As I sit here at Panera busting out my “2 hour power hour” of working my business I can’t help but reflect back to 3 years ago.
It was around 3 years ago that I was only a couple months into building my Beachbody Coach business. I hadn’t completed P90X yet and I was far from who I am today. I worked at Red Robin waiting tables and I had just moved from Maine where I lived the previous 24 years of my life.
I had no proof even to myself that this Beachbody Coach thing would turn into a life-changer. Actually, I didn’t even know it was possible to work for yourself. I thought those with money were “lucky” and I was doomed to work minimum wage. Wow my mindset was so far off!
I was just as skeptical about this opportunity and network marketing because I used to say “I’m not a sales person” which I still say to this day. I eventually learned it’s about sharing, not selling. I didn’t know how to build websites, I didn’t know what a marketing funnel was, I didn’t understand SEO, and I never thought myself of a leader at that time.
In fact, I remember questioning the value I had to offer the world. I didn’t think I had any value… “who would want to listen to me?” I thought. That’s just one of the limiting beliefs I had back then.
After my first several months of trying to do everything wrong in my business I nearly quit. I almost left the dream because I felt I had “talked to everyone” and “tried everything I could“. I put those in quotes because I hear these things from others and my hope is that if you say those things of yourself that you change your belief system of yourself immediately!
You have immense value because you have the ability to learn, grow, and expand who you are, how you look at things, and your over-all paradigm of your internal world and the world outside of you.
3 years ago I started with only one solid idea. I didn’t know how I would build this business but I knew somehow, someway I would make it work. I knew to build my business I had to build myself.
Now I am in Disney with my parents without stress of having to ask for time off, I have enough money to take my parents out, and I can truly enjoy the time I exist in right now. Like Craig Holiday say’s, “be where you are“. I feel I can finally do this and live life to my terms and not to the terms of a boss, bills, and stress.
I didn’t really have a certain goal with writing this post besides sharing that you can do it too. I don’t mean Beachbody Coaching though if that’s a path you feel is for you I will help guide you. What I mean is no matter what you want, you can do it.
However, it will require a certain drive, you have to be willing to grow which involves great triumphs and terrible growth pains. You will succeed and you will fail, succeed and fail, succeed and fail… and in that process you will grow if you choose!
My question to you is this…
Are you willing to live life the way others see fit or are you driven to live life the way you want it to be? Are you willing to do what it takes to make change TODAY that will shape your tomorrow? Or are you willing to do nothing today to stay in complacency which deflates your goals of tomorrow?
One or the other will happen regardless. How would you like your story to read if your entire life from beginning to end was in a book? Would you want it to be full of life and end with “I wouldn’t change a thing” or would you rather it just say “If only…”
No matter where you are YOU can write your story starting today but only if you choose and commit.
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