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Thursday, 24th November

gymThis is a urgent message to those of you who struggle mentally with the struggles of life. There is more pressure now than ever before.

 

From what i have seen from you at the gym, it’s criminal that you aren’t leading something big in the world, because you all have great ability, all you have is a deep under confidence that you somehow can’t get big things done.

 

You have to realise that this causes others not to benefit from your gifts of leadership, getting things done and the ability to do things differently from anyone else.

 

All of you i’m talking about are deeply intelligent, thoughtful and talented in your chosen field. Some are talented but want to make a big impact in another field, but your self-doubt is holding you back. WHY NOT change to something you really want to do? If you want to do something you will enjoy, then you are likely to do an incredible job on it.

 

Here’s the news, we all go through self-doubt, can we do it or can’t we moments and chapters in our lives, but my message to you all is not to deny the world your gifts and ability, and the positive impact you can have in other people’s lives.

 

Don’t hold back one more moment, don’t tell yourself that you will have a day off, a week off, a month off anymore because you know it turn to much more than that.

 

Become the person who DOES, who makes the phone calls, who makes decisions and become the one who upsets the status quo, upsets the negative people who never believe in us, in order to create moments and new careers, moments of impact that change your own life and other people’s too.

 

This is a time, no THE time for you to lead and take control of your own destiny and use your true intelligence and physical capacity to drive your life to another level, and never settle for second best anymore!

 

Twitt
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Wednesday, November 23rd

We always talk about the mind side of what we do in the gym, and how valuable it is to get your mind clear, and strengthen it.

 

You cannot be successful long term with your health and fitness programme without trying to grow mentally along the way.

 

Unfortunately, many people say, i can’t exercise until i get my mind right. You may be waiting a very long time, because that moment can take a while to show up and we don’t often recognise it when it does.

 

Exercise helps strongly to get your mind clear, to get it stronger and finally get that long lost self-confidence back.

 

Don’t think you are a one off too if you are struggling mentally to adjust to getting fit. Being healthy takes many every day adjustments before it finally gets like second nature. You don’t do it in one session, a week, or a month, its a process of reinforcing every day positive habits until they stick.

 

Our kids go to school everyday to get fed positive lessons in educational terms and  in life.

 

When we leave school, lots of those lessons are forgotten, this is why we need to “re-programe” ourselves to perform better, and stick with our ever evolving plans to improve our health and indeed life in general.

 

Attempting to get fit and healthy in a positive, supportive environment is absolutely vital for your long term success.

 

Leaving someone on a treadmill, showing the operation of one or two machines, then forgetting about them is a disastrous way to start a gym, and one which ensures the member will never engage with a gym as they are never shown properly, and OFTEN enough for the idea of exercise to stick.

 

We are not machines or robots, we have to be prepared mentally for the fitness journey ahead, accept we are on a personal growth journey too, and react positively to the many challenges that come when we are trying to get fit and healthy.

 

This is why support from your gym is vital at all times to get you through the ups and downs that will surely come once the novelty wears off after the first couple of times.

 

Exercise and eating healthy not only sets you off not only on a physical improvement journey but one of feeling better mentally, and seeing life in a much more positive way.

Twitt
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Thursday, 9th November

Once we realised the sun did come up again after President Trump’s win, we start to realise that relying on an election result, doesn’t change a whole lot in our immediate lives. Never rely on one person or organisation to tell you what’s possible and what’s not. History backs us up on this time after time.

No government goes out of their way to help us, and we realise the candidates have big flaws just like the rest of us.

The old saying that 90% of what we worry about never happens, and the other 10% we can’t do nothing about anyway, has never been more true.

The UK general election, Brexit, US election, sports protests on human rights in the states (whatever your views) has shown that the public has been in protest mode for some time, and most are not willing to accept what the establishment has dished out for the last 40 years or more.

I hear more and more of people who aren’t willing to accept frozen food in chain restaurants, going to a gym and nobody ever helping you, management in the workplace not appreciating your efforts and opinion, there is strong evidence on more people in Wales launching their own business, some of you launched your own charity out of nothing, helped thousands and counting, because the system wouldn’t help you (Active for Autism-Tom Shaw) etc.

When my father started our gym in 1957, everyone thought he was mad, some doctors for years even claimed weight training was dangerous. Making your own path where nobody has gone before is risky and tests your self-belief to the limit, many will even laugh at you, but your have to follow your heart and passion, and see it through knowing deep down you are doing it for the right reasons, and you are aiming to creating an overwhelmingly positive impact in people’s lives.

Things are changing fast and i commend many of you on your independence of thought and self-belief that you can succeed and never accept the status quo any more. Sometimes, being a non-conformist is amazing because it creates breakthrough change that nobody thought possible apart from YOU.

When you are feeling rebellion, taking control of your health will transform you to a whole new level, help you attain amazing life long dreams in your life, and develop the sustainable energy and drive to create a new history for yourself.

What makes a far impact in our lives is our opportunity to change our own lives for the better, no government can take that away. If you aren’t feeling well physically, and struggling mentally as a result, then starting cautiously on a health and fitness programme will become one of your greatest achievements.

Exercise is like a journey that has ups and downs but the overall destination is incredible and strong foundations will be built, and your wonderful feeling of wellbeing along the way will positively impact all of those around you that are most important.

Twitt
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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, October 4th

Change never really happens unless YOU are totally willing to change and accept responsibility for your actions.

Getting through endless diets won’t change a thing ultimately because you’re not changing the root cause why you are not eating well. You have to accept the fact that you need to commit to healthy eating and make it a true lifestyle change. You need to discover your deep down reasons why you want to be healthy and in decent physical condition, and the positive impact that has on your life.

You have to accept that a couple of weeks of exercise or a couple of months of exercise even won’t make the long term difference you really want and need. You need to take responsibility for making the time to exercise and scheduling it in your life.

If you don’t take responsibility, you will “tell yourself stories” why things aren’t working for you. I couldn’t make the gym because i “didn’t have time, couldn’t sustain the effort, i was too tired all the time, the programme didn’t work for me (even though you may not have turned up for it anywhere near as often as you should)”.

Taking responsibility means you take full control of your future.

Three times a week training shouldn’t be beyond anyone, even if you have only half hour each time.

Nobody forces you to go down the crisps and chocolate aisle in the supermarket? There’s no magic magnet in there dragging you down there!

Taking full responsibility means that you are taking “chance”, “hope for the best” and “luck” out of the equation. You know what you have to do, you know when you exercise and eat right, great things happen, all you need to do is show consistency, show up regular and finally get the long term results you were capable of all along.

Taking responsibility means telling the truth to yourself, leading by example from now on and making yourself accountable for everything you do. This will create a no fail environment and take you exactly to where you want to go and a whole lot more again.

Twitt