Training for What's Next... Thursday, September 15

I had a business meeting today, a breakfast meeting, and then it was go, go, go from there.

Today's Schedule:

8am       Breakfast meeting

11am     Swing by the Toronto Reference Library

12-8pm  Coaching downtown -- a boxing class, core class and 2 personal training clients

8:30pm   Meet with Foo Man Choo

9:30pm   Training at System Fitness

11:30pm  Return home -- walk Balboa and answer business emails

After having been my own boss for the past several years, it's really hard to be an employee, working for someone else's business.  I took this coaching position at the women's only fitness gym downtown Toronto because I wanted to use it as a hands-on study tool -- a means of learning first hand behind-the-scene look at how a business functions and operates.  My Second Dream is to open my own female-only clubhouse so while this gym isn't exactly what I want to do in my future, it's half of what I want to do though and it is one of the closest things to what I want to launch.  I like my coworkers and I like my boss but it's hard to not be the boss.  I have so many ideas and so many things I'd love to bring to the table but this isn't my place.  I am but a worker here.  On Tuesdays and Thursdays my coworker is with me only for a couple of hours, my boss is in and out, and then I'm totally running the gym by myself.  So I do have some freedom with setting the vibe of the club and running it how I seem fit during my hours but not really.  I am still very much limited to that which comes with working for someone else under someone else's rules and being just an employee.  

In my eyes, this job is on-the-job training for my Second Dream, my next dream job.