Or is he or she selling you a bunch of crap you don't need?
Seth Godin makes a great point in his blog this morning.
"Watch the money
"How much life insurance do you have?"
Zig Ziglar liked to say that with that one question, you could tell if someone was a successful life insurance agent. If they're not willing to buy it with their own money, how can they honestly persuade someone else to do so?
If you're in the music business but you never buy tickets or downloads, can you really empathize with the people you're selling to?
My favorite: if you work for a non-profit and you don't give money to charity, what exactly are you doing in this job? I've met some incredibly generous people in the charitable world, but I can also report that a huge number of people—even on the fundraising side—would happily cross the street and risk a beating in order to avoid giving $100 to a cause that's not their own. And the shame of it is that this inaction on their part keeps them from experiencing the very emotion that they try so hard to sell.
Money is more than a transfer of value. It's a statement of belief. An ad agency that won't buy ads, a consultant who won't buy consulting, and a waiter who doesn't tip big—it's a sign, and not a good one."
As a trainer you wouldn't believe the amount of stuff that I am asked to sell to you. Supplements, exercises equipment, clothes, DVD's, e-books, the list goes on and on.
My feeling is that the only thing that I am going to promote or suggest to you is something that I either use personally or that I fully trust the company or person selling who is selling it to us.
I am totally transparent when it comes to the supplements that I use, the food or diet that I follow, and the time that I spend training.
Here is my exact day today.
Before Boot Camp
- 1 cup hot mate tea
- 3 tablets Quadracarn
- 1 tablet Transmax Trans-Resveratrol
- Handful almonds
- 1/2 banana
- 2 cups water
- 2 tablets fish oil
- 3 eggs with olive oil
- 1/2 banana, 3 dates
- 2 cups water
- 2 tangerines from our tree
- small handful sunflower seeds
- 3 tablets Quadracarn
- L-Glutamine
- L-Arginine
- chicken satay
- greens drink
- L-Glutamine
- L-Arginine
- 2 tablets fish oil
- Beef
- Zucchini
- 2 tablets fish oil
- water