We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Abundio Munoz. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Abundio below.
Hi Abundio, appreciate you sitting with us today. Maybe we can start with a topic that we care deeply about because it’s something we’ve found really sets folks apart and can make all the difference in whether someone reaches their goals. Self discipline seems to have an outsized impact on how someone’s life plays out and so we’d love to hear about how you developed yours?
As a child my parents were strict with myself and my siblings. Looking back I felt like I am miniature soldier. I was always up early and ready to tackle a task of some kind from cleaning re-organizing the house, cleaning a vehicle or yard work. I always felt that there wasn’t lots of laughter but serious matters in my family. At the age of 10 years old my dad enrolled me in martial arts. A sport that requires respect, discipline, and commitment. This would be the start of my life long career. the challenges, hurdles, ups and downs, and other obstacles, it took to move up in this sport required, motivation and drive. Through all the competitions for all the levels of belts through all the hard physical training and hard work of moving up to a different rank was a mental challenge and at a young age. With rewards in reaching goals, I receive my first-degree, black belt, March 28, 1982 when I was in the six grade. I built myself up to national karate competition teams, and competed all over the world. This was another huge step to move in up in my career. I got into another disciplined, the art of bodybuilding. Were this also took , dedication and commitment. I succeeded in this and did well. At the same time, I was building a business, many successful people that I’ve trained have guided me and giving me advice on making smart business decisions.
Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
I am a professional personal trainer. I highly encourage positive reinforcement and an attitude change in your mind and for your body. What I do is create positive thoughts in your mind and then your body to help you grow confidence in yourself. I love to encourage people to love their bodies, teach how to build a perfect body for you and no one else. I train a wide variety of clientele from ages four to seniors. From martial arts training, high school, sports training, to endurance, training, muscle building, strength, training, self defense protection, one of my next biggest goals is to grow a self-defense program that I develop to help any person be able to protect themselves and any hand hand situation.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
100% committed, 100% consistency, 100% positive attitude! The advice that I have for people who were early on on this journey. Be very confident in yourself, and be very committed to what you wanna do! Wake up every morning knowing that you are getting closer to reaching your goal no matter what obstacle you run into on the way. Something you have to deal with stay positive deal with it figure it out, fix it whatever you have to do to step over it and continue on your journey.
Alright, so before we go we want to ask you to take a moment to reflect and share what you think you would do if you somehow knew you only had a decade of life left?
I have recently purchased my own building and property for my business, which has been a goal of mine for the past decade. I have been working on this for the last year. Something that I am currently facing, and I’m trying to reevaluate how I manage my business. The challenge is realizing that I have gotten myself into something really big, which is what I’ve always wanted to have something big that I worked for and set goal for. The challenge is now that I am running out of hours in the day to get a lot of stuff done and one of the most important things is my family. I normally wake up about 1:45 to 2:30 AM in the morning on some occasions train 430 AM sometimes until 5 PM that same day. On some occasions I trained about 100 sessions a week at 30 minute sessions. Making calls, running business errands, and getting in my personal training for me! One thing that I am realizing that I must do is get more sleep more rest, more energy I am going through some new ideas to change the concept of my personal training studio, where it allows me to only train a small amount of clients per day and be able to get out in the city and market my studio myself for the trainers that are training at my studio. At the same time working out a schedule that myself and my family can be happy with. I believe people who are very self driven and want to built up themselves to have something BIG don’t realize the time it takes to make it a success, and at the same time, have a healthy and happy family relationship. I will be 100% committed. I will be 100% consistent with 100% positive attitude. I will find a way and it will all work out because I love what do!!!
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