03/11/2021
It’s been a ride.
I’ve coached in multiple gyms, with different people, different roles & different experiences.
When I first started it was overwhelming. I had this idea in my head when I took my first role that I needed every aspect of my life to be ‘perfect’ to be a good coach. How could I coach someone about sleep if I was struggling with my own? Now I realise experience is the best educator of all.
To relate it, I have clients who also come to me thinking they need their lives to be ‘perfect’ to become fitter, or more athletic in the gym, that they aren’t allowed a decent social life, or to have chocolate mid week because apparently chocolate is forbidden.
Over the years I’ve come to realise these 5 things:
💭 No coach has a perfect life. Rephase no-one has a perfect life. Start where you are, with what you’ve got, and do your best. You're going to stuff up, you’re going to have bad weeks, & you are going to upset people. Practice what you preach but don’t expect perfection because nobody has it right every time with everything.
💭 Knowledge has so much power. My business changed the moment I stopped prioritising study. It also changed the moment I spent thousands every year on courses that ultimately you don’t know the difference they’ll make on your business until you do the work. Go learn something.
💭 You don't know the impact you have on someones life. The smallest bit of help you give, may be the biggest life changing moment for somebody else.
💭 You actually can always do more. Never settle for where you are because this isn’t even half of what you could become. Professionally, personally, and socially - there are ways to expand, and reach a higher norm.
💭 Life happens, don’t miss it either.