What limitations are YOU imposing on YOURSELF?

^^^ funny concept eh?

Don’t get me wrong you are talking to someone who didn’t pull their finger out of their arse until they were 33!

I guess being a fat kid, beating pretty much all the girls to get first boobs in the class and yes DOUBLE braces – fuck me I was sexy – gives you an interesting kind of ‘training’

I either got bullied!

Or I talked my way out of it.

As far as I can remember I didn’t get bullied once; I was always able to come up with a great reason why they shouldn’t, and in fact many of the ‘naughty kids’ ended up apologizing and being my friend.

(which meant I NEVER got any shit as I got older ha)

Anyways, what I’m saying is that due to my bobble and braces, I got good at dealing with people and problems. This made me (and I say this with no arrogance, I have all the stats to prove it and YES it surprises me still to this day) an excellent personal trainer and headhunter.

I got people…

I got their problems…

I could build rapport fast…

I only sold them what they needed…

My client retention was obscence across all my careers (personal training, headhunting, advertising, copywriting, coaching)

BUT

I had been told for many a year that I was going to be successful, but at 32 I was doing ok, but hardly lighting the sky up!

It took me meeting some entrepreneurs who were much younger than me, much more successful than me to realise the issue all along had been ‘ME’

As a PT (and I think if you are smart you can get a fucking first class business education from YOUR clients) I was able to pick these guys who where in their 40’s and 50’s who had absolutely killed it in business.

What did they have?

-Self belief

-Mentally no ‘limitations’ on what was possible

-Confidence in their own abilities, and their business

– Listened to others opinions, but didn’t care if people liked/disliked them

– Driven

– Wanted to be the best at what they did

– Understood the value of HARD work, but also fun

– Excellent networkers and communicators

But the key thing – and I’ve used this phrase more than once – If I had to sum them up:

INSTEAD OF THINKING WHAT IF, THEY THOUGHT WHY NOT

Why not!

What a fucking amazing concept.

You have as much chance of predicting the future as I have of waking up NOT covered in hair 😉

Shoot for the bastard moon!

I mean look at me, Im an ordinary plum from Somerset who stopped making excuses for my lack of success, stopped thinking others had it ‘better’ than me, stopped worrying ‘what if’ and just fucking went for it.

I mean look at what’s happened for Gods sake! Franc Feliu and myself are brought Gary Vaynerchuk to the UK for an utterly crazy event in the middle of the largest UK boxing venue, with some of the UK & Americas top entrepreneurs, JUST excuse we said.

WHY NOT!?

instead of

WHAT IF?

Take a moment and ponder, if you could get rid of that little dick-bag that makes you worry about all the things THAT could go wrong, and instead turned all the brain computing power to exploring what you COULD do

Do you think you would be happier, more fulfilled, challenged and closer to your goal (whatever that may be)

Well, thats for you to decide, but as soon as I stopped becoming attached to the outcome, and just fucking went for it?

Life has gotten considerably better….not for everyone, but worth a ponder eh?