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Do you know what your greatest asset is? No, it’s not money. No, it’s not the car you drive or your house. Your biggest asset is your BODY. What can you do without your body? How will you perform if you don’t have a HEALTHY body?

It’s 7:52am right now and I truly feel like a million bucks! Now, mind you, I am not a morning person, but I decided recently that I would going to be one. Here’s what I did this morning so far…

Like most other people, it’s a drag to get out of my comfortable bed in the morning. But as soon as my alarm went off, I SPRUNG OUT OF BED! I proceeded to take my puppy for a walk and begin to CREATE my day. It’s supposed to be an hour of power, but I shoot for 26 minutes, at least 5 days/week. Basically how it works is you start walking briskly and focus on your breathing…4 quick breaths in through the nose, 4 quick breaths out through the mouth. Start feeling the energy and blood flow. The next step is to have gratitude. Think about all the good things in your life. Truly APPRECIATE all that you have. Most people focus on all the negatives or their past failures, and guess what they get? The next thing you should do is VISUALIZE all of your goals and pretend that they have already been attained. Remember, your brain doesn’t know the difference between what you visualize and what is actually true, so the more you do this, the more it will help you get to your goals.

I can’t tell you how amazing this feels. I feel so alive and gracious and ready to have an amazing day while getting closer to my goals. I came home, fed the pup, and revved up my new juicer. I HIGHLY recommend purchasing a juicer. This is probably one of the best purchases I have EVER made. It gives me so much energy. REAL energy, not caffeine from coffee or tea or those ridiculous energy drinks. You get the same effect with real fruit juice. This morning I used oranges, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, red and white grapes, and carrots. Talk about a powerful drink! Note: you should consume fresh fruit and fresh fruit juices on an EMPTY stomach. If you consume them after a meal, it doesn’t have the same benefit.

Now, you may be saying, Ed, I don’t have TIME to get up early or make fresh juice. My reply to you is, “You don’t have TIME for HEALTH?!#” You don’t have time to increase the quality and length of your life? Don’t you think that LIVING should be on the top of your list of things to do? If you’re too busy to do this…YOU’RE TOO BUSY!!!

Try it for a week and please tell me if it doesn’t make a difference in your life. I’ll give you a free 1 hour private lesson if you don’t feel ANY change in your energy/life/motivation/body.

So here’s a review:
1. Do your hour of power…or at least 20 minutes (brisk walk, breathing, gratitude, visualization)
2. Buy a juicer…choose your favorite fruit and chug it down on an empty stomach.

Is that too much to ask? More on nutrition tomorrow…

Just for today, I challenge you to ACT and BE the person that you want to be. If you want to be more confident, WALK and ACT more confidently today. I mean, STRUT around wherever you go. If you want to become a great athlete, PRETEND that you already ARE a great athlete. WALK like one, TALK like one, EAT like one, PRACTICE and PLAY like one. Do this for the next 24 hours. I even want you to DREAM like one. If you want to be smarter, ACT like you already are…FEEL what that would feel like. Do the same things, read the same newspapers, TALK like some smart people you know, HANG OUT with smart people, EAT what they eat. I could go on, but I think you get my point. Some of you want to be better athletes, others want to be healthier, and some would like to have more confidence…whatever you desire to be, you CAN be that person; you just have to take ACTION.

After a whole day of acting like this, see how you feel. If you like it, do it again. The more you do this, the more it will start to become part of you and before you know it, you won’t have to TRY to be that person, you WILL BE that person.

I’d love to hear your stories.

Make it a great one!

I have told many of you about the Success Hotline (973 743 4690) and how great it is. This hotline was created by Dr. Rob Gilbert in 1992. He has a new 3 minute inspirational message every day and he hasn’t missed a day since 1992!!! Dr. Gilbert is one of the country’s top experts on sports psychology and peak performance. He has given thousands of lectures and seminars to many top athletes and business people. He has also been on television, the radio and newspapers/magazines extensively. Dr. Gilbert has the most motivational and inspirational blog on the web (www.gilbertsuccesshotline.blogspot.com). He is professor of Sports Psychology at Montclair State University and a public speaker, motivational coach, sports coach and author. It takes a lot for me to be impressed, and Dr. Gilbert not only impresses me, but he INSPIRES me. I listen to his Success Hotline religiously.

So I called the Success Hotline today and if you could do a double-take listening to an answering machine message, I did just that. He dedicated his message today to “the GREAT Ed Tseng.”

Wow. I had to call it several times to make sure he said “Ed Tseng” and NOT “Ted Fang.”

Now let me tell you how I discovered The Success Hotline…

When I started my company, Tennis Solutions, I began networking with everyone I met, specifically, the top business people in the Princeton area. I found the Princeton Networking Group and attended a few of their meetings. I actually became close with the President, Jason Akers. Jason and I meet regularly to catch each other up on our goals and motivate and inspire each other over a meal. The last time I met with Jason, he mentioned the Success Hotline and how Dr. Gilbert came to speak to Northwestern Mutual a while back. After our “power breakfast” at 7am, he sent me a text message and said that the Success Hotline message was dedicated to me. It actually wasn’t, but it WAS about sports psychology and motivation. So I called the Hotline and I instantly fell in love with it. I actually left Dr. Gilbert a message after the beep and told him how I was starting to get into motivational speaking and would love to take him to lunch and pick his brain. Can you believe he called me back the same day?

We had a great conversation and then met for lunch about a week later. After our 2 hour lunch meeting, we went to Barnes and Noble to check out some books. I bought him one of my favorite books and he bought me one of his…very cool. As expected, he was an amazing guy and by the end of our meeting, he asked me if I wanted to speak at Montclair State the following Wedensday. I quickly replied, “I’d love to.” I didn’t know what I was speaking about or to whom, but when someone like that asks you, it doesn’t really matter. It turned out that I spoke to over 150 people from all over China getting ready to do an internship with Disney! And now, I consider Dr. Gilbert a friend and mentor.

So you might be asking yourself, how does this apply to the mental side of sports and life? Well, I’ll tell you…If I had NOT taken action networking and finding out about Princeton Networking Group, I would not have met Jason Akers. If I had not met Jason Akers, I wouldn’t have found out about the Success Hotline. If I had not found out about Success Hotline, I would not have met Dr. Rob Gilbert. And had I not met Dr. Gilbert, I wouldn’t have learned as much as I have about sports psychology and motivational speaking OR spoken in front of those 150 people at Montclair State. Do you see how life works? Life rewards action. I guess I’m a go-getter. I guess I CREATE my destiny. I guess I predict my future by CREATING it. You can do the same with your life or your sport.

I am still extremely flattered that today’s Success Hotline message was dedicated to me…so in return, I dedicate this post to Dr. Rob Gilbert, not because he dedicated his message to me today, but because of my great respect for him, not only as an authority on sports psychology and speaking, but as a person. He is the real deal and I hope he reads this post so he knows that he is helping me become a better person and inspires me to make a difference in the world. Please go out and buy his new book, “How to have fun without failing out.”

Thanks, Dr. Gilbert.

Homework: Call Success Hotline!

How confident are you? Have you ever known a really great athlete? How does he or she WALK? How do they TALK? Don’t they WALK confidently? Don’t they ACT confidently? The reason why, is because you NEED to BE confident to achieve that level of success. The good news is that any of you can ACT confident. Even if you aren’t, fake it until you are.

Ty Cobb was one of the greatest baseball players ever. He was interviewed when he was 80 years old and was asked what he thought his batting average would be today if he was playing. He said about .270 or .275. And the interviewer then said, “It’s becuase of the longer schedule, travelling, and night games right?” Cobb replied, “No, it’s because I’m 80!” Now that’s confidence.

So act confidently and your performance will follow. VISUALIZE the person you want to be, and before you know it, you will become that person. Remember, you become your strongest thoughts. Just beware…be confident, NOT cocky. Feel it on the inside and walk like there is an invisible string attached to the top of you head and someone is pulling up on it.

Homework: For the next 24 hours, act incredibly confident and see how you feel and how you perform.

Thank God It’s Friday?!@# What kind of talk is that? Many people talk about having a case of the “Mondays” or Hump Wednesday and of course TGIF. To me, that’s all negative thoughts. That’s how losers feel. Why waste your whole week waiting for the weekend? Life is too short, make the most of it. Sure, there might be days that you don’t feel well, or are tired, but take action anyway! Get energized, enthusiastic about what you are doing. Fake it if you have to.

Meditate and appreciate. I meditate all throughout my day. Anyone can do it. All you really have to do is take a step back, and APPRECIATE all that you have…from your family to your friends…from your car to the paved roads that you drive on…from your home to the food on your plates…from the trees to the flowers. I could go on, but I trust you get my point. You can do it anywhere; while driving, waiting for the bus or during a meal. Life moves pretty fast and if you don’t have gratitude, you will not have true fulfillment. Material things are not happiness. Money is not happiness. The world has never been richer, but it has has also never been so miserable. So what does that say? Money isn’t everything. Make a difference, have gratitude, be the best you can be, appreciate what you have.

My true purpose is to help as many people as I can, worldwide, through being a tennis pro, Special Olympics Coach, mental training expert, life coach and motivational speaker. I don’t want to go to bed at night, and I can’t wait to get up in the morning. People ask me on a daily basis, “Ed, where do you get all your energy?” I say, “I’m high on life. I do what I love, and I appreciate all that I have. Every day is better than the day before.” I set goals, meaningful goals, exciting goals, because success truly is a journey and I am enjoying the process. I know where I want to go in life and what I want to accomplish. I’m not LIVING for the weekend, or DREADING work on Monday; I’m only going to come through this life once, so I want to make the most out of it by helping others, making the world a better place…and leaving a LEGACY.

So enjoy your weekend and when you see me at work on Monday, please pardon my big smile and energy, because I will STILL be enjoying MY weekend.

Homework: Go out this weekend and do something enjoyable…THEN go out and help someone out that is in need. Then email me and tell me how you feel. That reminds me…I want to go read to the blind next week.