I got a TimeHop the other day.
From 11 years ago, a share of a post on RISE page.
It read;
“Thinking of starting to write some blog posts.
Idea for the first one:
“Are you training for weight gain? – things you might be doing, and not be aware of, that will make you fatter”
If we get 20+ ‘likes’ and / or ‘shares’, we’ll get it written and uploaded.”
That was Blog Number 1!
This Saturday will be Number 3,000.
A bit random for the first few months then every week day for many years and seven days a week for the last few.
There’s a some parallels there for us.
And that what this week’s blogs will be all about.
Blogging about blogging.
#meta that (possibly).
The first parallel there is simple.
Slow and steady wins the race!
Blogging isn’t the only thing we do differently to our competitors around here (other than the fact that we are / have independently owned facilities where people exercise in groups, I’d say we have very little in common).
But you only have to check the stats on how many people fill in our application form (www.myrise.co.uk/apply) straight away versus how many do it later on via a blog to realise things would’ve been very different without the blog.
Sure, some of those who apply through the blog would’ve made that step at some point anyway, I’m sure.
But not all.
And I doubt we’d have managed to sell out the programme every month for nearly 10 years straight without it.
Each blog itself does very little.
A gentle nudge in the right direction for the mindset of the reader (member and non member alike).
Between zero and two new people click that link on each blog.
Zero more often that not.
But they all add up.
Over months and years to some significantly changed mindsets and the results that drives.
And to enough members for us to continue to be able to pay the bills and feed our (permanently hungry) kids.
One workout and one better food choice don’t do a great deal.
But they all add up.
Short of dying, we’re all getting to 3,000 days down the line.
We can either have made a number of better decisions that will have taken us where we want to get to (you know – the body we like the look and feel of).
Or we won’t have.
Sometimes circumstance will dictate that we have to slow down and speed up.
Some of these blogs are better than others.
But we never need to stop completely.
The steadyness is the key.
Sometimes slow, sometimes faster.
But just keep going.
Much love,
Jon ‘Bebop and Rock’ Hall
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RISE in Macclesfield was established in 2012 and specialise in Group Personal Training weight loss programmes for those that don’t like the gym and find diets boring and restrictive!
