Getting Too Complacent As a Group Exercise Fitness Trainer

Just a few days ago a student in my class came up to me and tell me why I don’t ask if there is any new comers in class and try to help them fit in anymore.To be honest, I have seen my own standards dropping. I don’t really attend new workouts program launches, last minute learning of my choreography resulting in mistakes every now and then, didn’t really put in effort to help the new comers in class, didn’t take my teachings seriously anymore…

Why?

I became too complacent, arrogant and taking things for granted. Thinking that I’m very experience and start taking the short cuts to accomplish things.

Result?

My teaching standards drop, students starts complaining, not improving my skills and worse, I’m losing out to new instructors, they are constantly improving, always trying their best to make their class happy. 

Do you think it’s time I wake up, if not I will be left behind and be forgotten.

When we look at a certain object, a painting for example – we won’t be able to appreciate what’s in it, what is painted and what else goes with it  if the painting is just an inch away from our face. But if we try to take it a little further, we’ll have a clearer vision of the whole art work.

We reach a point in our life when we are ready for change and a whole bunch of information that will help us unlock our self improvement power. Until then, something can be staring us right under our nose but we don’t see it.  The only time we think of unlocking our self improvement power is when everything got worst.

Take the frog principle for example –

Try placing Frog A in a pot of boiling water. What happens? He twerps! He jumps off! Why? Because he is not able to tolerate sudden change in his environment – the water’s temperature. Then try Frog B: place him in a lukewarm water, then turn the gas stove on. Wait til the water reaches a certain boiling point. Frog B then thinks “Ooh… it’s a bit warm in here”.

People are like Frog B in general. Today, Anna thinks Carl hates her. Tomorrow, Patrick walks up to her and told her he hates her. Anna stays the same and doesn’t mind her what her friends says. The next day, she learned that Kim and John also abhors her. Anna doesn’t realize at once the importance and the need for self improvement until the entire community hates her.

Learning the Hard way-

We learn our lessons when we experience pain. We finally see the warning signs and signals when things get rough and tough. When do we realize that we need to change diets? When none of our jeans and shirts would fit us. When do we stop eating candies and chocolates? When all of our teeth has fallen off. When do we realize that we need to stop smoking? When our lungs have gone bad. When do we pray and ask for help? When we realize that we’re gonna die tomorrow.

The only time most of us ever learn about unlocking our self improvement power is when the whole world is crashing and falling apart. We think and feel this way because it is not easy to change. But change becomes more painful when we ignore it.

Change will happen, like it or hate it. At one point or another, we are all going to experience different turning points in our life – and we are all going to eventually unlock our self improvement power not because the world says so, not because our friends are nagging us, but because we realized its for our own good.

Accept Change and Embrace It-

Happy people don’t just accept change, they embrace it. Now, you don’t have to feel a tremendous heat before realizing the need for self improvement.  Unlocking your self improvement power means unlocking yourself up in the cage of thought that “its just the way I am”. It is such a poor excuse for people who fear and resist change. Most of us program our minds like computers.

Self improvement may not be everybody’s favorite word, but if we look at things in a different point of view, we might have greater chances of enjoying the whole process instead of counting the days until we are fully improved.

Two sessions in a week attending other Group Exercise Fitness Trainer class would improve your creativity in your lesson planning, reading books on the latest fitness trends instead of taking a nap will shape up a more profound knowledge, going out with friends and peers will help you take a step back from work and unwind. 

And just when you are enjoying the whole process of unlocking your self improvement power, you’ll realize that you’re beginning to take things light and become happy. As a Group Exercise Fitness Trainer, you can’t afford to take things for granted. So start moving your Butt!