Fight Song

I love fight songs. It started back in high school where we would sing loud and proud to “We Will Rock You” at football games. We’d stomp our feet, clap our hands, and sing the fight song with every piece of energy we had. We bonded. We united. We became “us” in the land of us against them. Fight songs rule. The players on the field would hear the crowds roaring in encouragement and feed off the energy and fight for the final goal. Fight for the win.

Historically, Eminem, Katy Perry, Rhianna, Sara Evans and a few others have joined the voices in my head with their fight songs. But these guys are more of a chorus than that nagging inner voice, you know? Fight songs encourage me. They fire me up and get me motivated to ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE in life rather than chill out and roll with it. The songs they’ve sung (and sometimes written) have truly been life altering for me in the most wonderful of ways. Words are powerful. Proverbs 18:21 states, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue…” and lyrics are words put to music making them easier to memorize and repeat. There’s power in that. When I’m running, when I’m drying my hair on a Monday morning as I prep to head back into my professional career,  when I’m having an especially difficult time with being mean to myself…those are times that playing (and singing) my fight songs empower me and get me doing the most important thing I can do for myself: believing in me. Believing I can do it. Believing I am worth it.

Being a Beachbody Coach requires unshakable belief in myself, in the business opportunity, and in the products. 2 out of 3 are easy for me.

The products change people’s lives. P90X, Insanity, Turbo Fire, and now Focus T25 are all workout programs that give people crazy sick whackadoo results that make outsiders believe they’re fake. They’re not. I’m one of the success stories that is engaged to marry a man who won it all in 2011 for having the most incredible transformation story of the year. I’ve met success stories. I’ve shaken their hand, shared tears, broken bread, been inspired by and made friends with 100s of them. Unshakeable belief in the products? Yep. Got it. Check.

Unshakeable belief in the business opportunity that we call coaching? Yep. Got it, too. The additional weekly income from playing with my business on a part-time basis in 2012 equaled more than half of my annual salary for building my boss’s dream. All the while I’m watching my fellow coaches fire their bosses and build their own dreams, buy  their own vacation homes, buy their own new cars, and create a life they were destined to live. In 2013 I decided that I was going to go for it and hold nothing back. No regrets. I’ll get to why I can honestly tell you I have NOT done that…I have NOT pursued my goals and held nothing back (I’ll get into that more in the next paragraph) but I can tell you with 4 months left in the year I’ll blow last year’s part-time income away. All from working my part-time gig on the side. For $40 a person can begin building their dream. Pretty sweet stuff. Unshakeable belief in the business opportunity? Yep. Got it.

Now…here comes the rub. Here comes the part where I must have an unshakeable belief in me. That, my friend, is my nemesis. Think Seinfeld to Newman.  Road Runner to Wile E. Coyote. Batman to Joker. You catch my drift? I am my own worst enemy at times and seem to have so many layers of self doubt that it’s like peeling an onion one layer at a time (or, in the words of Donkey from Shrek–layers of a parfait). I have found the most amazingly creative ways to get in my own way. To block myself. I probably should be in professional sports cuz I can run incredible interference. This past weekend my coach, Tommy Mygrant, gave his personally sponsored coaches a couple of opportunities and I immediately jumped on them and offered for him to train my team. His lackluster response got me to wondering where I’d gone wrong. Then it hit me. Hard.

I was in my own way. Again.

As I paced my kitchen whimpering and whining about my predicament the voices were screaming (loudly) in unison: YOU CAN DO THIS. YOU DON’T NEED HELP. YOU HAVE THE SKILLS–GO USE THEM. That epiphany stopped me in my tracks and I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as the gut wrenching fear based oh-my-gosh-please-keep-me-in-my-comfort-zone instinct washed over me. But, I made a deal with myself in 2011’s Year of No Comfort Zones (Eminem’s “One Shot” was the Fight Song that year) I made a deal with myself that I was no longer staying where it’s safe. This year’s Hold Nothing Back #noregrets mantra means I do NOT get to tell myself no. I do NOT get to quit on myself. I do NOT get to hide in my own shadow. Katy Perry sings, “I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath. Scared to rock the boat and make a mess” and then continues into, “I’ve got the eye of the Tiger. A fighter. Dancing through the fire cuz I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me ROAR.” That sound you hear? That’s my inner cheerleader singing my new fight song at the top of her lungs. Unshakeable belief in myself. Yep. Got that. Check.

If you’re looking to join my team I’d love to have you. #noregrets It’s time to ROAR and be louder than a lion–cuz you are a Champion. Let’s do this.