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As you might guess, I’m not a “one trick pony.” There are just too many amazing people to meet, places to visit, and things to experience to get type cast into any one specific genre of life. Math, science, literature, singing, dancing, playing music, snowboarding, scuba diving, bodybuilding, philanthropy, food, travel, family, and friends are all part of my desire to live and experience life to the fullest.

My intense curiosity and thirst to live life to the max has also afforded me with the ability to relate to men and women from all walks of life and who are experiencing the joys and desperations of living life. I watched my sister die from cancer at the young age of five years old. Then I watched how my parent’s already troubled marriage collapsed under the trauma of losing their young child.

I know what it’s like to grow up in poverty with a single mother who couldn’t afford a car and who had to temporarily raise me on food stamps because her divorce left her financially destitute. I know what it feels like to wake up on Christmas morning as a young boy to find a trash bag under our Christmas tree that was full of used old hand-me-down toys because my mother didn’t have the money to buy me any other gifts.

Even as a young nine-year-old boy I realized on that particular Christmas morning, anything I wanted to have, or to do, or to be in my life was going to require me to take personal responsibility on my own part to make it happen. And that’s why I now strive to live every day of my life to the very max… to make up for the lost time of so much the pain, misery, and deprivation of my younger years.

Even my company’s name exemplifies that quest to live life to the fullest. LIVXTRA spelled L-I-V-X-T-R-A represents living life… EXTRA!

My book entitled Hero Mindset outlines a clear path that helps both men and woman maximize the enjoyment of their lives through living by a manta that I simply refer to as living life “Extra.”

Extra experiences today knowing that tomorrow is never a guarantee.
Extra reminders to their loved ones of how much they are appreciated.
Extra effort devoted to accomplishing their highest priorities in life.
Extra opportunities discovered by accepting to tackle difficult tasks.
Extra victories by viewing failure as a form of progress and not defeat.

And my book, Hero Mindset, dives deep into this powerful concept that is comprised of a 528-page research report that is backed up with over 180 third-party technical references that support the concepts and expertise which I’ve consolidated into this powerful reference book. Hero Mindset is more of a research project than a typical self-help book as it represents a compendium of some of the most cutting-edge expertise relating to physical health and nutrition, emotional well-being, financial independence, love and romance, lifestyle, and even fashion tips that will help you live your very best life. The book also contains over 30 Real Stories from everyday people, including myself, that will reinforce your confidence that you, can do this, too!

I wrote this book over a period of 6 years with the same dedication and attention to detail that a college PhD candidate would invest in such research to submit as their thesis. I haven’t formally submitted this research as part of a PhD program, but I think someday I just might! The hard copy version of Hero Mindset is nothing less than a comprehensive 528-page thesis on how to live your live to the very max in every sense and meaning of that phrase.

But before I finally discovered a powerful secret on how to survive and thrive, even during some of the most desperate circumstances that life can throw at a person, I suffered a seemingly unsolvable personal crisis, over the course of four years, that left me feeling hopeless, directionless, and even suicidal. As part of that crisis, I was dismissed from a very successful and satisfying position at my work. I also gained so much excess weight from the constant stress and fatigue that I no longer could fit into my beautiful business suits. I then isolated myself from my closest friendships, my marriage was beginning to fall apart, I was bringing home darkness and anger to my wife and children, and my four children desperately needed me to be a better father for them than what I was mentally and emotionally able to provide for them at that time.

I had lost my self-confidence and my passion for life, and I didn’t even really care that I had gained all that extra weight because I no longer had any place special to go where I needed to wear those beautifully tailored business suits anyways. My anger and frustrations blinded me from all the blessings that surrounded me in my life. I gradually sunk deeper and deeper into frustration, anger, and despair at the expense of my own mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional wellbeing, not to mention all the hurt I was bringing upon the people I cared about the most. For years I couldn’t find a way out of the mess I was in.

I was out of control, and I was exhausted. My wife finally said “John, you’ve got to do something about your constant frustrations because I can’t stay married to you like this anymore.”

I’m sharing this with you because perhaps you, too, can personally relate to some of what I just shared with you. The sad truth is that many of the most important truths that we end up realizing in our lives are learned the hard way, by making disastrous mistakes that end up hurting the people we care the most about in our lives, including ourselves. So, in the next few minutes I’m going to suggest a powerful process to help you eliminate some of the fears, pains, and challenges that you might be experiencing in your own life right now.

Obstacles both inward and outward that are holding you back from living the quality of life that you truly deserve. I know that you may not think that this is possible for you right now, but I’m living proof that it can be achieved.

The “Comeback Kid” Couldn’t cut it this Time.

In a minute I’m going to share an immensely powerful concept with you that I only learned after suffering through an extremely difficult phase of my life, which I am certain can also help you to bounce back from debilitating stress, fear, and uncertainties in your own life. So just to help paint as clear of a picture as I can as to how difficult my situation felt, you first need understand just how desperate and difficult a problem needs to get for me to really feel like I am in a world of hurt.

Believe me when I tell you that before this seemingly unresolvable circumstance blindsided me, I had already survived and thrived through so many profound difficulties in my personal life, that I referred to myself as the “Comeback Kid.” The guy who, figuratively speaking, could step up to the plate, at the bottom of the ninth inning, bases loaded, and three runs behind, and then hit a Grand Slam, bringing 4 runs home at the last moment to ultimately win the game!

Here are 6 examples to prove my point as follows:

Personal Struggle #1

I was born into a tragic family environment with the statistics stacked against my success.

My early childhood had all statistics working against me of ever being able to make anything useful out of my life. But instead, I defied all the sociological statistics that could have led me to a life of violence, abuse, addictions, sexually transmitted diseases, and incarceration. Instead, I grew up to live a life and build a reputation of a man who lives as far away from those descriptions that you can possibly get, to the unbelief of everyone who knew me as a young boy. My early childhood years exposed me to an environment of constant conflict, abuse, and poverty. And during all that conflict, my younger sister and my only sibling had been suffering from Leukemia for several years and eventually died at the age of five. Shortly after the death of my sister, I was abducted. I was lured out of my second-grade classroom by an adult that told me that I was going to go on an “adventure.” I ended up in another state surrounded by strangers and feeling scared, lonely, and confused. Soon thereafter, my parents divorced, and I was forced by the court system to bounce back and forth between states to live two separate lives with parents who shared custody of me. Twice a year, I would cry because I had to leave one of my parents behind for months at a time between extended visitations. Growing up for most of my childhood without a father-figure being around to provide a young man with proper guidance and discipline, I easily got myself into a lot of trouble to the point that later in life I was told by an acquaintance that he was sure that my fate was set to become a gang leader.

I remember the first Christmas my mother and I shared together by ourselves. My sister had just died, and my mother had just divorced my father. We lived in a different state where I had no friends, my mother had very little money to support the both of us. On Christmas morning I awoke to find a black trash bag underneath our little Christmas tree. When I opened, I found a few unwrapped, used toys that looked like people would donate to charity when they were Spring cleaning their homes. At first, I felt sad that this was now what Christmas was going to be like for our family. And then I felt angry and started yelling at my mother that this wasn’t fair to treat me like this on Christmas. My mother immediately broke down in tears, telling me that was the best she could do for me in our new circumstance, and then she ran out of the room. I was still on my knees, looking into that black trash bag full of old toys, and I had the following harsh realization even as a little nine-year-old boy: I had just lost my sister to cancer, lost my father to divorce, lost the comfortable familiar surroundings of my former life. I was scared, sad, angry, lonely, and poor. I realized that if any of those bleak circumstances were going to improve then it would be up to me to make it happen. I viewed the miserable surrounds I was living in as if a form of gravitational pull was preventing me from escaping. I wanted to check every box I could to earn a one-way ticket out of nowheresville. And I did just that. Instead of just running away, I wanted to get out with a plan. I studied hard in school, was on the Honor roll every semester, I stayed out of trouble with the law, I avoided drugs and alcohol, played first Chair violin in my High School Orchestra, earned my Eagle Scout, got accepted to a good university in another state, and I never looked back.

Personal Struggle #2

I was told that I was too stupid to study engineering.

In High School, one of my teachers humiliated me in front of our entire classroom. I was always a diligent student who studied hard and turned all my homework in on time. I tried my best to excel in all my academics, but my grades in math were admittedly average at best. One day while grading papers, my math teacher asked me what I wanted to do for work when I graduated. I told her that I wanted to become an engineer. After I publicly shared my childhood dream with her, she responded by raising her hands up in the air and yelling “heaven help us!” in front of all my classmates. My math teacher laughed at me for wanting to become an engineer. That teacher was the antithesis of what an inspiring and encouraging educator should be towards their students. Her cruel words still sting my heart to this day even as I think about that embarrassing moment these many years later. Fortunately, I’m a guy who wants what I want, and who largely ignores the naysayers who throw discouragement in my path. So, after I graduated from high school, I chose to study engineering at my university anyways. Ultimately, I earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in civil engineering, and a Professional Engineering License (PE) in the State of California, one of the most difficult professional Civil Engineering states licenses to obtain in the United States.

Personal Struggle #3

I was told there was no cure to my long-term illness.

In college I struggled through a 4-year chronic physical debilitation that almost ended my life. Most of the medical professionals that I asked to help me either didn’t know how to alleviate my condition, or they simply dismissed my pleas for help by saying that my problem was all in my head. At a very desperate point during my college years, I had to make a choice whether to fight my way through the remainder of my schooling with such poor health while hoping to find some relief somewhere down the road. The other option was for me to go back to New York and live with my mother and to meet with doctors back home in hopes that they could help me. In my mind, this second option meant that I would never return to my university which was located so far away from my family home and devoid of family support. And that also meant that I would certainly also never regain the momentum to finish my extremely intensive engineering degree. I decided to stay in school and tough it out. Then one fateful day, years into my suffering, a man without any invitation for his help on my part, came to my rescue. He told me that I had an illness, he knew what it was, he knew what it looked like, and he knew of a procedure that might be able to get rid of it. And all this because he, too, had gone through the same illness himself. Even thought I was virtually a penniless college student; I withdrew almost the entire balance of that small bank account to try that medical procedure. And for that point forward I found myself on a steady path to full recovery from that long illness.

Personal Struggle #4

I almost failed out of college 4 times (check with BYU)

Not for the lack of earnest effort on my part, I nearly failed out of college 4 times. Each official written disciplinary warning sent to me by my university, implied that the following semester had to show significant grade point improvement, or I would be expelled from the University. Every “near miss” expulsion after a bad semester, was followed up with an even more aggressive effort to improve my academic performance the following semester to again get off academic probation each time. I felt like a boxer in a match who kept getting punched to the ground, with the referee over my heard giving me to the count of ten to get back in the fight. But after every knock down, I stumbled back to my feet, assured the referee that I was still good to go, and then I got back in “the fight” to win the bout. One grueling homework assignment after the other involving advanced math, physics, or fluid mechanics led me from one more completed semester to the next. And eventually I went on to graduate with both Bachelor AND Master of Science Degrees in civil engineering, one of the most academically difficult college majors that a student could enroll in. I then earned Professional Engineers license (or PE) in the State of California, which is one of the most difficult states to earn that license because you must pass even more difficult licensing exams that most other states don’t require.

Personal Struggle #5

I experienced five potentially fatal incidents while piloting a private airplane on the same flight.

I piloted a private aircraft where circumstances along one fateful training sole cross-country flight presented five instances during the same flight where I could have crashed or at the very least would have had to make an emergency landing. But instead of allowing panic to take over, my emotional control during several moments of intense paralyzing fear helped me to safely land the airplane at my destination airport. I was a student pilot, and this was to be my first solo cross country solo flight as part of qualifying for my private pilot’s license. The initial portion of the flight consisted of crossing over Utah Lake and then gaining enough altitude to clear the top of the Wasatch Mountains. The day of that flight was very windy, and I remember my instructor informing me that my flight was going to be “bumpy.” Looking back, I should have read more into that statement and postponed the flight for a calmer day, but I went anyways. Strong headwinds coming over the top of the mountain range I needed to clear, created very powerful downdraft air currents that slammed down on top of my little two-seater airplane as if trying to force my little two-seater airplane to the ground. For every 1,000 ft of elevation I climbed, the turbulence caused me to lose 500 feet. Every time I gained about a 1,000 ft of elevation, I would lose about 500 feet to the violent turbulence all the while trying to get enough altitude to not crash into the mountains. By the time I realized I might not actually clear the top of the mountain, I felt like I might hit the mountain face anyways if I tried at that point to turn around under such violent and unpredictable wind conditions. Feeling trapped, I was starting to become paralyzed by fear to the point that I felt my mind and body shutting down. At that moment I was clearly aware that if I allowed myself to fully succumb to that paralyzing fear, I was most likely going to die. Instead, I decided to continue the course, and face the mountain head on, knowing that I still might not clear the mountain, but I would do so while still using my full physical and mental capacities to avoid that result. I ended up clearing the mountain peak, but by only about 500 feet, after which I continued to the next portion of my flight.

Personal Struggle #6

I almost drowned to death during a Scuba Diving Night Dive.

I was working on completing my Advanced Scuba Diving Certification and my class was completing the night dive portion of the training by walking into the ocean surf from the beach. We all initially entered the surf while holding on to both of our swim fins, and once we got out to about waist high water, we did our best to put on your fins while spinning in a “washing machine” of pounding sea surf while being blinded by the swirling murky water. Soon into the night dive, I realized that an equipment malfunction with my diving gear prevented me from maintaining buoyancy underwater. In simple terms, I found myself crawling on the sea floor 65 feet below the surface of the ocean, in the pitch dark, and unable to see more than three feet in front of me. And the virtually zero visibility conditions also prevented me from being able to clearly communicate my emergency to either my dive buddy or my instructor. Eventually the entire dive class converged on the sea floor and signaled that they were surfacing. I decided to continuously push air into my vest while I kicked to the surface all the while the air was leaking out of my vest. But once at the surface I quickly started sinking again. I then lost one of my fins trying to frantically keep myself above water. Now with a defective buoyancy vest, only one fin to kick with, and disoriented by a moonless night sky, I went into panic mode and forgot all my basic training. Terrified, physically exhausted, and almost out of tank air, I started sinking to my death in the cold, dark, Pacific Ocean. With my head halfway back underneath the water, my dive buddy calmly reminded me of the emergency procedure to drop my dive weights to help me regain my buoyancy. Once I was stable above water, he then dragged me by the back of my buoyancy vest back into shore since I had lost a swim fin in the struggle. I showed up at the dive shop the next day to complete the remaining portions of our dive training. After resolving the equipment malfunction issue, one of the store managers told me how she was impressed that I was still willing to complete the training, saying that most divers would have just quit the sport if they experienced that type of near-death emergency. I went on to finish my certification training the very next day, and to my knowledge my dive fin and weights were never recovered from the sea floor.

Stuck with No Apparent Solution

I’m honestly not sharing with you how I overcame these personal struggles to brag, but I need to clearly communicate to you that I’ve overcome a lot of fear, pain, disappointment, and difficulty in my life over the years. And if you’re going through a difficult time in your own life right now, then I want you to know that I can relate. So now that you know how resilient I can be when faced with difficult circumstances, I want to share a little about another especially difficult personal struggle that I faced that was so emotionally traumatic and complex that I struggled for years hoping that I would eventually find a solution, but to no avail.

The pain began one fateful morning when I was looking through my email inboxes. I opened up a work email that sent me into a seemingly endless cycle of fear, anger, self-doubt, and depression that would plague my life for many years thereafter. The charmed life that I had known and that I had identified myself by up to that moment had now suddenly vanished before my eyes in the words of a single email.

But unlike so many other times before in my life when I found myself in a tight spot yet inwardly, I knew I could somehow find my way out, this time it felt so much more complex. I just couldn’t seem to visualize any viable solutions to remedy the pain. And not only was my predicament adversely affecting my own life, but now it was also beginning to destroy my relationship with my amazing wife and also my four young children.

I felt hopeless and trapped in that destructive mental state for many years.

And now years into this desperate situation and having reached an extremely desperate and dark point along my downwards spiral, I finally caved into my wife’s constant pleas for me to seek professional help. Feeling at my wit’s end, I made an appointment with a local psychiatrist, and I found myself sitting on his “leather couch,” explaining my seemingly insurmountable personal challenge to him. And during those conversations we had, I finally realized the secret to overcoming all major setbacks and obstacles in my life no matter how difficult and dire they may be.

One of the most powerful concepts that my psychiatrist taught me during our visits together was how to frame the perspective of my personal challenges. He said that when any person finds themselves in a desperate place, they can choose to liken themselves to being the main character in one of two different types of stories:

The victim living through the final chapters of a Greek Tragedy
or
A Hero that is about to embark on an epic adventure.

In other words, the inevitable conflicts, trials, afflictions, and adversities in your life will force you to choose one of the two options in reaction to each of the difficulties that you find yourself in. So the choice always boils down to answering this most fundamental question:

Are you going to be the victim… or are you going to be the hero?

And from those early conversations with a very insightful psychiatrist, I began to expand on this idea of having a “hero mindset,” to consider how this powerful concept could practically apply to the real-world lives of both men and women, who were slugging through the complex challenges of living life just like I was presently doing.

And from those early conversations I began a six-year journey of research, professional insight, and self-reflection to author my book entitled Hero Mindset. And I dedicated this book, to prove to everyday men and women, to prove to them that that they truly are heroes in the most impactful and meaningful sense of the word.

I hope to convince you to embark on your own personal hero’s journey through this most exciting, yet often tumultuous phase of your life! But know that when you consciously make the decision to finally embark on your own heroic journey, you open the very real possibility of realizing an entirely new perspective on the purpose, power, and privilege that is yours for the taking during this very best phase of your existence called midlife! And wherever it is that your journey takes you from here, my ultimate hope and desire is that you proceed forward with confidence in knowing that you truly have the potential to live your midlife years to their very max!

Not all men and women get the opportunity to truly experience a life that’s being lived to its fullest potential physically, mentally, and spiritually. And that really breaks my heart. So when I discovered how to change the destructive trajectory of my own life, I made a promise to myself that I would do whatever I could to help others who were also struggling to find relief.

And through this journey to academic research and personal reflection, I started to formulate a system that I now use to live my life to its fullest potential, or in other words, to live my life EXTRA. And that mantra is why I named my company LIVXTRA (www.LIVXTRA.net).

You’re now here with me on my own journey, and now I’m going to be there for you to help you along own journey, to help you live your life…Extra!

The Hero Mindset Blueprint

Since my formal training is Civil Engineering, I think like an engineer. In essence, engineers “analyze complex challenges, break them into manageable components, and devise innovative solutions.” This problem-solving skillset transcends just the ability to understand math and physics. “When engineers combine their technical expertise with social skills, business acumen, and compassion for others, they become indispensable assets to society, akin to modern day superheroes.” Reference from LinkedIn Eduardo Dos Reis. The Role of Engineers: Problem Solvers, Innovators, and Life Improvers.

And from that process engineers prepare clearly defined design plans that take into account external variables they do not fully understand and/or have the ability to control. That plan then becomes the starting point before “breaking ground” and commencing a construction project.

The tallest buildings and the most expansive bridges would never have been built without first having a detailed set of design plans. With that said, I’m harnessing my real-world engineering expertise, coupled with decades of world traveling life experience, to present to you now with a design “blueprint” to help you harness the power of a Hero Mindset in your own life just as I have. Beyond my title as a licensed Professional Civil Engineer.

I am the husband to the same wife of over twenty years, I’m enthusiastically involved in helping to raise our four children, I’m a business owner, a published author, a competitive body builder, an avid snowboarder, Scuba Diver, Harley rider, and a glitter ball trophy winner of Dancing with the South Bay Stars. But most importantly I’m someone who is living life towards the fullest extent of all the beautiful things that this world has to offer. But with that said, I know that none of that would have been possible for me without the caring family, friends, and professional resources that I have had by my side all of these years. Without the example and guidance of good mentors in my life, I would have never been able to experience and accomplish all the amazing things that I have thus far in my life. So, after I finally found my way out of the seemingly hopeless circumstance that held me down for so many years, I decided I wanted to find a way to pay something forward to my peers. I wanted to share my experiences, insights and encouragement with those men and women who were feeling stuck in their own lives, and to also help them finally achieve their own breakthrough moment! And the name of this design plan that I developed is the 10-Step Hero Mindset Blueprint.

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Testimonial

I met John at a parent function because our kids go to the same school. We started a conversation and I connected with him right away. We bypassed small talk and went right into meaningful life issues. He told me about the plight and loneliness of the middle-aged-man in our society and it resonated with me. There is very little comradery and resource for us besides psychiatric help or counseling, which we ironically don’t have time for. I have seen a growing emptiness with my middle-aged-men peers who get lost in the shuffle and have little time to connect even with their own families. John is a compassionate listener, an admirable family man and business professional. But he’s not afraid to show his weaknesses and that’s very courageous in my book and he’s someone I want to get to know and learn from. His book identifies a unique inflection point in the life of a middle-aged man. Do we need a tragedy to get back on our path towards a rich and meaningful life? Why not make the changes today and use the wisdom, resources, connections, and skills we have acquired as the foundations of our society. John has inspired me to get back into shape when I learned that he won a recent body-building contest. I align myself around people of action. John is one of them.

Jeffrey K.

My friend, John Teng, has a passion for helping people recognize their talents and potential. Having known him for more than 27 years, watching him go through both highs and lows, and persevering through it all is an inspiration to me. Because of his life experiences, he’s just as comfortable rubbing shoulders with the “elite”, as with those who are “down and out.” In his book he invites those of us in the middle years to take time to re-calibrate and gear up to make our years ahead the best ever. As John openly shares his own triumphs and struggles in life, his insight can help each one of us embark on our own “hero’s journey.”

Steve W

John grew up in a circumstance that most would describe as having “life’s deck” stacked up against him. But John fought against those statistical odds to begin with less than nothing, and to then create a life that most of us would truly desire living. John is a true inspiration. He’s the guy that started with less than nothing and created a life that most of us truly desire. He has done the work and discovered the journey to real success, not just in our work, but also in our families, amongst our friends, and possibly most importantly within ourselves. For many of his younger years I watched him hurt, stress-out, sacrifice, and fight to choose the “right” path in life. This is a trait John has carried throughout his life. The lessons learned and shared in his book, Hero Mindset, and in his company LIVXTRA, are a combination of John’ life work. I know this is his passion and true calling to help all of us navigate through the treacherous gauntlet of Midlife. This is shown by the many dedicated years John has given in research, education, professional advice, and shear experiences that he has lived and gathered through others. I would sincerely encourage anyone amid this battle to come and join the wonderful journey to a peaceful and successful Midlife and beyond.

Edward M

I have known John for over 30 years. I have witnessed John travel through his troubled, middle-age years and rise triumphant. Three adjectives that describe John are tenacious, charismatic, and caring. These attributes have carried him through personal and professional adversity shaping a resilient character to lead others through midlife’s rough waters. I have seen him live the Greek tragedy and the hero’s journey. He can identify with both and has developed a method for us all to be the hero in our own lives. John is a great man and a definite hero in my book.

Charles T

Several years ago, I met John in an activity outside talking with some friends. From the time we spoke, I knew there was something different about him. John was no ordinary guy trying to have a friendship or a have good conversation. The more I got to know him the more I realized we had many similarities. We were alike and could exchange and understand each other’s life experiences on a deeper level. I saw and observed how John had developed his life with his family, businesses, and church. I began to learn about the ups and downs middle-aged men face and how to continue with self-improvement and heal on the inside our childhood and not forward the pain into the future. I gained valuable information and advice from our many conversations about steps on how to overcome trials and move forward positively. I still have many struggles. I am currently working through the grief of my father’s alcoholism, and I am learning how to pursue once again worthwhile goals. I have studied and sought a balanced life by focusing on family, incorporating work goals and personal goals. I will never forget John’s advice to me was “we are all empty inside, and we need to forget the man inside, and this will give us happiness.” I started to feel complete inside as I related to him honestly about the actual struggles men face as we age. A companion that has helped me go over the waves and swim through the big ocean called life. John has helped me through many things in my path since I have known him. One of my greatest secrets and pleasure is to share his knowledge with you on your journey to success. I will follow his advice because he won’t steer you wrong.

Ramsey O

I’ve had the privilege of knowing the author from my youth. John has always been a inspiration to others, encouraging them to be their best. It has been amazing to see the success and strength of character in him as we have matured and begun raising our families. His success in becoming an engineer, to a worldwide sales director and body building champion, in addition to a phenomenal husband and father, demonstrates his drive for excellence in his career and personal life. John’s very candid and intimate look into his life reaches into the heart of what the Hero Mindset is all about. His book touches on the real issues that we all face and encourages the reader to know that they are not alone in the everyday struggles that they are facing. His words not only affirm that help and guidance is out there, but that getting help is essential to growth, change, and winning at life.

Deanna M

Here’s Exactly What You’ll Discover Inside The 10- Step Hero Mindset Blueprint

Step 1: First Get Your Mind Right (GYMR) $199 Value

I will teach you my personal three effective mental hacks that will help you get your mind in the right frame of reference to achieve the big dreams and goals that you have aspired for yourself in life.

First, I’ll teach you a simple yet powerful mental exercise that I personally use to start my own mornings which will dramatically improve that way you defend yourself against the debilitating effects of doubt and negative self-talk throughout your day.

Second, I’ll teach you another powerful mental exercise that I use to end each day in a positive state of mind that helps me get deep, restful sleep, to wake up the next morning with the energy I need to tackle the new day.

And third, I’ll also share with you a powerful truth about achievement and productivity that you will need to understand to access an untapped resource of willpower that can propel you forward to complete even the most difficult tasks on your to-do list.

Step 2: Maximize Your Daily Productivity (Part 1 of 2) $199 Value

I will teach you four powerful concepts I personally use to maximize my own daily productivity and which most high-performance coaches don’t emphasize enough with their clients.

First, the fear of failure is a commonly understood loss of so much precious energy much and missed opportunities to those who fall victim to this destructive emotion. I’m going to teach you how I personally counteract that destructive roadblock in my own life by using what I refer to as a “mental judo” maneuver, to flip my own disappointments on their back, and then to use those failures as the source of some of the greatest accomplishments that I’ve ever achieved in my life. This concept actually directly relates to a way that Civil Engineers solve complex problems when they are given limited information to work with.

Second, you’ll learn how to leverage an incredibly powerful concept that will help you skyrocket the levels of your daily personal and professional productivity. And I’ll reinforce this concept by sharing with you some real-world examples, as well as a simple to understand illustration to prove my point. And I’ll also share with you a personal story that marked a major turning point of success in my own life when I finally applied this concept.

Third, Leverage the Law of Diminishing Returns to efficiently invest your time and energy towards maximizing your potential for success and happiness in your life.

And fourth, when faced with having to make the most important decisions in your life, you will benefit from a simple to use thinking process that will help provide you with an honest and clear picture of the all the variables involved that will determine the outcome of your decision.

Step 3: Maximize Your Daily Routine (Part 2 of 2) $199 Value

This step continues my productivity training from Step 2 with three more powerful concepts and will help you to maximize your physical, mental, and social wellbeing.

You’ll now learn an incredibly simple to implement fitness strategy that I used to lose 35 pounds and to also overcome feelings of fatigue, depression, and hopelessness. This same technique also started me on a fitness trajectory that helped me win 4 medals in four separate Men’s physique competitions.

Next, you’ll also learn an incredibly powerful mental trick, that I personally use to accomplish the most grueling and difficult tasks that are placed in front of me, so that you can harness this same power to achieve the big goals in your own life as well.

And finally, I’ll show you my personal list of resources that I count on to help me look my best, feel my best, and perform at the highest levels of productivity. Here you’ll learn how to personalize my own list to help you assemble your own army of like-minded “teammates” who will be there to help you achieve your loftiest goals in life.

Step 4: Recognize a Dangerous Pitfall so You Can Avoid it $199 Value

This one powerful observation can help you steer clear of one of the most typical yet most tragic pitfalls that many modern men and women have fallen victim to during their lives, damaging their most precious relationships, compromising their physical and mental wellbeing, tarnishing their good reputations, and even depleting their financial assets. You’ll learn to recognize a dangerous yet widely unrecognized “pitfall” that has destroyed the lives of countless men and women, so that you can avoid it, and live a life of success and happiness. And I’ll also reinforce this concept with another simple to understand illustration that took me years of observations to distill down to a single graphic that will reinforce this dynamic. Once I finally became aware how these powerful forces combined to destroy the relationships of so many good people around me, it became the reason why I started by company. I wanted to make people aware of these powerful influences working in their lives so that they could also avoid the potential pitfalls associated with those influences.

Step 5: Learn the Five “Landmarks” to Help You Navigate Life $999 Value

Over 200 years ago the Scottish Poet, Robert Burns, wrote in his oft quoted poem entitled To a Mouse, “the best-laid schemes of Mice and Men go oft awry, and leave us only grief and pain, for promised joy!” ^[1],^[2] Life rarely goes according to our original plans. And as I alluded to at the beginning of my message, sometimes the greatest personal adventures can only begin after your best laid plans fall apart. Here I will share 5 landmarks to help you get back on track during those times when you feel lost and hopeless.

Step 6: Leverage Your “Assets” and Live Life to the Max $199 Value

You’ll learn 10 reasons why life between the ages of 30 and 65 can be some of the very best years of your life, so if you’re not there yet you’ll understand what you have to look forward to, and if your there now, you’ll learn how to leverage these amazing years to your fullest potential.

Step 7: Three Powerful Health and Wellness Tips $199 Value

Be clear about three of the most important concepts that you rarely hear about in terms of food, nutrition, fitness, and the meaning of the number you see when you step on a weight scale that will absolutely transform the way you think about health and wellness and so never again fall victim to another here-today-gone-tomorrow diet fad.

Step 8: Audio Commentary (FLS Fitness Introduction) $499 Value

I’m also including a brief audio introduction to my fitness program which I trademarked as FLS Fitness. The FLS Fitness System is an acronym that stands for Fast Fire, Lift Heavy, and Slow Control. You now know that my professional training is civil engineering, but I’m also a fitness fanatic and I have been all my life. For years I’ve competed in the Men’s Physique category of body building. Professional Civil Engineers understand the value of studying hard to pass rigorous certification standards, so I applied that same mindset to earn many different personal trainings and nutrition certifications in order to improve my ability to prepare for my body building competitions.

I’ve spent thousands of dollars over the years hiring personal trainers to help me prepare for many of my Men’s Physique competitions. Remember, since my profession is engineering, realized that I could learn so much about physical performance from Each trainer incorporated their own unique strategies into the fundamental principles of physical movements. Combining all the knowledge I gained from the fitness perspectives of so many different personal trainers, with a trial-and-error process of “dialing in” a nutrition program that my body responded well to Incorporating all three of these foundational physical capabilities into my own personal workouts for more than thirty years has helped me to build a strong, resilient, and an appealing physique that that has won many medals competing in the Men’s Physique category of body building. Regardless of your current fitness level or your future physical fitness goals, these principals apply to both men and women at any stage of their lives.

But I’ve saved the very best part of my offer to share with you until now!

Step 9 (Part 1 of 2) Learn a powerful strategy of champion Olympic Decathletes that can help you balance the 10 most important aspects of your life. $499 Value

There’s a phrase that is often misquoted that goes “A Jack of all Trades, but Master of None.” But the actual quote reads more like “The Jack of all Trades is Master of None, but oftentimes better than a Master of one.” That quote can be translated into a singular powerful word… balance!

The Hero Mindset blueprint dives deep into this powerful concept by identifying the following 10 most important aspects of a person’s life that require harmonious balance to thrive in life!

Learn how to “compete” like an Olympic Decathlete and to use this powerful concept to successfully balance the 10 most important facets of your personal and professional lives.

This concept will help you to balance your seemingly insurmountable list of tasks and responsibilities so that you can finally start living your life to the very max! This module will clearly outline the ten most important categories of a person’s life that require harmonious balance to thrive in life.

With the understanding that there are only 24 hours in a day, this section will outline each of these 10 categories and explain why they are so important to living your most successful life possible. I’ll also share powerful recommendations from my own life on how to can provide adequate time and attention to each of the following 10 categories during your busy lives:

Step 10 (Part 2 of 2) Continuing from Step 9, learn how to leverage the next five spokes of the wheel $499 Value

I also want to throw in a couple of bonus modules to add even more value to what I’m offering you as follows:

Bonus Offer #1

Disproving the 10 Most Destructive Midlife Myths $199 Value

You’ll also learn 10 reasons why life between the ages of 30 and 65 can be some of the very best years of your life. And I’ll reinforce those reasons by sharing clear examples of how you can leverage these amazing years to their fullest potential.

Bonus Offer #2

The Secret to Learning a New Language $199 Value

If you’ve ever wanted to learn a new language but felt like it was just too difficult, I’m going to teach you 5 language learning hacks that will mark the beginning of an exciting new world of travel, culture, and friendships that you always dreamed of enjoying. I grew up in an English-speaking home in the United States, I never lived overseas for more than two weeks at a time, and I still learned to speak two foreign languages (Mandarin Chinese and Spanish).

I spent over $250,000.00 to learn the skills that I’m sharing with you in this 10- Step Hero Mindset Blueprint

The reason that I speak to you from a position of experience and authority is because I’ve done the hard work, and I’ve also paid the big bills literally and figuratively that now gives me the time-tested experience and results that I now want to share with you. I’ve easily invested well over a quarter of a million dollars of my own money in earning a master’s degree in engineering, investing in an endless list of personal development training programs, paying for hundreds of personal fitness coaching workouts in the gym, competing and medaling in Men’s Physique Competitions, humbly sitting in my own mental wellness therapy sessions with a trusted psychiatrist, and building my own lifestyle brand, LIVXTRA, from the ground up over the last 8 years. I’m a winner in everything that I set my sights on to achieve. I may not win the first time, and I often don’t even win the second time, but when I fail or falter, I always get back up and make the necessary adjustments to ultimately achieve what I set my sights on. And I now want to share that same winning mindset thinking process with you to help you incorporate it into your own life.

To be clear, it would be VERY RARE for you to find a single source to access, to the diversity of information, and the unique perspectives, that I’ve compiled within the 10- Step Hero Mindset Blueprint. This package truly is the summation of five decades’ worth of my own victories, failures, and powerful lessons learned as an engineering manager, an entrepreneur, a public speaker, an author, an investor, a multimillionaire, and a happily married man of 20 years and the present father to 4 children. I’ve traveled the globe and made friends with men and women from diverse cultures around the world. I’ve lived a lot of life in five decades. I know what it feels like to be rich, and yet I also know what it feels like to be very poor and even homeless. I have felt the exhilaration of victory in many “contests” throughout the years, and yet I also know the feeling of desperation and hopelessness of feeling like there was nothing left for me to live for. And through it all, I’m still on my own exciting and epic Hero’s Journey, with my sights set on so many more exciting experiences, milestones, and accomplishments to hopefully achieve before my own mortal journey comes to an end.

Here’s why this this system could easily cost you upwards of $5,000.00…

If you’ve stuck with me this far, you understand very clearly that I am the type of person who places a very high premium on education, effort, and accomplishment. And I’m being very honest with you when I say that if someone were to have put a course like this in front of me 20 years ago like I am now offering to you, I would have easily agreed to invest $5,000.00 on it to get ahead of the learning curve in order to have access to this amazing wealth of information in one source.

One of the reasons that I can offer this blueprint system to you at this greatly reduced price is because I don’t ship you anything. You get all 10 of the training modules, as well as the two Bonus Offer audio reports…INSTANTLY!

10- Step Hero Mindset Blueprint

I’m releasing the 10- Step Hero Mindset Blueprint to you right now at the lowest rate possible…

Today for Just $997.00

But for those of you who are just as serious as I am about living life to the very max, I’m now going to throw in one more VERY SPECIAL OFFER. For those of you who make their 30-Day 100% Money Back Guaranteed purchase within the next 6 hours I’m going to also gift them with my entire 528-page electronic version of my book, Hero Mindset!

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”

-Lao Tzu

Let this be your first step towards embarking on your own personal Hero’s Journey towards living your very best life! I can’t wait to help you on your way towards experiencing that epic journey!

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