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22 June 2021 · Kirk Miller
Biggest Life Lessons of Kirk Miller - Personal Trainer Online
The next time you fail, or something simply goes wrong, take time to reflect, learn, and ask yourself what path or action it is steering you to.
- Professional Footballer Dream Shattered…Aged 19, told by Gary McAlistair I was no longer needed at Coventry City FC. From age 4 all I had wanted to be was a professional footballer. Took me 6 years to truly appreciate the lesson and blessing in this. Lesson, although I wasn’t meant to be a footballer…my time there taught me more about leadership, communication and people skills than any qualification ever would, that are invaluable assets now as a coach.
- Missing a phone a call from Men’s Health Magazine and calling them back a week later…10 years ago I had a voice mail to say I had made their Cover Model Competition final. I took for granted they would call back. I called them back 7 days later only for them to say they had given my place to somebody else as I’d called back to late. Lesson, time stands still for no body, if you do nothing, nothing will happen. Thankfully I won the following year, and was more appreciative for opportunities that followed.
- Rupturing my bicep tendon…I was working 60 hours per week, lifting/boxing training as much as Anthony Joshua, sleeping 5 hours per night, before tearing my bicep off the bone sparring. Distraught at the time, I still fought the fight half an arm down but got through it. Lesson, A lesson will keep repeating itself until you do something about it. Sleep had been my Achilles heal for years, that I continually ignored often causing injuries/personal stress. When I had no choice but to sleep more to help make the fight, I slept 7-8 hours. Your mind is extremely powerful and your body will follow.
I felt incredibly low at the point of these things happening.
On reflection, they all helped me grow personally, emotionally and serve better as a coach.
The next time you fail, or something simply goes wrong…take time to reflect, learn, and ask yourself what path or action it is steering you to.
There is a blessing in every ‘failure’.
The most successful people on the planet have failed.
The most successful people on the planet learn, take action and come back to prosper.
