The Responsibility To Ignore Even Your Personal Trainer

What if I was to tell your efforts toward fitness are futile, just give up right now. In fact you have absolutely no chance at succeeding with your spokane fitness goals!!

So please just go home right now and devour at least 1 dozen donuts, effective immediately.

As a Personal Trainer would you pay any attention to me?

Probably not (At least I hope not!!)

How about if a family member or co-worker heard about your plans to eat healthier or exercise to get in better shape so you can live a better life full of energy, and they just denounce your efforts as laughable claiming you won't last a week, on your new diet.

Would you listen to them?

I once heard about an old man, a boy, and a donkey were going to town.....

The boy rode on the donkey and the old man walked beside him. As they went along they passed some people who remarked it was a shame the old man was walking and the boy was riding. The man and boy thought maybe the critics were right, so they changed positions.

Later, they passed some people who remarked, "What a shame! He makes that little boy walk." They then decided they both would walk. Soon they passed some more people who thought they were stupid to walk when they had a decent donkey to ride. So they both rode the donkey.

Now they passed some people who shamed them by saying how awful to put such a load on a poor donkey. The boy and man said they were probably right, so they decided to carry the donkey.

As they crossed a bridge, they lost their grip on the animal, and he fell into the river and drowned. The moral of the story? If you try to please everyone, your going to l might as well kiss your life goodbye!

Sometimes we have the responsibility to ignore. (To reach your Fitness Goals)

Please, don't let anyone (even yourself) discourage you or plant negative thoughts or ideas into your head regarding your fitness. Don't even entertain the idea that failure is an option for you.

The other day I ran a small little ad in a local newspaper for my Personal Training Company. Now if a family member came to me and said, "Hey Zach your ad isn't really all that good, you need to work on it", I would most likely listen to them and produce a better ad.

But listen to this, some stranger actually took time to call me up, left a message and said how much my ad sucked.

Well, I immediately dismissed it as nonsense. For all I know his wife may have burnt his toast that morning and he just needed to vent his frustration.

We need to distinguish between opinion and fact. Everyone has an opinion as you know, and why would you take someone else's opinion over your own. For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. - Dale Carnegie

Ignore the foolish and only pay attention to those you care about and trust.

Just keep going through life living at your full potential and as Samuel Goldwyn said, "Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them."