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Why Sales Professionals Fail at New Year’s Fitness Goals (And How to Actually Succeed)

34 min episode · 2 min read
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Josh Holzabas

Episode

34 min

Read time

2 min

Topics

Productivity, Health & Wellness, Leadership

AI-Generated Summary

Key Takeaways

  • Scientific Method Framework: Remove emotional attachment from fitness goals by treating habits as experiments with inputs and outcomes. Track whether you followed through first, identify barriers preventing execution, then adjust inputs if outcomes don't match expectations without self-judgment or perfectionism.
  • Single Habit Selection: Identify your primary chosen purpose, list all habits supporting it, then eliminate everything except one health habit using the 20-80 principle. Sales professionals operate at 110 percent capacity, making multiple simultaneous changes unsustainable compared to mastering one essential behavior first.
  • Box Breathing Technique: Inhale four seconds, hold four seconds, exhale four seconds, hold four seconds to lower nervous system response during high-stress moments. Practice during sales calls or before sleep to manage stress without appearing unusual, addressing the cognitive load sales professionals carry daily.
  • Sacrifice List Exercise: After listing desired habits, document what you must sacrifice to achieve each one including time, money, and competing priorities. Replace "I don't have time" with "I'm not prioritizing this" to reveal true commitment levels and prevent wishlist thinking that leads to January failures.

What It Covers

Coach Josh Holzboss explains why sales professionals fail at New Year fitness goals through all-or-nothing thinking, and provides specific strategies for sustainable health habits focused on sleep, stress management, walking, and prioritization frameworks.

Key Questions Answered

  • Scientific Method Framework: Remove emotional attachment from fitness goals by treating habits as experiments with inputs and outcomes. Track whether you followed through first, identify barriers preventing execution, then adjust inputs if outcomes don't match expectations without self-judgment or perfectionism.
  • Single Habit Selection: Identify your primary chosen purpose, list all habits supporting it, then eliminate everything except one health habit using the 20-80 principle. Sales professionals operate at 110 percent capacity, making multiple simultaneous changes unsustainable compared to mastering one essential behavior first.
  • Box Breathing Technique: Inhale four seconds, hold four seconds, exhale four seconds, hold four seconds to lower nervous system response during high-stress moments. Practice during sales calls or before sleep to manage stress without appearing unusual, addressing the cognitive load sales professionals carry daily.
  • Sacrifice List Exercise: After listing desired habits, document what you must sacrifice to achieve each one including time, money, and competing priorities. Replace "I don't have time" with "I'm not prioritizing this" to reveal true commitment levels and prevent wishlist thinking that leads to January failures.

Notable Moment

Holzboss reveals that most sales leaders he works with gained their health problems by operating like sacrificial parents, giving everything to their teams while depleting themselves, creating a mental barrier where self-care feels selfish rather than essential for leadership effectiveness.

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Episode Transcript

This is the Sales Gravy Podcast. Hi. I'm Jeb Blunt, best selling author of fanatical prospecting, objections, sales EQ, and ink, and I'm here to help you open more doors, close bigger deals, and rock your commission check. Welcome back to the Sales Gravy Podcast. I'm Jeff Blunt Junior. And today, we have a repeat guest, one of our favorite people who's ever joined us in the Sales Gravy Studios. And the reason that he is here is because we have the New Year's coming up. January 2026 is right around the corner, or it's already here as of this release, and Josh Holsabas got it. Nailed it. Nailed it. Okay. So Josh Holzabas, also known as coach Chance, is joining us again on the Sales Groovy Podcast because he is a six weeks to fit course that is being filmed right here in the Sales Groovy studios and will be available for salespeople going into the new year and all the way through all the next year and beyond so that you can always take advantage of this. But I thought the New Year's would be a great way to start off this conversation of health. And explain a little bit more about what this course is so that people get an understanding of what they might be, signing up for. Yeah. Absolutely. I love it. So this week this course is really for the next six weeks. Or I should say, if you wanna do this challenge for the six weeks, the window is six weeks. So the first thing that we're gonna be doing here is we're gonna be building our habits. Now generally, when we're working with sales professionals, there's four different things that we're looking at. We're looking at our exercise. We're looking at nutrition, sleep recovery, and then stress management. Stress management is is a big one when we talk about sales leaders. And so every single week, there's a video there, and it helps them progress through the different habits. And so my goal is we're gonna start you from even if you're starting this is the first time ever exercising or first time looking at nutrition, it gets you from that zero all the way to a point where, one, you made a huge change in your health, but also you can maintain this long term, and that's the magic of it. That's it's gonna be an awesome course. I'm so excited to take this. I'm gonna be doing it myself. So head over to learn.salesgravy.com. That's learn.salesgravy.com. If you haven't taken a course at all on sales gravy, use the code free course at checkout so that you can sign up for one free course that could be your path to health and success in 2026. So go sign up for the six weeks to fit. And, Josh, I really appreciate you being here. Instead of talking about your course, though, in this conversation, we are gonna let you coach to …

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