4 blokes and a few hills: Silver Lining

4 blokes and a few hills: Silver Lining: Today has been a day where I have sat back and really started to think about what's about to start for me and my friends. I look back at m...

Silver Lining

Today has been a day where I have sat back and really started to think about what's about to start for me and my friends.

I look back at my sporting achievements growing up and they were full of winning trophies through football. I literally played every chance I got as a kid and loved it. I was lucky enough to travel around America, Holland and Denmark through the ages of 11-14 representing my region (East Anglia).
I wasn't half bad at the game and by the age of 16 I was playing semi pro at Arlesey Town before an ACL rupture in my right knee curtailed my football dreams...... I sometimes think back to then and wonder if I could of made a career for myself in the game.
As I was the youngest in the squad I had to work harder than anyone else to get noticed and I tell you what.... I really did apply myself and listen to the coaches to make them believe I had what it took for them to trust in my ability.

Then the injury came.

Slowly but surely my mentality to apply myself seemed to drain away from me, both in sport and general life.

Looking at it, was I in a state of depression (when injured) as I was no longer capable of keeping active or was I just turning lazy. I believe it is the latter.

Laziness seems to have been a consistent thorn in my side but it's something that I am in complete control of and only now am I beginning to take action. Tony Robbins' 'Awaken The Giant Within' talks about becoming the person you could be by making the right choices not just in the future but right in this instant and acting on those decisions. There are loads of these types of books out there, I don't treat them as gospel however I do like to see how successful people build their strategies, taking the bits that I find most relevant. 

Over 2011 I had been in a state of mental stress and stagnation. The guy I was working with I realised wasn't the mentor that I had previously thought him to be and slowly our working relationship broke down. The very recent conclusion to that happened just before Christmas where he decided on the spot to cease my employment....something that in all honesty doesn't sit well with me and talk about timing!!!! So having my lively hood taken from me in an instant I had to move from my flat in London, take all the gear back to my mums and try to sort things out for the new year. You may of guessed that I was a tad agitated over the holiday period!! 

BUT!!!! 

The Silver Lining. I am no longer in an environment that is restricting my personality and skills, I'm back up and running doing my personal training work in London (Wapping) and I am realising more each day that I am capable of achieving.
Fortunately for me I have built up some great friendships with my clients over the time I have been working with them to which end they have all given me such immense support and belief. Truly thankful to those people.

My personal aim this year is to have set up my own training facility to deliver a brand of training that will inspire people. 

That links us back to this event quite nicely................INSPIRATION.

I do believe that to inspire others you have to know how to inspire yourself.
The Transalpine run is my way of inspiring myself not only by competing in the event but by also taking the standard of work that I deliver to my clients to a much higher level. I will be using this blog to show myself that I am capable of leaving no detail to chance and delivering a result. If you get a sense I'm slacking feel free to let me know!

This step of my work life and training will be the hardest of my life to date yet I am excited by what can happen even if at times I have fleeting doubts. It's not a new start for me, just a progression to a more successful me.

This is going to be fun!!!!

No Regrets.

Nick