Yes you can! I’ve been hearing and reading that a lot lately!

As I mentioned in the previous blog, Team Beachbody Style, I’m in the time of year where I’m mind-mapping my dreams & making plans for the new year! Creating intention for what I want to achieve! My mind map for 2009 is HUGE! Big Team Beachbody plans! Seminars in the pipeline and a few other exciting ideas that are filling up my latest mind mapping adventure for 2009. I like to use http://www.bubbl.us It’s free to use! Save a tree!

Every successful entrepreneur gets ready. Dreams big. Prepares. Plans for success! You should also be asking yourselves “what is my plan? For today, tomorrow and the future?” Such as income, goals, family, relationships, friendships, etc. Do you have a vision of what you want to be reviewing this time next year? What is your plan to get there?

For me, I can answer that question easily…whether people are looking at information about me as a coach or as a role model, are interested in becoming a fitness lifestyle coach with Team Beachbody themselves, or people who just want to know what my plan is and whether I am following it or not…why? Because this is a LIFESTYLE. Not a fad, not a super juice…fitness is a radical concept as a “lifestyle” to the couch potato generation. But is something that’s desperately needed with the rise of obesity in America and Type 2 Diabetes affecting a new person every 21 seconds. This is change! Radical change!

So what is MY plan? There’s a couple pieces to that puzzle!

Besides running an incredibly successful and lucrative Team Beachbody home business, part of my plan includes being as fit and healthy as I can possibly be so that I can spend as much quality time with my beautiful wife, family & friends as I can. A lifestyle. I Commit To Fitness.

Each day I workout, I log into WOWY, Beachbody’s virtual SuperGym, (click here and then on “My Workouts”), invite people to work out with me (click here and then on “My Buddies”), and then I also keep this blog up to date as part of my intention to share with you that lifestyle of fitness and financial freedom I lead, a life that is possible for you.

Continuing to improve on being the best Team Beachbody Coach through personal development (I’ll share more about that in another post) so that I can continue to be a full-time work at home husband. Being a part of “The Work At Home Generation”. To me, this is the ultimate lifestyle. The freedom to be at home & not committed to a paycheck that requires me to commute for it!

Driven to leading my Team Beachbody Club members to the “holy grail” of optimal health and fitness - leading by example and being fully committed to each and every member to answer their questions and give them support and motivation and inspiration. It is a lifestyle, not a get-rich-quick scheme. It’s about changing people’s lives. About changing my life…changing your life!

I also plan on leading my team of Independent Beachbody Coaches to the ultimate goal of financial freedom. With the apparent economic woes, money has become tight for everyone lately and a couple hundred extra dollars a month could make ALL the difference in the world to millions of people locked into a salary. If they want to earn a few hundred extra dollars a month or a few thousand or more, I’m here to help them every step of the way.  Earning a living by being a Team Beachbody Coach is something to be excited about because you have helped other people get fit and healthy as your “job”. A fitness lifestyle.

My lifestyle revolves fully around LIVING a fitness oriented life, then sharing that health and fitness mindset to help everyone around me who is looking for change! I LIVE that plan every day of my life! YES I CAN! It’s my passion, it’s my heart’s desire to see millions of people regain their freedom from a job and the gift of incredible health & fitness. A lifestyle that is life changing!

So that’s my plan in a very small nutshell…like I said, I’ve got BIG plans for 2009. A lot of fun and work to be done!

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If you’re not a Team Beachbody Independent Coach, you’re missing
out on a life changing experience! Change lives and Get Paid! Come join the fun! If you’re looking for a change…real change…then you can say…”YES YOU CAN” to Team Beachbody!

Dream Big! Decide…Commit…Succeed!

With warm regards,
Timothy Carter
Independent Beachbody Coach
http://ICommitToFitness.com

With Team Beachbody and really with any part of life you strive to improve, you set goals. You dream, you plan and prepare to achieve that which you desire. Every November, I begin that process of setting goals, dreaming big and making plans for the year upcoming especially so with my Beachbody Coaching business. In all parts of my life from my personal development, to my marriage, my spiritual life, my business…I believe in having targets to shoot at. Goals to motivate. Are you planning your 2009? Do you have goals for your personal life? Your health & fitness? Business?

Well, the man behind the curtain (actually, he’s never behind the curtain, he’s got peeps for that) Beachbody CEO, Carl Daikeler wrote from the heart the other day on his blog about what it means to plan and prepare and get ready for a tremendous 2009 with Team Beachbody.  As a Team Beachbody Coach, I am truly excited that the vision Carl has for people, this company, for the Coaches, fits exactly with my heart’s desire for decades…that is to help people achieve optimal health and provide a means to change their lives! Physically and FINANCIALLY. We have that vehicle with Beachbody Coaching.

Here’s what he wrote the other day…

Plan for New Years, NOW!

This post is about you taking “just enough” action to become a coach and making sure that you are part of the revolution as a coach who can get fit and earn; not just a spectator watching everyone else.

For some, becoming a Beachbody Coach can look intimidating. They are the people that usually watch opportunity pass them by. They cruise around social networking sites and see a ton of other coaches milling around the same groups and think that it’s going to be hard to compete in a crowded marketplace.

First - it just isn’t crowded. Second - You won’t find out unless you sign up and see that it only takes a little effort to see things start to happen.

Right now we have less than 14,000 coaches - great number in some respects, but merely a drop in the ocean of opportunity. There are hundreds of millions of people in this country. You can connect with many of them every day in so many ways. Hundreds of millions of people, and less than 2% of them have ever bought a Beachbody product.

But ALMOST ALL of them will justify over-indulging from now until New Years thinking they will start working out January second. “I’ll start right after New Years”…(That’s a familiar voice!)

Every year, this is the dance. And every year, this is the opportunity.

As a coach, your job is to stake your claim to that opportunity now - maybe not to make a million dollars a year, but maybe to simply get your share: If someone you know is going to buy a Beachbody product in 2009, they need to know that you are a distributor so they come to you to pick the right program and get the best results.

Tell people you are going to do P90X. Tell them you love Turbo Jam. Tell them when ChaLEAN Extreme launches, you are going to kick it off with a group of people for a three month boot camp. Create the enthusiasm so people have something to commit to this January — YOU!

But they won’t know unless you ARE a coach, and unless you tell them that WHEN they are ready, you have the solution. THAT’S HOW YOU ARE A FORCE OF CHANGE - by increasing the decibel level of how easy it can be to get started and succeed! And then simply being there to help them get started!

It’s as easy as reposting blogs like this on MySpace or Facebook. Give it your own flavor and add your coach web store address, but the message is worth repeating from one friend to another until it shows up on every profile on the Internet: These products work, and together we are the best source for success through peer support and motivation!

We priced this coaching concept low so as many people as possible would get involved and get the word out - not just about Beachbody, but about how this trend of obesity and all these health issues can be solved by supporting each other!

Get involved. Stake your claim. And let’s build the momentum of the Beachbody Revolution together!

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I love that! Be a change agent for people looking for a life changing opportunity! Be available for those who are ready to take that step to DECIDE…COMMIT…and have the support to SUCCEED! Team Beachbody is a LIFESTYLE and I’m blessed to be a leader with such an incredible company! If you missed it, here is the blog post I wrote, Why Timothy Carter Joined The Team Beachbody Revolution.

If you’re not yet a Team Beachbody Independent Coach, you’re missing out on a life changing experience! Change lives and Get Paid! Come join the fun!

Thanks for reading the latest blog post! I appreciate you being here. Find out what I am doing right now by following me on Twitter!

Dream Big! Decide…Commit…Succeed!

With warm regards,
Timothy Carter
Independent Beachbody Coach
http://ICommitToFitness.com

It’s OFFICIAL! Did you miss the notice in your back offices Coaches? The Team Beachbody “November Retail Rewards” Challenge began today, November 1, 2008 at 12:00 AM Pacific Time (”PT”) and ends on November 30, 2008, at 11:59 PM PT (“Challenge Period”).

The Challenge: We challenge all Coaches to sell the healthy supplements produced by Beachbody, specifically the Core Nutrition Pack and/or Meal Replacement Shake, to Beachbody customers, new members and Team Beachbody Club members. The qualified Coach who earns the most points* selling these products will be awarded a trip to Cancun, Mexico!

The Challenge Prize: In the event that the minimum goal of 20 points of the Challenge is met, One (1) prize consisting of a trip for the Challenge winner and a companion to Cancun, Mexico, from March 15 to March 19, 2009 will be awarded. The trip includes two (2) round trip coach airfare tickets from a gateway airport near the Challenge winner’s place of actual residence to Cancun, Mexico, four (4) nights accommodations for two at the Fairmont Mayakoba Resort, and airport transfers in the U.S. and Mexico.

Considering what the weather is like here in Seattle in March, which cool, windy and more often than not…very drippy, that trip to Cancun would be a very exciting reward! That looks nice, though that fruity looking beverage wouldn’t be sitting over there like that! So what do you say Coaches, are you ready for a challenge? Can you imagine yourself standing there feeling the warmth of the sun in the air while rubbing your eyes looking at this spectacular view?

*official contest rules

If you’re not yet a Team Beachbody Independent Coach, you’re missing out on a life changing experience! Change lives and Get Paid! Come join the fun!

Thanks for reading the latest blog post! I appreciate you being here. Find out what I am doing right now by following me on Twitter!

Dream Big! Decide…Commit…Succeed!

With warm regards,
Timothy Carter
Independent Beachbody Coach
http://ICommitToFitness.com

I was reading Beachbody CEO, Cark Daikeler’s blog earlier today and ran across this great piece that really expressed the simple essentials of how we’re able to share what we do that people can take action on in changing their lives and helping other people. Three simple words…Play, shake, share.

Okay everyone, sing along…”So here’s a little blog Carl wrote, you might want to read it word for word, don’t worry, be happy!”

You Do The Sharing, We Do The Rest

An acquaintance asked me what she would have to do to be a Beachbody coach:

I said “Play, shake, and share.”

She said; “Right, but what about running the business and all that stuff?”

I said: “For the price of a coach kit, here’s what happens: We build a website for you, we take orders you get on your website and handle the inventory, billing, shipping, and customer service.”

She said: “So what do I do?”

I said: “Play, shake and share… Use a fitness program that suits you, and replace at least one meal a day with a meal replacement shake. The results will be visible very fast and you can still eat the rest of your meals with real food, with the rest of the family. Share means to tell some people what you are doing every day via email, message boards, blogs, in the line at the grocery store. People you talk to will start see you’re serious. They will see you drinking your shake. You tell them how easy it is to stay motivated because you’re going deep on this one. And they will soon understand that the motivation to turn your weight loss into a profit is HELPING YOU STAY CONSISTENT.”

She said: “How will that turn into income for me?”

I said: “We spend over $1 million a week advertising these products. Other network marketing companies don’t do that. That means people you “share” with likely know about Turbo Jam, P90X, Ten Minute Trainer, etc. Tell them when they’re ready to lose the weight they should buy them through you and join the club, and they will save 10% off the TV price. And to conquer the food problem, replace a meal a day with a substantial meal replacement shake. They might not buy today, but eventually they will see a product from Beachbody that sparks their interest, and they’ll remember you were the one who made it sound easy. They’ll want to buy from you and get the best price.”

She said: “But how do I recruit other coaches?”

I said: “You’ve told my how frustrated you are that you can never stay with a program. When I asked you if having a money motivation attached to getting fit and eating right would help you stay with it, you said it would. We didn’t talk about you getting rich, or buying a new car. We talked about how the slightest hint of an extra income would be that extra ingredient to help you exercise and eat better. And you told me you know a couple other people who could use an extra income and to lose twenty or so pounds. That is the start of an organization, and the path to also getting a couple customers from Beachbody.”

She said: “You do the advertising. You set up the website. I don’t have to buy a bunch of product to sell. And I don’t have to ship it and bill people. I just follow your program to exercise, eat better, and talk to people about it. How can I be sure it will work?”

I said: “There’s only one way this will work: If you do it. If you finally get consistent with Play, Shake and Share it will absolutely work. Our walls are lined with pictures of proof. But you have to want it seriously. This can’t be another light foray into a lame “diet of the day”. Once and for all, you have to want to do what works. Do you think you really want it?”

She said: “I so want to feel better about my body. And I need to find a way out of this debt.”

I said: “What’s the one thing standing in your way?”

She said: “Me?”

I said: “You can think about it. You can think about it some more. Or you can commit. The solution for your health and your income is right here. You pick the program, get the shake, and start to share it.”

She said: “I do the sharing, Beachbody does the rest?”

I said: “Let’s get started”

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And really, it DOESN’T get much more simple than that! Carl Daikeler is a man with a vision and we have the products, the tools, the training the change your health and to increase your wealth. What’s standing in your way of becoming a Team Beachbody Coach? Change lives…get paid! Play, Shake and Share!

Thanks for reading the latest blog post! I appreciate you being here. Find out what I am doing right now by following me on Twitter!

Dream Big! Decide…Commit…Succeed!

With warm regards,
Timothy Carter
Independent Beachbody Coach
http://ICommitToFitness.com

Being a Team Beachbody Coach AND getting back in shape after 9 months of inactivity due to a car accident in January that left me with several herniated discs in my neck (headaches included) with Tony Horton’s P90X has been full of “jo-ooy and pain…sunshine and rain, pump, pump, pump it up, joy and pain…sunshine and rain”! A little Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock in my head at the moment!

It feels really good to be active and working out after all this time! It hurts so good! I’m sore…that sucks, but at the same time the old adage my sprint coach used to say to me while I was training for the 400m sprints. “Pain is just weakness leaving your body”. I resemble that remark! LOL Every part of me is SORE! And I think I like it this week!

After nearly a year of physical inactivity due to the car wreck in January, I’m really enjoying listening to my body and how it feels working out. But…

…there’s a part of the process of being a Coach that I have to do…and that is take pictures of myself after 28 days, 56 days and 90 days! I have no problem with how I’ll look at day ninety…it’s day 1 and day 28 I wasn’t so excited to look at.

The pictures get added to my Million Dollar Body page to show the physical transformation of Coach Timothy Carter! It also becomes part of my submission for the Monthly Success Story Contest on the Million Dollar Body Game to win cash prizes up to $10,000 & recognition company wide! As well as the grand prize each year of $250,000!

Now as far as the P90X workouts have gone for me…they’ve been INTENSE! “I bring it” to every workout until I can’t work no more! I don’t think I’ve finished an entire workout yet. Seriously. Definitely dripping with sweat after each workout! I still have range of motion issues when it comes to certain exercises with my neck and right shoulder as well as my right knee, but I modify the exercises so I can continue to strengthen those weak areas without causing injury to those parts of my body. It’s working!

Looking in the mirror before the photos were taken by my wife on Day 28, I couldn’t tell a difference in my body…but I can FEEL it. More range of motion in my shoulder, increased flexibility in my legs and hip from the Stretch X and Yoga X workouts. FEELING sore everywhere, but noticing strength slowly start to come into my movements and parts of my body.

Sooo…

On Day 1, September 23rd, a week before my 36th birthday…I got weighed and had my bodyfat calculated.

200lbs and 30% bodyfat! With a 44″ waist!!! Are ya kidding me? I had more than some pudding under my skin! Maybe a few brownies in there too? LOL I hated reading those numbers.

Then Day 28 came along, October 20th…weighed and bodyfat calculated again. The results…

196lbs and 25% bodyfat! With a waist measured at 41.5 inches! Yes! I’m not complaining about that!

I have avoided looking at the scale from day-to-day…I don’t want to be “that person” who checks the scale every day, twice a day…before meals, after meals! LOL

With those numbers, I’m very pleased with the results so far in my limited abilities doing P90X. Whoo hoo! Though I have to admit, I really need to dial in my daily nutritional intake. It could be a little bit cleaner, and I’ll work on that this month.

Sooo…at this point of the post, I strongly suggest to swiftly scroll down past the two Pillsbury Dough Boy look-alike pictures of me and look forward to seeing the day 56 results blog post.

Seriously…

Now, I’m not joking…

You’ve got one last chance…

…to change your mind,

…avert your eyes

…scroll quickly…NOW!

Dang…you’re still here…

LOL

Okayyyy…

Well, I guess you can look at them since you’re here and get a few giggles in…

Okay, okay, wipe away the tears from your eyes and take a deep breath so your stomach will stop hurting from laughing too hard! I know, I need a tan (I live in Seattle remember?) and I’ve got too much pudding under my skin! LOL She got closer on my day 28 pics and I DO see that I’m slimming down in my stomach and gaining a little bit more size in my arms and chest! So that’s cool, because I don’t see it in the mirror…yet! Mrs. C wasn’t kidding!

It will really be nice to get back in shape after all this time! I look forward to hiking all around Mt. Rainier next year AND being in shape to compete out at some Disc Golf tournaments in 2009! Heck, maybe even try to run in one of those adventure trail running races. I’m not a distance runner by any means! We’ll see what 2009 brings!

Just stay tuned for the next blog post from me and then the day 56 results on my P90X Lean workouts! I can’t wait to see how I’m leaning out then!

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Dream Big! Decide…Commit…Succeed!

With warm regards,
Timothy Carter
Independent Beachbody Coach
http://ICommitToFitness.com