Hey Fitness Pros.
We’ve all experienced business and life challenges. Maybe revenues are down, maybe you lost your star trainer, maybe your landlord raised the rent, maybe an event you organized wasn’t as successful as you hoped, maybe your best client just discontinued training with you…We’ve all had to deal with some type of struggle.
The question is how do you deal with it? When you are presented with an obstacle – do you let it deflate your enthusiasm, do you lose your momentum or do you decide to go through, around, underneath or over the obstacle?!
I just got finished speaking at the fabulous Vancouver CanFitPro conference. I was able to listen to the keynote presentation with Rod MacDonald and it was great. The message was basically this. You can’t control your life. Sometimes things happen that are absolutely outside of your control. But you can control how you react to what happens. You can control the meaning you attach to what has happened. For example, let’s say I’m having a really crappy day and I’m really bummed, upset or angry about it. Well what is my crappy day, for someone else, say living in a 3rd world country, my crappy day, may be their Miracle Day. They might look and say ‘Wow, how fortunate to have a house over her head and 2 beautiful kids and a career that she loves.” So anyways, it’s always a really nice reminder. When you’re going through stuff, ask yourself is there a different perspective? Can you attach a different meaning to the event? Can you find a gift in any of it?
Yours in health, fitness and business,
Sherri McMillan
