This July, the wife and I are going to this thing called FriendsFest in Sheffield.

 

Apparently we’ll get to hang out in Central Perk and Joey and Chandler’s apartment.

 

Could I be anymore excited? ;

 

Remember the classic intro song by the Rembrandts?

 

“So, no one told you life was going to be this way?

 

Your job’s a joke, you’re broke, your love life’s D.O.A.

 

It’s like you’re always stuck in second gear

 

When it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month, or even your year”

 

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We get that.

 

Whilst most FitPros hide behind this ‘happy clappy mask’………

 

Where everything is awesome and exercise solves every problem………

 

We know how hard life can be.

 

How the challenges of life can get us down.

 

How social media can fuel this feeling that our lives aren’t what they should be.

 

If it helps, the wife and I spent the first half of our ‘lovely family holiday’ last week pulling out hair out over why the kids couldn’t just “bloody get along”.

 

We know that life can be hard, depressing, frustrating, etc.

 

But, at the same time, after helping thousands over the years, we know that small, seemingly insignificant, daily achievements………

 

Often when they are the last things we feel like doing………

 

Add up over time………

 

To a better life.

 

Sure, it probably won’t ever be this “Everything is awesome when you have a six pack” that most FitPros try and sell you………

 

## Even though many of them are just hiding their own challenges ##

 

But………

 

We can make things an awful lot better.

 

Bit by bit.

 

Day by day.

 

Just keep doing those ‘little things’.

 

Workout by workout.

 

Meal by meal.

 

Glass of water by glass of water.

 

Thought challenge by thought challenge.

 

And we’ll get there.

 

Where, at the very least, ‘there’ is a place we’re a little happier with than ‘here’ 🙂

 

 

Much love,

 

Jon ‘Chanadler Bong’ Hall and ‘Red’ Matt Nicholson

 

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Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.