Your Budget (Lack of Money) is Not an Excuse to Leave or Not Participate in The 100
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 11:34AM
Money’s tight, yes? If you want to really be a champion, I mean a genuine CHAMPION, it’s going to take about 10-times more work than you are anticipating --or, maybe, than you can even imagine. Most people dream of being that good, but lack the self-discipline and drive to actually make it happen.
We all know this, yes? I know it too; however, the difference between the man or woman who claims to want to be a champion and me, is that I follow through.I charge $300 a month for my services --or $10 a day. My work and all that I cultivate will, if you dedicate yourself to it, if you blend it with what you do, make you millions of dollars over the course of your career. That’s not a guess or hype, that’s a fact, as I’ve done that for an entire generation of teachers. I’ve been doing what I do for so long now that it’s very likely you’re already using things I made up and implemented, whether you know it or not.
However, my work isn’t worth $1 a day to the person who isn’t ready to work the work.
Today, my work has transcended the “freshman” and “sophomore” levels of school management. I now help teachers to do the deep work, the work that changes lives, that affects communities, that makes careers, that redesigns the very roles of the Sensei and the dojo in today’s world.
The reason you’re not a client already --or you’ve decided to leave The 100. so you can “save” $300 a month, is that you really don’t understand what’s taking place. You don’t “get” what the work is doing --or can do for your reputation, for your career, and for your income potential. You either don’t know what I’m doing --or I’ve been coaching you and you’re STILL not engaged in the training at a level that can get the return you’d like to have.
If you want to be a financial and career CHAMPION, in your lifetime, then I’m afraid I’m going to have to, now, tell you the truth:1. You can’t give up, not without 10,000 tries. Anything less is struggle. You can’t justify the expense of some of the best coaching and help in the world, because you’re either unaware or you lack the self-discipline to apply yourself at a level where return happens. I don’t have to tell this to a champion; he/she is the one telling us/you.
2. People and organization like the one I work in, The 100., don’t thrive and survive on people who are not really willing to GO FOR IT. Ours is a group where the training is hardcore and intense and that requires an all or nothing effort. GO to another organization if you’d like to sit back and whine about money or observe --and move over to make way for the men and women who know that each member has a responsibility to the whole endeavor. Are you committed to turning the info into value (money?). Most people SAY, “yes.” But they fail to act on it in a way that makes it happen.
3. You’ve hired me to be a no bullshit teacher. I’m not here to stroke your ego or take your money. I’m here to push, to pull, and force your hand or guide you --and to cultivate champions. Anything less than that is someone else’s work. I have 40 years in --and 20 years or so left in the industry --and I’m going to go for broke. I’m going to train a new generation of school owners and teachers how to rise above the sales crap the industry so readily endorses: I’m going to coach teachers to embrace a level of education and community involvement that changes the world’s perception of our value. I’m going to turn our strip-mall-franchise-bought-not-a-lick-of-real-master-teacher-training industry mentality into something the world can look at and recognize as absolute and undeniable magic. We have that potential, you know. So do you, but to see it make you money you’re going to have to work for it.
Save your $10 a day --but I have to tell you, you’re missing out. I know, as I’ve been around long enough now to see what creates drudgery and struggle and what brings excitement and passion to the work. I’ve refused to spread mediocrity and deceitful business practices and embraced the hard, but most profitable, kinds of work. Mark my words: The martial arts industry will, in time, do and embrace everything my colleagues and I are doing today. It’s just that most of the “consultants” in the industry are 10 years behind --and already heavily invested in business models that are, right before their eyes, dying out. Change is hard.
I understand how it much easier it is to save $10 a day than it is to go through the pain of what it takes to be a real champion. My only regret is that, somehow, I haven’t yet been able to speak the truth to school owners , who REALLY need help, in a way that gets them “over the hump.”
If you’re reading this and you REALLY want to be a school owner with something different to offer, call me (530-903-0286). The change of your career and income direction won’t happen in a single phone call, a seminar, a workshop, or at a convention --it’s an ongoing training program --and it may be the hardest (but most genuinely profitable) work you ever do.
I work at www.The100.us ----here's how to come in and see the work (you must be or want to be a teaching professional): http://thenewwaynetwork.ning.com/?xgi=3WGEl3HqtHWkTr
Tom Callos






















