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Wednesday, 9th November

If you think of people who changed the world, you may think of Beethoven, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Google founders, Abraham Lincoln, etc.

They seemed one of a kind individuals, producing breathtaking work that would affect their generation in a mind blowing way.

The truth is that they are more normal like the rest of us than you think.

Beethoven for instance gets 6 pieces music into the top 50 of all time classical music. Mozart gets 5 and Bach gets 2.

To put it into context, Beethoven composed 650 pieces in his career, Mozart around 700 and Bach around a 1000, yet they are all remembered for mostly those few works that they are most famous for.

Do we say that they should have only concentrated on the half dozen that were any good? Do we say the other 643 or so were useless and not worth bothering with? The facts were they never knew which ones would be great as they toiled endlessly over them. It was up to the audience to decide.

Steve Jobs initially was sacked by Apple, had many failures in between until he struck it big second time around with Apple. Bill gates had many ups and downs before proving himself with Microsoft and breaking down doors in software world, Google initially wanted to sell the company for $2 million after some initial success but nobody wanted to buy it.

Abraham Lincoln was one of the biggest down, down, down and then up political stories in history, and the trend goes on.

One thing they had all in common. They all put a lot of work in, got a lot of it out to the public, many of it discarded, but on a couple of things they struck gold. They never gave up.

Research shows us unless you are willing to put the work in continuously, be able to accept some of your efforts may not work every time, then you are highly unlikely to achieve success with anything.

Science helps us train much smarter now and results can be achieved a lot quicker, but unless you have an attitude of getting continuously better, progress will stall and your hunger to get better will disappear.

I notice that through training people for many years, the ones that ALWAYS succeed are the ones who develop a high work ethic. They will be with you for training no matter what, dark cold wet nights, they will be there.

They hate it when they are ill, they can’t wait to get stuck in again and feel amazing because they know it’s all about feeling good.

If you are willing to show up regularly, keep putting the work in whatever field you are in, then great things will eventually happen as long as you learn from your mistakes, continually research that what you are doing has strong foundations, and be willing to work as hard, if not harder than anyone else.

It is said to master something it takes 10,000 hours of intense practice, or 10 years in every day language. Most are not prepared to put that work in, but if you do, incredible things are indeed possible.

Keep putting the work in, you will be judged for your life’s work right at the end, in the meantime enjoy following your passion, keep shipping your work and efforts out to the world, surround yourself with positive people and never let anyone put you off.

Everyone has something in them that makes them original, EVERYONE has that unique talent that sets them apart. Your hard work ethic will soon discover it, use it to help people and change your own world and others for the better.

Twitt
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Tuesday, 27th September

Everything is changeable, you can become anything you want, as long as you turn around quickly by taking action, and don’t become someone who is harder to turn around or change than a tanker on a path in the sea that takes an age to alter.

It’s not easy to change, and i find many people only change when desperation comes into their life and they feel so bad, they won’t take it anymore, that feeling of low or non-existent aspiration, that feeling of you’re not going to take it any more is good because it gives you the surge to propel yourself off the bottom and get back somewhere in the real world again.

You can only eat so much junk and rubbish before you feel terrible. Carry on like that and your blood pressure, a heightened resting heart rate starts giving you warnings you need to change, ALONG with endless body fat gain and pain entering your body at a steady rate, the less you do, usually the more the pain increases.

The most heart breaking stories i have heard are the ones when someone didn’t listen and continued on the path of destroying their health. It’s only when they end up in the hospital bed that they end up taking notice and THEN taking decisive and powerful steps to change their lives around.

I find one day in the gym is one of opportunity because a lot of things happen. I hear sad stories sometimes, some massively uplifting stories sometimes but i know that each day is an opportunity for us to become someone who is ABLE TO CHANGE quickly, because we have endless evidence of people who have changed, often against the odds, usually who has been next to us training at one time or another, who has changed their lives for the better MASSIVELY.

I know that one day right now can change things for you, one day can give you the momentum to change your life, one day that can create the beginning of a higher quality of life that LASTS, one day is waiting for you every day to take it.

All of us have an average of 960 months on this planet so please don’t waste them, take your opportunities right now and make today and tomorrow a day of change, one which changes not only your life but all of those who are closest to you that you impact on every day.

Twitt
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Friday, September 16th

People always talk about a “right time” to do things. This unfortunately involves waiting, sometimes so much waiting you never actually do it. Many people say i will wait until i get new training shoes, i will wait until my friend joins the gym with me, i will wait until i “get in the right frame of mind”, I will wait until the winter/spring/summer/autumn for whatever reason etc etc.

If you look at some of the greatest and most long lasting businesses over the last 100 years, MANY of them starting during recessions, when many people advised them to wait “until the dust settles” because it would be madness to do so.

Usually though, many businesses start because they are ready to start and share their product with the world. They are so busy “doing”, that the timing doesn’t really matter.

With your exercise programme or decision to eat healthy, it often starts “next week”, “next month” and usually not at all. The longer you put things off, the harder it becomes to do, this applies to anything.

The power you give yourself by deciding to get active right now will indeed empower you!

The power you will give yourself when going shopping you decide to put only healthy foods into your basket will signal the start of a new and healthy lifestyle for you, and immediately things will change for the better.

Each and every day is a fresh opportunity for you to get better, but first you must stop the endless conversations about how something in the future will happen “one day”. That “one day” doesn’t usually happen.

Once you decide to take action, then you will be proud of yourself. Once you have taken action once, then you are likely to take action on a regular basis. This process of finally get your behind in gear and doing something positive every day will eventually create real transformation in your life, and you will no doubt wonder why you didn’t start earlier.

The choice is yours, stop doing the “what if’s”, “i’m too old, too overweight, too unfit” conversation. Everyone has the same opportunity, take yours right now.

Twitt
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Wednesday, 18th May

Once you are comfortable in your own skin, you can set your OWN records, your own shape, your own progress, your own level of happiness and on YOUR own terms.

It’s pointless comparing yourself to others, because we are ALL different.

We have a massive variety of individuals each with their own gifts, their own challenges and their own different situation.

Someone who has just had a baby (we have many), will have far different goals than someone who plays professional sport. Comparison is pointless.

Someone who has high blood pressure will have different goals to someone who wants to raise their self-esteem and self-confidence.

Someone who is struggling with their mind to function day to day will have different goals to someone who is 70 years of age and suffering from osteoporosis.

Someone who is 14 stone who wants to look exactly someone 8 stone is unrealistic and the heavier individual is not celebrating how good she can look if she maxed out her OWN potential. Comparison will eat you up if you let it especially when it’s pointless and always self-defeating.

We have members looking amazing at 8 stone AND a few stone heavier full stop.

Mark lewis will bust me up pulling that tyre up the hill in terms of time, but instead of crucifying myself inside about it, i celebrate the fact that i can do it myself, and doing it, EVEN if it takes me much longer, it is a victory for ME.

The message is to be happy what you are doing, appreciate the progress you have and ARE making, how far you have come in ALL ways since you started and celebrate all the big things you can still do and ASPIRE to do and are totally within your reach.

All of this makes you far happier in your own skin, puts a sense of perspective on everything we do and totally celebrates you as an individual, what makes you unique and how you stand out as someone who may have overcome the odds and the chances are that many ADMIRE you either publicly or from afar.

Twitt
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Monday, 4th April

Lots of people start things, and getting fit and healthy is a big thing that most people want to start at one time or another. It’s exciting to start new and exciting things whatever they are.

Starting is the easy part, finishing is the hard part!

It is the finishing that separates those with passion from those without it.

Most meaningful things in life require some suffering and sacrifice along the way, otherwise everyone would find big achievements really easy.

The problem starts if you get used to starting something all the time, then never finishing it and never seeing things through. This leads to feeling unfulfilled and eventually you don’t really believe you can accomplish anything because you can never see things through all the way, it becomes a very bad habit and trait until you actually conquer it.

When you fulfil the tasks put in front of you, you will take several steps forward each time to realising your dreams. When you see things through, the personal self-satisfaction will be huge and long-lasting. This can become a great habit too, and see you go on to completing many others things in life.

If you have passion for something, then you will see it through. When you don’t have passion, you will likely say you will “try” often building in an excuse even as you say it. If you start but don’t finish you can always say “at least i tried”.

The big difference is when you say you WILL DO. This is likely to lead to you finishing NO MATTER WHAT.

There is nothing more fulfilling than taking a dream, a goal or an aspiration-no matter how difficult-and completing it. We have many individuals doing this exact thing right now, and i see the personal pride it is giving them every day.

Whatever you goals and aspirations, the time IS NOW to see it through and feel the inner pride from doing it ALL THE WAY this time!!

Twitt