Steps to Success... Saturday, October 15

Am getting ready to launch my own fitness company. It's going to be called Flipside Fitness and it's going to center around personal training and a small group boxercise class.

Tomorrow I'll be teaching my first official boxercise class so it's kind of a trial run for my company. I've taught at the boxing club before but not in the way or direction I'm taking this particular boxercise class. I offered the class to the girls in my girls-only club, initially only allowing a guest list of 10 to try the class for free. However, when word got out and it got a lot of hype, I added three more spots to the guest list and made a waiting list. As it stands, the guest list is full and there are three ladies on the waiting list, bringing the total to 17 lovely ladies wanting and willing to let me kick their butt at the boxing club.

I'm going to make those gals sweat up a storm at the boxing club. They're going to be rocking the 1-2, throwing the jabs, doing various combo punches, weaving like there's no tomorrow and sweating in places they never thought they could ever possibly sweat before. It's going to be good. Correction, it's going to be fabulous!!!

So today I spent my day preparing for tomorrow's boxercise class which meant I had to swing by the boxing club to do a quick clean, take down the laundry, fold the towels, stock the bathroom with shampoo and conditioner, and test out the sound system with my music CD I made. I did a run-through of my boxercise class with Snickers and then I had a meeting with a potential sponsor for Flipside Fitness. Yup, how cool is that?! I haven't even launched my company yet and already I have people approaching me about helping out. I feel so very blessed.

Next week I'll be meeting with Adidas, they too want to help me with my boxercise class, and I'll be getting business cards and advertisements printed up by the printing company that I have a meeting with today. Am thinking about getting t-shirts made up too because with the Heavy Hitter's fight coming up at the end of this month it'd be a great opportunity to get some free publicity for my new company. I really have to focus on networking more so in Cheonan though. With a population of foreigners in the hundreds, possibly in the thosands (though I never really see any), there's a thriving potential cliental base here to be made!

Although I am super stoked about tomorrow's boxercise class, I must note that my optimistic high took a temporary plung when I started getting random messages throughout the day from various people skipping out on the class. I know things will always come up and excuses will always be made but it was rather disappointing to see how easy people seemed to cancel on me. They'll never know the stress I went through with having to have Junior Mint put things on the line and meet with the building manager so that I could get permission and they'll never know just how much dedication and planning went into it all. I know they don't know and I don't expect them to know but I know.

The way I look at it is, those who really want to come out tomorrow and who I really want to share my passion of fitness and boxing with are those who will show up tomorrow. So whether it's 14 people or just one person, I'm not going to change my level of effort or attitude and I'm not going to lose sight as to why I started this project in the first place. I'm doing it because I love it. I love boxing. I love being the one incharge of my own health and well-being. I love making myself into whatever and whomever I want to be and it just feels great handing over what I know and the tools I used to do so to someone else.