Oh Shit... My Gym is a Business?!?

Oh Shit... My Gym is a Business?!?

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Quick Thoughts: Pivot Fast

Sometimes you need to make decisions to act. Many times you'll find you decided wrong. Pivot fast!

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Sep 26, 2022
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On Making Mistakes & Pivoting Fast

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If you read this newsletter, you know I’m all about action orientation. In the lore of Amazon:

Speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk taking. 

In this statement, there’s a couple key things to consider:

  1. Take action - speed matters.

  2. Reverse or correct action if you find yourself wrong

In other words - spend more time evaluating your decision and less time paralyzed by it.

I Practice What I Preach

In the bias for action on this very newsletter, I signed up with a service I thought would be great for our needs. Turns out, it wasn’t.

I’m greatful I leapt first, and evaluated later. In the last month I’ve developed more of a cadence for writing - something I’ve long meant to do. I’ve also been able to think through many topics to share and keep expanding my personal mind.

Had I paused at every turn… buying a domain, finding a hosting service, designing a logo, etc. I would still be thinking about doing this, not doing it.

Expanding The Team

So here we are, on a new host, which will handle our needs better. Specifically the ability for me to add additional authors on this newsletter.

Since launching this, it’s attracted some of the best minds I know who’ve asked to write alongside me. Since this is here to help fitness studio owners (any small business owner really) learn how to focus on becoming better business leaders - I thought the more thought, the better!

I think this is great news to the readership!

The Ask

If you have a friend who might benefit from this newsletter, please shoot a post along to them and ask them to subscribe!

The more people we have listening - the easier it will be to continue to attract the best minds to share their thinking.


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We Just Ditched Our Core Values
But we are aligning on something better - and your gym can too
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I Worked In A Michelin Star Restaurant For A Day and Learned One Critical Thing
We both are boutique, care tremendously about our craft, and are obsessed with our customers... but they do it 100x better
Dec 9, 2024 â€¢ 
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A Hack To Reduce Gym Churn & Make Price Increases Painless
I love finding hacks no one is thinking about...
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