Today's post is in response to a challenge set by a mentor of mine called Dax Moy, his challenge was to post in your blog what you believe with regards to training, exercise or even life in general.
If you want to have a look at the original post it can be found HERE
So following is my response to that:
==> I believe in honesty and transparancy, yes in everything. Now i'll say this is not easy, some times very hard in fact, what you get from it long term though eclipses any short term gain from hiding or telling little white lies. It takes dedication and persistance and a concistant attitude towards the truth, if things aren't going well with your business then be honest; if your back pain still hurts just say; if your not losing as much fat then just say. Now it's not to say that you have to be blunt, nasty and not disregard people's feelings, including yours. You do that and you tend to find that it comes back to bite you in the arse anyway. Having had a lot of stuff happen in my personal life which involved a lot of stuff with my partner Jamie after a very hard period of we have endured and will continue to endure due to the openess and honesty between us
==> Compassion, it is my belief that in an industry that professes to "help" people, it really annoys the f**k out of me (excuse my french), that there are people that have no compassion, no empathy and no patience. For god's sake, people aren't always simple answers, they won't always listen to what you say, yes i do also get frustrated when client's don't take my advice or recommendations but as some one who enjoys coaching people, you realise that as a coach you'll do what ever it takes to help people win. you may change your approach but even if people ignore you that never means you'll stop trying, if so then i'd even say that is not your true passion and that you may wish to re-think what you do.
==> Speaking of the approach something that i like is flexibility, not just the physical kind. I mean that we all have a message to teach and coach, what we all sometimes forget is that there is more than one way to get a message across. A great example quote for this is:
"methods are a many, principles are a few, methods always change, principles never do."
Your message is your principle, your beliefs or your legacy, how you get it across to people is the method, people aren't always the same, develop the flexibility to change your method according to who you're talking to.
==> Caring about people, you're in a customer service based profession and industry, not caring about people and just taking them for a ride is plain wrong, pure and simple!
==> I believe that health and fitness can be both independant of each other and work in conjunction with each other. For example you can have certain yogi's that are incredibly healthy (blood pressure, heart, muscles etc) but are not necesarilly fit (run races, elite performance). On the flip side you can have athletes that are fit but not health at all. It is my belief that for optimal performance you must have clear definitions of what both health and fitness are for you and a clear plan how to achieve and marry up both as they are not mutually exclusive.
==> I believe in giving, pure and simple give and ye shall receive, enough said.
Anyway i hope you enjoy this is part one and I'll put part 2 up later but it's currently 7.20pm and I'm off to watch Harry Potter and snuggle up with the Mrs.
Till next time.
Dave
http://www.backpain2leanframe.com/
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1 comments:
hey mr.dave,
some wicked points there dude, we all sometimes just need to take the time to remember who we are!
something i've done a lot recently as you well know.
hurry up and post the rest of it so i can enjoy the sarcasm, err i mean deep and insightful points!
kyle
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