Dr. Saman Bakhtiar - Becoming a One-Percenter: The 99 Keys to Mastering Your Life and Rising to the Top

BECOMING A ONE-PERCENTER

99 KEYS TO MASTERING YOUR LIFE AND RISING TO THE TOP

DR. SAMAN BAKHTIAR
HJB PUBLISHING

Published by HJB Publishing, Chino Hills, California

Copyright 2018 Dr. Saman Bakhtiar

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Cover and Interior design: Pear Creative, www.pearcreative.ca

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018900698

ISBN: 978-0-9998316-0-1 (paperback)
978-0-9998316-1-8 (Kindle)
978-0-9998316-2-5 (ePub)

DEDICATION

For my beloved mother, Sheida Bakhtiar

My wonderful children, Bailee Rose Bakhtiar and Hailee Jean Bakhtiar

And my beautiful bride-to-be, Crystal Carbajal Bakhtiar

Also, many thanks to Joel Canfield for helping me bring this book to fruition.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

To my amazing daughters Bailee Rose and Hailee, I would not be where I am today, if it wasnt for you two. Thank you for being the best little girls a dad could ever ask for. Daddy loves you more than words can ever describe.

To my fiance and wife-to-be Crystal Carbajal, thank you for being my rock. Thank you for believing in me and bringing out the best in me. I love you.

To my business partners Alejandra and Luis Font, THANK YOU for your vision, guidance, and leadership. And most of all thank you for sticking by my side every step of the way. As you know, its been a long road but it was well worth it. I cant thank you enough for your love and support throughout our partnership.

To my team back at HQ and all our amazing Camp Familythere are so many of you out there, you know who you are! You have all assisted me in a big way at some point along my journey. You helped get me where I am today.

My cousin Reza, I am so blessed and thankful to have you in my life. I am beyond proud of the man you have become. You have my utmost respect and gratitude.

And to anyone who has ever stepped foot inside any of The Camp Transformation Centers, you are the real One Percenters. Thank you for trusting us in your health and fitness journey. It has been an honor and a privilege to see you all transform yourselves.

THE ULTIMATE SECRET OF ONE-PERCENTERSAND HOW I UNLOCKED IT

"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal

Look around you.

When youre at work, at a restaurant, at the movies, or just walking the dog, I want you to look around. Specifically, I want you to take a good look at the people youre surrounded by.

Do you think theyre happy with their lives? And what theyve made of them?

Dont just look at them. Talk to them. I bet youll find most of them have dreams theyve never gone after. That theyre unhappy with how they look, the shape of their bodies, how much money is in their bank accounts and/or the relationships theyre in.

Keep talking to them. And I bet youll also find theyre not willing to do anything to change the unhappy place theyve put themselves in.

If you challenged them to do what it takes, theyd say it would be too hard and take too much effort. It would make them too uncomfortable. Much easier to chill with a Big Mac and Netflix on the couch day after day, night after night. Theyll tell you that whatever they try, it probably wont work and then theyll give you a billion or so reasons why it wont work.

Feeling superior? Well, then walk over to the mirror and ask yourself the same kind of questions about your life. Keep it real and think about the parts of your life that are generating misery. And dig deep to uncover what you have to do to change those thingsand most importantly, if youre willing to do them.

Everybody wants to be in amazing shape. Everybody wants to be rich and successful. Everybody wants to achieve great things. But when you look around, you can see at a glancealmost nobody is.

Thats why I approach life with a One Percent attitude. What do I mean by that? To me, only 1% of the population is made up of the kind of high achievers that really rock the world and get what they want out of life. The rest of the 99%? They look at their goals, their most cherished ambitions and desires, and they say to themselves

Nope. Cant do that.

And that, my friends, is BULLSHIT. Sorry for the profanity, but you CAN do that. I know from my own experience. But more on that later.

THE REVEAL

I know the book cover says there are 99 Keys to mastering your life in these pages, and, believe me, well get to those Keys after this introduction. But this is the King of the Keys, the simple secret that leads to all the others when it comes to finding success and life satisfaction. And its the secret you have to understand before you can work on those other 99 Keys.

And here it is.

What separates the One Percent of high achievers from the other 99% is they are all motivated to reach high and work hard. They get off on making things happen for themselves and those around them. Thats what they live for.

The rest? They only want to AVOID FAILURE.

Its true. The 99% fear embarrassment and disappointment. They dont want setbacks. They dont want to fall short. They dont want to chance damaging their egos. After all, if you dont try, you dont have to fail. And THIS is the mindset that keeps the overwhelming majority of people in a place they dont want to be.

If you dont believe me, then maybe youll believe Psychology Today, because the research comes straight from that respected journal.

I dont need that kind of research, frankly, because I know from my own personal history that high achievement is the result of your mindset and not your circumstances. As I said, the 99% has countless excuses for why they never get anywhere. What you dont know is that, when I was a kid, I had my own endless list of reasons why I was certain I would fail in life. But, I have to admit, it was a pretty powerful list.

HOW I LEARNED TO FAIL

The first entry on my list of excuses is what happened to me at the age of three in my home country of Iran. My mom and dad split up and I never saw my dad again after that. Check out the research about boys who grow up without fathers, because the numbers are very frightening:

70% of adolescent boys in residential treatment centers are fatherless.