How A Gym Junky Got Rich And Famous
By 1ClickProfitSt | April 5th, 2010This story is only loosely based on true stories. The intention of this story is to show you how your thoughts and feelings about yourself contribute to your success or failure. It is a story about one man, but it is also the story about how many people have gotten rich.
We’ll call our hero John. To all appearances, John was just a gym junky. He was great at it and had a perfectly sculpted body to show for his efforts. What John didn’t show, though, was his ambition. He wanted to do more with his life than just look buffed at the beach.
When he wasn’t working out, John worked at the gym. He had a lot of time to read during the quiet times of the day when he wasn’t signing people up for gym memberships or showing them how to use the equipment. John was an avid reader of investing books, because he wanted to learn from the experts how to make money. The fact that he had none didn’t keep him from trying.
One thing John learned from his books was that no one made a fortune if they were working for a salary. The way people got rich was to start their own business. That concept resonated with John, since he was working for peanuts while his boss was making good money. John decided that the best product he had to sell was fitness, so he became a personal trainer.
John was so good at what he did and was also good at motivating others. He was so good that he became very successful as a fitness trainer. He started working for modest money, but became so popular that he was able to increase his prices. When he got Hollywood stars and other wealthy clients, he started making real money.
In fact, he started making such good money that he was able to save enough to invest some. He decided he wanted to invest in property because all the books he had read pointed to property investment as a way to make money. He had also noticed how his former employer at the gym wasn’t as rich as the man he rented the gym from.
In the course of his reading, John had read about ‘landed property.’ This was property that was rented or leased by the owner to others. He looked around and found a great piece of land in a growing area. Rather than build on it, he just subdivided it and leased the land long term. That way, the people who leased the land would have to pay him every month that they were in business, no matter what happened.
John is now a very wealthy and successful man who has set his sights even higher, to politics. Had John not believed in himself even when to all appearances he was just a gym junkey, he would never have achieved all that he has achieved.
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