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Inner Voice Often Dashes Dreams of Becoming a Fitness Author

by TommyT

What do you think is the quickest way to set yourself apart from
your competition in the fitness industry?

I'll give you a hint: It's the same thing that can take your
career and notoriety to a national or even international level
almost overnight.

It's the same thing that helped put fitness experts Bob Green,
Bill Phillips, Shawn Phillips, Tom Venuto, Jon Benson, and
myself, Tom Terwilliger on the map and we're all trainers just
like you.

The answer is-- your own published book.

It doesn't matter that not all of them were best sellers. What
matters is that doors opened and paths were paved for each one of
these authors once their books hit the market place.

How do you think your current and prospective clients would feel
if they knew they were working with a bona fide fitness author
using the same specialized training system you wrote about in
your book? What if instead of just telling their friends and
colleagues about you, they could actually give them a copy of
your book?  The publicity benefits are endless including the
possibility of being on Oprah for goodness sake.

So I think we can agree you need to have a published book out
there.

But here's the problem.  Most of us allow our own little inner
voice to talk us out of taking the action steps that would propel
us forward and instead we inch along month after month and
sometimes year after year doing what's comfortable.

But at least we're doing something,right?

That's how we justify it.  And the truth, the "one small step at
a time" approach does works in some cases.  It's how most of us
learned to walk, and ride a bike, and how we got from the 4th
grade to the 5th. It was the educational system process. We have
been trained to think in terms of linear steps.  We have been
trained to think inside the box.

I find it interesting however that many of the ultra successful
thought leaders, authors, and even entrepreneurs today never
achieved the level of "formal education" that you might expect.

The amazing career of the self-help guru, Tony Robbins who has
advised presidents, superstars, and sports heroes and whose
personal power-building seminars have reached people in 70
countries is a prime example. Tony built a financial empire with
no formal education or credentials - just an incredible drive to
succeed and an ability to think outside the box.

My good friend, Harv Eker is another prime example. Harv has
reached over 500,000 people worldwide with his financial
blueprint training with no formal business degree, training or
education.

Perhaps their ability to think outside the box is more a
bi-product of not having pursued a formal education.  The
greatest commonality between Tony and Harv is that they are both
best selling authors.  And although their books didn't launch
their careers and they both had momentum already, it did help
them break out of the stratosphere.

The bottom line is this, no matter how well your career is
already going you can take it to a whole new level with your own
published book and it doesn't have to be a best seller.

So knowing the benefits for both you and those you need to
reach--what is stopping you from becoming apublished fitness
author?

Most people would answer that question with something that
sounds a little like, "I don't have time to write a book.", or "I
don't have the money to get started.", or "I don't have enough
experience.", or "I don't really have anything special to
contribute of write about.", or "I have no idea where to start."

I would answer them with a resounding BS! All that is, is their
own little inner voice pulling up all the old excuses that has
kept them from taking action in the past.  It shows up in the
form of resistance. And in my experience the more resistance you
encounter when considering a course of action the more you need
to know that it is the direction you should be moving.

In his book, The War of Art author, Steven Pressfield writes of
resistance, "Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from
doing your work. It will perjure, fabricate, falsify, seduce,
bully, and cajole. Resistance is protein in that it will assume
any form, if that's what it takes to deceive you. It will reason
with you like a lawyer or jam a nine millimeter in your face like
a stickup man. Resistance has no conscience. It will pledge
anything to get a deal, than double-cross you as soon as your
back is turned. If you take resistance at its word, you deserve
everything you get. Resistance is always lying and always full of
s**t."

So the only real question is who will win-- you and the people
you can reach and help with your book or the little inner voice
that puts up the resistance?

Tom Terwilliger is a former Mr. America, certified NLP Master
Practitioner, Life Strategies and Personal Fitness Coach,
Motivational Speaker and founder of Coaching Leadership
Excellence. Learn more at  <a
href="http://www.InnerGameofConfidence.com"> Inner Game of
Confidence</a> and <a
href="http://www.AccessToFitnessExperts.com/NitinChhoda"> Access
To Fitness Experts</a>

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