Hi guys, I need some help/inspiration from some business savvy/community building savvy people
Ok so I'll try to keep it short - I'm from London, UK currently living in a small town in Switzerland. I work here, my position being Interactive Art Director for a firm. Meaning I do everything Marketing related, websites/photoshoots/video promotions/graphics/posters ... etc etc ... I also do it freelance
I speak only english - where I am nearly everyone is either french/german speaking. I've been here for a year and a half now. I had a g/f here who I lived with, we broke up around Xmas and since then I've been sulking you could say and found everything really quiet. I don't have many friends here as I spent every day with her and we did everything together, so recently it's been real hard here. However I love my job.
When it comes to Hobbies - I'm a gym maniac. I'm in the gym 5-7 days a week. Since I broke up with my ex, it's gone to 7 days. I have an interest in everything fitness related and have taught it myself from nutrition to workouts via online forums and videos from celebrity trainers etc.
I'm in good shape - can always be better but I love the gym and it's the place where I just feel 100% relaxed and in the zone so to say - every workout I sweat it out properly and go full on. Rather than crazy big, I'm more the lean/athletic shape/look and you can see my definition like crazy in the gym.
The point here is that over here someone like me is really rare - I get a lot of people coming upto me when I just go out and meet people from work and they ask me where I'm from and they are fascinated by an english speaker ;p
Recently in the gym, I'm being a bit more social by "smiling" at randoms and taking my headphones off when I need a breather. Before I would really be in my zone where maybe it was intimidating to people but I always get stared at. However when they talk to me they realize I'm a normal, down to earth type of guy!
So recently, I have a lot of people in the gym just coming upto me and asking where I'm from/what I do/If I'm a professional athlete/If I'm a trainer and made a few friends in the gym from all sorts of people just in the last 2 weeks. Also when I go out to grocery shopping, I usually bounce around in a tshirt and I've had few randoms just come upto me and compliment me for my figure/body and again ask me if I'm a trainer, when I say I'm from London it just gets them hooked even more.
I'm really into this motivating type of lifestyle, love Anthony Robbins and I like the idea of helping/teaching, I have a FA Coaching Qualification Badge for example that allows me to coach officially football to kids aged upto 18 - (I'm 27)
So finally - my question and help I need from you guys is - I want to almost create a community or create a group. Maybe run this little town ;p ... Ok that's far ahead but for now I want to create something. I have all these people often coming to me for advice and asking what I do, and with the english and being from London I know I have something here which is unique and need to take advantage of it or bring some people together.
How can I do this?
I don't want to make money - so I don't want to "personally train" people, anyways I couldn't do that coz I don't own a gym and if I started doing that in the gym I go to, I guess they'd kick me out for using their premises. So I don't want to make it like that. I was thinking possibly, people with similar interests who go to the gym - and then making a group or some sort. Maybe if I give out flyers or notes to people I think would be game in the gym and just say if they want to join a group where we all come to the gym at the same time and help out - then who knows we can do activities after together like going for drinks or whatever
Any thoughts on this? How can I go ahead doing this? Or how can I use these things/talents I have here and use it to "make a change" so to say in my life and other people's
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