Archive for the ‘Mindset and Time Management’ Category

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If in your business life or personal life, you’ve hit a roadblock, challenge, brick wall or maybe even a tragedy… this blog post will show you what to do about it

Like lets say you lost some clients…  maybe it was life clearing a space for some better clients to come your way, ones who will follow your program more, get better results and get you more referrals.

Or maybe it’s giving you a chance to spend more time with your family or something important you’ve been avoiding, before your next wave of clients comes in and you get super busy again.

Or maybe you had a client was seriously injured in one of your workouts, now you have an opportunity to learn how to provide safer workouts, lowering your overall clients injury rate overtime ( and your risk of being sued ).

Or let’s say you location didn’t work out for you and have to move, maybe this an opportunity to get a location that gets more foot traffic, or is a more inspiring place for you to train, or maybe at this new location it’s where you’ll meet the love of your life, or meet the more seasoned “business-savvy” trainer who can mentor you and show you how to improve the living daylights outta your business…

I don’t know what it is, and sometimes the “good” isn’t immediate or easy to see… but if you look for it, and keep the attitude that it’s there, it’ll show up

Every life has problems and ups and and downs, every life has good times and bad, and every business is the same

Between my friends, family, training clients, coaching clients and acquaintances… I’ve seen people go through and GROW THROUGH just about everything imaginable.

Often times the happiest ones are the ones who’ve been through the most

Many of the most successful people are as successful as they are because of how they deal with the daily challenges that pop up in their business (more…)

Today’s post is about something that’s worth fighting for with EVERYTHING IN YOU

This week I came down with the flu, it’s been A LONG TIME since I’ve been sick, I was almost at the point where I didn’t think I could get sick anymore… but I did end up getting a doozy of flu, oh well, it happens.

Anyhow, it kind of threw me off my regular schedule and I spent a few days just lying around on the couch so I could get better.

And a funny thing happened in the midst of project couch flop…I noticed myself worrying about stuff WAY more than normal.

Now today, I was able to take some action on a few things and get a workout in… and BAM… suddenly I stopped worrying about stuff, and my eye is on the ball again ( Worrying is like prayer in reverse, it’s like mediating and visualizing and doing affirmations for what you DON”T WANT)

Simply getting up and getting back into action on things reminded of me of something a friend told me in a mastermind meeting years ago:

Action Alleviates Anxiety

Boy does it ever ( The workout helped a ton also, if I go two days without getting a sweat on I start to get a little whacky)

Do yourself a favor and take a few minutes to watch the following video to help reset your brain and clear out any worrisome or negative thoughts you may be experiencing, and then get up and take some action towards those things in life you want

Because your happiness, goals and dreams are worth fighting for … and the battle takes place in your mind and in the Great Here and Now

This video will be time well spent… it’s from one of the best books of all time by a true master of success.. a man who has had profound impact on my life and my business… Dale Carnegie…  and then after you watch the first video, be sure to check out the Training Montage Zach Even-Esh sent me below just as I was pushing the publish button on this post… It’s got some GREAT training footage and has some scenes that have motivated a great many fitness pros over the course of their lives… and always seems to get me fired up… ENJOY:

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Fitness Business Guest Post By Zach Hunt

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Hey there, it’s Zach here, hope you’re doing awesome!

I have to admit, I’m a little strange…

Ok, maybe a lot strange! ( However, one thing I noticed about most of us KBL members… were all a little whacky, I think that what makes things so fun though)

Now I showed this little document I have to my wife, and she thought I was just outright obsessive.

It was a written document / system for how I run my mornings, and pretty much my entire day.

Here’s a little snap shot of my morning routines:

• 4:30-4:45 – Wake, Ready, Protein Shake, Bathroom, Read (Audio)
• 4:45-5:30 – Read Bible, Extra Materials, Pray More (Stay Focused)
• 5:30-6:30 – Read (Books, Newsletters, Magazines, Catch Up RSS)
• 6:30-6:45 – Review Motivation, Goals, Pictures, Things I Want

(You might notice how most the lines are even. I can’t write anything that is not even. The lines have to line up, and I’ll spend 20 minutes looking for different words that mean the same thing, just to make those lines even)

A few years back when I first started getting business mentoring from Big Chris, he taught me to work in time blocks

However, little did he know…

I’m a little overly organized and obsessive in a lot of things, for example, I’ll spend 30 or 60 minutes just organizing the apps and icons on my iPhone (my wife really love this). Just so the colors are even throughout the phone ‘pages’ and all the categories match. Sometimes this even stresses me out and I can’t focus until they are all organized.

But here’s how that’s a good thing.

I’ve developed everything I do into a overly organized method of habits. (more…)

Check out this awesome video and the blog post below from Zach Even-Esh about how you can create a second income in the fitness industry by leveraging a lot of the things that you’re already doin… this is a BAD ASS stuff…

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Outsourcing Tips and Strategies So You Can Grow Your Business, Have More Freedom and Spend YOUR Time on The Things You Enjoy and Are GOOD AT… Instead of All The Lame Minutia That Drives You NUTS

Hey there, here’s two brand new videos I just put up for you from Andy Jenkins at the last KBL Jedi Mastermind Meeting on how to outsource a lot of the things in your business so you can get more done each day, have less stress and in your life and be free of a lot of the busy work in your biz

And if there’s one person who knows about outsourcing it’s Andy, he’s a full-time Internet Marketer AND Filmmaker … has owned an internet marketing company with 75 employees … and now has a “dialed-in” team of 11 virtual employees working for him in the Philippines… allowing him to work from his lap top and iphone on the balcony of his $7 Million Dollar home on a cliff in La Jola CA overlooking the ocean… where’s he’s able to focus on what he’s good at…  AND what he enjoys.

( By the way, click here to learn how you can apply for the KBL Jedi Mastermind, …. and …… click here to learn more about the group)

Enjoy your videos…

Here’s Part 1 …

And here’s Part 2…

I hope you enjoyed the vids… and if you’re interested in applying for The KBL Jedi Mastermind while I’m accepting applications, here’s the link

Click Here To Apply For The The KBL Jedi Mastermind

And if you’d like to learn more about the KBL Jedi Mastermind, see some feedback from members as well as a list of current members, just click here

I’d love to hear your comments below about Andy’s videos

A Fitness Business Guest Post From Aja Davis

Hey there, it’s Big Chris, here’s a blog post about overcoming fear from Aja Davis, she’s someone who’s been a coaching client of mine for a number of years and really kicks ass in her business… trust me when I say this Girl knows what the she’s talking about

So without further ado, I’ll let Aja take it from here…

Hey there, Aja Davis here with New Body Boot Camp & Wellness.

So I wanted to address something in this post that I think a lot of fitness pros might not ever admit to having to deal with. Sure you might think about it. You might not even know it’s there. It comes in all forms. Usually it looks something like paralysis and procrastination. It lies deep within each of us.

What I’m talking about is a dirty four letter word called F.E.A.R. And I’m here to tell you To Screw Fear. (more…)

A Blog Post from Big Chris McCombs

Hey there, I’m Big Chris… well at least I hope I am cuz’ I’m wearing his underwear.

Ya know, I find life lessons in the weirdest of places sometimes…

USUALLY I learn through experience… especially when it comes making mistakes and what not… I’ll get in enough pain over something that at some point if I’m lucky enough I’ll decide to stop doin’ whatever it is I’m doin’ that’s causing me to suffer.

Other times it’ll be a talk with a friend or loved one… or sometimes even a stranger

Sometimes I learn from books, blogs, guru’s, info-products, seminars and things of that nature.

And other times I’ll learn from the lives of others, looking at how someone lived or lives their life and the lessons THEY’VE learned.

Sometimes it’ll be from the lives of people like Gandhi, Jesus, Martin Luther King… the normal cast of characters.

Other times it’ll be from great marketers like Dan Kennedy or Andy Jenkins… or Mindset and Motivational Dudes like Tony Robbins and John Assaraf… ( John Assaraf is a bad ass BTW )

And other times it’ll be the less likely crowd like 50 Cent, Henry Rollins, Corey Taylor and The Grateful Dead… The Rappers, The Rockers and The Hippies.

Ya know, I’m a HUGE fan of music… from Metal and Hip Hop… to Old School Soul and Old School Country… to Jazz ( LOVE John Coltrane) and super-mellow Acoustical Stuff like Elliot Smith … just to name a FEW of the styles I like.

I’m one of those people who listens to music constantly… different music for different moods ya know.

And I’ve actually learned quite a bit from some of the artists I listen to.

So….

Here’s some lessons from a few of those artists… let’s start with 50 Cent since he is undoubtedly the most popular right now… (more…)

After you check out this guest post from Zack Cahill, I have a quick question for you … it’s right under the picture of Zack and above the banner that looks like this …

But before that, here’s the post from Zack…

A Fitness Business Mindset Guest Blog Post by Zack Cahill‘

“Chick crack”. That’s the term Neil Strauss uses in his pick-up bible The Game to describe pop psychology tests. You know those tests that appear in women’s gossip magazines and claim to tell if your partner is cheating based on a multiple choice questionnaire.

Neil believes no woman can resist taking part in a test that’s going to tell her about her character, so when you work it into a conversation with a girl she responds to it like a junkie to crack! (by the way, if you haven’t read The Game- Go to Amazon. Buy it. I’ll wait…..ok, back with us? Great)

Well I think we all secretly enjoy these kind if tests so I’ve developed my own, let’s call it The Scarcity Test.

Having a scarcity or abundance mindset is one of the biggest predictors of how happy or stressed out you’ll be, in this or any industry. If you have a scarcity mindset you will always be placing subconscious limitations on your development, fearful of competition and resentful toward others in your industry.

Let’s find out where you fall… (more…)

A Fitness Business Post by Big Chris McCombs

This blog post covers some of the biggest things holding most fitness pros back from being successful and what you can do about it.

You see… most fitness pros who own their own business end up in a situation that looks like this …

They work long hours, doin’ all the wrong things, and end up with a business that pretty much stays the same .. or goes up and down a little… but never really lives up to what it could be it they’d just focus on the RIGHT things

Borrowing from The Emyth here…

- They do all the training ( Meaning they are the TECHNICIAN in their business )

- They do most … or ALL … of the customer support, scheduling, billing, admin and “busy work” for the business ( Meaning they are the MANAGER in their business )

- And at the end of the day they have very little time left over to be the ENTREPRENEUR … the one who does the big picture “drive the business forward” stuff… like the marketing and strategical stuff

The thing is, the ENTREPRENEUR is the one that makes or breaks the business … the entrepreneur builds the EMPIRE.

Now WITHOUT the entrepreneur… the biz either just maintains or is driven straight into the ground … But if there’s no time left over at the end of day because you’re running around like a maniac just to “maintain” things…

YOU ARE FLAT OUT SCREWED.

So what’s the solution? (more…)

A Guest Post by Joyce Nichols-Moore

Hey there it’s Big Chris… I hope you’re doin’ great

Below is a guest post for you from a super-cool fitness pro by the name of Joyce Nichols-Moore, with something you can do to help you get a lot closer to your goals for your training business.

Keep an eye out because in the very near future I’ll be releasing a program with the help of Zach Hunt that is one of my most requested programs to date

It’s all about how to have the proper business and management systems set up in your training business so you can not ony scale and grow your business and make more money, but you can also have a lot more freedom in your life and business, something most fitness entrepreneurs SORELY need

The program is called “The Fitness Freedom Formula” and I’ll be releasing it real soon… if your training biz isn’t properly systematized and automated yet, then you WILL NOT wanna miss this one… trust me.

Ok, so without further ado, I’ll let the awesome Joyce Nichols-Moore take it from here… (more…)