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Martial Arts is Life, Life is Martial Arts – Pearls of Wisdom for the Journey
In this very personal episode, Gordon talks about his journey. He discusses the congruency between building a Martial Arts business and life, sharing his own personal learning and experiences.
Every day is a new chapter in the journey, a new space to learn and Gordon shares the importance of being happy on the journey and the crucial elements that we should all aspire to develop as we travel through life and build success.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Celebrate - your greatest success is that you are alive, every hour is a gift. Many of us worry about the small things. You must focus on the right things
- Being busy - You can be busy being busy but be a busy fool. It’s about working smart and being productive. Leverage your time through being busy and effective.
Challenging yourself will increase your confidence and self-worth
- You are the greatest asset in your life - You are the person who is going to make the shit happen, you are the asset you just need to learn how to do it.
You are the asset who will achieve your dreams.
- Take full responsibility for everything - You must accept responsibility for what happens in your life
Everything is a choice and every day is about choosing whether to be successful when you take responsibility.
- Selling is serving - We need to learn to sell so that we can serve more people. Learning to use great language to help people and serve their needs is a vital part of the process.
Look at things for what they are and keep life simple, there is clarity around being simplistic in your approach.
- You can’t change people or circumstance, but you can change you - You can’t change lots of elements in your life, but you can change your reaction to others, you always have a choice. When you become better and grow as a human being everything around you changes for the better.
Accepting and embracing that your life is all down to you is empowering.
- Keep learning and growing and you’ll continue to succeed.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I hope in some way I’ve made a difference in your life; you allow me to live my dream because you listen to me – you have my absolute gratitude and respect’
‘You’ve always got to keep learning how to get to the next position’
‘It’s not ‘I can't do it’ its I haven’t learnt it yet’
‘Focus on the now, the gift we have right now’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Martial Arts Business Podcast
The Elite Closing Academy
ABOUT THE HOST
Gordon Burcham is the bestselling author, 3 x World martial arts champion and award-winning Martial arts school owner. He has helped 1000’s of Martial arts schools grow and has over 20 years’ experience running martial arts schools.
Gordon has been training, teaching, and working in the Martial Arts industry for nearly twenty-five years. After earning his first black belt, he went on to win three consecutive World Titles against guys half his age. In 1998, in the midst of his competitive career, he launched his own dojo which still runs today. After retiring from the competitions, he decided to focus more on helping others in the MA business while still running his club.
Burcham has trained with industry giants like Alfie Lewis and developed his street-smart business attitude working with top business coaches. He is now considered one of the foremost authorities on peak performance in the business side of the MA industry. He has proven his techniques work through the transformation in his own personal life, athletic career, and business as well as those of his coaching clients. Burcham teaches that success is the result of forming good habits and moving forward.
He is a real-life success story going from a bullied school kid to earning multiple world titles, with his MA school currently one of the most successful in the UK. Gordon loves self-development and helping others, enjoys travel and family time. He is now learning how to fly planes and pursuing a speaking career!
Learn How to Become a Black belt in Business
Learn -Develop - grow and you will succeed
CONTACT METHOD
http://www.mabusinessmastery.com/
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In this very personal episode, Gordon talks about his journey. He discusses the congruency between building a Martial Arts business and life, sharing his own personal learning and experiences.
Every day is a new chapter in the journey, a new space to learn and Gordon shares the importance of being happy on the journey and the crucial elements that we should all aspire to develop as we travel through life and build success.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Celebrate - your greatest success is that you are alive, every hour is a gift. Many of us worry about the small things. You must focus on the right things
- Being busy - You can be busy being busy but be a busy fool. It’s about working smart and being productive. Leverage your time through being busy and effective.
Challenging yourself will increase your confidence and self-worth
- You are the greatest asset in your life - You are the person who is going to make the shit happen, you are the asset you just need to learn how to do it.
You are the asset who will achieve your dreams.
- Take full responsibility for everything - You must accept responsibility for what happens in your life
Everything is a choice and every day is about choosing whether to be successful when you take responsibility.
- Selling is serving - We need to learn to sell so that we can serve more people. Learning to use great language to help people and serve their needs is a vital part of the process.
Look at things for what they are and keep life simple, there is clarity around being simplistic in your approach.
- You can’t change people or circumstance, but you can change you - You can’t change lots of elements in your life, but you can change your reaction to others, you always have a choice. When you become better and grow as a human being everything around you changes for the better.
Accepting and embracing that your life is all down to you is empowering.
- Keep learning and growing and you’ll continue to succeed.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I hope in some way I’ve made a difference in your life; you allow me to live my dream because you listen to me – you have my absolute gratitude and respect’
‘You’ve always got to keep learning how to get to the next position’
‘It’s not ‘I can't do it’ its I haven’t learnt it yet’
‘Focus on the now, the gift we have right now’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Martial Arts Business Podcast
The Elite Closing Academy
ABOUT THE HOST
Gordon Burcham is the bestselling author, 3 x World martial arts champion and award-winning Martial arts school owner. He has helped 1000’s of Martial arts schools grow and has over 20 years’ experience running martial arts schools.
Gordon has been training, teaching, and working in the Martial Arts industry for nearly twenty-five years. After earning his first black belt, he went on to win three consecutive World Titles against guys half his age. In 1998, in the midst of his competitive career, he launched his own dojo which still runs today. After retiring from the competitions, he decided to focus more on helping others in the MA business while still running his club.
Burcham has trained with industry giants like Alfie Lewis and developed his street-smart business attitude working with top business coaches. He is now considered one of the foremost authorities on peak performance in the business side of the MA industry. He has proven his techniques work through the transformation in his own personal life, athletic career, and business as well as those of his coaching clients. Burcham teaches that success is the result of forming good habits and moving forward.
He is a real-life success story going from a bullied school kid to earning multiple world titles, with his MA school currently one of the most successful in the UK. Gordon loves self-development and helping others, enjoys travel and family time. He is now learning how to fly planes and pursuing a speaking career!
Learn How to Become a Black belt in Business
Learn -Develop - grow and you will succeed
CONTACT METHOD
http://www.mabusinessmastery.com/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.