How do you feel today? Any different? Not really, right?
One night of drinking I'm sure doesn't help how you feel right now?
Do you reflect on last year? Not today...
nope.
Personally New Year 2018 for me is going to be April 14th 2018.
Yeah that is my New Year's Day each year.
The day I focus and work towards all year.
That will make it 20 Years of working 365 days towards
one special day of the year.
December 31st at 12 midnight doesn't mean much to me... nope.
The holidays just happened the big stuff of the year happens so much earlier.
Plus it's freezing outside. Ball dropping isn't that big of a deal.
April each year has the big day.
If you think about this most people who enter a fitness event prepare for 12 weeks.
That's only 3 months. Not even a year.
If you really share a PASSION for fitness and you only did something for 3 months
even after that day may not be much of a "life-changer".
Each year as you try to outdo yourself how do you measure that?
For example if you enter Bikini one year and placed Top 10 in one contest what does
that
mean exactly? Then sometimes people will not come back and do the same contest
but go and enter a smaller show and make the Top 5 or even win.
People start to focus on any win and not becoming better.
Winning may not mean
someone actually became better?
They could have looked exactly the same.
Then when someone wins it's over pretty much unless they compete as a Pro in
the same event over and over.
I run one event a year.
I choose not to try and produce more than one event because it takes away from the quality.
By putting my focus into one event each year I know I can try to be better than the year before.
How else do you get a good comparison of yourself and goals?
What am I saying exactly? If Fitness Atlantic April 2017 was your first show ever and you placed
somewhere Top
10 work harder and come back again this year.
I like watching documentaries on Netflix on some of the legendary bands. I watched one about the
band Rush yesterday and they have 40 years touring and other bands have been around just as long.
We are halfway to legendary if 40 years is the mark yet 20 years is so much longer than most events
and Mohegan Sun as a venue makes it really
special.
I invite you to be part of 20 years and become part of something special.
Hope you can celebrate with us.
Sincerely,
Brian Cannone
Fitness Atlantic
