Lesson from the Gym True or False??

Going back a couple of decades, I was in university. (Economics, finance, business, marketing.) I came from an affluent family, but one that also was not in the habit of spoiling. Needing money, as we all do, I took an unusual side-job. I say unusual because it related to none of my strengths at the time. I'd grown up in an entrepreneurial environment, become quite a salesman, too, and at an early age, but growing up had turned me somewhat retiring, thoughtful. I was either going to become a novelist or screenwriter or entrepreneur. (As it turned out, I became all three.) The job was knocking doors. Canvassing. Not - let it be known - the profession for the quiet, retiring writer type. Turns out, though: I learned more on those doors about being an entrepreneur than 6 years of lectures. Of course, you could put this down to being a bad student. Not the case, though. I almost became a perpetual student, I loved it so much; and was none too shabby at learning, either. The reason had to do with this: Sometimes, when you get thrown in the deep end, you either sink or swim; and sometimes, when you swim, you learn more in months than you do in years. Those doors, specifically speaking now, taught me how to sell. How to sell myself, the product; a number of things. All of which leads me to a point: selling, in its simplest form, is about responding to change. This applies to the lowly canvasser as much as the multinational.

You pulled some memories out of me there. Time for a smoke!

Tom

Its a marketing sign to encourage you keep you returning to the gym. The goal for the gym is for the members to keep their membership beyond the usual 90 dropout point. That is why so many gyms insist that you pay for 3 months upfront.

If all you ever focus on is the change you will keep yourself staring at the ground in front of your feet while you are walking rather than your goal.

In any situation where you are changing there are 3 steps:

1. You realize you don't want to be where you are in your life anymore.
2. You pick another place (goal) that you would rather have instead.
3. You start changing. If what you choose as a method of change works, you do more of that. if what you choose does not work so well, you pick something different.

When you reach your goal - your new desired destination - if you like you can stay there. If you want something more, then you start the process again.

The WF is full of ideas about focusing on change, but if you don't know where you want to go, none of them are going to do anything for you except delay your journey toward your goal.

Bernard,
With all this business talk, I must add on a side not that 50 minutes for 6.5 miles is pretty darn swift.
With knee and hip problems, I am lucky to break an hour for 6.2 miles these days.

Nice going.


- Robert Andrew