Below are my thoughts on our first year as a coach a Team Beachbody Coach. What drove me? Why did I do it? When did we start to see momentum.
Friday morning I woke up on the Disney Wonder to my alarm lock. I made a Tropical Strawberry Shakeology with E&E and walked out onto our Balcony to mediate and prepare for my morning workout in the Ships gym. As I stepped out of our stateroom this was the view that I saw and I was overtaken with emotions.
YES, its a beautiful view but WHY overtaken with emotions? This is Atlantis in the Bahamas. Its a gorgeous view and it was our second port on our 4 day cruise with Disney but why overtaken?
You see it was April 11th 2011 when I was sitting in my cubicle at work as a Technical Writer and that morning I had been overwhelmed by looking through the bills of our daughter Ellie’s birth that was just 23 days earlier.
As I was sitting there scared I logged onto Facebook on my break and saw a couple of THOUSAND people posting pictures about a “free trip”. They were on a cruise ship with Team Beachbody on something called a Success Club trip. I don’t even know where they were cruising to but I had what felt like a thousand feelings beginning to overwhelm me.
I was mad that I was at work while they were on vacation. I was mad that I was TOO SCARED to become a coach 9 months earlier when I completed P90X and talked to me coach about it. I was upset that I was scared. I was jealous that they were playing and I was working. I didn’t know how to the doctor bills. I was again mad at myself that they were doing what I loved but that they had overcome the fear and I had not. You see I had always told my coach Lindsay that I couldn’t “afford” to be a coach and pay the $15.95 a month coach fee. I was afraid to commit to using Shakeology every single day as I didn’t know how to pay the current bills. But those were cover stories. Those were excuses that I fabricated to easily tell her no “that is not for me I’ll just help people without being an official coach.” What was really happening inside of me, FEAR of the unknown and fear of failing at another thing in life. April 11th 2011 the fear of not knowing how to fully provide for my new growing family became greater than my fear of failure. I called Lindsay and signed up as a Beachbody coach that day.
So why is this view or this picture overtake me with emotions? Because as I started digging into my new Coach office and training I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I had no idea what being a coach was or its potential other than helping some people, making a 25% commission by sharing products and that I could earn a free trip for my family. I asked Lindsay how I can go on the next free Success Club trip which was ATLANTIS in March of 2012 and she told me I needed to hit Success Club 10 for the next 9 months. So without knowing how that would be possible, being an introvert, having only 224 Facebook friends I went to work with a CLEAR concise goal. I then EARNED THAT TRIP in 9 months I put a stock picture up of Atlantis as my screen saver and I went to work with pure faith that God would help direct me as long as I was willing to put in the work with 100% unwavering faith in the end destination. I still look back to that first year and wonder how? But the real reason to how was because I knew WHY.
I remember this lesson I learned which served me well and continues to serve me even now close to 4 years after this date. You cannot please everyone. You have to establish YOUR GOALS. It’s time to stand up for yourself and stop worrying whether everyone else “gets it”. To be the best at something, I think you have to be willing to not be the best at everything. Some people might not appreciate that. But once you choose, it’s up to you to go after your greatness with such relentless ambition that everyone around you sees you are serious. That focus will serve you. Being willing to say “no” will serve you. And taking your life back from those who think they can decide what’s right for you will serve you. Take your life back. Right now. Take deliberate action to create the life that YOU will love. The world needs more of that.
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