It’s easy to be positive when everything in life is going great. The hard part is staying positive when life kicks you down and knocks you around.
- It’s even harder when we see so many people, friends, family and the media around us and on television who are enjoying great success. As a society we celebrate the rich, successful and famous and too often focus on the picture of success rather than the journey it took to create it.
- It’s as if we see only a picture of someone enjoying the best moment of their life while the video of the struggle and pain it took to get to that moment sits in the closet. We don’t hear about the obstacles and adversities people, organisations and businesses had to encounter to create their success.
- The fact is no one goes through life untested. If you study history and business you will find that every great leader and team had to overcome adversity and challenges to define themselves and their success.
- Working within health and fitness is a minefield when it comes to mindset. We often work with clients who are full of enthusiasm at the start but it only takes a small blip for everything to spiral downwards and as the professionals we need to be mindful of this.
Is it not our job to help our clients develop the strategies to not allow life events to put an obstacle in the way of their dreams?
- Clients (and probably ourselves too) are very good at assuming some people find their own personal successes easily and without problems. In truth, I know of no one that it applies to, either friends, colleagues or famous celebrities.
- We all have a journey. We all have a past. We all have to learn and that includes clients, some will welcome this challenge, some will not and they will put every block in your path, this is where your skills come in, we need to sell it to them, to show them they are far stronger than they ever realised.
- The concept of the “overnight success” is a myth. Get rich quick schemes don’t work. Life is a test and a deciding factor of whether we pass or fail is the answer to the following question “Are you going to stay positive in the face of your doubts, fears and challenges?”
- It is important that our clients realise that staying positive is not about putting on a fake smile or believing you can do it all yourself. Rather it’s about being optimistic and living with hope and having faith. The measure of our success will not be determined by how we act during the great times in our life but rather by how we think and respond to the challenges of our most difficult moments.
Pole Perfect Fitness Team x