WORLD here we COME!

MO:
I´m reading "The 4-hour workweek" by Timothy Ferriss right now (thank you JO for the loan!...and SORRY for spoiling your beautiful hairdo in tonight´s class, you fierce tiger, you!).

Some of the book builds on self-coaching principles consisting of techniques and principles that I´ve worked with before.Some of the given advice in the book is difficult for me to implement in my line of work at this very moment, (like answering e-mails only once a week, for example), but parts of the book are just wonderful, funny and smart.

"Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic.... It´s lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre.
The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming.
It´s easier to raise 10.000.000 dollars than it is 1.000.000 dollars....

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. "

So WORLD here we come. Are you ready for some MOJO LOVE?

News for autumn/winter 2010-11

MO:

YES, JoJo knows me too well!

Skinny yogis really doesn´t do it for me... ;)

Busy day today starting with PT-yoga in the morning (me teaching) followed by a yoga class at 9am (me teaching), PT-lifting session (me doing) with press-focus (ouch!) at 11am and then running around doing errands until my 3pm meeting with my accountant.

17.30 I taught my spinning class and then I coached a coaching session at 18.45...

Setting the new horizons for autumn/winter 2010-11.

It´s starting to come together with a few new cool projects:

* From September I will take on 10 private clients in the city.

I´ll happily train the truly dedicated men and women out there who are ready to put in the effort to have results, whether that is a more muscular body, a stronger body, a faster body, a healthier body, a more powerful body, a more flexible body, a slimmer body - with a wicked mind to go with it.

Nordic walkers need not to apply...

Anyone else can e-mail any questions/queries to monika@incycle.se

* From September (I´m hoping) I´ll have a business mentor!

Finally I´ve found her and she is AMAZING. We are meeting up in September to discuss a possible mentorship and I am SO EXCITED!

* I´m bringing Kettlebell grouptraining to Russia and one more Eastern European country (to be announced once it´s in the bag).

Weird and wicked!

* My own new training thing for the autumn will be Bulgarian Bag- and rope training. I promise to keep you posted...

By the way: training goals revisited together with Martin today....

By Christmas I´ll do:

* 10 strict pull-ups

* Pressing the 20kg KB

* 1 pistol squat (with the weight of choice)

Over the edge

MO:
Whilst JO is kickin butt in MOJO´s native country Finland (GOOO JOOOO!), with a bunch of other hot girls, (Å & S, I´ll miss you guys! Make sure you do your homework!) I´m preparing for this weekend´s Kettlebell Certification at Sportlife Exclusive.
I´m wildly happy about the fact that I can now welcome southern/western Sweden´s largest fitness chain into the Kettlbellincycle-group!

I checked out Sportlife Exclusive today (I know, I know, I should´ve months ago, but it was never the right time - or any time) and I have to say: I was deeply impressed.

I´m not that easily taken with either clubs or staff, but this time I was really liking both the club (NICE!) and the excellent, warm, professional, welcoming staff! Well done!
It made me look forward to the weekend even more (if that was possible).

I promised to give you a recap of this week´s events, so here goes:

- negotiating big contract for Incycle. I´ve prepared for this negotiation for a while. The best thing with going into the meeting was
a) they approached me
b) I knew for sure that I´m the right person for the project
c) I also knew with 100% certainty that my numbers where valid and
d) Although I want the contract, I know that I will have no problems walking away from it if the deal is not good enough.
I´ll know the answer by next week.

- A few meetings concerning MOJO Yoga, where we hit a 100% sales target! WHOHA!
This autumn MOJO Yoga will rock a club near you!

- I also had another interesting meeting concerning a few other concepts.
I´m not able to say much more right now, but it´s different from what I´ve done before.

- I have declined the biggest party so far this year, because I´m working:


Partying the night before a full working weekend would REALLY push (LOL) me over the edge these days. And not in a good, glamorous way, I´m afraid.

- The casting on Wednesday.
I have already told you a few details, but let me just say that it was a kind of surreal experience to have to do "the walk" together with a lovely old lady (65-70yrs old), a very short, thin man, both of which forgot to move their arms whilst walking, (which prompted the casting director to go "xxx and xxx!!!- Would you please let your arms swing whilst you walk?!!") and two young girls (18-21ish) who obviously had watched a tad too much "Top Model"...

The girls hysterically tried to run back and forth in that racehorse kind of way that supermodels walk, thrusting their hips first and lifting their knees to the ceiling as if they were walking on a very disgusting, dirty floor.

NOT that I did an excellent job!
I was soooo stressed and soooo late for my next appointment, I rushed in, threw my casting card on the table and rushed out. They had to run after me and grab me by my coat to remind me to even do "the walk" before I left...
Ehhhrr, nice impression of a dizzy brain?
Lucky walking normally doesn´t require MENSA-qualities...

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Strength in numbers

Foto: Thomas Althin

MO:

With so much going on in my life right now, I´m truly blessed to have some of the most talented, fun, hardworking, generous and inspiring friends in the world.

We do projects together, brainstorm around new ideas, challenge and support each other.
Being self-employed can be just as lonely or as sociable as you choose.

To start the journey of MOJO Yoga & Hot MOJO together with one of my best friends, who also happens to be one of the most inspiring teachers in the world and one of the coolest cats around, is an amazing privilege.

To go to Paradise for a week with the aforementioned cool cat... Well, do I really need to add anything to this sentence?

To be able to call in a fika with another dear and close friend to ask advice about pricing and contract negotiations, is invaluable - I´m not even sure where I would turn to PAY for that help.

To do the m&m Functional Training Tour with another STAR, close friend and inexhaustible source of inspiration is not really work, how can it be?

In the next couple of weeks I´m working to land the biggest deal yet for Incycle.
Actually, it has the potential to become H.U.G.E.
However, nothing´s final until the contract is signed, so I won´t be able to say anything about it until, most probably, April.
In this process, I´m grateful to have the support of an amazing network of close friends to bounce ideas and ventilate question marks with.

If you are planning to go solo, start your own business, or if you´re already there and feel stuck, get yourself out there, network, feed your old and new contacts, help others, and I cannot stress this enough: be humble and be genuinely happy for other people´s success, that way the help will be there the day you need it. There is nothing strong with always going it alone - strength is to ask for help when you need it - and to have the right people around you to ask.

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