Happy 5-Reps Friday!
2 Coaching Concepts
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As a general rule, you should not take sets to failure when training for muscle gain.
Leave one or two reps in the tank to ensure you can achieve proper total volume and recovery.
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The heaviest weight in the gym is the front door.
If you’re showing up today, congratulations, you did the hardest part.
Keep showing up and it’ll add up.
2 Business Nuggets
1.
Somebody will always appear to be more successful than you.
That’s not a bad thing.
Removing FOMO leads to long-term thinking and a focus on your own goals. It helps you avoid getting sucked into distracting ‘fly-by-night’ trends.
As Morgan Housel, the author of The Psychology of Money, once said, “being immune to the siren song of other people’s success, especially when that success is sudden and extreme and caused by factors out of their control, is so powerful that it’s practically impossible to do well without it over time.”
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2.
A customer hires your product or service to solve a problem.
It doesn’t matter how much they pay––your job, and what they judge you on––is whether you help them solve their problem.
Low prices results in fewer resources to solve problems. It leaves less for customer service, quality, innovation, and ultimately results in unsatisfied customers, low retention, and a poor referral rate.
The reaction to low lead flow is often to further reduce pricing. But pricing or affordability is never the issue.
Click to listen to Episode 96: Raise your prices painlessly
1 Quote to Consider
“Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance. 90% of success can be boiled down to consistently taking the simple and obvious action for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you’re smarter than you are.” – Shane Parrish
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-Jon
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