taste. I am sure that obsession to candy helped me get into the worst shape of my life. I had another obsession I want to tell you about. That obsession was achieving goals. I couldn’t get enough of that amazing feeling that follows triumph and victory. If I set my mind to doing something, you could consider it done because I was not going to rest, until I pulled it off.

Settle, FOR WHAT?

I kept pushing myself to achieve more and more because the high from achieving my desired goal would only last so long. I couldn’t get enough. Like an addict, I needed to get more of my fix. This obsession was a good thing because it always pushed me to seek new challenges. At times I didn’t even possess the skills or the knowledge required to achieve my desired goals. I didn’t let that stop me. I knew that for years, people had been stretching their abilities to achieve results beyond their current capabilities. If they could do it, I knew I could do it.

Candy Goals

My obsession to goals was very similar to my obsession to candy. I had my favorite kind of candy, but that didn’t keep me from eating the different kinds. Just like there is all kinds of candy, there’s all kinds of goals. Here is a brief list of the different kinds of goals you can accomplish.

Daily Goals             Career Goals

Monthly Goals        Relationship Goals

6 Month Goals        Personal Goals

Yearly Goals           Parenting Goals

Lifetime Goals        Health Goals

5 Year Goals          Financial Goals

10 Year Goals        Social Goals

20 Year Goals        Traveling Goals

The reason I wanted to point out to you the various types of goals is to remind you that there are countless opportunities for you to improve your life on a daily basis. You must commit your life to constant and never ending improvement in every aspect of your life. Even small daily gains lead to drastic improvements over time. Whether its a small goal or a big goal you accomplish, the fact that you are achieving your goals will only cultivate you more success because you will be creating goal momentum in your life. Success brings more success. When I knock out one goal, I look for the next one and then its on to the next one.

Your Turn to Become The Candy Goal Monster

If you don’t have goals in your life, you don’t have a clear path. Without a clear path, who knows where you will end up. If you want to go through your life without a clear destination, go right ahead and take yourself to no man’s land. If you want to go to the promise land of Abundance Mountain, you need to know what your destination is, and you need a sound strategy on how you plan on getting there. Reset your mind of any negative thoughts or limiting beliefs that you may have. Focus your thoughts on the results that you desire and chase it with the fierce URGENCY OF NOW. Make a concrete commitment that you will do whatever it takes until you get there. Make sure you use any failure you experience as a stepping stone and not a stumbling block. Don’t ever listen to what a spirit sniper or a dream stealer says you can’t do. It only matters what you believe you can do.

Now is the time for you to become a goal slayer. Act like you are the CANDY GOAL MONSTER. You need to munch on goals like I used to munch on candy. You need to make winning your obsession.

Just remember, just like you climb Mount Everest one step at a time, you eat a giant candy goal one bite at a time. You can achieve anything you believe with power and control over your thoughts and actions. Take your passion and make it happen.

Hooman Hamzehloui 2010

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Life Changes Everyday

Life is an amazing experience that changes everyday. Sometimes life’s changes happen so fast that if you are not changing with it, you are going to be left behind. You definitely don’t want to be left behind because its hard to catch up. If you want a great example of life’s changes leaving people behind, all you have to do is just look at the countless people who still can’t operate the internet. Believe it or not, these people are out there. Are you changing with life? Or is life’s changes leaving you behind?

Change = Better

Humans have been thirsty for change since the days of the cave man. These changes have made our lives better and better with every change. Lets face it, no one has ever set out to make a change because they desired to make things worse. Our passion for change over the years has been inspired by our desire to make things better. How thirsty are you to make a change for the better?

Become a change artist. A change artist is someone who is committed to constant and never ending improvement. I don’t care who you are, or what you have accomplished. I guarantee you that there are many areas of your life that could benefit from improvement. Make your weaknesses your strengths. Make your strengths stronger than ever. Learn new skills that will make your life better. Strive for this improvement because if you don’t, there will always be someone who comes along who is smarter, stronger, better, faster than you are. If you don’t make it a point to change for the better, those change artist will pass you by. In today’s ultra competitive world, if you are not a change artist, you will be in danger of losing out to one.

What changes could you make that would make the quality of your life better?

What skills could you improve on?

What can you do to improve your communication skills with your loved ones and the rest of the world?

What can you do to improve your health?

What could you do to improve your knowledge?

What changes are you in desperate need of making?

Only you know the answers to those questions. Only you know what changes you need to make. Stop being in denial and start making the necessary changes that will drastically improve the quality of your life. Don’t let life change without you. Become a change artist and commit yourself to constant and never ending improvement. Even small changes lead to big improvements. Don’t let life get better without you. Life gets better by the day, make sure you get better with it.

Hooman Hamzehloui 2010

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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.

Hooman Hamzehloui 2010

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When I am out in public and I come across a person who is clearly miserable, I often wonder what could possibly be so wrong in this person’s life that has them acting this way. I ask myself, “Does this person realize how precious life is? Does this person understand that their lives could end within a blink of an eye?” Do you know someone like this? Do you realize how precious life is?

Nothing in the world is as precious as a human life. There are countless ways that one can lose their life in an instant. Look at the earthquake that has destroyed Haiti and ended all those lives. Do you think any of those poor people knew that they were living their last day? Do you think the people who have died in automobile accidents knew that their lives were going to end at the road ahead? Nobody knows when their time is near but that doesn’t mean that we can’t live like we only have 24 hours to live.

You should always live like you only have 24 hours to live. Living like you only have 24 hours to live doesn’t mean that you stop planning for the future. It doesn’t mean that you liquidate all your assets and quit your job. What it means is that your attitude reflects that your life is PRECIOUS. It means that when you wake up in the morning you jump up and clap your hands because YOU ARE ALIVE, YOU ARE ALERT, AND YOU FEEL GREAT. LIving like you have 24 hours to live means you never leave your loved ones without giving them a proper hug or a kiss. It means you don’t go to bed mad at the ones you love. It means you take your time to smell the roses. It means you put a pep in your step.

Life isn’t easy as it is, and it only gets harder when you desire more from it. Its guaranteed to deliver setbacks, defeats, and challenges that will rock you down to your knees. When life knocks you on your ass, what will dwelling in the past do for you? How do you think you will benefit from walking around with a miserable attitude? How is your subconscious mind going to like you asking it 1,000 times a day, “Oh my gosh, WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME?” Its going to hate it and you are going to hate your life.

The poor people of Haiti have dealt with so much trials and tribulations over their history, but what they are known for is their enduring spirits. They didn’t hate to be alive, they made the most of their lives. They are fighters and that’s why they have always persevered through the most difficult of circumstances. Don’t be your own SPIRIT SNIPER. Don’t dwell in the misery you have experienced in the past because you are destined to repeat. Think about what you can do to make all your dreams come true. Think about what you can do to empower yourself to achieve the results that you desire. Our lives follow our thoughts and our attitudes are everything. We are all created equal but what separates the best of the world, from the rest of the world is our minds and our hearts. Focus on empowering thoughts. Take control of your life now. Never stop believing and always look forward to the amazing promise and possibilities that tomorrow can bring. Always live your life like you only have 24 hours to live.

Hooman Hamzehloui 2009

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Some of the greatest achievers of all time have developed massive success from their past failures. Nothing can be more inspiring then the discouraging feeling and utter disappointment that accompany failing. Failing is a major part of life. It always has been, and it always will be. Learning how to use failure as a motivator will determine your future success when dealing with the trials and tribulations that failing often bring.

Thomas Edison’s 10,000 plus failed attempts at inventing electricity gave him the wisdom he needed in order to succeed. If it wasn’t for those failed experiments, he wouldn’t have known what type of filament to use in order to invent electricity. Life will teach you invaluable lessons if you let it. In order to succeed, you must fail so you will know what to do the next time around.

The key is to not let your failure’s get too personal. When you are chilling at your self-hosted loser party, singing the following lyrics, “OH MY GOODNESS, I JUST FAILED BIG TIME. OH NO, WHAT AM I GOING TO DO THIS TIME? MY LIFE IS OVER. I WILL NEVER MAKE IT.” It is precisely in this moment of stripped dignity that you must get a hold of yourself, and summon that SUPER HERO from within you. It is during this time of darkness that champions and achievers are born. It is during this time when you stop feeling sorry for yourself and remember that FAILURE IS JUST AN OUTCOME.

Always remember…… Failure is never permanent. Failure is just an outcome.  If you don’t get the outcome that you desire, you just keep changing your approach until you succeed. My past failures have never stopped me from succeeding and they shouldn’t stop you. If that was the case, we would all be wearing diapers still because none of us would’ve ever made it past the potty training stage. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Use your failures as stepping stones and not stumbling blocks and you will be amazed at how high you climb.

Hooman Hamzehloui 2009

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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.

How to Make  a Lasting Change

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Hiding Your Problems is The Best Thing You Can do if You Want to….

Hiding your problems is the best thing you can do if you want them to grow into bigger problems. When I was a little kid there were times where my room was an absolute mess with toys everywhere. My mother would tell me to clean up my room before I could go outside and play. I would be so desperate to play outside that I would open the door to my closet and shove all my toys in there. When I stacked up my collection of toys, I would slam the door shut and hope that an avalanche of toys didn’t come tumbling down. Bada bing, bada boom, no more toys in my room, problem solved right?

What I was really doing was sweeping my problems under a rug. You know what happens when you consistently sweep a bunch of small problems under the rug? Problems that are swept under a rug tend to multiply into much bigger problems. They tend to float around in the back of our minds while they slowly grow in size while we are in denial. So many people let their small problems manifest themselves into major problems because they think if they avoid them they will disappear. Then they find themselves forced into major crisis control when they could’ve avoided the entire situation. Don’t let your problems gain interest on you. Take care of any problem right then and there so you don’t have to worry about that problem rearing its ugly head again. Did I mention I always got hit with the avalanche of toys?

How to Solve Any Problem The Right Way Using The 5/95 Rule

1. Start off by getting excited about your opportunity to provide a solution to your problem. Believe that you can find the solution. Stay cool, calm, and collected. It is all about your attitude towards the situation. Having the best attitude will always put you in the best state of mind which is very important when it comes to being a master of solutions. Believing that you can do it will be critical to your success.

2. Forget about what you could have done. Its all about what you are going to do. No one can change the past, but we all can change our futures. It is very important that you get the highest and best use from your time when it comes to finding solutions.

3. Analyzing the situation should only take up about 5% of your time. This is what I like to call situation analysis. Find out exactly what the problem is. This step is crucial to your success because if you don’t know exactly what the problem is there is no way to fix it.

4. Spend 95% of your time seeking the solution. This is your time to shine so step up and find the solution. Don’t be afraid to take a risk. Keep trying different approaches until you succeed. Many people have achieved the unthinkable during the most difficult of times. There is no reason why you shouldn’t be able to do the same.

5. Learn from the situation and move on. Don’t keep making the same mistakes because that is what Albert Einstein calls insanity. It is imperative that you use every experience in life to make you a better person. Remember, “Win or Learn, there is no failure,” Henry Ford.

Hooman Hamzehloui 2009

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Secret to Success

Do you ever wish you had the secret to success? If you only had the secret that all those successful achievers had, you too could have the success that you have always dreamed of. It doesn’t matter what your definition of success is, what matters is whether or not you believe in your abilities to achieve the success that you desire.

Norman Vincent Peale said, “People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. Do you ever wonder how a millionaire can lose their fortune and then come back after reinventing themselves to achieve even greater success than they previously had? Do you think these people are lucky? Do you think they know something that you don’t know? What these achievers know is that they can achieve anything they believe. They are the go-getters of this world, they don’t wait for things to happen, they make things happen. These are the believers of this world.

Are You Really a Believer?

But Hooman, I was a believer too and I didn’t make my dreams come true. Were you really a believer? Or did you doubt your abilities when times got hard and you had a setback or two? Napoleon Hill said, “No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or another, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.” Most people have failed to make their dreams come true because they quit too soon. How do you know when to quit? It’s always too early to quit when you are chasing your dreams. Your dreams will only come true if you do whatever it takes to make your dreams come true. ITS ENTIRELY UP TO YOU. ITS ENTIRELY UP TO YOU. ITS ENTIRELY UP TO YOU. ITS ENTIRELY UP TO YOU. ITS ENTIRELY UP TO YOU. ITS ENTIRELY UP TO YOU. I can’t stress that enough.

Leading Causes of Failure

One of the leading causes of failure is that people hate feeling the pain that seizes their soul when they experience the trials and tribulations that accompany failure. Everyone in life gets knocked down, but life only rewards those who get back up. You are only defeated when you have accepted failure as your reality. You must refuse to lose. Believe that you can make it happen no matter what obstacle comes your way because if you are a believer, then you will always be an achiever. It doesn’t matter what the dream stealers and non-believers believe you can achieve. It only matters what you believe you can achieve. Do you want financial security? Do you want a better career? Do a better body? Do you want a better relationship? Whatever it is that you desire, its entirely up to you to make it happen. Tell yourself a thousand times a day “I can achieve anything I believe.” Remember the famous words of Henry Ford, “Whether you believe you can or whether you believe you can’t, you are right. I believe in you. Do you believe in you? Take your passion and make your dreams happen. Its only impossible if you think it is.

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My fight against fat is going well. I may have won a little battle, but its going to be a long war. Last time I tried to fight fat, I had a little progress and went from 205 down to 185. I didn’t stay committed so I ended up failing big time. This time failure is not an option. I am in it to win it. I challenge you to join me and live a healthier lifestyle. Lets fight against fat together. LETS GO BURN SOME FAT.

Fight Against Fat The Series Table of Contents

Part 1 My Personal Battle With Obesity

Part 2 13 Health Consequences Associated With Obesity

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