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—————- The next find out more meeting for our March programme is on Tuesday 23rd February which is in [cntdwn todate=”1 September 2020 23:59″ timeoff=”0″ showhours=”0″ showmins=”0″ pretext=””] Check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting to find out more, see what the meeting involves and, potentially, take that next step to transforming your life and body š
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Every day these blogs get sent out to 3,500 or so people on the mailing list.
Not everyone reads them sure.
Some haven’t opened them in years, so I’m pretty sure they’ve put us in junkmail rather than unsubscribing.
Which is fine.
And hundreds more from all over the world see them on the site and social media.
Blogging five days a week, 52 weeks a year means an awful lot of reads (the email system alone will send out about one million emails a year).
Which is awesome.
But, the funny thing with regular blogging is that you don’t get many replies.
Blog once a month and you get loads.
Daily and you get very few.
As people see them in a different way.
It becomes just part of their life.
Many have read every single one of these bad boys for years.
And, amongst other things, they’ve contributed to massive changes in mindsets and habits that have driven huge, life changing results (check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting if you like the sound of that more than renting access to some equipment you don’t know how to use – that find-out-more meeting is TONIGHT).
But never once felt the need to reply.
Which is cool.
So, it means that a relatively high proportion of the replies I get are somewhat negative.
Love them and read them every day, you don’t feel the need to reply particularly often.
Hate them after the first few and you might do.
I got a nice one the other day.
“You are a first class prat” it began.
“Your subject titles are insulting and Iām surprised you manage to drum up any business”.
“Hi REDACTED” I responded.
“Thanks for your concern but I’ve done alright for nearly twenty years at this now while the average FitPro leaves the industry after 18 months.
Jon”
Which she liked even less than the original blog š
There’s a few things you might be interested in taking from this (or not);
1. Do what you want to do because you think it’s the right thing to do.
If, after approaching two decades doing this kinda stuff, if I’d stopped doing stuff every time I got some negative feedback, there’d be nothing left to do.
It’s fine to use input from others to help calibrate your proverbial compass, of course.
But, ultimately, you only have to answer to the person you see in mirror at the end of the day.
2. If something works, it works.
These blogs have helped many people change their lives over the years.
Won’t work for everyone sure, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work for some.
If your way of exercising and eating is working for you (and does’t have any negative ‘side effects’) then go for it.
Who would we (or anyone else) be to tell you that you have to do it a particular way.
————— If it’s not working for you, we might be able to help with that –> myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting ———-
3. Cold hard data beats opinion every single time.
I know the stats on these blogs.
I know how many people have joined because of them and how much revenue that’s generated the business.
That beats anyone’s opinion of whether they could or couldn’t “drum up any business”.
And accurate food tracking is the same.
Knowing our energy in versus energy out (or, at least, getting enough of hang of it so we can make that work habitually) always beats someones opinions of what changes you should make to lose weight.
4. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion and it does’t make them “haters”.
REDACTED doesn’t like my blogs.
That’s cool.
Doesn’t make her a “Karen”.
Or any one of countless other terms some might use.
I’m sure she’s a lovely person.
Everyone’s just doing what they think is right.
Doing their best with what they’ve got at that time.
I’m sure there’s probably more ‘lessons’ I could take from being called a prat.
But that’ll do for now š
Much love,
Jon ‘I used to live with A Pratt. Literally. One of the girls in my second year house share was called Alex Pratt’ Hall
P.S. Just realised I’ve popped the olde briefing meeting link in there twice. My bad! Although, it is TONIGHT so, if you (or a friend) haven’t clicked it yet, and you’re ready to change you life come September, then here it is again –> myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting.
P.P.S. Does being a “first class” prat make be “better” than a ‘second class’ one? Or more of a prat? Or both?
