Category: motivation

Success according to legendary American Basketball coach John Wooden, is achieved when you achieve the piece of mind that you have done your best no matter what.

Society encourages has just to “do enough” because that’s what lets us just get by. Don’t forget if you keep doing your best, you are very likely to achieve something special. Some people get upset by this as you will be showing them up because they aren’t willing to put the same huge effort in as you are.

Doing your best is doing a series of little things daily.

For example, you could make for a workout but only have 40 minutes so you tell yourself “it’s not worth it”.

You cheat on your food because “nobody else will know, i’ll get back on it tomorrow”.

You don’t make time because so many other want your time. Even though exercising and making time makes you more productive for yourself and others long term, its easier to give in to others.

Doing your best is getting workouts in even if they are only 20 minutes.

Doing your best is sticking with your healthy food habits even when nobody else is looking, even when its easier to cheat, even when it’s easier to leave it until after christmas.

To do your best, you have to sacrifice tiny things over regularly a longer period, and the fruits of your labour will be incredible. Reaching your potential makes you live a fulfilling life, do your best today and then do the same tomorrow, it can develop into the best habit you ever had.

Don’t forget your mind can easily put you off as its easier to quit and tell yourself you want to give your body ‘a rest and live on easy street for a while”.

Ask yourself daily “did i do my best today?”, “Did i do the best of what i was truly capable of”.

Get peace of mind and keep giving it everything every day.

If you are planning a new project, a new career, develop yourself in your career, launch a business, become a better business, get fitter, develop a new interest and just grow more as a person, then getting up 5am or even earlier will give you at least 2 hours a day to make a much bigger impact.

Sounds enough to make you sick for most people, but you have to decide how much you want to contribute in life, are you the one who waits for everything to land in your lap or are you going to grab it with both hands yourself and seize your opportunities?

Getting up early is a tiny sacrifice to what is achievable with the technology available right in front you every day. There is more opportunity, information and encouragement in front of you than ever before.

I remember the encyclopedia britannica as a source of knowledge and that was pretty much it, about 20 books on everything that you would painstakingly have to go through when you wanted to know something. The internet changed everything on this, and made your computer something from another planet!

Whatever stage you are at, whether its the start of a career, start of getting fit, whether you’re at the top of your game, there’s always more and you have to develop that hunger to become better, to give more value to others and this is when you receive more value yourself, when you BECOME more.

Be that non-conformist, believe that anything is possible and be the deliverer of radical change starting right now. If you can’t sleep properly, turn it into massive possibility and a vehicle of great change for your life and those around you for the better.

There’s never been more opportunity or possibility for change in your life than right now, so seize the chance by making two more hours minimum available to you each and every day.

Being original and non-conformist at times is often stamped out by a society and big corporates desperate to get you to fit in.

What most don’t realise though is that your originality makes you different, and most likely for you to have a positive impact on the world because you can change things far quicker than just playing along with a system that you know sometimes not to work.

As a gym and as a trainer, playing along with how most gyms teach exercise is something we will never adopt. We could never leave you on a treadmill and let you hope for the best. Most need coaching and guidance every session, no matter if you are a beginner or pro athlete.

We know that the public are individuals, all have different demands, different abilities and all of them need different programmes to reach that long lost potential that was often lost in the long grass since their school days.

Originality and non-conformity is something we encourage in our members too.

If you start an exercise and healthy eating programme maybe for the first time in 20 years, then we understand it’s a big moment in your life and a major upheaval, a major leap of faith full of uncertainty maybe based on several previous unsuccessful attempts.

With proper care and attention, and if you show up regularly, then you are capable of anything you put your mind to, and you can improve at regular intervals, bring fresh self-belief with every positive step you make.

So you probably had a lot of friends encouraging you to start, you have done well, now it’s time to be a non-conformist again.

Once you achieve a certain level of success, not everyone will be happy about it, you may have negative influences in your life telling you “you have done enough, why bother to keep going”. As you know, they don’t get it do they? You are continuing to do this because YOU feel BETTER, being fit and healthy is infectious and you only want to experience more of it.

The non-conformist in you will shrug off negativity and push for more. That person who was “not a fitness person” at the start will suddenly become someone who is positively fit in body and mind, and you will demand more out of yourself than anyone else could expect.
Forging a path of mastery of your own body and developing a positive mindset takes daily action, and you becoming that original person you were as a kid, full of dreams of what you could be without anyone putting you off, if someone doesn’t like it or continuously puts you off or thinks it’s “too ambitious” then tough, it says more about them than you.

Be the original person you were meant to be become, be a non-conformist and don’t accept any system that doesn’t work, never fit in for the sake of it, and see it through until you reach where you want to be. There will be plenty of doubt and indecision along the way, but stay the course long enough and that’s when true opportunity and sustainable achievement comes your way.