I had the pleasure of presenting to personal trainers throughout New Zealand last month at Bisgro. In the session we spent a good amount of time developing our vision of what we want in the future for our business and our lifestyle. If you haven't done this exercise I would highly recommend that you go through this process. This article by Aaron Whear - my fellow PT Plus coach will provide a great place to start. If you were at Bisgro, or if you have set yourself some goals earlier in the year, can I ask what you've done about moving towards your vision since then?
Failure to get into action, as the title of this article says, turns goals into dreams. The reality is that will not get your goals by chance.
Goals are achieve by consistent action. Think of driving from Wellington to Auckland at night. You can only see a few hundred metres in front of you but you're always moving forwards towards your destination. If you focus and follow the road ahead you'll reach your destination. Breaking your big goals down into quarterly and monthly blocks will help you to put an achievable plan in place. Then break down each month into weekly targets and daily objectives. Take action each day to move yourself towards your goal. If you have a 'to do list' replace it with a 'must do list' each day. Check that the tasks on the list take you closer towards your goal.
This week - get focused on consistent action and check each day that your must do list is taking you towards your goal.
Dave Liow
Sunday, July 11, 2010
guarantee success by getting truly rewarded
A recent spate of wealthy individuals sought after by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) for fraudulent activities have subsequently received severe penalties including jail time. Paying the price for success and receiving your reward brings forward the point of what is success and have you set a path of rewards.
Defining success is different for everyone and to judge your success according to someone's will set you up for failure. This was something I did constantly early in my business career and luckily I changed. Money is one of the measures of success however it won't drive you to be successful in the long term. Using money, as a motivation tool to success will cause a huge imbalance in whatever balance exists in your lifestyle. You only have to look at the fate of these very wealthy businessmen that the ATO caught. A question of motives and definition of success resulted in the ATO taking it all back from them.
Success can only be achieved when the balance between your giving and your receiving is equal. So in your case realizing your true worth as a fitnesspreneur will allow you to be rewarded handsomely in recognition for the value you are providing to your circle of influence. Think about it; transforming lives is such a valuable resource. Are you getting adequately in all aspects of your life for the difference you are making?
My point being if you aren't prepared to spend the time, effort and resources on creating, growing and sustaining a business that will allow you to give and receive in correct proportion to your true self worth you can't expect to deliver the goods to your members and ultimately achieve personal success yourself.
That is why part of the process for every budding fitnesspreneur that crosses our path seriously looking to be one of the Top 200 fitness professionals in WA is made aware of the BUT principles (email us for more information on these). This ensures you are the business owner are paying enough attention to yourself to allow the balance between giving and receiving is front of mind in any business decision.
To find out if you are receiving true value for the wonderful life transforming work you are doing ask yourself these three questions.
1. Am I prepared to do what it takes to be one of Western Australia's top 200 fitness professionals and never waiver from the vision?
2. Is my business supporting me as a person and allowing me to enjoy the activities and lifestyle I desire.
3. Is there any way you could entertain the thought that there is a better way to do things in your business that will allow you to have full control over your success and give you the freedom you desire in your lifestyle?
If yes was the response to these questions without thought or regard for the how or the what it would take to get there, you are in the right industry. Your challenge is now to strive for the balance that is needed between the giving of your value and the true reward for that giving. Our business support mechanism designed to assist you get this is there for you. You need to give adequately to get the rewards it offers, are you willing? Click here and read all about it.
David Virgo
Defining success is different for everyone and to judge your success according to someone's will set you up for failure. This was something I did constantly early in my business career and luckily I changed. Money is one of the measures of success however it won't drive you to be successful in the long term. Using money, as a motivation tool to success will cause a huge imbalance in whatever balance exists in your lifestyle. You only have to look at the fate of these very wealthy businessmen that the ATO caught. A question of motives and definition of success resulted in the ATO taking it all back from them.
Success can only be achieved when the balance between your giving and your receiving is equal. So in your case realizing your true worth as a fitnesspreneur will allow you to be rewarded handsomely in recognition for the value you are providing to your circle of influence. Think about it; transforming lives is such a valuable resource. Are you getting adequately in all aspects of your life for the difference you are making?
My point being if you aren't prepared to spend the time, effort and resources on creating, growing and sustaining a business that will allow you to give and receive in correct proportion to your true self worth you can't expect to deliver the goods to your members and ultimately achieve personal success yourself.
That is why part of the process for every budding fitnesspreneur that crosses our path seriously looking to be one of the Top 200 fitness professionals in WA is made aware of the BUT principles (email us for more information on these). This ensures you are the business owner are paying enough attention to yourself to allow the balance between giving and receiving is front of mind in any business decision.
To find out if you are receiving true value for the wonderful life transforming work you are doing ask yourself these three questions.
1. Am I prepared to do what it takes to be one of Western Australia's top 200 fitness professionals and never waiver from the vision?
2. Is my business supporting me as a person and allowing me to enjoy the activities and lifestyle I desire.
3. Is there any way you could entertain the thought that there is a better way to do things in your business that will allow you to have full control over your success and give you the freedom you desire in your lifestyle?
If yes was the response to these questions without thought or regard for the how or the what it would take to get there, you are in the right industry. Your challenge is now to strive for the balance that is needed between the giving of your value and the true reward for that giving. Our business support mechanism designed to assist you get this is there for you. You need to give adequately to get the rewards it offers, are you willing? Click here and read all about it.
David Virgo
Friday, July 2, 2010
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
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
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