How Big Do You Think .....................

Stevie Kidd – David Lloyd Member for ten years – www.steviekidd.co.uk

My Journey to “The Starting Line of Great Wall of China Marathon”

How big do you think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej1uY1RMC70

Few months ago I committed to something that scared me, from a person who has never ran before, I committed to signing up to a marathon that is in the top 10 hardest marathons in the world, So settled on “ The Great wall of china Marathon”

I have a term I use for such “GOALS” and that is called “HUGGS”

HUGGS (What are the HUGGS that bring tears to your eyes when you think about them) some outcomes are more important than others. I like to call them HUGGS, (Huge, Unbelievably Great Goals). They are typically large scale Goals that will start as a seed and manifest to become more precisely defined as your progress the idea and seed in your mind. They will appear like a 360 IMAX in your mind, like a film you will feel your in the film in the future, you have main part in film,

 HUGGS have the following Qualities; - They are clear, compelling and easy to grasp. - They connect with your identity and core values -   You are completely passionate about them. They engage your emotions to the point you can have tears in your eyes when your thinking about achieving them – you feel amazing when you think about them. Sometimes become very emotional. -  With all your senses you create the show in your mind, you become completely associated and immersed in it. With myself innovation and creativity is always at centre of my "HUGGS" , only settling for "Challenging Reality" or " Opportunity to Turn metal to Gold" always where opportunity lies to create or implement a seed to create a better world, improve a life or a business. We all have this power within us all, I work with people and walk with them to find the HUGGS they want to create in life. While pushing yourself through such a challenge I create innovation within my mind.

My message is , “When you think of your goals if they do not make you emotional or even make you cry, They are not big enough"

David Lloyd Support

So reality for me was, my mind-set at the time was “you attempt this on your own you will have higher chance of failure”, to make this happen its always about finding someone who already gets the results you want, So I approached someone I admire and knew within David Lloyd club, John McMillan (manager), who I have known for nearly ten years. John kindly sat and listened to me through why I was doing this event but more important that I was partnered with someone who could understand me, someone I could build rapport with, but also someone who would go beyond just a personal training partnership, in other words support me more than just that hour or two hour training session.. I initially asked for John, but John made it clear, “Stevie I know the very man (“Simon Lim Chow Tom”), someone who recently ran marathon in Paris and “city to summit event”. So John agreed to be at end of a phone, text or email but also meet me once a month to assess where I was personally and with Simon.

I have now trained with Simon for a few months now and results are amazing, each session is never the same as one before, but all training is adapted to end goal. I remember really challenging Simon and putting a lot of passion into what I expected from him during this journey, I even stated that if I never got pushed to my limits I would leave the partnership. He took those words on board as training has been world class.

Finding your feet Charity

While training in David Lloyd over the years a lot my friends and colleagues train for Iron man events around the world. Over the 6 month period I kept hearing about money being raised for a charity called “Finding your feet”, it was like being drawn to the charity but more so the woman behind the charity who also is a member of David Lloyd, Corrie Hutton is just an inspiration to so many I asked to meet and ask permission to run the marathon for the charity.

Super-fit single mum of one, Corinne Hutton from Renfrewshire, Scotland became ill in June 2013 after a seemingly bad cough turned into double acute pneumonia. Despite pioneering treatment at Leicester’s ECMO unit, septicaemia had poisoned her blood and surgeons were forced to amputate both her hands and her legs below the knee. 

Corinne, her closest friends and family set up ‘Finding Your Feet’ from her hospital bed, a charity to help others who find themselves facing such life-changing physical trauma through illness or injury and who do not have the support network from which she feels she has benefited.

Finding Your Feet is about providing that support network to others who need it and aims to help individuals in similar situations to ‘find their feet’ again in life. By providing counselling, respite, financial assistance or anything else required, the charity aims to help people regain their lives and rebuild themselves following physical life-changing trauma. 

To find out more about Finding Your Feet, visit www.FindingYourFeet.net, follow us on twitter @FYF_Charity or find us on facebook.

Finding Your Feet is hugely grateful that Stevie has committed to such an enormous challenge and will be with him every step of the way. Please support Stevie so that he can help Finding Your Feet make a difference to those facing life-changing physical trauma.  You can support Stevie at https://www.justgiving.com/SteviesGreatWall/

Finding Your Feet is a Scottish registered Charity. Charity No. SC044572