For most people life just kinda happens to them.

They're at the mercy of circumstance, hate their job, hate their spouse and are bored out of their f**king mind.

Then there are those who design life to be just how they want it. I call these "Lifestyle Design Bad-Asses"

Here's a quick post I whipped up about how to be a lifestyle design bad-ass…

There are some things in life that are just friggin' cool… like 70s soul music.  I'm talking about Al Green and Marvin Gaye and that kind of stuff. 

Also, Johnny Cash is pretty damn cool.  I don't know too many people who would disagree with that. 

Chris Hansen busting guys trying to get laid by 12 year olds they met on Myspace… now that's pretty damn cool as well.  In fact, I think above owning a personal training business, Chris Hansen has the best job in the world. 

I think one of the keys to driving your business forward is to use time blocks, especially blocks of uninterrupted time that are focused on doing the most important things to move your business forward. 

Every day you should be setting aside a minimum of one to two hours to do the most important things to move your business forward.  If you can spend more time than that, all the better, but at least one to two hours. 

Here's a little video I created that shows how I'm able to get an insane amount of work accomplished in just a few short hours of actual work each week. (…)

All growth, whether personally or in business, is going to happen just outside a level of where you are comfortable with. (…)

 By guest author Logan Strain
One of my favorite techniques for relaxing and getting loose is called “progressive relaxation.”  It was developed by the psychiatrist Edmund Jacobson and first published in 1929 (which means it no doubt came in handy for many distraught stockbrokers.) It works for me because it breaks the relaxation process into tiny, digestible bits, and the overall experience is very refreshing. (…)

 By guest author Logan Strain
Outsourcing can free up a lot of your time, but it can also lead to a lot of headaches if you do it wrong. (…)

 By guest author Logan Strain

Step number one towards squeezing the most productivity possible out of every day is keeping a time log.  This means for seven days, you should keep track of how you spend your time.  Record how long it takes you to get ready in the morning, track how many minutes you spend eating breakfast, clock your commute, etc.  It sounds like it might be tedious to log every single minute of your day, but by the second day it will feel totally natural.  At the end of the week, add up every activity 
If you are like most people, you will be shocked by how your time is distributed. (…)

What are you good at?
What are you passionate about?
What are your highest 5 values?
What brings in the most revenue in your business? (…)

Multi-tasking is about the biggest waste of time I can think of for the small business owner. (…)

E-mail used to be fun and exciting and was supposed to make our lives easier and our workday more efficient.
Unfortunately this is rarely the case. (…)

There's an Asian Philosophy called something like "The Art of Leaving Things Undone"
If you're a personal training business owner you most likely have well over 100 things on your to do list. (…)

Storyboarding is an incredible time management strategy. (…)

Chris McCombs (CM): I’m here with William Tiller. Bill, who are you and what is it that you do? (…)

Chris McCombs (CM): All right, I am here with Geovanni Derice.  Geovanni, who are you and what do you do? (…)

It is very important to have rituals set in place every work day that allows you to get the things done that you need to get done in your health club or personal training business.  There should be scheduled blocks of work time and scheduled blocks recovery time.  Just like in weight lifting, a muscle needs to be worked, and then a period of recovery needs to be allowed for that muscle to get stronger, before the next workout, the same is true for work in the business life.  I schedule blocks of time of 90 to 120 minutes of intensely focused work time, where I will focus usually on a particular task with short breaks in between those periods of time.  These short breaks are usually anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour.  Here is an example of my current daily rituals. (…)

I own a small, locally based personal training business, but I choose to work from home. This saves me from the day-to-day commuting that most small business owners need to do. (…)

I found a great little nugget of a service that really helps me to create content on the go. It's called Copytalk. (…)

We've all been there…busy all day but didn't get a damned thing done. Don't you hate that? It seems to be a common frustration for every small business I know. (…)

I love doing something that I enjoy but ALSO makes me money. In my teens, twenties and early thirties I worked many jobs that I couldn't stand. (…)