 Hey, what's up guys? Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Ben neighbors I'm the founder here at build my sports biz Com now in today's episode. I'm going to be sharing the three pitfalls of unsuccessful personal trainers and These are three things personally. I've already experienced in the past when I started my business I was very unsuccessful at the beginning But over the last couple of years specifically the last four and a half years I've been able to coach hundreds of coaches with their business and Anytime I've seen any coach fail. It's because they have one of these three qualities or they have all of them Make sure when I go through this I want you to be writing notes down Feel free to comment below this video if you have any questions And I want to make sure that you get a lot out of this video So you might have to watch this a few times and I will tell you if you have the first quality That I'm about to talk about you're probably not going to finish this video all the way through and I want to make sure that you do From start to finish you take notes You follow through with this video because I know this will really help you. All right now The first quality is a spontaneous business owner. Okay? If you are a spontaneous person, that means that you just wake up one day and you're like, oh, I'm gonna go do this Or oh, I'm gonna go do that and I've seen this happen a lot Coaches will message me on Instagram be like hey Ben I saw one of the videos and I really want to be a private trainer now and I'm like, okay great. Well, what sort of experience do you have? You know, why do you want to do it and then I don't get clear answers back and these are coaches Who just wake up one day and they have an idea and they're like, I want to go do this They don't have a real reason why and then two months later. They see someone else's video They're like, oh, I want to go do that. No, I want to be a marketer. No, or I want to go do social media now and They jump from from hoop to hoop But what they never do is they never complete anything and spontaneous business owners do this and that is a terrible habit to have You cannot be successful In this business or any business if you're just jumping from idea to idea Okay This comes down to discipline when I say discipline it means if you have an idea you stick with it You don't just bounce around from thing to thing and here's a good example This happens even with coaches that are in this business They'll do private training and they become really good at it and then before they can automate the process they will jump into something else and then the private training will crumble and Then when they try to do that other thing then they try to do camps and clinics or small group training or online training or online Mentorship and they try to have 5,000 different things going on and trust me I've been guilty of that before and I can tell you you cannot put your focus on Six different things at once you can do one thing at a time and do that well Okay So to recap don't be spontaneous if you are you need to change that you need to be disciplined Okay, now the second thing This is the second quality that I see a lot of coaches have is they'll always tell me well Ben I'm waiting until January 1st to start my business. I'm gonna wait until I get this other safe and secure job I'm gonna wait until the perfect timing and there's no perfect timing in this game when I started My business it was what during one of the worst Economic crashes in the US. I didn't wait until things got better I just did it because I knew there was no perfect timing. I knew if I waited I would have stayed in my crappy job that I used to have If you wait someone else is going to take advantage of that I'll give you a great example Because I didn't wait during that time I was one of the first coaches in my city to really establish a private training business I will tell you it would have been a lot harder for me if I would have started two years later Because there would have already been a few other people in my my town who'd started by them it would have been harder for me to gain traction and the longer you wait the more coaches are going to take advantage of this opportunity to start their own private training business group training business or camper clinic business and Waiting is going to kill you right? That's that's that's the inevitable waiting is going to kill your business Because there's not going to be perfect timing. There's there's never a perfect time to do anything Okay, now the last quality is one that I know personally This is something that had haunted me in the past But it doesn't anymore which is You don't learn from your mistakes You continue doing the same thing over and over and over again and even when you make a mistake You just go back and you keep doing that Okay, for example, I see a lot of coaches on Instagram They will take They'll go to canva.com and they'll make these flyers and They'll post those flyers to Instagram or to social media and they expect that parents are just going to look at that and Automatically sign up for it right That's a mistake that I see a lot of coaches make for some coaches if that works That's great for most coaches that you know that strategy doesn't work out How are you pivoting from that are you just going to do that and then when it continues to stop working You're just going to quit that's what I see a lot of coaches do and they don't think outside the box with marketing And that's really the whole point of our mastermind It's to show you the proven systems that do work So you do get clients and you stop doing the same mistakes over and over and over and over again Because the more mistakes you make the more money you're going to lose and that's just flat out You make one mistake you should learn from it and pivot and be like okay Well, I'm not going to do it that way anymore I'm going to do it a new way do it a better way and then from there you course correct and you go again Making mistakes is normal. You should be making mistakes. There's no perfect business owner I make mistakes all the time, but I learn from them and I course correct and I adjust Okay, so to recap the three qualities that unsuccessful coaches have right number one They're spontaneous. So don't be a spontaneous person be focused right number two Coaches are waiting for the perfect timing There's never going to be a perfect time to do anything. All right You need to take action and take it now. Okay, and the last one is coaches are not learning from their mistakes Okay, so hopefully by now you've taken notes on everything that we've covered in this video If you have any questions comment below and if you want to join Coaches from all around the world. 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