What Does Hitting A Big Rig At 55mph and Almost Getting Decapitated Have to Do With Staying Focused on Your Pilates Biz!

When a new year comes around we have new years resolutions in place and get ready for new goals but sometimes a wrench gets thrown into our agenda and finding a way to make the best of it is hard if you don’t have the right tools.

On January 6th I was heading down to my Studio to help a friend record some footage for his fitness marketing product and was visualizing how I planned to attack my 2009 goals when all of sudden a big rig decided he wanted to beat me and turned right in front me.

I had nowhere to go but right into him, it was an eight wheeler and I slammed into the second set of tires. If it was two seconds later I would of Gone underneath the bed of the truck, pretty ugly…

This was my first time in an accident. I sat in the car motionless, I had the wind knocked out of me and I could barely breath. The crazy thing is the cars that were going around me were bothered and irritated that I was stopped in the middle of road. My car was totaled and I couldn’t move it, there was a guy that actually yelled out “Get out of the street”…(what the heck?…)

Why am I telling you this story? I had to make a decision here if I was going to let this ruin my goals and plans and subject myself to the pardons of a car accident victim. When I left the hospital my discharge papers said it was normal to feel depressed and upset and it may take some time to get better.

Depressed! I was lucky to be alive. It was as if they were trying to give me an out and blame my accident on terrible luck and that my year started off Bad…

Like I said I had 2 options here, to either feel bad for myself for what happened (don’t get me wrong I was hurting) or make the choice to be grateful that it wasn’t my time to go and to be sure that I accomplish the goals I set for myself.

What’s the point to all of this, it’s all about mind set. Deciding to take the route of feeling bad and depressed I would not be setting the tone for what I really want to happen in my life, on a business and personal level.

We all have the choice to feel bad about something that went wrong in our life and we blame that event or thing as the reason to give up or not work as hard.

As we move forward to reaching a goal there will always be an invisible barrier, like when you are driving a car and you are trying to go a little faster and you feel inertia pull you back. It’s the same concept in every goal and project you set to accomplish.

If you don’t feel some sort of discomfort as you push past all the Bulls&*$% then you aren’t pushing hard enough. Set your path, there may be some curves and dips but don’t make a u-turn.

What the heck does this have to do with anything? Let me explain….

When operating your own Pilates business you WILL run into invisible barriers, which blocks your way to your goal. It is your mindset and how you perceive what has happened as a good thing or as bad thing. It’s very easy to stop what you are doing and sit back and say, “Oh I lost clients so I just have to deal with it”.

This is not o.k. if you’re planning to be successful in what you do let me Be the first to tell you this, “If that’s how you are thinking that’s what you are going to attract.”

No one but YOU and only YOU has the power to succeed and overcome whatever Bulls@$%t that stands in your way!

Set your goal, expect detours here and there but never lose focus of your target!