No Fear Friday

Fear is holding you back.

Read it, think about it, believe it because it is true. When you get around to deciding you want to change your life for the better this is what holds you back. You want to make the change, you want to start working out and you want to start eating better. Why don't you? Because you are afraid. You are afraid what people are going to say about you in the gym, afraid of looking stupid. You are afraid that you can't give up 6 sodas a day, afraid you can't live with out the caffeine/sugar buzz getting you through the afternoon slump. You are afraid giving up your weekend partying will cause your friends to make fun of you at first and then just quit calling all together. You are afraid you can't follow through. You are afraid of letting go of your current life......  Your afraid of being uncomfortable!

Until you can truly overcome the fear you will never succeed. OK, its Friday everyone loves Friday! Let's start this thing on Friday. Everyone starts Monday with good intentions and they let everything slip away by Friday, party time right! Quit it Friday is No Fear day! Drive home from work put on the most important thing you can wear a smile look in that mirror and say I am not afraid. No matter your situation remember that opportunities are created and circumstances are an illusion. You are where you are because you decided to be there.......  Don't go drown your fears in booze and bad decisions. Drown your fears with happiness and love. Make one good decision on Friday and let it carry you through the weekend. Make another good decision on Saturday, again on Sunday. When Monday comes around you won't dread the idea of starting off on the right foot, you are already there. Monday will be about continuation. If you don't really want to, deep down have an urgency that you have to do this it will never get done. So go out today sign up for that gym membership. (Tip: most gyms are trying to meet a quota at the end of the month you can most likely negotiate a deal.) Go to the grocery store and don't even wheel the cart down the junk food aisles stay out of the aisles completely. Shop the produce and the fresh meat without even trying to weed through the traffic in the abyss that is the grocery store aisle filled with junk and processed cardboard. No Fears today No Fears. Escape your Fear become your Dream!!

The Decision

My life as a trainer to date has been filled with A lot of ups and downs. This is not based on who my clients are, my number of clients or the results my clients have achieved. This based solely on my opinion of my training in general. I have always wanted to be the best trainer that I could be and thought that I had done everything in my power to achieve that success. The type of success I'm talking about can't be measured by money or social standing but it is measured by my peace of mind knowing that I could not do better. What is holding me back is one thing that I have let slip out of my minds eye. Something I want to hark as an importance not only in fitness or wealth but life. You will get nowhere unless you have a goal. A concrete goal, something that you can look at everyday and say, YES that is where I want to be! With out a goal you are living a life without purpose. A goal gives you a reason to wake up in the morning. It doesn't matter what that goal is, it's yours and nobody can take it away from you. A goal costs nothing. A goal takes no skill to make. A goal can not be destroyed but only created. A goal is the first step in a decision. That brings me to what I am writing about today. I have decided I will stop living day to day life and start controlling the outcome of my life. My goal is my goal and I will not share it with you, as I would not have you share yours with me. If I shared I would only fuel the haters, the naysayers and all the lot. Everyone is the same those who say that you will fail are the losers. They are the ones that have failed not because they did not get where they wanted to be but because they quit trying. This I believe is what has held me back and continues to hold me back. I quit trying, I think I am trying but in reality I have quit. I have become what society wants me to be. An hourly worker who has a job like everyone else. What was once my life has become a job. Job is such a dirty word in life. You don't go to a job to achieve greatness. You go to a job to earn that dollar. When you can make your job part of your life again then can you become what you want to be. It doesn't matter what it is. Flipping burgers, changing tires, punching numbers or whatever when that job becomes a task. When the only reason you do that job is because your "supposed" to that is when you have failed yourself. If your flipping burgers and enjoy it your goal should be to own the burger joint. If you change tires and enjoy it maybe you should become an engineer that designs safer, more efficient tires. If you punch numbers you already know the equation staying in the same place your are will continually produce the same number. I personally love my job, have a passion for my job, work hard at my job but none the less I have let it become a job. I count the hours worked, the people I have provided a service for and said eh... not too shabby. Today is the day my friends that is ending. No more not too shabby. I will work my butt off and this job will get me to my goal! It doesn't matter what your job is you can do the same. If you can not I say you are a failure. Get out now! If you hate what you do everyday I want to tell you something it took a lot of trying to realize. Deep down you are exactly where you WANT to be! If you did not want to be there you wouldn't be. You made the choice you made the decision now make another choice. Do Work everyday. Put everything in to it truly everything you have and find out where this job can take you. Jobs don't get you anywhere in life WORK does! Give it your all or get nothing in return.......

This Trainer's Truths Part 1

Truth is most of you will quit reading after the second line or not read this at all

Truth is most of you that do read this will forget it in an hour

To Life:

Truth is you can not change your life without changing the way you live

Truth is, it is always hard it never gets easy and if it does get easy that means you quit trying

Truth is you will fail, everyone fails it is not a matter of IF it is a matter of when.

Truth is it isn't the government, your job, your coach, school, your parents, your spouse, your friend, your disability or any situation that is holding you back.

Truth is the only thing holding you back is you.

To weight loss:

Truth is you are not genetically incapable

Truth is there will be pain there will be sacrifice you will be uncomfortable

Truth is you aren't as out of shape as you think you are

Truth is you also aren't as fit as you think you are

Truth is you will never know until you try

Truth is any excuse you have, I have heard it before

Truth is if your food comes in a package they can put any words they want on the outside it doesn't change what is inside the package

Truth is "one won't hurt" is a lie you tell yourself and will ruin you every time. One is never enough but is ALWAYS too much.

Truth is "I eat pretty good" is yet another lie

Truth is there is no magic pill, secret exercise, special electronic device or certain type of clothing in the world that will take the weight off

Truth is we can use hundreds of different equations but numbers mean very little in the end

Truth is the secret isn't more cardio, weights or a certain diet to get you where you want to be.

Truth is the only thing that is going to get you there is SELF discipline.

Truth is YOU CAN

To athletes:

Truth is everyone is an athlete

Truth is the athlete with great genetics will have an upper hand

Truth is hard work trumps genetics every time

Truth is if you want to be average keep doing what everyone else is doing

Truth is if you want to be great you will need to do more than every athlete not just the next athlete

Truth is you aren't as good as you think you are

Truth is you are better than you think you are

Truth is if you are not working your hardest you will not get any better

Truth is there is ALWAYS someone working harder and doing more than you are

Truth is the risk of hard work is higher than the reward almost every time

Truth is the harder the work the higher the risk

Truth is you have a way better chance of ending your career with injury than you do of being successful at any level

Truth is if you don't take the risk you will never know

To Everyone:

Truth is when you decide to not give 100% you are NOT the only one that knows but you ARE the only that can make that decision

Truth is numbers don't lie but they also don't tell the entire story

Truth is comparing yourself to other people gets you nowhere

Truth is when you fail and YOU WILL FAIL, you are not a failure until you quit trying

Truth is you will not succeed until you decide to be HAPPY!!

Truth is I want you to succeed and will do everything I can to get you there

Truth is in the end, the only one that can help you is YOU..........