Keri McKibbin Personal Training

What fuels you is a lot different to what drains you, and what you give the most FOCUS to ultimately determines the way you feel and your outcomes in life.

Adopting a “the world is against me” and a negative approach to life goes something like is and will only DRAIN you of energy and hope-

“I never get any luck, it’s always someone else that gets the breaks, life is never easy for me, I couldn’t possibly do that, I can’t today I have something else on, the whole world revolves around ME and I don’t care about anyone else, getting ahead means being selfish after all, I will do it my way and I’m interested in doing things another way, if it doesn’t go perfect this time I quit ”.

Focusing on what FUELS you revolves around your reactions to adversity at times too, as well as everything going for you.

“I must work hard to create “luck in my life”, I can’t complain all the time I need to spend my time out-working people, lots of people have it worse than me so I’m going to use every gift and advantage I have, and I can inspire a lot of people and lift them up along the way too, I know that being consistent with my training and food is the only way to succeed and I know I must have patience to see it through, I am always learning and will keep refining my approach”.

The first example is one of negativity and a pessimistic approach destined to fail, the second one accepts none of us are perfect all the time and we are prepared to “fail” in order to succeed over the long term, being realistic with our expectations, being prepared to work hard and be prepared to learn and work WITH others instead of working against everyone along the way which never works.

At any particular time, you will have a different situation going on.

Any of these sounds familiar?

A bad knee, a bad shoulder, a bad back, a bad foot, a lack of confidence, missed some weeks off training and struggling to get back into it, stress in work, stress at home, feeling stressed full stop-are ALL reasons NOT to drop your standards, because you can work around them.

Your standards are non negotiable, and there’s no need to drop them because some part of your life is not perfect at the moment. A struggling injury in your lower body can be a great reason to excel upper body and rehab your lower body injury properly, and vice versa.

Eating healthy and natural foods is a standard, there are zero reasons to eat poorly, and blow all of your hard work, which in turn tends to push you into a lower state of mind, a lower level of ambition and more of a “what’s the point attitude”.

Nothing has ever worked on poor mental health like working our regularly, eating well and resting better and rejuvenating yourself the RIGHT way.Whatever your situation, keep your standards high, let us help you through your challenges along the way, and keep turning up and every time you will be able to work your way through them every time!!!

The singer Adele is very well known, not my favourite music, but her achievements have been spectacular and is obviously very popular.

A story at the height of her fame says a lot, when preparing for her Las Vegas residency, she was asked how much she would be practicing, after all, “she knew all the songs very well” and she is already at the top of her game.

Her reply was “100 hours per song”, which averaged a total of 2400 hours of preparation for the entire show “just to get it right”..

The lesson is that even someone at the top of her game, at world class level, still prepares for shows more intensely than probably anyone else in their field.

Her talent is huge, but the consistency of her performances and reviews of her shows are only so good due to the faultless preparation (and her accompanying band of course), she never skips “the hard yards”..

When I first began my business, 500 thousand businesses on average started per year, BUT 500 thousand businesses also folded every year too, the lesson was humbling.

Everyone does their best first year of business, but what happens in year 3 if you are lucky to be still doing it?

If you are in year 10, year 20  or more even in business, chances are you have followed some of Adele’s advice of constantly trying to get better, constantly refining your craft, taking absolutely nothing for granted and ALWAYS trying to get better.

Whilst others in business  for 5 minutes may concentrate on their latest leased new car to somehow “impress people”, the best way to survive in business is to constantly invest in your craft and constantly look to refine it, until your value to others becomes undeniable.

Whatever you want to be good at, putting the work in relentlessly is vital, but it’s also vital you become better through practice, being prepared to learn all the time, accept your never know it all and you are humble enough to learn well off others, who may be doing it much better than you are currently, the best in every field are life-long learners, and perform their craft in service of others, and always without any ego.