On my social media blog, I

recently got a question about,

from a gentleman who's a

personal trainer, you know,

fitness and dedication to fitness

and helping people maximize

their tone and their body and their,

you know, to help them just be in fit,

maximize fitness. But he also had a

love he said, for personal development,

which is not uncommon, you see

that quite often. But he says,

how do I merge them?

I feel like I want to put more

energy on personal development,

but I'm doing one-on-one coaching,

and I'm kind of trapped by the hour,

I charge by the hour and I'd kind of

like to do some education and personal

development. Well, the

obvious connection is,

while you're doing personal training,

use the tools that you've learned from

personal development and use it and apply

it right into the training process,

the way you're communicating with them,

the gems of wisdom that you

picked up, practical things,

things you see them that they mention

in your conversations that you know you

can help them solve. But,

if you do that you're getting the

same fee, you're still fixed on fee.

But if you take your personal development,

organize that knowledge and package

that in some sort of a presentation or

possibly you could actually make it that

if you're in the personal development

field, one of the areas of

personal development is fitness,

and so if you want to maximize your

personal development and your skills,

you want to make sure you have

confidence and tone and fitness.

You can merge them that way.

So you could actually do a presentation

on personal development and pick up

clients in the fitness arena.

Or you could do personal,

you could do presentations and

speak in a personal training field,

and then also bring in gyms of personal

development and upsell a program

of organized knowledge that you've

had in the personal development field.

That way you don't throw it away,

you use it and you apply it.

But if you take knowledge

and you have a love for it,

you might as well get paid for it.

II'm a firm believer in whatever it is

you love to do, why not get paid for it?

Why take vocation, vacation and separate

them? Why not merge them together?

Why don't you do what you

love and get paid for it?

I teach people that in the Breakthrough

Experience program that I teach almost

every week, I show people how to do it,

and I've seen people make millions doing

something that they never thought they

could even get paid for.

So there's no way you can go through

life and be fulfilled if you're

having to do something and then over

here you're having to make a living doing

this and you really want to be doing this.

I find that if you merge those together,

it's wiser. So you ask questions,

how specifically is my

personal development helping

me in my personal training?

And how is my personal training

helping me in my personal development?

Ask that question, and hold

yourself accountable to answer it.

If I was consulting with you,

I would automatically ask that question

and make you accountable to answer that,

and you'd find an answer. And the

more you make the links between them,

the more creative insights you come

up with on how to package yourself and

present something. Because

you can actually say, look,

I've been doing personal training on you,

I noticed that you've been talking about

your relationship issue or about your

business struggles or about

your economics issues,

I have something that I can help you

and I'm going to charge for that,

and then set up a time

for that to meet that.

You could open up a coaching

and consulting service for that.

Or you could have them and say, look,

I'm doing a presentation on

that very topic this week,

I would love for you to come,

it's a moderate fee of $49 for the evening

or whatever, whatever the amount is.

Or you could actually just do one-on-one

coaching with them and charge them what

you feel your normal fee is.

There's no reason why you can't merge

those two together. They are the same,

as far as I'm concerned, your mind

and body are kind of working together.

And if you're basically having a personal

development and you have skills there

that can help them, that's going

to help them on their mindset,

that's going to help

them manage their time,

it's going to help them deal

with their relationships.

Because if you're working out and you're

not present when you workout and you're

thinking about what just happened

in your spouse or your kids,

or you're worried about

your finances or business,

you have a higher probability of injury.

They found out that people that are more

present have less injuries than people

who are distracted by impulses

and instincts, infatuation,

resentments and emotional stuff

that personal development can help.

So merge them by asking how specifically

is my personal development knowledge

going to help me in my training?

And how is my training going to

help me with my personal knowledge?

You can take your personal training and

all the skills of discipline and then

put that into the skills of knowledge

development in personal development and

apply the same principles.

There's no reason why those can't be

united together and you package and you

paid handsomely for both of those.

Your skills can be done in both areas.

You're already doing it probably now,

but you might as well formalize it and

package it and present it and charge for

it and get paid handsomely for doing

something that will be of value to people.

It's something you've been doing it for

possibly months or years and decades

maybe, and all that knowledge is something

that's, that people can benefit by.

So package it.

Organized knowledge is power and it's

productive and can produce profits and

they can both ha and help each other.

There's no reason why you can't merge

those two together and put both of them in

place and build a very viable business

incorporating the two together towards

one end.

And maybe you can package those up

and sell audio programs or online

programs or who knows,

blogs, whatever it is,

to the clients that you already

have in personal development.

They can be dovetailed, but you gotta ask,

how specifically is one helping the

other? And don't stop and don't say,

I don't know, find the

answer. If you're not,

contact myself and let me consult with

you and show you how to do that so it's

silly.

Or come to my Breakthrough Experience

program where I show people how to do that

every week. I told them, I

say I ask them a question,

what is it you would absolutely love to

do and how do you get handsomely paid to

do it, and we go through

them, we figure it out.

And there's no reason

why you can't do that.

You have no reason why you can't

integrate any parts and create subsidiary

systems inside your business. You could

be a serial entrepreneur with people

actually working underneath

you in both those arenas.

There's no limit on what you can do.

It's just your mind's belief

systems and thinking processes.

So hope that was helpful.

And I know that there is easily a solution

to that, but the questions you ask,

the quality of life is based on

the questions you ask. If you ask,

how can I merge those together?

They get merged and then they both support

each other and you end up producing

more business, more impact, more profits.