Here We Go!!

I love my job. Love, love, love it, in fact. I get to help people get healthy! And I get to move a lot for my job. How much more fun could you have?

For the past 2 years I've been just dabbling in my personal trainer business. Working a few hours a week. Nothing huge. Mainly because I was pregnant and then had a newborn. Just recently my husband and I decided that at our current rate we could possibly be in this apartment another 4 years. That doesn't sound very fun to me.

So now it's time to drum up this business of mine. Some decently creative thoughts have come by me. Some successful, some so-so, some a total flop. My to-do list is growing by the minute...that's kind of exciting. And I have a meeting tomorrow with a pretty successful business man who is going to brainstorm with me and help me get down a "business plan". I love talking to smart people. I think he's excited to help me too.

As we've been emailing back and forth preparing for this meeting he's used a couple words that have stuck out to me: Creative and Courage.

Creative: I wasn't born with a ton of creativity. But lucky for me, I have a lot of wildly creative people in my life.

Here's a really long quote from Henry Ford when he was placed on a stand and asked a bunch of ridiculous questions b/c he was labeled as "ignorant". "If I should really wish to answer the foolish question you have just asked, or any of the others you have been asking, let me remind you that I have a row of electric push-buttons hanging over my desk and by placing my
finger on the right button I could call in men who could give me the correct answer to all the questions you have asked and to many that you have not the intelligence either to ask or answer. Now, will you kindly tell me why I should bother about filling my mind with a lot of useless details in order to answer every fool question that anyone may ask, when I have able men all about me who can supply me with all the facts I want when I call for them?" So here we go...use the people around me.

Courage: I know that I also wasn't born with a ton of courage. But with this business I don't really have anything to lose. If I throw myself at something and fail, it honestly doesn't hurt all that much. A few months ago I threw myself into The Biggest Loser Carriage Place. I made out a plan, had posters made, printed out packets, ALMOST had t-shirts printed, and got ready for some fun competition. No one signed up. Not a one. And honestly, it didn't hurt my feelings. It was prob. the area. Wasn't marketing to the right people. Something like that. Something I can learn from.

So hopefully I go to this meeting tomorrow and come out of it with a lot more excitement, a bunch of creative ideas, and the courage to pick myself up once I fail.

Here we go!