In 2002 I had finished my Masters Degree in Chinese Medicine. Following the exit exam, I sat for the California State Board exam. Much to my surprise I did not pass. Every year there after I pursued this dream and goal to get my license. Last August sat for the exam again and went through an emotional break up with my fiance a week before that exam and come to finding out that I didn’t pass for the ninth time. In November of last year suffered a major Motocross accident rendering me incapacitated up to the point of taking the exam. I have now just taken the exam for the 10th time February 16th of this year. It will be 4 weeks before I find out the results, but I feel confident I will be moving forward with grace and faith putting this test behind me so I can continue with my dream of opening my own Orthopedic Acupuncture and fitness center.

The accelerator can be the key I need to boost my vision and keep a step by step guide to reaching my goals, keeping me congruent with them, my values and behaviors so i can have long term happiness, freedom and success.
Thanks everyone at NPE for all the help and guidance through these times. You have been a great asset.

This quality has allowed me to manage my way through the oceans of doubts and second guesses I’ve had about opening my business to begin with. With so many people telling me how easy it is to fail at keeping a business afloat. Sometimes those negative reinforcements cause me to wonder if the whole thing is worth it.

However, the fact I have not only hunger and passion; but also the desire to conquer myself drives me to keep going! Through bettering myself through Eric and Sean’s marketing, I am learning how to attract QUALITY clients, slowly but surely, which is a positive reinforcement that keeps me driving hard. Results beget results!

I would love to win a scholarship for the Evolution Accelerator because I am tired of living in wonder and fear about how I can provide for my children. I know how important it is for children to see that it is possible to achieve their hopes, goals and dreams. Unfortunately I started my business in a very foolish way in the beginning (I was young and arrogant and used credit cards) so I am currently behind the 8-ball. But I feel with the tools this program provides, I would not only provide an excellent life for my two kids; but also fulfill my dream of reaching and helping so many more people that I currently have no idea how to reach.

I used to smoke, drink and party often and there was a turning point in my life when I got fired from my job unexpectedly and then I really needed to change my lifestyle which is when I was studying for me first personal training certificate about 5 years ago.
I told myself that i have to really get certified and stop going out spending money I did not have so much of. Ever since then I made a decision to not have a single cigarette, I have not had a single ounce of any type of alcohol, no wine, no beer, nothing, I have stopped drinking pop (soda), and dont spend my time at the bars or clubs.
The funny thing was, at first I really needed to be disciplined about it but I think after several months into it what made me conquer this is that I really made a decision to change my life. Once I made that decision everything was so easy, I was looking at life through different lenses, in a whole new way.

Why I want EA? Eric, Honestly I am freaking frustrated. I got so much drive, so much passion, I dont do anything else during the day but working on things related to my fitness business, my whole day is spent on that…..and apparently I am not doing the right thing. I am doing so many things related to it that there is no sufficient time for the most important thing. Implementation coupled with consistency is what will solve it.
I believe in you guys, I love your systems and work ethics, i believe in myself, I am very passionate, I give alllllllll of my time on it, I am fully dedicated to my fitness business improvement but I must make some type of a shift to make it happen. I have had sooo much ups and downs with this fitness career that now I see it that the main thing to succeed is not even one product but we need start IMPLEMENTING/APPLYING what we are being taught and never give up, STAY ON IT/CONSISTENT until it is done.
Give me that one last chance

Self-Discipline

2. Share one way this quality has impacted your life in a profound way.

Self-discipline is doing something unnatural over and over again until it becomes natural. By nature, we (humans) are mediocre, lazy, status quo, fearful, and so on. Because greatness and excellence in all categories of our lives doesn’t happen naturally and definitely not by default, one has to fight, battle, and go to war in order to conquer oneself (the dark evil one).

One of the greatest battles for me is the ability to ask without fear. As a kid I was never the one to raise my hand in class – to answer or ask a question – even if I knew the right answer. I was too timid and scared of what people would think of me. I didn’t want to appear foolish – I was afraid to fail.This fear crippled me from grade-school to college all the way to my career life. I never got what I wanted in life because I never asked for it. It certainly doesn’t automatically land on your lap. One day I realized that If you want something, ask for it (so obvious). The business deal, the sale, referrals, the pretty girls phone number, relieve and rescue. At first asking for these things was hard, but the worst thing that can happen is no. I have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Talk about risk versus reward. I started asking for bigger and better things and got some yes’ and a lot more no’s. After repeating this process over and over, in spite of my natural resistance, it helped me get better at the art and science of asking. Now, its second nature.

3. Give one reason why you want Evolution Accelerator.

You get what you ask for! Here I am asking. I’ve owned my personal training studio for about four years and all I’ve done is pour more and more of me (time, money, energy) into my business. Now it’s time for my business to pour into me.

THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING! GREAT JOB!

I’ll announce the correct answer (the answer I was looking for) and the winner of the random draw tomorrow morning via email and blog post.

Have a great night.

How this core desire to change my situation and strong believe in myself has helped me to get where I am today.

I came to U.S 10 years ago with 1000 bucks in my pocket, no English, and nobody I knew I could get help from. One thing I knew I was going to be successful no matter what.
I took all the English classes I could at the local community college and started working in local fitness chain. When my managers found out that I am here under certain circumstances they tried to take advantage of it and threatened me all the time that I would get fired if I am not #1 producer in the club. (under my visa regulation this company was the only one i was allowed to work for at the time) I think this actually helped me to get even stronger because it turned out I wasn’t #1 in the club – I was #1 in the whole company (8 clubs)
One thing I knew for sure that one day I will leave this mess and open my own dream business.
Today I am just few steps away to make my dream come true. I own my business and I deliver awesome results to my clients. I stumbled upon this program and I know that I need directions to get better results from my marketing efforts. NOTHING is going to stop me to be #1 trainer and fitness business in Columbus OHIO because I have a really strong desire to make it happen. I don’t have to prove anybody wrong anymore. I want to prove myself that after 10 years of struggle and living on the edge of one big question mark about my future now I know what I want and how I want it.
I think that accelerator program would help me to achieve that. I will do whatever it takes to be your #1 testimony for future prospects. I am ready.

I believe this answer your questions Eric.

Have a nice day

The personal quality being address here is that mastering of the self. Controlling our sensual self & appetites instead of allowing them to control us. Mastering mind-sets & strongholds that can either make us or break us.

I’ve been in both positions. I spent over 27 years in Japan and China as a missionary. At one time due to “bends in the river” of life, it became just me and my kids. Not easy but my plans were to stay..till death due us part. But the situation was proving detrimental to my middle and youngest child, so I made the tough personal decision to step away from the circumstances that were taking us in a direction I definitely did not want to go nor my kids to have to suffer because of. I retired from my missionary lifestyle and returned to the States. Preparing to make this move I realized I’d need a way to support my kids and I. I loved working out and learning about nutrition. I’d always battled with my weight and reaching a turning point with that and the wonderful results and affect it had on my life, I knew I wanted to be a personal trainer. Being in China when I came to that decision I went on line and did as much research and all that I could do on line to begin to make that happen and I began to live it. I was teaching English at a well-known hotel and in return, besides compensation, they allowed me to use their in- house fitness facility and the foundation of my dream started to be built. The day came that I did return to the states and I knew what I wanted and needed to do, get the education and certifications I needed to continue on my pathway. In the meantime I worked early hours at a upper-end Expresso Shop and then later in the day worked at a Fitness Facility. (5a.m. early – my young daughter had to get herself to the school bus stop many times and I just had to trust God for it, cause it really wasn’t the way things should be, but you do what you have to do). I had already obtained a minor fitness certification that allowed me to get into the club and I began gaining more experience, more education and quality certification. That was nearly 8 years ago. I’ve worked at several facilities gaining more and more experience, learning the industry and finally started working more on my own.

In fact, in my pursuit of trying to grow my independent training clientele I ran across you Eric, that was before Sean joined you. I even purchased some of your materials.

Then in 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit and wiped me out completely. I was very, very blessed to walk away alive cause it was a “swim for your life” situation. I’ll tell you what–my priorities became very clear after that. God, family, friends and passion in one’s work. It took me about a year to recover emotionally, mentally, and I’m still recovering fiscally. But God has been very good to me.

Now, just past 4 years after relocating to Tennessee, I am the fitness trainer I want to be. It’s how I make my living. I feel its a calling, a mission, especially here in the USA, the land of the “balloon people” as one of my oriental students once so profoundly stated (mainly due to a lack of vocabulary) to describe his impression of the States.

For being here just over the 4 year mark, and actually only 2 of those really actively building my clientele base and presence in the fitness industry, I am at a turning point.

I am program director (part time) for an all female facility, I manage their fat loss programs. I also independently platform out of the club and garner most, though not all, of my clients from their membership base.

I’ve been surviving and even came to a point of making more money than I ever have (considering my 27 years of mission work was room and board and everything I owned pretty much fit in a suitcase, that might not be saying much). Its long hours and I’m definitely not leveraging myself and I don’t have that many more hours to spare to train to make more money. I need help. I know I have a deep well of expertise and experience to offer folks, I really need help in knowing how to do that. I feel like I am positioned to explode but it’ll be more like implode if I don’t get the know how to do this.

I lost all your materials I had on my computer in the hurricane and my head and heart are positioned now to make the go again. I need business-building know-how now!

Because of my life overseas, I have a son and 2 grandchildren (1 & 2 years old) over there right now. He’s having a family crisis and it’s killing me that I don’t have the time or money to be of much help to him or be there for those babies.

If I’m making more money, because I’m helping more people (and that’s what I do), and learn how to make business and leverage myself then I think, no, I KNOW I’d be freer to do what my heart desires AND what needs to be done in the personal areas of my life as well. That’s it, that’s why I want Evolution Accelerator.

This is a turning point for me.

Faith in my own vision has allowed me to keep pushing through many attempted what some might call failures but what we all know as learning experiences. I could have easily said to heck with all this daily hustlin to get clients and trying to make this happen. I could have easily given in to what so many of my family members have said, “Rashad maybe its time to just let it go and go get a real job with a steady paycheck.” “At least you won’t have the stress and worry about money.” Only problem is I know that is not true and giving up on my faith would in the long run make money a constant worry and take away the freedom I know I will have with my own fitness business.
I NEED this program because although I have the vision and the faith, I don’t have a clue about systems, marketing, management, and just simply how to run a business. But with this program, surrounding myself with the right mentors and coaches I know that my fitness business will bring huge and lasting change to this world long after I am gone. My business will leave a legacy.