“None of us is as smart as all of us“

- Ken Blanchard

We live in a truly fast paced world. To keep up, never mind thrive, we cannot go it alone. Think of the ultimate one-on-one sports — be it MMA or boxing – two combatants stripped to the waist, with no equipment going head to head. It’s one-on-one competition of the highest form.

But look back at the corner of the ring. There are always at least three guys in that corner. it’s never one-on-one — it’s a team effort.

Everyone needs help. I think this is one of the reasons why social media has become so popular — people see the benefits of shared knowledge and communication.

And it holds true with education — If you wanted to learn a new skill quickly – what would you do? Would you go off alone and hope to figure it out, or do you get someone to teach you?

You can always learn way faster from someone with experience, be it from books, seminars or as a personal coach.

Two of my personal philosophies have been 1) to continually invest in myself – my own education, and 2) to pay it forward.

So now it’s my turn to pay education forward…

Let me give you a summary of the last nine years or so in my business

• In 2000 Rachel and I opened a gym with one employee, eight members and 650 sq ft of gym floor.
  Our funding? Credit cards. No bank loans, no SBA loans, no investors.
• 2001 our apartment was broken into and amongst other things our laptop, with all our programs and marketing was stolen
• By the second half of 2003 I was sick all the time. Couldn’t figure it out but ended up taking a lot of time off
• 2004 I was diagnosed with stage IV cancer and had to take the rest of the year off
• 2005 I was recovering and could only work part time
• 2006 I relapsed and essentially moved into the hospital where I underwent a stem cell transplant. Rach moved in with me pretty much.
• 2007 Rach and I took the year off while I recovered. In December we had to fire our manager.
• 2008 the economy tanked.
• 2009 the economy continued to drop and close to 20% of all gyms went out of business.

Currently that little gym is 7500 square feet, 250 members and employs twelve staff full time.

Obviously we weren’t what you would consider “lucky” over the past nine years. Yet our business grew.

We just happened to do a few things RIGHT.

It’s unlikely that you will face adversity anywhere close to what we faced. So if your business hasn’t grown more than ours in that same time frame – you must be doing a few things wrong.

It’s time to fix that.

This year we are joining forces with Perform Better and launching a fitness business seminar tour – that has taken us to Rhode Island and Chcago and will take us on to New Jersey and Los Angeles.

If you want to learn EXACTLY how we designed Results Fitness, including the staffing and business systems that allowed us to take three years completely off, and still expand and grow – then you won’t want to miss these events.

February 5th and 6th: New Jersey
February 26th and 27th: Los Angeles

If you’re a trainer who has been struggling this past year, or are looking to take your business to the next level, or a studio owner who is doing well but ready to really step it up in 2010 – this is the event for you.

We will cover:

• Achieve success in the fitness industry creating the business you want, the life you want and the freedom you want. Build a business to support your lifestyle, not the other way around.
• Walk away with action steps to take immediately to dramatically change and fast forward your life, your career and your business.
• Learn how you can make 6-7 figures and work less using the systems revealed during this seminar. (you can’t make 6 figures a year by just doing more of what made you five figures – you need to think and act differently)
• Learn to think like a business owner
• Find out the exact recipe to transition from being a passionate fitness trainer with no free time and no money to being a successful fitness business owner with time, freedom and income to live the life you want.

Go here to sign up: Perform Better in Business

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AC
PS – This is NOT one of those internet marketing “pretend you’re in the fitness business” seminars – this comes from an in-the-trenches proven successful facility — voted one of America’s TOP TEN facilities by Mens Health magazine 2009 and we’ll cover real strategies to build a solid business.