Recently I conducted a few interviews with one of the most down to earth, positive and NO B.S. guys around. Here's an excerpt from one of the interviews I did with Zach for an upcoming book I'm releasing.

Zach's one hell of a big strong guy by the way, but don't let his size fool you, he's a total authentic kid at heart.

The other interview I did with Zach is specifically about having a fitness mindset and is exclusively for Orange County Personal Trainer and I'll have the hour long audio and the transcript available on the site soon

In the meantime, here's a little on mindset from Zach. This interview is mostly on mindset in general, but the principles definitely apply to fitness.

Zach Even-Esh (ZE) Mindset is something that’s so powerful that will not only change your business, but will change everything around you. Now obviously the movie The Secret has been a huge influence on me. But before I ever saw The Secret, I was involved in a mastermind group which Jim Labadie started. And once we got into this mastermind group with a group of people, we raised the energy levels of each other.

The more we masterminded and masterminded on our own, what you start to do is you start to write your own book, your own book of life. You start to create the life you want, the goodness you want, simply through putting out good energy and good thoughts. So whatever you’re thinking about, whatever you’re feeling, you turn those things into - how should I say this? - you turn it into fact. You turn fantasy into fact, and it all comes down to your thoughts and your feelings.

Every day, throughout my day, and at night I’m always feeling how it feels like to become a millionaire and I always have in my head the feeling it’s going to be like to live in the house that I’m going to live in, and where I’m going to have all these houses. And I believe - I just believe without a doubt - what I will become and who I am. These things, these deep - we could call it spirituality, we could call it believing, whatever somebody wants - it sends out messages to the universe and it comes back to you.

For others it sounds crazy, but you could literally transform your life by constantly focusing on the good things that you want. We could easily - everyone who is listening to this could say, “I know somebody who always talks about these bad things.” And that’s why they keep getting more bad things. Wherever you put your energy towards is where it will come back to you.

So I do things such as my visualization is definitely key, but what goes beyond visualization is the feeling that comes about through your visualization. And I always go back to the Olympians, the Olympic athletes. The Olympic athletes, they visualize so powerfully, they probably - when they’re moving around, or close their eyes and meditate - they can feel what it’s like to get the gold medal placed around their neck. They can feel what it’s like to stand before their country’s national anthem. They can feel what it’s like to be going through the movements.

If you put yourself in that experience it will have - and it has to be done on a regular basis. It’s like exercising the body, I’m exercising my thoughts, I’m exercising my feelings and I don’t allow any negativity to creep in. If negativity starts to creep in, you can control it, you can turn it around by simply starting to think about the things you are grateful for and the things that you want to happen. Because, like I mentioned before, what you focus on grows. What you think about and give gratitude towards, those are the things that will come about. So the people that - look around you. It’s crazy, because they can’t understand, they can’t imagine how these things are actually happening, but when you start to do it and you start to experience it, you really start to - you just get more of a rooted belief that you can trust the world. That it will bring you what you want.

I’m a big follower. One guy I follow heavily is Dr. Joe Vitale. His website is MrFire.com. Well, I’m not only a believer in all his marketing efforts, which I follow heavily, but the way that this guy was homeless for a little bit. He lived in poverty for 15-20 years. But he manifested things. He called it the “attractor factor,” and it’s because your thoughts attract whatever is going to happen to you.

Looking back at my life I can see how I attracted all bad things and all good things. Now I know what to focus on. Back when I was a kid, there was a crazy story, but I was always concerned about my bike getting stolen. It was on my mind all the time. It was constantly on my mind. Well, guess what? My bike got stolen. Why? Because I constantly thought about it. I attracted that energy to come to me and my bike got stolen.

Looking back at that, I think that happened to me when I was in fourth or fifth grade, I was only 10 years old, or something like that. I’m 31 years old now. Twenty-one years. I remember always thinking about it. Every time we rode our bikes somewhere, I was always looking out the store window. If we stopped at a Quick Check, or a pizzeria, I’m the little kid out there, my bike is upside down. I’m always looking. Every minute I’m running out of the store. Well, I manifested that to happen. I brought it upon myself because I focused on it so much.

If you can focus on the way you want to feel, and the way you want your business to build, it will come to you. At the same time, it’s very beautiful and it’s very powerful, but you must take action. Your thoughts and your feelings must be combined and connected with action. You can’t just expect things to happen. You’ve got to be an action taker. Every single day you’ve got to chip away at the stone and sculpt. You’ve got to sculpt what you want. It’s the bottom line. You’re a big stone in the beginning and everyday, little by little, you chip away and you start creating your own masterpiece. Maybe I was a big boulder when I first started. And maybe the people, or the person, listening now is a big boulder, but envision what you want to become.

Like, right now I’m in my office. To my left I’ve got my vision board. There’s these houses up here. I mean, these beautiful houses with these pools that are right on ocean side and these beautiful lakes, and there’s a million dollar bill up here. That stuff, to me, I look at that and I swear to you it just fills up my whole, entire body. It’s something that I know is going to happen. And why? Because I will create it by thinking about it. It’s just an exciting energy that comes about me. And you’ve got to believe.

And there’s no doubt in my mind that the most powerful, the most successful people in this world use these manifestation techniques. They use it. That is how they become so successful. Donald Trump is not a success because he keeps putting stuff down and talking about things that aren’t going his way. He knows what he wants. He envisions it. He feels it. He puts himself in the situation. When he wants to build a golf course he goes out to the dirt area and he stands on it and he talks about how he wants it to look. Well, I do very similar things.

About a month or two ago we were taking regular trips to the area where we want to buy our new house in. Why did I go there? So I could feel what it’s like to be down there and make it become part of my life. Now I know that it’s going to happen, because I trust that the energy I put out is just going to come back to me. It will make itself happen.

So there’s a lot of resources that people can look into doing this, but something that I would definitely recommend people to do is go to Joe Vitale’s website, MrFire.com. You want to pick up his book The Attractor Factor that’s where it starts at. You need to see the movie The Secret at TheSecret.tv. I listen to The Secret CDs all the time in my car.

And then Joe Vitale’s got a lot of audio books through ClickBank, and e-books that you can check out. He’s got How to Attract a New Car. And it’s really not just to attract a new car, it’s to attract anything that you want into your life. If you want to think about the bed and how this could work, my background of coming from martial arts is always about the battle and the challenge, and making everything difficult. Well, every night I would go to bed and I would thank God for all the challenges getting to me in my life. I was thanking him because I felt the challenges made me a better person. Then I would write down, “I’m not getting any clients. I’m not selling anything. I don’t sell anything for five days at a time. What the heck is wrong with me? I’m working so hard here.”

I was speaking with Jim Beatty [ph] about it, who was my business coach, and he said, “You are manifesting lack of business. You have lack programming because you keep thanking for the challenges and, guess what? Because you’re thankful for them, the universe thinks you want more, so it’s giving you more.” The first thing he recommended me to do, and I’m recommending for people to do, is go to RandyGage.com and pick up the Prosperity Series. It’s these five little books. I think it costs, like, $25. I don’t care how much you think that’s a stretch for you, you need to get them, because it’s all about lack programming. It teaches you that you were born to be rich. You were born to be great. And you just need to decide to do so. If you’re not doing great things, if you’re not rich, you’re doing a disservice to yourself and to other people, because the more money you have, the more you can give to others. The more you can do for others. The more you can do for yourself. Wealth and prosperity - it starts from the inside and then it goes out.

It’s the same thing with fitness. If you want to get people results, you’ve got to get the inside of them. If you focus solely on the outside, the results will definitely come, but first I believe you must create fitness from the inside out. Wealth, prosperity, abundance, starts from the inside with thoughts and feelings, without a doubt.

Chris: Zach, where can people learn more about you, your websites, your products, etc?

ZE: A couple places you could go to. I’ve got a product series that’s coming out specifically for men, for busy men, and it’s a combination of fitness as well as prosperity in coaching - prosperity in abundant coaching. That’s at RealManFitness.com. If you want to just check out my membership site, UndergroundStrengthCoach.com.

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