Life in the LongWhiteCloud

Good Friday highlights Spending the morning taking group class at 6am, doing some adventurous vision promotion up ponsonby road and herne bay on a beautiful Autumn morning, getting breakfast with the crew, running some boxing with clients (jaz), training and lifting mechanic chats with Tom, along with some general banter mixed in made my Friday morning that much more awesome than spending the day at the flat sleeping in. Getting up early for an enjoyable job I can apply my passion to makes the day much more fulfilling than an average 9-5 desk job, once I made the adaption to my sleeping pattern, shifting sleep back earlier at night. Nothing interesting/useful happens after 9 anyway most weeknights!!! Social events like music club, ultimate, games nights, drinks with ultimate friends often finish around 8:30, if social events go later I can always pull the  work tomorrow card and leave early. On weekends, Friday and Saturday good to go!!! Not doing nights till 1-2 pm anymore, messe...

Emotions: Vulnerable, brave, This last week I've learned that living life fully by taking all opportunities in creative avenues, social life and sport I want to pursue is overwhelming but satisfying and fulfilling. Biggest challenge this weekend was not being there with my team at nationals to push myself and the team to new heights, against my best friends and rivals from around the country. Not being there was hard, made even more so by the level I've pushed myself to in training and successes of Twin Harbour, personally and for the team. To finally start to find my groove within this team, although I have a long way to go. Weekly Values/Attributes Decisiveness Pick a direction and go with it. I've though for a while now I need to be more decisive, but thinking that doesn't make it happen. Only deliberate action makes me feel in full control of my life, even though I feel uncomfortable/nervous about the decision. It was during a game of secret Hitler I figured ...

Emotions: Happy, satisfied, little anxious Studio This week so far at the studio has been good, running some good sessions with clients including Jaz and Chris, Meghan's clients. Finding I have some good relationships with some of the bigger personalities in the studio, like Mel and Marnie, come about from running good group classes, with a little drama (music not working) but finding alternate solutions and having a laugh out of it (Adele broke it!) This is a great step towards building a good reputation as a trainer, and being a good role model for my clients, with great rapport. Thought about aiming for a target client base of 20 hours (more realistic) in next 6 months, to give more time in evenings for social life. Aside from the positive, the colour run is looming and with a rego fee of $70 I'm not so sure about it and having second thoughts, with some of the other trainers bailing. Frustrating the company can't cover our costs, a bit nervous about telling Dean I...

Middle of March, end week entry Emotions: Satisfied (training), tired, impatience Have been feeling exited recently about my future and present career in fitness industry, and how I'm just where I want to be. Stories about unfufilling physio jobs (georgia) have helped, along with new boss Brad, who has big experience in fitness industry, who I can learn a lot from. Truly thankful to have such a great team to work with at icebreaker, and vision PT. Sometimes its easy to forget that my line of work is much more interesting as a standard office job, and the skills I'm learning are fantastic toward building a successful career in the sport and health industry, for whatever path I end up taking. This week I have done a lot of research on mental training and goal setting, notably Tony Robbins being my main source. The key pickup is to attach feelings of intense pain with bad habits I want to get out of. E.g. Indecision, belief that I can't relate to friends and acquaintan...

March, Mid week entry Emotions: happy, satisfied, competence, tired Achieved GS assessment with mean 120 score. Lots of dedicated practice, role play, coffee and chicken salad beforehand paid off. Stoked and ready to nail nutrition next week. Learned more about anatomy and movement mechanics for basic leg exercises today than 1 month of uni. Great for long term goal, couldn't have been a more productive day so far. Mentally fucked right now, still have team ultimate training, possible les mills class, group class design to go still. Mental training/Self belief Constructive thought processes I'm prepared as I can be for this, I've done all the work, all I need to do is relax and focus with confidence.  I can achieve a good career in the sport and fitness industry, I have the work ethic and people skills.  I can help athletes achieve their goals, through good goal setting practices and a focus on values true to them. I know how to challenge peoples though process...

Emotions: Confused, tired, indecisive As the week came to an end, on Sunday had thoughts my weekly goal was not strong enough, had conflicting emotions and thoughts about where I should go with my career (Greenpeace?). Some of these thoughts were spurred by the money I could make (close to double what I get atm) but sacrifices the lifestyle and learning benefits of Vision. Working at the studio gives me the choice of developing myself towards a career in the general health side of the industry, or towards the athlete and elite development side. Both start with PT work, this is the foundation of a good career in the health and sport industry. But I want to make a difference! I know I could work for greenpeace and make a positive contribution, but I could also focus on making my household cleaner and greener too, and give my current career choice my BEST shot. The pursuit of less/focus on a single discipline is the only was to achieve real success and satisfaction in life. I'm ...