When Will You Have 'Made It' In Personal Training?

I know you’ve not heard from me for these last couple of weeks, but that’s because I’ve been taking my summer family vacation to my favourite place on the planet.

THAILAND!

We just love it out here and have been enjoying the fantastic weather, the amazing scenery, the wonderful food and awesome experiences, such as elephant trekking, off road motorcycling (by accident, but that’s another story!) and simply exploring this beautiful part of the world.

I’ve even booked into an intensive muay-thai kickboxing training cam for 10 days of instruction and physical conditioning with top-notch coaches.

Let me tell you, these 3-4 hour sessions are brutal enough but in 34-36 degrees they quite literally reduce me to kneeling in the corner of the ring, fighting back the urge to lose my stomach.

But hey, that’s too graphic and not why I’m writing today : )

The reason why I’m writing is toask you if you know the answer to this question;

Ready?

“when will you be successful?”

No, I don’t mean a date, I mean how will you know you’ve ‘made it ‘ to where you want to go?

What does ‘made it’ mean to you?

I’m asking because so many personal trainers that I work with or who read my letters, simply don’t know, and these that do fond forward the pound or dollar figure as their measure.

“I’ve made it when when I’m earning six figures”. They say but here’s the thing, the real question you need to ask yourself.

If I were to be the success person I dream of becoming, what kind of person would I be? What kind of things would I do? What kind of things would I have?

BE

DO

HAVE

That changes things massively, don’t you think?

You see, most trainers are so hard in pursuit of the monetary figure that they’ve almost forgotten what the money was meant to buy them in the first place. I know of many, many six figure fitness proffesionals who work even harder in pursuit of the next dollar, yet rarely take a day of or a vacation to enjoy the fruit of their labor.

But be, do and have changes everything.

It has for me anyway!

I went from a workaholic focused on income to a person who thinks of my income as something that allows me to be, do and have more in my life. I also realised, as many do, that be and do are far more important to me than have.

So I and my family DO a lot.

This year alone we’ve been to Disney in Florida in January, 2 weeks to Bali, Indonesia in February, 1 week to Krabi, in Thailand, april and now 3 weeks to phuket in Thailand.

Last year we had adventures to ice-hotels and the northern lights in Norway, travelled all over the Australian outback for a month and had a month in Thailand.

In my family, we call it the ’12 weeks rule’ where we try to take a ‘trip/adventure’ as a family every 12 weeks.

This allows me to be the kind of father and husband I saw myself as being, when I thought of success and DO the kinds of
things I hoped success would allow

My point to all this is a simple one.

Stop waiting for success to come before you get to be, do and have the things that success brings in your life.
Start doing them now, create stories for your life then go live them.

To your success!!!

Dax Moy
http://www.personaltrainersuccessacademy.com

P.S- its true that my income now exceeds six-figures, but I’ve been doing this since my income was less than £30,000 a year. Money has far less to do with success than you think.

P.P.S- many of my friends in the industry earn far more than me, yet they always comment on my ‘millionaire lifestyle’…Worth thinking about!