Monday Mindset

Happy Monday Mindset!🙌

Coach Jake sent Tatiana and I a text message a couple weeks ago on Sunday, November 5.

In general terms, the date is burned in my brain.

Yet, this year, his message caught me by surprise in the hustle and bustle.

Why did he message?

Coach Jake congratulated us.🌟

Being that on November 5, 2012, Tatiana and I opened our first Fit Body location here in Orange County, California.💥 

That date is now 11 years ago, which I still cannot believe.

What was it like?

It was a cold, dark and rainy morning.

We didn’t know a lot of people in the community.

We didn’t have a strong marketing strategy.

Only 1 month prior I had moved a mile next to our location.

I rented a studio apartment so we could launch our new business. 

A mere 1-week prior Tatiana arrived from Brazil.🇧🇷

It was exciting but stressful!

Why?

I had dumped my life savings to get the doors open on this new business.  Many loved ones, with good intentions, cautioned us against the risk.

We had many challenges to overcome.

There were a lot of things we didn’t know.

But what we lacked in experience and resources.

We made up for it with HEART and PASSION!💕

The passion towards the mission of inspiring fitness and changing lives that burns true till this day!

Was it easy?

No.

Launching a business is one of the hardest things we have ever done.🔥

This is why most fail.

In fact, the first handful of months we couldn’t afford a team.

Every month, it was a fight for survival.

Many times in the first year, we were on the brink of making rent.

There were many days where things didn’t look good.

Oftentimes, we felt like quitting.

But even though those early days were hard.

We keep putting 1 foot in front of the other.

We kept pushing forward.

Fast forward 11 years and this mission to change lives continues.🙏

Without you, this wouldn’t be possible.

So, on this special Thanksgiving week..

Tatiana, team, and I wanted to give THANKS to YOU for your support and love!✨

YOU are the reason for our passion towards fitness!

YOU are the reason we get to do what we love!

My message today:

Stop today and send a gratitude text to someone who has helped you on your journey.🥰 

There’s no free rides in life, but someone has provided you support when you desperately needed it.

This is the same YOU did for us!

Please also realize that nothing in life that’s valuable comes easy or free.

This is true for your health & fitness.💯

Yes, it will be harder than you think.

But it will be more fulfilling than you can imagine.

And even when the going gets tough..

Put 1 foot in front of the other and keep pushing forward.

Happy Thanksgiving.🙏

We are grateful for YOU!😍

-Coach Bryce

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Happy Monday Mindset!🙌

A couple of months ago, I walked downstairs at 2am to grab some water from the fridge as I was feeling a bit dehydrated.💧

When my feet hit the carpet on the living room floor, I immediately knew something was wrong.

Why?

I could hear the “squish” of the water soaked carpet on my feet.

As I would come to find out, a water pipe burst and caused major water damage.

Ouch.😓

The result?

Tatiana and I had to be uprooted for 2 weeks.

Then $100,000+ damage later.. 

The worst part?

While we stopped the leak and fixed the pipes within the 2 week clip.

It still looks to be another handful of months before our house will be fixed. This is due to a bit of ongoing back and forth with the insurance company.

Fun times!👊

As I remember while being right in the thick of the events.  Out of some frustration I muttered something like..

“Tatiana, this absolute chaos. It’s like our house is in the middle of a war zone.”

Yes, I was frustrated at the situation. 

But as soon as I heard myself speak the last sentence out loud..

I was stopped dead in my tracks as I had a true moment of clarity.✨

A voice deep within yelled:

“Mrs. Henson, this is not a disaster. 

This is a 1st world inconvenience at best.

There are many people in the world right now who’s homes are actually in war zones.

Perspective Mr. Henson. Perspective.”

Message from upstairs received. 

It was a moment of clarity and perspective I needed.

I share this with you today in the hopes that if you are going through something that is a big issue.

Maybe it is. 

Although, maybe it just needs an adjustment in perspective like was needed for me.

Let’s make it a GREAT Monday!🔥

-Coach Bryce

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Happy Monday Mindset!🙌

Last Friday was bittersweet as we bid farewell to our beloved coach Kelin.💕

Kelin is a beautiful soul and put together an incredible body of work for our clients, team and community here at Mission Viejo Fit Body.

She’s off to pursue her dreams of living in Denver, Colorado while coaching for a new Fit Body location.✨

In essence, she’s pursuing both geographical and department change within our organization.

As I reflect, this is the 2nd amazing coach in 2023 that shifted away to follow their passion. 🙌

The first one being coach Kat earlier this year as she traveled to Central America and then relocated back to the midwest. 

And while bummed for Mission Viejo Fit Body, I am happy for both amazing coaches.🥰

The commonality?

By getting in great shape and staying fit, this provided them both the increased levels of confidence & clarity to pursue big life dreams.🌟

In fact, as I reflect back at my own life…

This was the same for me in 2010 when I decided to move to Florianopolis, Brazil where I lived for 2 years and met my wife Coach Tatiana.🇧🇷

Without going through my own fitness transformation a few years prior, I cannot look you in the eye and tell you I would have had the confidence to have followed this big dream of moving abroad.💪

And that’s where the BIG AH-HAH came today..

When you invest in yourself. 

When you train at least 3-4 times per week, hydrate and eat well..

Your mind, body and soul respond. 

Way more than just weight loss..

You gain more energy, mental clarity and confidence.

Through gaining a higher level of confidence, you then gain the ability to follow your passions in life.

And this is my message and passionate plea for you today my friend.

Invest in yourself!

Invest in your fitness!

When you do..

Just like Coach Kelin, Kat and I..

You will acquire higher levels of confidence to pursue your dreams, whatever they may be for you!

This is why my team and I are so passionate to support you on your fitness journey. 

If you need help, please respond to this email as we are here to support you.

Make it a GREAT week!💥

-Coach Bryce

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Happy Monday Mindset!🙌

“Humble Roots” is a core value of my brother Barrett’s local team in Berkley Fit Body Boot Camp.

This is very fitting for him and us.💪

Why?

I can speak for both of us in that we resent the opposite of humble roots which is “entitlement”.

I suppose there are a few reasons for this.

The most prominent is because, for 1st world standards, we come from humble roots.🌱

And this my friend, is a blessing.🙏

You see…

By the grace of God, our angel of a mother Donna escaped our father’s grasp in August of 1991.

She was in a verbally abusive relationship for years, but then it got physical.

Why?

My dad was an alcoholic, and drug addict and had issues with gambling.

As you would imagine..

This created a big issue with the family dynamic and our safety.

While we were living in a rural part of Georgia at the time.

Within a week from things getting violent, we went from going into hiding to landing with my grandma in Detroit, Michigan.

This saved us from a shelter or even worse..

So on 1 hand it was a HUGE WIN for our lives to escape that situation..

On the other hand..

We soon found ourselves in a foreign place, with a foreign culture, with foreign accents and a hard landing coming from the deep south. 

This hard landing continued for the better part of the decade.

This is while Donna busted her butt to do everything within her ability to raise her kids.👊

This is why my brother and I have so much love for her.🥰

So why do I share this today?

The experience is fresh in my mind.

As I just got back from a week trip to visit my Donna, Barrett, and family in Michigan.

It was an incredible time filled with lots of work, plenty of boot camp workouts, and some family time intertwined.

Whenever I go back, I’m always filled with bittersweet memories.

The memories of the good.🙏

The memories of the struggle.💥

It also reminds me of my humble roots.✨

I value this and hope you do too, which is my message today.

As when you attack fitness & life from a “humble roots” perspective.

It creates an incredible amount of work ethic and drive.

It creates a mentality where everything is earned, nothing given.

It creates an “extreme ownership” mentality.

So, as I reflect on this past week, here’s a good “humble roots” framework to follow if you want to be successful at fitness or in life.

• Check your ego at the door.
• Roll up them sleeves.
• Understanding it’s going to be hard.
• Sweat is required.
• Hard work is the mantra.
• Nothing is given.
• Everything is earned.
• It will be harder than you think.
• But it will be more fulfilling than you can even imagine.
• Now get ready, the time is NOW!

Make it a GREAT week!🌟

-Coach Bryce

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Happy Monday Mindset!🙌

This past Friday was a special one as Tatiana and I celebrated my dear friend Mara’s 70th B Day.🎉

Mara and I met in June 2014.

She lives in south Orange County, but was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

I’ve been taking Brazilian Portuguese private lessons with her every weekend for nearly 10 years.🇧🇷

And unless a very special circumstance or either of us are traveling, we meet every weekend with incredible consistency.

Now she started as my 2nd language teacher behind my mother-in-law. 🙂

And with time, she’s become one of my closest friends in life.

I now consider her my 3rd mom after my dear mother Donna and Mother in Law Cristina nearly 10 years into our relationship.🙏

I feel blessed.

Now to unpack this, there are so many lessons she’s taught me about her language, her culture, and her life packed with 70 years of wisdom.✨

But probably the biggest lesson is the value of relationships in coaching which is the industry I’ve chosen to pursue a career in.💥

Yes, I am a very disciplined guy which has kept me committed.

In fact, one of my superpowers is that I can lock in on a target for an unreasonable amount of time to get the desired result.

However, the truth is that the main reason I keep coming back week in and week out is only partially due to discipline.

The other significant part is driven due to our relationship.

Mara is a beautiful soul coming from a completely different walk of life who I love.🥰

She grew up in another country & continent on the other side of the world 30 years before I made my entrance to planet earth.

She’s an incredible listener.👂

She makes conversation fun.🤗  

She’s very thoughtful and compassionate.

She’s very curious.

She knows her craft well.

And best of all, she cares.  

TRULY CARES.💕 

In fact, there’s been only 1 time in 10 years she’s needed to cut out of the lesson first. That’s such a cool fact I like to share in that I FEEL her love and support.

This makes lessons with her fly by as I focus on the relationship.🌟

And as a byproduct, I have gained fluency in her beautiful language after years of putting in the work which I have no plans on stopping.

And this my friend, is the takeaway.

Today’s message is for you to pick something that’s meaningful to you in which you want to achieve.  Yes, something hard that will both challenge and change you.

This could be fitness, business, or any hobby that catches your fancy. 

The more time to master, the better as that will 10x the fullfiment. 

Then seek out guidance from someone who’s gone where you want to go.

After all, guides show you the path.

But also know that all guides are not created equal.

So, ensure you mesh well with them. Ensure they are passionate about the subject you are learning as passion transfers.

Ensure you have common ground, and you genuinely like them.  

And then focus on the RELATIONSHIP, not just the transaction of learning.🌟

This is where long term consistency and results resid, even when the going gets tough. Trust me, the going will get tough, and you will feel like quitting often.

But when this feeling hits, the RELATIONSHIP will carry you through.

This is what has worked for me and what I teach my team of coaches here in Mission Viejo.👊

This approach has allowed me to accomplish a very challenging goal, and greatly fulfilled my life in the process.

My hope is you achieve the same success and fulfillment in whatever you are after.🔥

And of course, if you ever need help, my team and I are here.

Make it a GREAT week!💪

-Coach Bryce 

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