Pink Gloves Boxing – only comparing ‘you’ to ‘you.’

Unlike most businesses, Pink Gloves http://pinkglovesboxing.com/ did not start as an idea; it started as a result. In 2006, I was a personal trainer in Helena, MT, when I received a phone call from a lady 60 miles away. She said, "I’m looking for a new trainer. I just fired my last one."

I think it must have been my gut instinct that responded. "Can I ask why you fired your last trainer?" If you pictured those words coming from a nervous kid in his early twenties, you got it right.

"My old trainer would always break me down. His idea of motivation was comparing his clients to each other. He’d say things like, ‘You can only do six reps? Everyone else does at least 10.’"

My response was, "I’ll never do that to you." That single mindset started a philosophy about only comparing ‘you’ to ‘you.’

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(Many thanks to Rebecca Morgan http://www.sparkitupcreative.com/ who told me about Garret Garrels http://garretgarrels.com/?page_id=2 during the Rural Medicine Hackathon… There is a great power in networking folks! You’ll never know who your neighbor is unless you get out of the office.)