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Importance of Personal Development

     As fitness professionals we tend to get so caught up in learning all there is to know about the body and training. This is a great quality, being hungry for knowledge is something that we should all take pride in. However most people forget about the mind and soul in this industry.  I believe everything begins and ends with the mind. No matter how great you may look, if your mind is not right you will always be in bad shape. As I said before most of us study fitness books to improve our health, we also write our workouts to track progress. How many people have tracked how they have grown as a person in the last year? We need to research self and how we can improve self.      Its always a weird feeling when you see someone you haven't seen in years and you talk to them about what they have been up to and their response is a depressed, "Same old, same old".  Its like life has been drained from them.  Its like they are stuck in a time machine. We never stand still in l