How many of you are working towards a goal but have those nagging reasons of why it won't work?
Check out this video for some tough love if you're having those thoughts.
For quite some time I was thinking I woudn't ever be a successful health/fitness coach with Beachbody because I'm: - a college drop out (though I did go back after a few years) - still managing my depression and anxiety daily - still slipping with my management of my depression and anxiety - a failure at many other ventures - not super fit All of those reasons I gave before were a bunch of BULL. I know that now. I'm having success NOW because of the changes I've made INTERNALLY, not because of ANY external factors or things that other people have that I don't. In fact, embracing what makes me different and embracing what I saw as my faults was the key! So, if there's something you want to do, a DREAM that you have, ask yourself if your "reasons" for why you haven't achieved it are valid or a load of bull. Then I challenge you to find ways that you can spin your "reasons" (aka excuses) into strengths! Own them, share your story, INSPIRE others, and put in the work!
Watching the training call by Miguel about leaving my baggage at the door was a turning point for me but this video sums up the idea in a shorter period of time.
So yeah....I wanted to share this here and not just with my team of coaches because it reminded me of that moment.
BTDubs, if earning a living helping people live healthier lives through nutrition and fitness interests you, look into Beachbody coaching and HIT ME UP! Seriously, let's talk, see if we're a good fit, and get you on the team (or on a team you'd fit better with... lol). <3 Email me at coachmarquita@gmail.com, comment below, or check out the "Start Your Health Journey" tab! Brightest Blessings! )O(
I have a theory that for a good number of us it boils down to self-sabotage from restrictive mentality AND/OR not firmly establishing what success means to us and laying out the S.M.A.R.T. goals to achieve them. Today, I'm going to talk about both of these!
Restrictive vs. Abundance Mentality
An abundance mentality is having the mindset that there's more than enough in the world for you and others to have success. If you're one of my Beachbody coaches it means thinking that there's more than enough people in North America for you to help reach their health goals and for you to reach your personal coaching goals. A restrictive mentality is really the opposite. It's when you look at your goal and say something like "I'll never be able to achieve that because there's not enough...." or "I don't have enough....". I've found, as my time as a coach, that a good number of people have this second mentality, while the successful people I've gotten to meet and work with have the first mentality (abundance mentality).
Why Adopt an Abundance Mentality?
When my coaches and peers have an abundance mentality they often hit their goals faster and then exceed them. WHY is this? Because they're fully applying themselves to the process of reaching their goals. They're putting in the time and the work!
How Can You Adopt An Abundance Mentality?
The best method I've found is doing affirmations daily, at least once a day. I would advise doing them multiple times a day though!
Establishing What Success Means To You
If you don't know what success means to you then you don't know what you're working towards! Success means different things for different people. To me, success means completing the goal I have at hand. And yet, it also means living a life I can be proud of. AND, being able to take my mother on a vacation with money I've earned myself. So, think about what success means TO YOU!
How you can figure this out is by daydreaming a little! Give yourself permission to dream big. You can also establish what success means to you by figuring out what your goal is for a situation (i.e. job, finances, relationships, faith, etc). Then have a little daydreaming session on that goal.
Once you've figured out what success means to you for your goals, you can go about achieving it by setting SMART goals.
What Are SMART Goals?
I've found that people who don't set SMART goals often stop short of hitting their success. Either they fill like they're making no progress, when they actually are but don't have a system in place to measure their progress. Or they set their goals so big the steps they take to achieve it simply don't work with the time period they have to achieve it. Or, they don't even set a time period so there's no urgency to work towards their goals so they just dally around. SMART Goals are:
Specific - you lay out EXACTLY what you're trying to achieve
Measurable - you give yourself some kind of metric so you can gauge your progress
Attainable - while I feel like we can do anything, there are some things we just can't do...like walk to the moon or create money out of air.
Relevent - they're related to your view of success or completing a major project
Time-bound - you've set a due date that you have to stick to in order to have a sense of urgency.
An example of one of my SMART Goals is to help at least 50 people this year as a Beachbody coach. Note the "at least"! Feel free to crush and move beyond your goals! I'm tracking that goal by tracking the number of clients and coaches I help. It's attainable because there's WAY more than 50 people in the world that I can talk to. It's relevant to me because my ultimate goal is to be coaching full-time and paying for grad school with my Beachbody funds. It's time bound because I have until December 31st to help 50 people this year! So there you have it! Go out into the world with an abundance mentality and pursue the SMART goals you set for yourself to reach your success! ^_^ If a part of your success is to improve your health or lose weight, then please send me a message at coachmarquita@gmail.com. I would be honored to help you along on your journey as your personal Beachbody coach. :) Brightest blessings )O(
As a Beachbody coach that's been around for awhile now, I feel like I need to pay it forward to the new coaches and to those that are considering coaching. So, today I'm going to share with you some of the mistakes I made when building my online business.
Lack of Belief
This is something that I still struggle with from time to time, I'll be honest. However, the key difference between now and when I first started my online Beachbody business is that I'm actively working on believing in myself. I am working on it daily by:
Writing out my successes in the business and my life in general.
Using Chalene Johnson's PUSH goal method to go after my goals.
Reading personal development daily.
Being 100% candid with my performance and sharing with others when I'm having a bad day instead of showing the world only my good days.
My lack of belief also stopped me from getting myself out there with videos and even this blog! I would say to myself that I shouldn't make videos because of my acne or because I don't look like the perfect girls on YouTube. I would also talk myself out of making blogs because I didn't see myself as someone that could provide useful information.
Lack of Organization
How can you know if you're making progress in your business if you're not tracking ANYTHING?! For MONTHS I felt like I wasn't making any progress because I had nothing to compare my performance to. I wasn't using the daily business tracker, nor was I tracking who I had talked to and who I needed to follow up with.
In fact, I LOST a few customers (and potential coaches) because I didn't follow up with them! I had forgotten about our conversations and by the time I had gotten back to them they had lost their belief in me! Seriously! And I don't blame them. I would've lost my faith in them too! In fact, I had something similar happen to me after I had purchased a program from a coach. I never heard from him and I had wanted to start working as a coach myself. What happened? I jumped ship and found Scottie.
Now, I track almost everything. I am currently tracking:
Advertisements and which prompt people to contact me.
Videos and which prompt people to contact me
Daily behaviors I perform
Who I have contacted, including date, topic(s) of conversation, and if I've shared or invited something that I'm doing with them.
Who I need to follow up with and the dates of the follow ups.
People that I meet that I would love to have on my team of coaches so I can talk to them.
I feel like if I had been tracking these thing in the beginning my belief in myself wouldn't have stayed so low for so long.
Not Doing Personal Development
Yes, yes! I know, I know! If you're a coach of mine I bet you're tired of hearing me say this, but it helps soo much. Personal development has helped me with my depression, my body image, and my time management.
Personal development isn't always about mental health though, and maybe that's why people tend to avoid it. Personal development is about looking at yourself and seeing areas of your life that you could improve. For example, I'm someone who functions best in organized chaos but I was letting my apartment turn into just chaos. So, a part of my personal development was learning how to work in an environment that is more structured and organized.
Other types of personal development can be:
learning communication skills.
learning how to use different technologies/programs
learning time management skills
the act of getting out of your comfort zone.
Not Being Consistent
The greatest way to ensure success with any business, especially one where you don't have to leave home and go to an office, is CONSISTENCY! Everyday you have to be working on the business. This doesn't mean working every hour of everyday. That would cause you to burn out faster than you can say "I'm exhausted!".
No. I mean doing something everyday, even if it's just for an hour, to work on building your business. In Beachbody they've made knowing the minimum that you need to do to build your business simple: The Three Vital Behaviors.
Yep, when I started I wasn't doing all three of the vital behaviors. In fact, I was only doing one: be a product of the product. I was doing my workouts and drinking my Shakeology. I wish that I had dived into the personal development while I was doing my workouts though because I KNOW that doing that behavior would have gotten me to start sharing and inviting people to join me on my journey.
Didn't Treat My Business as a Business
Lastly, because this is getting kinda long, I wasn't treating my business like a business. Working as a coach has the potential to be a SEVEN FIGURE (that's $1,000,000) business! That's right! And I wasn't treating it like that. I was treating it like a hobby. Even after I got my mind right and I contacted my sponsor coach to get plugged back into the community, I was treating it like a hobby.
Now, having this as a hobby isn't a bad thing by any means if that's what you want this business to be. I, however, want this business to lay the foundation for a medical clinic to help people with eating disorders! I NEED this business to be successful if I'm going to start up that clinic without a mountain of debt looming over me. I've dealt with debt for almost a decade now and I don't want to have that in my future! I don't want to have to stress about bills, for my home or for my business.
If you want to grow this business into a million dollar business, or even a four figure business, you need to treat it like that every day! You need to show up for your challengers. You need to plug into social media. You need to do your hour of power and get shit done! Pardon my French, but it's the truth. You can't put one foot in the water with this. It's all or nothing, and that can be terrifying, especially at first when you don't see a huge return on your time investment. When you're working 20+ hours a week on Beachbody and you only make $30 that month. But it'll pay off in the end! You just have to keep pushing and INSPIRE people with your drive and vision and then SHARE your drive and vision with as many people as possible!
Perfectionism at the Wrong Times
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So, there you have it. The mistakes I've made as a Beachbody coach. Hopefully you found this helpful.
If you did, feel free to comment below or check out my YouTube video on the same topic.
