Keri McKibbin Personal Training

“You must have HELL of a critical illness insurance policy”, “after all you will be a ‘cripple” by the time you are 35 (their words not mine”, “what ‘job’ are you going to do after you finish this (thanks for the confidence)”, “this is a FAD you know that DON’T you!!!”, and being a trainer/coach will be fine IF it works out, you know that NOBODY does that for a living don’t you”!!.

These are the constant attacks you will have as a trainer when you first start working for yourself, and indeed often many years after being in business, people will always be secretly glad if you fail in some way, and I’m sure most people in business have experienced these thinly veiled attacks from all sorts of people who usually haven’t the guts to go for it themselves.

You either fall over and cower to the negativity of herd mentality when it comes to doing something that is far away from most people’s expectations of you, or it will give you a ton of motivation to rise above it and prove a heck of a lot of people wrong.

My “critical illness policy” was really good food almost all of the time, the way I stopped my body and joints breaking down after running with several people a day was getting to bed by 9am (often before relentlessly apart from saturday and as I was fanatical about training everyone else safely above anything else, I never took risks with myself either.

The power of consistency is the true secret of success not only in business but in your own health, and will give you unrivalled protection from anything health wise you can control (of course there will be things you can’t control, but I’m talking about giving yourself the best chance of growing old fitter and stronger than you have ever been, having good balance which protects you against falls as you age, being well coordinated and reducing your body’s decline to an absolute minimum, both in your body and your mind which is massive.

Living on ready meals, takeaways and chemically enhanced food and drink and not exercising will only make you sick over time.

Eating whole foods in their natural state, exercising and moving more most days, and getting enough sleep are the most powerful “drugs” I know, guaranteed to make you constantly feel better, raise your performance in life to another level in all areas, and the best FREE health insurance you will ever get.

Struggle is horrible, struggle is upsetting, struggle are times when everything seems as if it will never get better, but the whole process sharpens us and make us stronger.

Obstacles come to us most days, sometimes slowly, sometimes the speed of a runaway train, but they force us into finding another way, so ultimately they make us better.

Setbacks will happen, but we must keep on working at it, never giving up, never waving the white flag because as long as we keep doing our best, then change for the better WILL happen, and we will appreciate even more because we will know we got through the hard times and come through the other side a champion.

Wherever we want to go we must work harder at it, being prepared to go the extra mile, doing the extra things that nobody expects us to do.

The process sometimes leads us through the unknown times, and sometimes we don’t know how good a place we will end up, but we will all live like a champion if we keep doing our best, keep rising above our expectations and be more consistent at it than anyone thought possible.