Working Out and Running a Business

In the last cou­ple weeks I have decided to take the next step and get back in shape. It’s been an inter­est­ing jour­ney so far and it’s made me real­ize just how out of shape I really am. It’s quite sad really. But I’m work­ing on fix­ing that whole issue.

The thing I wanted to bring up today though, is that there are quite a few sim­i­lar­i­ties between me start­ing to work­out and when I first started my online busi­ness. Just like all aspects of life the more you do things the bet­ter you get. But I’ll admit I sucked at both work­ing out and start­ing a busi­ness. At first.

When i started online awhile back I was just like the major­ity of peo­ple, look­ing for a way to get rich asap. Only after a cer­tain amount of time (too long lol) did I wise up and real­ized I actu­ally have to put some effort into this. The money isn’t going to make itself. Sign­ing up for affil­i­ate pro­grams and buy­ing all kinds of how to prod­ucts aren’t going to work by them­selves. I had to put my own effort into these things to make it work. And also I had to do some­thing I liked doing.

This les­son helped get started with exer­cis­ing in that I already know it’s not going to be easy. I’m going to have to make a com­mit­ment to get out there and run every­day, rain or shine. I have to make a com­mit­ment to push myself and run longer and far­ther. Right now it’s easy to push myself because I’m so hor­ri­bly out of shape lol. But I’m already aware of that because of my expe­ri­ence from online. Which brings me to my next point.

We all suck when we start. When I started doing the online thing, I made so many goofs and mis­takes it’s not even funny. And while I’m not the most suc­cess­ful per­son yet, I’m wiser than I was. I learned from my mis­takes and it took some time to real­ize that I needed to fol­low my pas­sion and I needed to work at it to make it work.

Just like my run­ning. I can only run for a cou­ple blocks before I need to start walk­ing for a bit. And after about a week it’s not even my mus­cles that are slow­ing me down, it’s my lungs. Years of suck­ing on the ol tar stick has really done a num­ber on my breath­ing. Yup, I goofed up on that too. But I’ve been smoke free for a lit­tle over a month now and breath­ing will get eas­ier over time.

I see this crossover all the time though. Between my life and my busi­ness. What I’ve learned from run­ning a busi­ness I have been able to imple­ment in other aspects of my life. Such as fol­low­ing my pas­sion or never giv­ing up. I have have also brought some of my own life lessons to my busi­ness; Always be kind and pas­sion­ate and karma does count and never giv­ing up.

That’s why I believe per­sonal devel­op­ment and run­ning a busi­ness coin­cide. Improve one and you’ll improve the other. But the biggest les­son I have learned from both worlds is to just keep try­ing and never give up. You’ll screw up, every­one does. But the more you keep going and try­ing, the bet­ter and eas­ier things will get.

~Chris

Have you ever noticed this before? How has your life influ­enced your busi­ness and vice versa?

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