You know what really ticks me off, the fact that I'm an entrepreneur so technically I work for myself but I'm still very much dependent on other people. Take for example the fact that I'm trying to launch my private boxing studio. How can I even go about that when real estate brokers online don't answer their text messages or emails when you inquire about theirs ads or don't even so much as answer their phones. I've gone so far as to text this one particular broker. I've texted her every hour, on the hour, for a good chunk of the day earlier this week.
Okay, so that was a bit much, even I admit that, but you'd think she'd at least text me to say "hey, give it a rest already".
If real estate brokers get your first month's rent as their paycheck, damn, that's a good paycheck but at least work for it. Perhaps that's why so many of them don't really work. I mean, if I made a poop-load of cash in one shot, I'd want to relax a bit, spend a bit, and be in no rush to return to work.
Currently I'm looking for a place to launch my private studio. I've got 10 clients -- 5 personal training clients and 1 small team, and I train them in three different cities, six different locations. I can't even begin to tell you how frustrating it is to be limited with what I can carry and how much time I'm spending commuting. I rather direct all that attention towards the actual client and their training. On Monday alone, for example, this is current schedule:
Monday:
6am . Wake up
7:15am . Take a Grab to Makati
8am . Client #1, City Club
9am . Walk to Greenbelt
10am . Client #2, Greenbelt
11am . Walk to Poblacion
11:30am . Client #3, Lokal Hostel
12:30pm . Quick meal
1:15pm . Boxing at Team Insider
3:30pm . Walk home to BGC
4:30pm . Arrive home in BGC, shower, eat, walk Balboa
5:30pm . Work on Empowered
In just this one day, Monday, I am commuting for a little under 4 hours, 3 of which is by foot and with my body weight in gear. That's four hours I'm losing that I could be training other clients or simply working on Empowered and not totally pushing my body to it's limit with walking in this damn hot sun. It makes for a long, gruelling day, a day where I could be spending those commuting hours on more productive things like building Empowered or working on the Lil' Sistas Project.
My eagerness to launch this studio is right up there and now I've worked it that with the number of clients I train, I can afford it. Of course there's the initial clump of money that needs to be dropped for advanced rent, renovations and of course equipment, but I'm getting to the point where my patience is running super thin, my frustrations are growing, and my eagerness is driving me mental.
I just want to launch this already.
I'm incredibly grateful for the clients that I have and I really do enjoy training each and everyone of them, they give me proud coach moments on the daily, but I'd also absolutely love, love, LOVE to show up at my private studio and have ample space to train them rain or shine and equipment for them to use beyond that which I can carry in my oversized gym bag, and I want them to have more options open to them, like a place to hang and eat their post training meal, a private place for me to weigh and measure them, and a place where Empowered can really own and make it our own. It's cool training in these non traditional places, like poolside and the rooftop patios, but nothing is quite like having your own home gym, and that's what I'm craving more and more... and more!!!
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