Failing Up As a Beachbody Coach

This has been on my mind and it isn't directed at any person, just something I have come across the past few weeks and I hope this helps someone reading this.....

I have had a lot of people coming to me with personal struggles... or just being able to see it in their eyes that they are hurting. I want you to know that you are not alone in what ever it is you are going through. That there is someone who has once or is currently going through the same thing... reach out and ask for help. And the one piece of advice I can give is that WE all have STRUGGLES.... but what we FOCUS on, is what we bring more of... if we are hurting, struggling and focusing on that or fearful and focusing on that we create more of that (don't know about you all but I don't need more PROBLEMS), if we STOP and change our FOCUS to that of opportunity, possibility, solutions and start taking action on those things we create MORE opportunity, solutions, possibility. When you change your focus you will feel a huge sense of relief.

I was in a depressing work situation and fearful that working for a corporation without a fulfilling purpose was all that there was in life.... i was looking for MORE and when I did find it, when I became a coach I was TERRIFIED.... fearful of failure, fearful of what others would think, but one thing I knew is that my FEAR of being stuck at a job with no PURPOSE was BIGGER than my fear of what others thought, or my fear of failure... My will to succeed was bigger than any FEAR standing in my way. I also knew the fear I had of failure and what others thought would always hold me back and I didn't want to be sitting in that same desk in another 5 years depressed because I was afraid of what others thought of me!

And that is when I started to realize if I wanted my life to change, I had to change..... if I wanted to help others I had to lead the way. If I was worried about what others thought that would hold me back from my own potential and would hold me back from helping someone. I am sure I post things that others judge, but that is okay, because hopefully when I post something it has an impact on helping just one person in a positive way. A friend reminded me of that the other day when I became FEARFUL to post something from my heart... she said if you have the ability to touch one person isn't that worth it, why would you let what others think stop you from helping one person, and she reminded me of something that I posted that had helped her.... that was all I needed. Know that you pushing through your fears and going after what you want in life will not only free you, but also help those around you, even if they do judge at first.... usually when someone judges it is because they don't understand. Bless and release them. 

Know that what ever it is that you are going through at the moment will pass.... and that you aren't alone. Know that you can change your focus, that you can find a solution. You just have to take that first step. I know that step is the toughest to take, but it will be worth it... then take another and another and before you know it you will be running. You can ACHIEVE everything you have ever dreamed of in life as soon as you give up the notion that you can't...... and BELIEVE that you CAN. Then start taking action. One step at a time.

If you know someone who needs this tag or share!! And if you are ready to take the next step in changing your health, fitness, finances or all of the above, don't hesitate to message me at www.facebook.com/klcurtis or at irongalteam@gmail.com. I love paying forward what I have learned and helping others to live a life by their own design!

Beachbody Coach Start up vs. Trainer Certification vs. College Degree

THIS is another one of those RANTS...... it's a doozy!

I spent $699 so that I can start studying and take a personal training certification exam and get certified as a trainer...... and I spent another $225 for an Insanity Certification...... WHY am I sharing this? 

Well I hear all the time that a business start up of $140 is too expensive.... and why would someone pay money to make money? Well for $140, you get a fitness program to try, 30 meals (count them 3-0) of Shakeology (I spend more than $100 on 30 meals anyways), 4 business websites, coach training, a mentor who has taken that $140 start up to over a SIX FIGURE INCOME... an intern program..... and help to guide you towards what needs to be done to get you from point A to YOUR DREAMS that seem so UNATTAINABLE one step at a time...... People are skeptical of this....

But then, pay $699 for a PT CERT program to get a bunch of books to study and take a test with in 6 months to get a Certification..... now I am obviously not putting that down. I just paid the $699 for the program ..... I am doing it because I love to learn more about the body, fitness, helping others, adding more tools to my toolbox so that I am able to benefit and help more people..... but the $699 is paying money to make money as well yet we don't find that SKEPTICAL!!!! and isn't that paying money to make money? As you can see the point here is the skepticism that we hold, that we are programmed through our culture that can hold us back from OUR OWN POTENTIAL...

We (not all of us..... and ME INCLUDED) pay over 50-100k to get a DEGREE... go in debt, spend 40+ hours a week studying for the debt that we got ourselves in to.... to finish school with a piece of paper and maybe a job. JOB NOT guaranteed. I graduated with a bachelors degree in finance, student loan debt and a job that started out at 28k a year. I couldn't AFFORD to pay the loans I had worked so hard to get...... so for 4 years I went in debt, I paid someone else to work for 40 hours a week.... i went in major debt, paid money to make money again (a lot more money was paid to make that 28k my first year and 32k my second)!! Again, I went to college and I am not putting it down.... I probably wouldn't do it again, but that is okay it is what led me here. 

I am sharing this with you to shed some light on what we as a culture are programmed to think. I paid money to work hard through college and no one was skeptical when I did that.... no one was skeptical when I graduated and paid 100k+ in debt for that piece of paper and 4 years of hard work towards school, no one was skeptical when I was earning 28k a year to start and couldn't afford the debt I had paid to get me the education to get the job..... no one is skeptical when I pay $699 to get a Personal Training Certification..... so then why is is that people are skeptical of $140 to get a fitness program, a workout, a business (YOUR OWN BB FRANCHISE), training, learning, mentor.... learning from someone who has taken the $140 to over six figures in less than 2 years. Then why is it that people doubt that $140??? when it comes in a business form?

There is nothing wrong with college. It's for some, it's not for everyone. There is nothing wrong with a personal training certification. It's for some, it's not for everyone. There is nothing wrong with a network marketing business that helps others through health and fitness. It's for some, it's not for everyone........ yet there are so many doubters and skeptics who want to speak negatively. Why is it that we are programmed to be skeptical of things we don't understand? How can we promote more research, more open mindedness..... even if something isn't for us? Or if we don't understand and it's not for us why put that down and speak negatively?

.........Off soap box now! 

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NEW fitness journey!!

For those who know me you know I've trained and competed in ironman triathlons and half ironmans, marathons, endurance events etc. Last year I was in a bike accident and injured my tailbone. While I can still do most workouts I can't seem to get back on a bike and I don't really miss it.. For the last 6 months or so I've been running, doing Insanity, Focust25, and now Body Beast. I hadn't lifted in years and I forgot how much I enjoyed it. 
I love to do things that are out of my comfort zone and scare me... Because I love to learn and test my own limits. Soooo I'm scared to announce because of haters, but I've never let them stop me before.. I am now training for my first ever bikini competition! I'm so excited for the change and to take my fitness and nutrition to a different level. Ill be sharing my progress, journey and continued progress! Day 2 of biking prep legs and run is done....i have been lifting with Body Beast

6 days a week but now I am adding 6 days of running!! Yikes! I can't wait to see all the changes to come!! Sooo excited to watch the progress.

I am weird. Be weird. Dream bigger.

I am not your typical Beachbody Coach. In the sense that I wasn't a customer PRIOR to becoming a coach. I was a FITNESS nut, enthusiast, whatever you want to call it... I had not ALWAYS been in love with fitness. I come from an obese family who doesn't make fitness a priority, but through a major depression and 30 pounds of weight gain (30% of my body weight) in a matter of a few months, my addiction to eating was becoming more than a problem. At the age of 19 or 20 I had overactive kidneys.. meaning that due to the lack of focusing on my health I had kidneys of a severe alcoholic. This is something that I rarely share. Those blood results were scary to get back and being that I was in college and lived on a college campus I know the doctor did not believe me for one second that I wasn't a drinker.

My journey to find health and fitness was ROCKY... I stumbled a LOT. I lost weight and gained. I used pills, working out too hard and eating very little. Again all tough on my organs and my insides no matter how lean I looked on the outside once I dropped the 30 pounds. I had one friend who really supported me. He would work out with me, run with me no matter how slow my pace and really brought the world of triathlon, fitness and my healthy lifestyle to me. However, it took 3 years of constant battling to battle my depression and find my happiness again. It was a long hard road.

Fast forward about 5 years and fitness had become my way of life. It was what kept me sane, happy, passionate, goal driven.... and I went from running 1 mile to completing my first sprint triathlon, to an olympic, to a marathon, half ironman and on to completing an ironman. People look at me now like it is all easy, but I started like everyone else.... normal. The craziness didn't come for awhile. haha

I graduated college with a degree in business, got to work in the financial industry and HATED every last minute.... I rarely say I hate something, but I was dieing each day. How does someone make it through life being this miserable? I had found my happiness in workouts. In fitness. In health. I had come alive, but everyday, 40 hours a week I was being led to feeling depressed again. For me to come alive I needed passion. That is when I realized I had received my degree in the hopes of earning money, good money, believing back then that money would the stress that comes with living paycheck to paycheck. What I found was that no amount of money can bring happiness. Happiness comes from within. Happiness comes from passion. From doing what you love. From having goals. From progress. From confidence and I just couldn't find that in myself working for someone else day in and day out without progress. I searched for years to find my passion...... all the while it was staring me in the face. I would workout before work, train for my ironman, workout after work.... get people pumped and excited to meet for daily/weekly workouts and dated the middle of the day being stuck at work....but how was I going to make this my REALITY? How could I mash my passion for fitness, health and love for helping others in to something that earned me income? I know it isn't all about income, but I wanted to be that saying... when you LOVE what you do, you never work a day in your life.. I wanted that, but I also wanted to have my cake and eat it too.. I wanted to be financially free. I wanted to love what I was doing and not have the stress or burden of living paycheck to paycheck.

DOES this exist? I hoped, dreamed and believed it did which is why I never stopped searching..... I searched for years. Most of what I found would put me in the same situation I was in.. working for someone else, by their rules, their schedule and it didn't really allow me to help others by my own design, in a way that worked for me.... that is when I found Beachbody... some 3 years after searching daily. No joke, that hope that something else is existed is what got me through my work days.

When I found Beachbody it was MY DREAM COME TRUE. It checked out. It was/is everything I had ever wanted!! To work from home, to have freedom to design my own life, to control my time, my schedule, to  help others, fitness, fitness, fitness and health..... and bonus they provide me with people to help. This seemed to good to be true. My dad was worried that I was going to spend thousands and have to hold product on hand. I didn't need to have any product on hand since Beachbody handled all the shipping and handling. I did my research on Shakeology and while skeptical, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality and integrity that went in to producing Shakeology.... The reason I gave the opportunity a shot, having not done the programs myself yet... was that Beachbody answered everything for me. I knew it wasn't going to be a cake walk, but it allowed me to go after everything I ever wanted in life and MORE. Things that I had stopped dreaming about because they never seemed a possibility. I DREAM all the time now. Then I write it down and get to work. My dreams are limitless... there are so many and for the first time in my life I have COMPLETE confidence that I can make them a reality.

The one thing I forgot to mention is I got started to help people with health and fitness, however I never imagined for the first time as a financial guru being able to help people build confidence, skills and abilities that allow them to create financial freedom.....It isn't why I got started, but it is my most favorite part of what I do. Watching moms, dads, friends FIRE THEIR BOSSES and make their dreams their reality. To live a life in their control, by design and inspiring others.

I am so thankful that 2 years ago I made the scary decision to commit to my goals, to my dreams and give it my all. If you had asked me 2 years ago where I would be in 2 years I probably would have told you finishing my masters.....but now I can say in the next 2 years I will continue to INSPIRE thousands and do my part to make this world a happier place.

If I told you YOU would be the same in 5 years financially, physically, etc would you be SATISFIED?

I know my experience and my take on things, but I can't begin to know yours or how you feel. What your day to day is like.. So here goes my thoughts. If someone told me that I would be the same in 5 years financially, physically, emotionally, personally, professionally I would not be SATISFIED. THIS is ME. I am ADDICTED to progress, to goals. I like to be moving forward, growing, becoming better, learning, experiencing life and staying the same just isn't my thing.

 In 2007 I graduated college and started a job in the financial industry. During the interview I was asked.. where do you see yourself in 5 years? I saw myself owning a home, earning 100k a year, being able to support myself financially. You see I came from a broken home where $5 was too much to ask for a soccer tournament and brought my mom to tears. I never wanted her to feel hurt from not being able to provide monetarily because her love has made me who I am today, not her money, but that being said I wanted to be able to provide for her in the long term so that she never has to cry over money. That question really had me dreaming and the interviewer seemed impressed by my answers and thought. I was DREAMING of progress, growth, making things happen in my life so that I could love, enjoy, inspire.... fast forward a few years and it was NOT going as I had planned. The boss who loved my interview answers wanted someone with my drive and dreams, but he also had a family and any pay increases for me meant a decrease in pay for him.... so instead he used my motivation for his goals, but NOT for my own. I was broken, defeated and depressed. IS this really all there was to life????? Working day in and day out for someone else who could care less about my goals as his family and his income were more important (rightfully so) but what an awful way to live. I brought this up to him. I told him if you allowed me to build my own clients, to fail, to grow, to progress that I could actually do better for your company. He was afraid I would take my success and leave him....his FEAR caused him to FOCUS sooo much so on losing me to success that he instead lost me to lack of progress. But that is for another topic on law of attraction and on what you focus on your bring about.... so I THREW myself in to training for an Ironman. I had a DEEP burning DESIRE to feel that I was making progress, that I had goals and a GOAL to FOCUS on.. competing in a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and a 26.2 mile run all in one day should do the trick. This was my band aid to cover up the lack of growth, goals and desire for my job.

 I continued to look for answers, for jobs, for something that would help me find PURPOSE, passion and give me what I really wanted.... to work for myself. To work from home. To make my own schedule. To help others. To feel self motivation and excitement for what I DO each and everyday. To struggle. To improve. To become better. To inspire. To love. To stumble. To progress..... TO DO... instead of to be COMPLACENT in an office working for someone, clocking in and out each day. Now don't get me wrong some people love their jobs or love being complacent and that is okay, but for me COMPLACENCY was killing me, was breaking me down and I was drowning in this so called life.

 I didn't stop searching and one day found this incredible opportunity. I was scared.... I was excited. I almost quit because I had NO IDEA what I was doing, but I was ATTRACTED to my DREAMS. To the possibility of more. To progress. To growth.... to learning consistently!!! I dove in and I didn't give up.. every road block, every frustration thrown at me was more reason to grow, to learn, to become better. I wasn't born an expert and I still have a long ways to go, but that DREAM has led me to this moment. Where I can help others dream bigger, envision more for their life and help them start on the path to reaching dreams they never thought possible.

 I have dreams that are BIG. The crazy thing is I KNOW I will get there. The dream started with firing my boss. Which was done 1 year and a half in to becoming a Beachbody Coach. Then it was buying a house, which we did in San Luis Obispo, CA. Next I wanted to take Paul to Hawaii... done and done. Now my dreams are even bigger. I want to earn a million dollars a year and travel the world. Working from where ever my heart takes me. I will get there.... it will take me time, growth, failure, but I will get there. My income is a direct reflection of the amount of people I help and I just haven't helped enough people yet....but I will. 

Stay tuned as my journey continues.