We’re breaking new ground for what companies should be expected to offer their employees and the resources they make use of. You can see a lot of what we use in our staff training video.

That isn’t for clients to see, but I want to share it with everyone anyway just to show you how incredible our system is. I absolutely love it. And that was taken over a month ago before much of it was implemented. Now that the employees have seen all of that, they are making use of it and things are growing even faster.

I have also hired a few ghostwriters. I know, some of you bookworms think this is unethical but c’mon! I have a lot of books to publish and I really want to get my message out – that is my ultimate goal. In addition to the ghostwriters we have a few full time personal assistants now. I have one assistant, Jane, who’s job is to hire people only. No, not fire them, just hiring. We are hiring soooo many people I had to get an employee just for this. What’s even better? We’re moving away from traditional forms of hiring. In order to work with us, you must do a few things:

1. Create a profile on our site like facebook
2. Read our books and pass our tests
3. Enroll in our internship program and study with us for 6 months

You must do all of those before even having a chance to come on board this ship that is moving at lightning speed.  We are that competitive and that elite.  I really think this is the future of business and other businesses should jump on board. 

So instead of just gloating about what we are doing, I have decided to do something about it.  A few years back I was a personal trainer to CEOs and they always complained about having too little time on their hands to take care of their health.  Well, I now manage over 50 employees… I do it all from a coffee shop, bed, the beach.. or wherever I feel like being at the time.  I’m usually wearing a fitness outfit and have a Naked Juice sitting beside me.  And what else?  I still have enough time to spend with my lovely girlfriend, go out dancing a few hours a day, workout at least 1 hour a day, write more in my books, and I’m even knitting a new project (which I’ll reveal soon!).  So, what is this BS about not having enough time to workout and take care of your health just because you’re a CEO?  I don’t sympathize with them at all.  I plan on being the living example of what the perfect CEO should be.

Ok, so I said I wasn’t going to gloat.  So on one level, I’m going to be a role model to these CEOs and what they should be doing for their businesses.  But if you notice my entrepreneur division of the site you’ll see that I also have a coming up.  On this tour, I will be traveling around to Fortune 500s nationwide in 2010 teaching businesses how to free the minds, bodies, and souls of their employees.  MOVFitness is the perfect example of what I think all Fortune 500s should strive for.  We mandate great health in our company just as the Lakers mandate it.  Our employees are our team and we must give them the tools and motivation to take great care of themselves which will in turn push forward our incredible company.  What does this mean?  They work when they want to work.  They have projects, not hourly duties.  They all work where they want to work – in their pajamas if they want, at midnight, or while rocking their baby to sleep.  We’re global and make use of resources everywhere.  We require all employees to be part of our social network, upload a photo, and participate in our online classes.  They further their education with health tools like “The Fire Within” and business tools like “The Summit of Success.” 

Once they have learned quite a bit, we apply the SHEEPP-C principle to their work and make them managers.  Even if it is just managing interns.  This means everyone who is with us for 6 months or longer is a manager.  This is constant progression in the company and relieves people of mundane tasks and puts them in positions of authority and provides the satisfaction of teaching others that our hearts yearn.  My tour around the country teaches these philosophies and shows how MOVFitness has employees who are well rounded in their mind, body, and soul.  And how other companies should listen up – start hiring employees who are balanced in these areas and do what they can to train their current employees to come into balance.

I hope this helps you in your business.  We are currently talking with private investors.  Feel free to message me if you’d like to invest into our company.  We don’t plan on going public as we believe our shareholders are also a reflection of who we are and we want to make sure they are also in balance of mind, body, and soul. 

God Bless,

Matt

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To offset this problem, we are implementing a new program with our companies. Anyone interested in working with HardMagic, TheSBON, or MOVFitness will now be required to make a profile on MOVFitness.com.

Once they’ve made a profile, we have added a new section to registration that says “What is your interest in signing up?”

Answers to this question are as follows:

•Weight Loss
•Run Races
•Bootcamp
•Meet People for Fitness
•Ballroom Dancing
•Work for MOVFitness
•Work for HardMagic
•Get Published
•Get Interviewed as a Model

In addition to this, we will have a place on their profile where they may upload their resumes. Instead of writing a cover letter, applicants should get involved with our company by reading our books and such. Those with the most badges will have a much better chance at becoming interns with us and eventually employees.

Staff & Human Resources will have exclusive access to see resumes of those who upload them.

In the future, we’ll open this up to other fitness companies to use our website to find quality personal trainers, models, etc as a paid service.

This is enough info on it for now!

Here’s an excerpt: “This is that story and it brings light to ideas and thoughts on another side of health and fitness that the masses don’t see. The media has convinced our country & world for generations that baby formula is healthy, your child must be vaccinated, taking pills from doctors is the answer to migraines, and so much more.

Hackneyville never seemed to get that message. Maybe it was because we only had 3 TV Channels which never got reception? Maybe it has something to do with my mother’s desire to be the best for her children? Whatever the reason, I see how others treat their health and their idea of proper care and I can’t help but think it’s Donkey Business.”

There are also videos available on the websites & more to come in the future.  We are designing our very own dance syllabus that is geared more towards “Show Dance” than any other format.  There are American Dancing Syllabuses, International Syllabuses, but nobody has a “Show Dance” syllabus.  This pretty much means we will teach people how to look good on camera with our classes.  A “Show Dance” is able to capture the audience’s attention and focuses on footwork, expression, and music identification.

Dancing is taken too seriously in my opinion and if you look at the top professionals – sure they may be technically sound in their dancing, but is it honestly entertaining?  If the end result isn’t entertaining then I think they’ve wasted all their training.  We’re approaching dance from the entertainment perspective and making sure that even from day #1 you will find yourself entertained and also the audience will be in seeing you dance with our method.

For example… a typical lesson with another syllabus will be technical and teach you a salsa basic & a tango basic on the first day.  They will tell you to bend your knees, watch how you lift your toes & where to place your heels.  They will repeat this process for the first few weeks.

In our syllabus, you will learn how to connect to your partner on the first day as a high priority and then we will give you expression in your face and body that resembles the dance.  From day #1, the audience should be able to see what is going on with the dancer based solely on expression – we teach as if our audience is deaf and can only see movement to depict emotion & personality from one dance to another.  The first day you will most likely do at LEAST one full 8 count in a dance with points, dips, and spins.  Not too bad, eh?

Sign up on the new MOVFitness site to see our free tutorials.

There is a classroom section that you can download the book from after you become a member. If you read the book and pass a test on it, then you’ll receive a “Health Badge.” This badge will show up on your profile for others to see & they’ll know that you are furthering your education in health & fitness. Once you pass that test, other classes will become unlocked. Want to learn ballroom dancing, boxing, or use our nutrition software? Once you pass your first test, you get access to an introduction to all of these. The more tests you pass, the more classes will become unlocked for you. Once you have passed 12 of our dance classes, you’ll receive the Twinkle Toes badge just as one example.

In addition to this, you can write in an online journal and keep track of your weight loss, or use it to have your favorite recipes, or maybe just tell your buddies how much fun you’re having in your new workout routine. You’ll have access to all your friends fitness journals and even be able to see personal trainer profiles.

Interact with Trainers

The trainers have a different style of profile and they publish articles on the site for everyone to view. If you have questions about health & fitness you’ll not only get access to all of our tutorials, but you’ll be able to see the tips trainers provide on their page.  If you have a specific trainer you like, simply save them as a favorite & their journals will show up on your profile automatically when you log in.  In the Discussion section of the site, feel free to ask any question about health & fitness and see a number of trainers provide feedback all for free.

Special Guests & Celebrities

WIth MOVFitness training top professional athletes, models, and CEOs and having some of the best trainers around the world on our staff, we will also have open chats periodically where you can log into a chatroom and speak with a celebrity on health & fitness.

As a trainer for years I’ve found the #1 success seen in someone’s health & fitness comes when they surround themselves with friends who have like-minded goals.  At the new MOVFitness website, we’re offering people to interact and meet new friends who are interested in getting in the best shape of their life and helping them connect with others who they won’t feel ashamed to go out to a party with & drink a glass of water.  The cool factor at MOV is in how many Healthy Badges you have and how much you take care of your health.

I hope you’ll join us and Get on the MOVE!!

I also have started a new business, KIWI Online. Already partnered with the University of California with our internship program, we are expanding this to not only include more fitness certifications, but also to offer degrees focusing on the arts. KIWI is 100% online and allows students to partner with my various businesses so students may get hands-on experience while learning. It is also 100% free as long as students commit to a 3 year work-exchange program. I believe education should be free and this is a great way of providing this to our nation that I look forward to having up and running with 100 students by fall 2011.

We’ve expanded our learning tools to include a new program for the Wii so students can interact and learn boxing, ballroom dancing, martial arts, sword fighting, posture, and more all with the Wii! This is similar to WiiFit, but designed with personal trainers in mind and can help them obtain their certification.

In my quest to better our business, I have started to use an incredible software for video tutorials called Camtasia. You can view a few of our videos here: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

We’ve really learned a lot about how to run a business online over the summer and implemented programs such as TaskFreak, Moodle, Camtasia, OpenOffice, GoogleDocs, WordPress, and more into our lineup that is used everyday by our staff.

I also was able to make quite a long stop in Alabama to train our newest dance instructor, Misty Koger. She will be opening free ballroom dance classes in her area very soon as well as our new location in Studio City soon to come. This is exciting and we are forever thankful to those who have participated in our races to make this dream come true.

In the months to come, will be released exclusively to our clients and we will expand our dance program around the nation – specifically in San Francisco, New York, and San Diego.

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During these three minute interviews, we tried to get a glimpse of the girls’ personalities. Some were quite mature in their responses with goals of opening charities in third world countries, already writing books, or setting up rescue horse ranches here in the county. Others were, well… little girls – excited about being in a pageant and wanting to look glamourous in front of their family and friends. These were the majority & when asked what they’d do with $1 million dollars our typical response was “shopping.”

You’d think they’d know better than to give that answer, right? Nonetheless, we continued the interviews for a few hours and took our notes & thoughts home with us for the night. Saturday afternoon, the pageant began at the Lobero Theatre in downtown Santa Barbara.

I was quite pleased to see a lack of silicone in our sights as the pageant began. These girls came from all walks of life – home schooled with rich parents to the general population. I honestly felt the pageant had a strong mix of the community and was pleased at how genuine each girl presented themselves. The audience was filled with parents and siblings, mostly who were cheering on their little girl.

We ended the pageant around 7pm with after going through semi-finals to pick the winners. The final contestants were great role models & I’m pleased what our other 10 judges helped conclude. Below is a picture of our judges & the winners.

Our company donated dance lessons to all contestants & a contract to publish the book of the Jr. Teen winner – a cancer survivor in the Santa Barbara Area.