MOST of you know me from our gym, but not so many of you know me when I was ONLY private training.
The scary part of that was knowing I had to make money to survive, and when you have ZERO clients, it’s very scary indeed. I now I could make a big impact, so any opportunity that came long HAD to be acted on immediately.
What got me over the hump was THIS moment. I had clients in Llanelli, but not enough to give up my other job and make it a full time career. I was training people every night in llanelli, and every weekend, but I felt it wants enough to give up a “job for life””.
I had started training ONE person in Langland bay, and people wondered why I was doing that given the distance travelled. I said I had to keep following my career and I would take its far as I could. Every time I left mumbles, I imagined doing 40 sessions over there. That may have seemed impossible at the time, but the dream was big and I had a ton of ambition and energy to eventually make it happen.
Then a month later, I had met two people who would change the course of my career.
I was working one job 715am to 330pm whilst doing sessions in lunch time in llanelli EVERY day. Then I would work 340pm to 8pm every NIGHT in llanelli. This was a colossal schedule but I knew I could do more.
So one Monday night, I left llanelli at 755pm and arrived somehow in Langland at 830pm. I did back to back sessions which lasted until 1015pm. I arrived home at 11pm, then had to work out a diet.
I had two choices, either I could do it THAT night, and deliver it by 615am and still make it to work, or I could post it and it arrived a couple of days ago.
First impressions last I decided. Those two clients ended up doing amazingly well and recommended me all over Langland, the rest is history and helped build me a very strong business that would last many, many years until I made the decision to step out of comfort zone again, CUT BACK and get the gym going again in a big way to reach a much wider reach of the population.
From those early days, I wanted to set my stall out as a business that wanted to do things the BEST way possible. Time is of the essence and that urgency from me eventually paid off, and led to many clients from the early impression I made that day and from then on.
Whoever joins the gym now MUST have an incredible experience, but more importantly, that great experience MUST carry one. This is an absolutely key to our gym.
We all have moments of urgency in our lives when we MUST make things happen. See you tomorrow and be ready for a huge week of opportunity and possibility.
