October 13,2023 "You Are Your Only Guarantee!"
I received an interesting call this week from a potential client. I always ask the clients what their health and fitness goals are, most people don’t hear the health part. She quickly responded with enthusiasm, “I only want to lose my stomach and back fat and how long will that take?” I then asked her how her health was, do you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes? She said, high cholesterol. I then asked would you like to work on getting that lower and getting off medication? She said, “I really don’t take that medication. The enthusiasm in her voice was now fading, she is now sounding annoyed by my questions. She quickly pivoted back to asking me if I could guarantee her weight loss in those areas.
I asked her could she guarantee me that she would show up every day, on time, follow the meal plan, get enough sleep, drink enough water, give 110% in each workout, and take her medication as prescribed? She was like well I can’t guarantee that for 6 weeks, I told her well I couldn’t guarantee her weight loss results. I went on to say, that I am more of a “health’ driven gym/trainer, quick fixes are not my thing and that if she focuses on getting her health together, that the weight loss would surely follow. Needless to say, she probably won’t be joining our gym and that is fine. I am sure there is someone out there that will sell her a dream, or she will have surgery to get her stomach flat, but that won’t change her health. What she does not realize is the guaranteed results start with her!
You see over the 15 years I have had many people lose amazing weight, 3 people lose 100lbs or more in a year, several people have lost over 30 lbs. in a 6-week bootcamp. But on the other hand, I’ve also had many people gain weight in the same 6-week bootcamp. You signing up for a program is never a guarantee, having cosmetic surgery is also NOT a guarantee. It is all about what you put into that program, what sacrifices you make, how committed you are and how disciplined you remain. I don’t guarantee results because you create the results. A beautiful body, mind and soul are all built by you. I just give you the tools to jump start and lead a healthy life. The rest is up to you.
I heard this saying…
What surprises me most about humankind is that we lose our health to make money and then lose our money to restore our health. That by thinking anxiously about the future we forget the present, such that we live in neither the present nor the future. That we live as if we are never going to die and die as though we never lived.
You must care about your health as much as you care about your wealth. My job isn’t to guarantee results it is to empower you to embrace taking care of your health, because we do not appreciate health until we become sick.
Bottom line, the only guarantee we all have is that we will all die. While we are living the only person that can guarantee anything is you! What guarantees are you willing to make for yourself? No Mess
