THE SECRET

I recently figured out a common “secret” between success, investing, marketing, training and health. No it’s not the “The Secret” even if that’s a good one as well. This is a secret so well know that it’s hidden in the must, should and would of a hectic and stressful  average day. And the average person struggles to learn and apply this secret.

I will start with different stories where I learnt this secret myself, in these different fields.

Success

When I prepared myself for the world championships in Philippines 1993 I new there would be guys with more experience and skills than me. There was nothing I could do about that. But what I figured out was that many of them focused more on the techniques and skills and less on the physical conditioning. So I made up my mind that I should condition myself harder than anybody else possible could. The challenge with that decision was that I had started a new company that demanded 60-80 work hours a week, started a new club that demanded some hours every week as well besides my own training. On top of that I was on my way to become a father so I guess you can see the complexity of this situation.

To reach my goal (to become a World Champion) realized that I had to condition myself EVERY DAY. I had to run or skip rope and hit the tires on top of all the above. How I did that was to integrate those things in my everyday life. I always had the running shoes in my car, depending on the time of the day I stopped and ran on my way to/from work or to/from lunch or other errands. If I had little time I skipped rope instead, everything from 30 minutes down to 3 minutes many times during the workday. At the coffee break between phone calls or meeting whenever there were the tiniest slack. Same thing with the tires, if I had time for a proper lunch break (rarely) I spent an hour hitting the pile of tires. But same thing there, whatever happened I hit those tires EVERY DAY. Some days an hour,sometimes only 3 minutes but most of the time 3 minutes over and over again. This concept made me a World Champion in full contact stick fighting Cebu City 1993.

At that place and at that time nobody else had conditioned themselves harder than me!

If you still wondering what the “SECRET” and commonality with investing, marketing and training are hang in there and come back to the blog on Friday. I will reveal the “SECRET” of successful marketing.