We can’t please everyone and I am aware of that, but sometimes, as you all know, it’s the negative stuff that sticks on to us.

Because of that, I just wanted to share a little story about me and my background. The following section is borrowed from the application I did for Dax Moy’s Mentorship Program. On the question on why I thought I would be a good candidate for the program, I wrote the following:

“Because the main reason I started in the fitness business industry was in order to help other reach their goals and dreams.

A few years back, I was a head coach of a soccer team in my hometown where 75%
of the players were raised in the “ghetto” and had a foreign nationality.

When I took over the team, it was filled with problems and this team had a
reputation to always start fights and end up in other types of trouble.

Not only did I take this team and turned it from a “losing” team into a winning team,
but most importantly, I sorted out all the social problems they had off the field.

One of the biggest dreams young soccer players in Sweden have is to be able to
compete in the world’s largest soccer tournament, which is located in Gothenburg,
and is called Gothia Cup.

As I said, 75% of the players came from home’s where they sometimes even had a
problem getting food on the table, and getting over $8000 USD for this
tournament seemed impossible to a lot of people, but not to me.

Within the team, we together raised around $3000 ourselves, and I were able to get
a scholarship of $5000 from our city for the work I put down in terms of helping
these young guys to a better life. The scholarship had nothing to do with our results
on the field, it was exclusively based on the “social work” I did for the community.

With this being said, I coached this team about 10 hours/week without any salary
what so ever, I worked full-time in a Supermarket and coached clients on my free
time in order to get enough money to go the United States for educational purposes.

So I have really been helping people my whole life and one of the best things I know
is to see people grow and develop based on what you teach them.

I am truly a person who practice what I preach in terms of helping others and that’s
the reason I believe I would be a good candidate for this program.”

By all means, if you do think I am having this special offer only to rip you off and make
a few extra bucks, then please, do not invest in this program. I really mean it, don’t
go the website and don’t consider investing in it.

If I can help 1 person out of 3000 to change his/her life, then I honestly feel like a
success. I’d rather see 1 person investing in this program and going through with
everything and really trust me, then having 30 people going through it half-heartedly.

Sure, money makes things easier in the short term, but I’d rather go to sleep feeling I
have made a difference instead of feeling I can buy expensive clothes to show off with!

Feel free to comment on, or share this post with your friends!

Jonas

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But just a minute ago I dropped over to one of my fitness colleagues’ blog, and I found this message written by a young girl in New York, terminally ill with cancer. After reading the first lines, I felt I remembered it from somewhere, and that was when it hit me, this was the email I deleted earlier today from my email inbox.

After reading it at Simon’s blog, I felt I just had to do the same thing and share this poem with everyone. I did the very same mistake the girl in the poem are telling us not to – “don’t dance so fast”. I was in such a hurry that I didn’t even bother reading the email from my inbox, and as you’ll notice when reading the poem, I missed out on a beautiful and very touching message. Don’t make the same mistake as I did!

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SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done!
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?

You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,’Hi’

You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift..
Thrown away.

Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

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So please, follow this young girls advice. Make a phone call to an old friend, tell your family how much you love them, spend an extra minute or two with your kids. Drop whatever you currently are doing and spread the joy of love and friendship!

Share this message with everyone you know!
Regards,
Jonas

PS. Thanks Simon for sharing this poem with us!

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