YOU CAN’T HAVE IT ALL AT THE SAME TIME IF you want to experience a highest level of success you first of course have to define it. If you begin to tell someone else what that is and it ends up coming out of your mouth like either diarrhea or vague nondescript words, you have …
The Three Key Things…for Your Success GPS 1. Programming- Do you have the programs that were created based on your ONE customer? Your customer today, and not your customer yesterday. Your customer as they grow into tomorrow…will have new needs and wants and goals, do you know what they are? Do you notice that there …
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Unlike body work; where we need to create a good balance often by focusing on our weak links and stretching what’s tight while strengthening the long and weak; in business that’s not always a good idea. You do need to create a balance, but it doesn’t always have to be you. Decide what and where …
Last week had you plopped any small child on Santa’s lap 9 out of 10 times you’d hear them rattle off a list of items they hoped to find under the tree. Knowing what you want is half the battle. You love your work, you want to be successful. If you haven’t determined what success …
Thomas Plummer is an ikon in the fitness industry for those who have indulged in the business components of fitness business as a craft. He recently authored an article in Club Insider where he declared seven “sacred cows” in the fitness industry that need to die. What he did was stir up controversy and get …
You’re in the fitness business. You love exercise and fitness and sharing your passion. We’ve all said it before. Truth is, you shouldn’t have to tell anyone that. They should be telling someone else about that as they describe you. It should be obvious. But following your dream and your passion can be hard work. …
Your skill as a personal trainer are many and varied. You likely have strengths in some areas and weaknesses in others. There are some excellent coaches that will suggest you focus on your strengths. That’s a novel idea for some of us. We’ve been taught or conditioned to look for our weaknesses and try to …
A recent series of phone calls with another employee at our fitness center included that employee’s assessment of my decision to stick by our hiring standards and have to pass on a quality person for our staff as “limiting our potential in the future.” My feeling is and continues to be that if I lower …
What do you expect to happen today? If you golf, on every tee-shot you need to be thinking this ball is going directly toward the hole or this shot is going to set me up perfectly for a short approach. Instead it’s often easier to think, don’t let this ball go in the water or …
How will you sell anyone else on exercise and health if you don’t have a way to rejuvenate? You preach refuel and recovery, but do you do it yourself? What’s your chocolate milk? What do you put into yourself after a hard week, an intense stretch of programming, or a big promotion? What do you …
You are nearly a quarter of the way through your year. Are you a quarter of the way to your 2011 goals? Do you remind yourself of them on a daily basis? Do you know what choices and actions you have to make on a daily basis to get there? When your clients want to …
Your clients don’t get results without well-set goals, appropriate programming, and progression. Back at ya! Take a few moments, or hours, during this holiday weekend to be still and declare what it is that you want to be celebrating when this holiday season rolls around again. Here are a few steps I use with coaching …
You deserve to attract your dream customers and earn the value of the transformation you provide. I’ll help you do it and keep the freedom and flexibility you love.
Debra Atkinson
Voice For Fitness LLC
1630 30th St Ste A Boulder, CO 80301
(480) 648-8812