Sweetest thing happened while I was training the other day.
Little Connie (who is very quickly becoming not so little) came into the garage to see what I was getting up to. She promptly showered me with praise, saying how amazing it was to see me shifting some “really big weights” (alas, in truth, they were not).
Then she suddenly came over all glum, sat on the bench in the corner, and said:
“Daddy, I don’t want to do my training today.”
I looked at her and replied:
“You know what, neither do I”
“Oh.” She said, before tottering off to do something else.
Later on, I caught her in the living room doing a little workout, and she was proud as punch to tell me about all the different exercises she’d done.
Quite the turnaround, yet one that required no convincing, cajoling, or coercing on my part.
The lesson?
It’s always better to show by doing over merely telling (typically by way of wagging a pudgy finger while banging on about how “sometimes we have to do things we don’t want to do”).
Doubly so when the teller can rarely or never summon the motivation to do anything difficult, boring, or some combination thereof, as is almost always the case.
It’s rank hypocrisy and anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see right through it (yes, that includes children, who often see it even more clearly than adults).
Stuff like this reminds me of the “email experts” who occasionally invade my inbox to tell me I’m doing marketing wrong. However, I’m yet to be approached by one who has their own email list, let alone one they mail regularly (despite the abundance of free tools even someone as tech-illiterate as me can get up and running in an afternoon and use to make it happen). Instead, a cursory glance at their online presence reveals them biatching on social media about how they can’t find work.
It’s literally the business equivalent of people whinging about how much they hate the way they look or how much their joints hurt or how they haven’t made progress in their training for years yet obstinately refuse to seek out a better way of training, let alone act upon that information.
Another thing:
The Venn diagram of people like that and the people who tell me they “can’t afford” even my cheapo eBooks is a circle.
They can afford it, they just don’t want to. (Same goes for a Phil Tyreman Letter subscription given it’s now a mere £20 per month (roughly 66p per day), and those rare few who genuinely can’t but also truly want to subscribe should probably prioritise finding paid employment.)
And why don’t they want to?
It’s easier for them to lie to themselves than it is to change.
Maybe it’s because their ego is too large and fragile to confront the fact they’ve been getting it wrong or maybe it’s just that they like the idea of being fit, strong, and healthy, but not enough to get their head down and do the work.
Heck, maybe they just resent how I make a living mostly by selling information they think they can find for free online or else prompt out of some ShatBot (the former is almost always missing vital context, and the latter is often riddled with errors so serious following the robot’s “advice” is potentially very dangerous, but that’s a topic for another time).
I don’t know.
But what I do know is that I categorically do not cater to these individuals.
I can’t help them because they won’t help themselves. So even if they did subscribe to my newsletter, chances are it’d languish unopened, discarded in a corner somewhere to gather dust or chucked out with the recycling.
A total waste, in other words.
This email has probably rubbed a few of those sorts up the wrong way (if their TikTok addled brain has permitted them to read this far).
That’s good, as far as I’m concerned.
Much better for them to go haunt some sap who is so scared of losing a sale (or worse, subscribers or social media followers), they’ll pretend whatever problems their audience have are somehow everyone else’s fault.
But for those who are still with me and don’t mind hearing the unblemished truth about what it really takes to not only get strong and in shape but stay that way for decades to come…
You can subscribe to The Phil Tyreman Letter for just £20 per month.
There is no minimum contract period and you can cancel at any time and for any reason (or no reason), the only “catch” is you can’t re-subscribe in the future if you do.
More:
If you subscribe before month’s end (Sunday the 31st at 23:59), you will be entitled to one free copy of one of the following books that I sell:
* The Weight Loss Manifesto
* Shift
* The Conditioning Codex
* The Constance Chronicles
* Bodyweight Buccaneer (you’ll have to wait for me to print more if you go for this one)
* Silver Era Secrets (actually a collection of three short books)
* The Greek Physique
Whether you opt for a cheaper or more expensive book (the most expensive one on that list goes for £750 when not on sale) is entirely your decision. But you must be subscribed by 23:59 on the 31st to get one.
Go here before then and read every word of both pages very carefully to properly inform yourself before committing.
Then subscribe if you think it will be of benefit:
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Thank you,
Phil Tyreman