Friday, 15 June 2012

Potential

I love to see people develop positively and do well for themselves. It's one of the main things that got me into personal training. To see someone with an issue, be it a weight problem, a medical issue or even an emotional one, deal with it and become a stronger person as a result is wonderful. If I can be even a small part of that transformation, that's even better.

Probably the most frustrating aspect of my job is when I can see that someone has massive potential, but for whatever reason, simply doesn't achieve it.

Sometimes it can be down to the person themselves. The old saying about taking a horse to water is very true. Some people seem to be genuinely surprised that, even though they have me as a PT, they STILL have to do the hard work themselves. Sadly, simply being in my company doesn't lead to a firm butt!

Other times it may be an external factor; a demanding job, family commitments or relationship problems. From a my point of view, this can be even more frustrating because they are factors that are totally beyond my influence.

I have many and varied devious ways of pushing people harder with them not realising it; the art of distraction is a wonderful tool when used to it's full potential ;-)

External factors are different. Even if I can see that a person's real problem is that they have a d*ck-head boyfriend, there's little that I can do about it.

Have a great Friday :-)

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