"No one plans to become mediocre. Rather, mediocrity is the result of no plan at all" --Tommy Newberry
Those who know me know me well enough to know that I'm a take-no-excuse kind of coach. Everyone has an excuse and my excuse is that I'm sick of excuses. I've been pulling crazy hours, repeated sleepless nights and putting my mind, body and soul to extremes even before we actually got the building for our boxing club. Saturdays are now my official one day off each week but even after two months of being in business, I've yet to not come in on my day off. Even yesterday, I came in the morning to hang the laundry and clean the bathrooms. Back in December we told Junior Mint, my former coach/manager, the plans for our boxing club and walked away from him knowing full well that we may never step foot in there again. It was a massive risk we took, especially for me considering UP Boxing Club had become a second home for me and a family, but we had our dream to focus on.
December was all about learning how to open a business.
January was all about fighting for the rights for the original building we wanted.
February was all about planning for our now location -- floor plan, needed equipment, classes, etc.
March and April were all about preparing our new club and doing nonstop renovations.
May was all about the soft opening -- practice run-through -- and continuing renovations.
June was all about getting in the members.
July was all about fine tuning the club procedures and starting to pay off our debt.
August will be all about keeping our current members.. and continuing to pay off our debt.
It's been a total of EIGHT long, loooooong months of going hardcore with our boxing club and I've yet to be sick and I've yet to have a full day away from the club, something I didn't realize only until one of my members commented about it today at training actually.
I haven't been sick in eight months despite all the craziness of my schedule but I have been in three fights -- one where I was dragged out of the bathroom ceiling, one that resulted in me getting my neck slashed up and one that resulted in a bent squat bar rack. My blood pressure has reach rooftop levels but that's only because of those pesky parkers and a couple of workers (including my FIL) not really knowing their role or respecting mine.
Hmm... I haven't been sick. Actually, I can't remember the last time I got sick. Snickers accounts it on the excess of kisses and love I get from him and our four-legged beauties -- they do greet me every morning as if I were Santa coming down the chimney. My father accounts it on the fact that I keep myself way too busy for any kind of sickness to even be able to catch up with me. Friends think it's because I'm doing a job I absolutely love but I wasn't always running my own boxing club and it took me to go to extremes with everything to get it up and running as fast as we did.
I account my excellent health to four things:
1. eating clean
2. training hard
3. loving where I am in life -- married and living in Korea
4. always challenging myself
I think that my love for challenges and being all about beating the odds or proving I can do something has kept me most healthy because it's a mind, body and soul thing. I love the mental challenge of having to rack my brain for an answer or having to mental push myself to stay strong, the physical exhaustion that comes with having to act it out -- like a hard circuit or taking on a new coach, and the deep down in my soul good feeling that comes when I am almost there.
Today I decided to invite some of my boxing club members into one of my most recent challenges -- the pull-up challenge. The challenge is pretty simple, set a one month goal on how many pull-ups you can do by maxing them out on day one and then times that number by two for your goal. Two of my members decided to take on my challenge. They each did 3 pull-ups so they have a month to work up to 6 pull-ups. Like I said, it's a pretty simple challenge but sometimes that's all people need -- something to focus on. I know I'm totally one of those people. I did 9 pull-ups so my goal is to work up to 18 by September 1st.
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