How Going To The Gym Will Make You A Better Entrepreneur

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Taylor, this is an entrepreneurship blog and the journey of entrepreneurship and chasing your passions... why are you talking about the gym?

Well, because it has changed the results of my business more than a basic strategy shift has.

If you have tried a ton of different social media and business strategies without much success, then you might want to start looking towards the gym, or even other habits you might have.

When you look at other areas of your life, you start to create discipline in your life that wasn't there before and there are a few areas that are easy to start creating discipline.

Those are education, the gym and what you eat.

When you become disciplined in one (or all of these areas) they will start to translate into other areas of your life (SUCH AS BUSINESS).

That is why I am talking about this today, so let's get started!

The Gym and My Business

I was getting no real results in any area of my life through this new year, and as usual my "new years resolution" wasn't changing much because it wasn't really a goal, it was just an idea.

That is when I decided that I was sick of not getting any results and I wanted to start seeing results. To be honest, I was pretty lazy so I decided that I wanted to build discipline into my life and if I started in the gym, which I always had dabbled at but never took seriously, maybe it would translate into other areas of my life.

So, I put emotion behind the goal of becoming more disciplined and getting stronger in the gym because I was always the "skinny kid" and hated when people said that. The best goals have emotions and reasons behind them, put the emotion of how you felt when people said something to you and use that as motivation so you never have to feel like that again.

I started to plan out my exercises, started to time my rests, started focusing on form and even tracking what I ate.

And the results didn't come right away, on the end of my body at least because just like building a business, it is a process that you have to accept. Results don't happen overnight.

What I did start to notice though were the results in other areas of my life. This habit of taking the gym seriously started to build discipline into my life and then that translated to other areas too.

I actually wanted to start building discipline into other areas of my life, as it was making me feel really good being disciplined in the gym.

So, I started with my education and started making it a point to read books and articles in my niche and just about life in general for a few hours each day. 

I then started to focus on using that discipline to block out my time each day, get more work done, network with more people and start putting out more content.

​It has really made the biggest difference thus far in my life, I really hope you all try it out too!

What Working Out Can Teach You About
​Entrepreneurship

From what I have learned, so far that is, is that there are three major things (and a ton of smaller things) that you can learn about life and business from the gym.

The first major thing, you can see, is that you only get the results if you put in the work. If you aren't there almost everyday putting in the work and challenging yourself, you are not going to see any real results.

Seems like common sense, right?

Well, I would assume so, but there are so many entrepreneurs out there that think "planning" their business is putting in the work and taking action. NOPE.

That is like saying you are going to get results when you write down your workout but never go to the gym. It just isn't going to happen.

So, stop playing "pretend business" and GET TO WORK, if this is what you really want.

The next major thing that the gym can teach us is that you control the results. Kind of like what I said above, you have to put in the work to get the results.

You can't expect someone else to workout for you and you get a good looking body, just not going to happen. The AMOUNT of work that you are putting in will determine your results, so maybe you should try putting in some more work if you don't see results and stop saying you are "grinding" when you are only working a few hours each day on your goals.

The final thing that the gym can teach us about entrepreneurship and life is that you constantly have to be improving and challenging yourself to try new things if you want to keep seeing results.

​Just like in the gym when your results start to plateau and you seem to be not improving, you have to try new exercises, increase the weight and target new muscles, you have to do the same in business.

When you seem to be in a rut where you aren't seeing anymore real growth, that is the time to reshift your focus, try something new and start attacking the problem you solve from new angles.

This will allow you to start seeing new results and keep the momentum going towards those results.

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How To Start Implementing This Into Your Life

So, how do you start implementing the gym, or even just discipline into your life?

Well, I will start with the gym and then go into some other areas, if you are already consistently hitting the gym.

You have to start off with actually getting the gym membership (obviously), then move into planning out your exercises and what weight you should be using for each. You can find a ton of helpful information online, just by sitting down for a few hours and learning about fitness.

Then, you actually have to take the steps to go to the gym consistently, pick a time of day and stick with what works for you.

If you are already consistently going to the gym, maybe research some exercises or more on the industry, take it more seriously to see what workouts will start getting you results. Or start to focus on your diet.

Focusing on your diet is another great way to build discipline into your life. Start by figuring out how many calories you need to eat each day to maintain your weight and then figure out what your weight goals are. Then start tracking everything you eat, using a great app called MyFitnessPal, that makes it super easy.

You can even go farther than that and start researching diets to lose fat or build muscle and start eating meals based on those diets, what I recommend to really start building discipline.

Finally, other ways you can build discipline, outside of health and fitness, is to start focusing a few hours EVERYDAY on your education.

Read books, articles and listen to podcasts and watch YouTube videos not just based around your niche, but based around life and understanding people.

Also, focus on the success stories of others, as they have found what it takes to win and can help you save years of learning!

One of the best ways I found to build discipline around business was to block out the 5 most important business tasks that day into different hours of the day. Then shut off my phone and ONLY focus on those tasks at those points in the day.

I Would Love To Hear Your Results

I am looking forward to hearing from you when you all try these things out. Building habits around these areas of my life have changed my levels of happiness as well as my results drastically.

I would love to see them do the same for you.

If you try these strategies out or have other strategies you use for discipline, comment below or even email me your story for a chance to win some 1 on 1 social media consulting for FREE:)

I would love to hear from you-- contact@profitingtools.com

Hey, thank you for the support on another blog! Would love to hear your guys' thoughts, results and opinions on the gym and entrepreneurship or how it has helped your journey as an entrepreneur and just life in general.

Thanks again,
​Taylor

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