Breathless

I started going to the gym on 26th December. Strength

training. I’ve been going every other day since then

and I’ve started to work with a personal trainer to help

me get further faster. Janet. She’s hardcore! She’s the

only person who gets away with shouting at me.

‘Get out of your comfort zone, Karen!!’, she shouts.

HOLD UP. THOSE ARE MY WORDS!!!

It’s strange hearing them come back at me.

I’m seeing and feeling the difference already and I’m also

seeing a lot of similarities between strength training and

business and following our life’s work and passions.

When I’m pushing, pulling, and lifting challenging weights

right there in those moments that’s all my thinking about.

Nothing and no­one else exists. It’s just me and the goal

that I want to achieve. And when I’ve hit that goal, I’m onto

the next one. Then THAT’S the only thing that I have on

my mind and the rest of the world fades away.

It requires FULL CONCENTRATION.

And that goes for all our goals in business, making money,

following our passions. Nothing else exists when you are

all in. You get lost in your passions and your drive.

You are in the ZONE!! That’s a heavenly place for us

creatives to be! My phone is OFF. Knocks on the door will

get ignored. I will allow nothing or no­one to get me out of

the zone. It’s such a special place. It’s what happens when

we spend our time immersed in what we love and when

we come up for air we are BREATHLESS because we

have been ALL IN.

It doesn’t matter what you are doing later, or who you are

going to allow to take your time and attention. It’s right

here and it’s right now.

Please tell me you aren’t coasting through the days. If

that’s you, and you are happy to stay in your comfort zone

and just let life happen TO you, then it’s best we part ways

because that energy does nothing for me.

What matters with anything that you want to achieve is the

amount of effort you put into something. Be all in and put

in so much effort that you are breathless by the end of

each day!

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ABOUT Karen Strunks is a speaker and

author and helps daring, rebellious,

non­conforming women create a No

Compromise life and business doing exactly

what they love.

Ten years ago she left her ‘cubicle cage’ and

made a break for freedom to follow her

passions; from dominatrix, to photographer, to social media and marketing

teacher to today, empowering women to step away from the norm, break

the rules and follow their passions.

Her work has been featured in print, TV and radio such as The Guardian,

BBC, Radio 4, Time Out NYC, The Telegraph, BBC Radio Wales, and she

has worked with national and international brands.

Karen regularly speaks at conferences and lectures at universities on

entrepreneurship, and about her story of leaving the 9­5 to pursue a life

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