Fitness, Business, Fitness Business, & Achieving Life Goals

I’ve been thinking about how many people are satified just to survive. Club members that you see doing the same thing day in, day out and they never seem to lose the weight or progress in abilities. I know that there are challanges/difficulties that can hold us back. Sometimes they are greater than others, but they’re always there in some way, shape, or form. My concern is that those people become trapped in a frame of mind that locks them into mediocrity. Whether we’re talking about fitness, business, or life, some people seem to set their ceilings too low.

How long have you been plugging away and not really getting any closer to your goal? Have you given up on achieving it and are accepting not getting any worse as being good enough?

It’s about your mindset. Reevaluate your goals. Think about what it is that you truly want to achieve, not simply what is acceptable. How do you move forward? Well, first you have to care enough to step out of comfort zone of “same old, same old”. Does losing the weight mean enough to you to do something higher intensity than just coming in and walking on the treadmill? (not that that isn’t OK to start there, but you need to build to doing more) Analyze your obstacles. Is it lack of information, accountablity, time, or support that’s holding you back? Define it and take the steps to change it. If you need help, get it. What is it worth to reach your dreams? It starts with a little extra effort, a little extra planning, a little extra believing that you can achieve what it is that you truly want.

Amazing things can happen with a little extra effort, but you have to care enough to break out of the status quo. Watch this video for a little extra motivation! 212 the extra degree

I was talking with a Personal Trainer the other day about selling training. He was experiencing an inability to close sales after new members went through their introductory session. What I realized in talking with him was that, while he was doing a great job getting them set to start on their health/fitness journey, he was failing to paint the picture of what to expect in the future and how training with you is the natural next step.

You should have just finished covering a medical health history, discoved their goals, past successes and obstacles. Now, paint the picture. Describe the importance of needing to start simple, how the body will soon adapt, and that greater challenges will need to be placed on it for it to continue to make progress. Illustrate specifically how working with you will help them to overcome the obstacles they’ve faced in the past and how it allows you to make adjustments in the program as needed to keep them on the fastest, safest path to reaching their goals. Point out the importance of keeping them accountable and how you can be that voice for them.

The better you paint the picture, the better they can see themselves succeeding by working with you.