It was absolutely insane! :-)

You see, part of my new year resolution
was to get into a fitness program and get
healthy and tone up a little bit.

So here’s what I did.

I joined a gym for the first time in my life.

And to make sure I’m committed, I also
hired a personal trainer for the first time
(Did you know they charge $99 an hour?
I hesitated at first but it’s totally worth it.)

So I met up with my trainer on Wednesday
morning to start training.

I thought he was going to start me out easy
like on a treadmill for an hour and that’s it.

Boy, was I wrong!

He actually had me “work out” doing all kinds
of stuff.

Well, after about 15 minutes I literally passed
out for 7 minutes. Everything got blurred and
then I can’t see anymore. It was as if I had my
eyes closed.

So he helped me (more like carried me really)
to the yoga room to lie down.

He was telling me, “Breathe deeply” and I was
thinking, “Dude, I could barely control myself
and barely able to breathe. What do you mean
‘just breathe deeply’?”

So anyway, after 7 minutes, I started to see again
and gain consciousness.

Then he asked me if I was okay and the next thing
I know is that we were back working out again.

It was absolutely insane!

The moral of the story is this:

I was in a lot worse shape than I thought. I must
have been in denial all this time.

There’s another thing I realized as I struggled with
the routine and my trainer kept saying, “Just breathe
deeply” over and over again.

It’s funny but everytime I take my thoughts away
from what I was doing and just concentrate on
breathing, things just get much easier.

So I guess in real estate, if you can just get past the
thoughts of talking to sellers and buyers, and just
concentrate on “How can I structure a ‘win/win solution’
to the parties involved?”, everything else becomes easier.

Any idiot can say, “This won’t work for me”. It takes
genius thoughts to say, “How can I make this work
for me?”

And having a coach is HUGE!

He pushed me way beyond what I can push myself
to do.

So much so that I had to come back the next day,
and again today and tomorrow.

I will report more on my progress with my
personal trainer next time but for now, here’s one
of my real estate coaches and he has an incredible