Principles
PRINCIPLE 1
Enjoy the Process
PRINCIPLE 2
Learn -> Design -> Deliver -> Refine
PRINCIPLE 3
Sleep, Eat, Move, and Manage
PRINCIPLE 4
Empower Through Education
PRINCIPLE 5
Everything is Everything
Principle 1: Enjoy the Process
- You deserve to enjoy what you do. In this case, we’re talking about coaching fitness.
- Becoming a world class coach is not a destination. There is always more to learn. This mindset to appreciate continual growth necessitates you taking enjoyment in the development of your craft. If not, you’ll forever chase an imaginary finish line…and be miserable when you realize it does not exist.
- When you enjoy what you do, you are confident in what you do. This makes for a more effective coach. It means clients get the results they’re after and stick around longer.
- There are three things you need in order to enjoy the process of what you are working towards: focus, effort, and time.
- If you are missing one of these, you will either move in the wrong direction (you lack focus), move nowhere (you lack effort), or give up altogether (you didn’t give enough time).
Let’s break the three down:
Focus is defined as directed attention. It keeps you pointed in the right direction. While focus has some roots in motivation, it is best thought of as a compass for where your efforts are taking you. Imagine yourself in your car: if you had your foot hard on the gas pedal for 1000 miles while going down the highway, you’re giving lots of effort for a good bit of time. But if you are going south when you should be traveling north, you’re headed the wrong way. You have no focus!
Effort is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a conscious exertion of power or hard work. It is literally the action that needs to be taken.
Time is defined as the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues. In this case, we are referring to ‘how long’ you need to be putting forth effort. Another way to describe time and effort is the word discipline, meaning you will take the action that needs to be taken when it needs, regardless of motivation or circumstance.
Effort is the actions you must take to get where you want to go.
Time is how long you put forth that effort.
In order to enjoy the process, you need all three.
We do this by continually educating in two distinct ways: DEPTH AND BREADTH
Principle 2: Learn, Design, Deliver, Refine
Principle 3: Sleep, Eat, Move, and Manage
Principle 4: Empower Through Education
Principle 5: Simplified and Principled
This is the realization that seemingly unrelated things are not only related, but they are also dependent on one another. They inform and influence each other in a way that must be appreciated even if not fully understood.
The building of a world class coach comes from a structure that forgoes unnecessary complexity for a principled approach. That beginning development must look like that of a pyramid first:
