the bed situation

Getting up out of bed of a morning can be one of two things:

1. A liberating experience
2. A total drag, especially on these frosty winter mornings

What determines the success of this early morning task is reviewing what you're getting up for? What situation, clients and income are you going to face at work? Is it stimulating exciting and challenging or energy sapping unrewarding and full of energy vampires? As a fitness professional 'getting up' is part of the job, it is a part of life. Jumping up and out of bed in anticipation of a stimulating and exciting day or is the scenario more 'i'm not quite sure whether I am looking forward to my day?'

If you aren't as excited about your day as you could be chances are you have created this situation.

The good news is that you don't have to live with it, should you choose to do something different. This is where you can make the choice to become a 'fitnesspreneur' or stay where you are as a regular personal trainer. The burden of 'having to do things' rather than having 'choices to do things' will help to determine the quality of your nights sleep and whether your rolling or jumping from bed of a morning.

Why have I focused on your day? Well I figure if we get you right, you can go about helping more people more often and that helps serve our mission of supporting 200 of Western Australia's leading personal trainers.

The first step to ensure you are excited when you get up in the morning is to plan a day full of inspiring and captivating tasks. These tasks must serve your personal mission and if you don't know what that is, now is the time to start bringing it to life. Carrying out mundane tasks that don't inspire your day isn't serving you well. Eventually it will resonate through to your clients who you are trying to inspire to a higher quality existence. I know by deleting the tasks that don't serve your businesses best interests and adding the tasks that will take you directly to where you want your business to be, is aligned with success. Yet so many business owners avoid implementing this simple concept. I know, I was in denial also for a few years.

Your business success or failure is determined by you. In fact the first thing I work with on any PT we support is you because you are the business. Check out these BUT principles. Assess yourself right now to see how your BUT principles measure up and how they will help you leap out of bed into more profitable relationships, clients and business outcomes.

B = business: are you happily implementing these things in your business?
*accounting
*website
*newletters
*sales
*staff
*systems
*business plans
*annual strategies
*budgeting

U = you: are these areas in your like taken into account and addressed to make sure you are at your best, healthy and consistently fulfilled?
*your health
*wealth creation
*your relationships
*hobbies and interests
*social abilities
*self development

T = technically: you have the skills and abilities to get the results you say you are going to provide to your clients.

Developing awareness around these areas in your business life may highlight what you aren't enjoying or aren't doing. Take it from an individual that literally fell out of bed with little motivation to now jumping out of bed at 5 every morning (even weekends) knowing that the day is going to be special and inspiring for me. By deleting the time wasting tasks and adding direction to your business, motivation will be at a high and so will your outcomes and income. Working on the BUT principles allowed me to start the changes, it has successfully worked for so many others and I now it will do the same for you.

David Virgo