Cheryl Connor of Forbes Onlines writes, "While a great business plan, marketing strategy and team are essential components of a winning company, the best entrepreneurs are masters of their inner beings as well, according to health and spiritual expert Ron Williams (also an entrepreneur).
A master fitness trainer, bodybuilder (he’s participated in more than 250 competitions and has been Mr. Natural Universe 7 times), Williams experienced a childhood of poverty as a foster child. At age three, his father had left him with another family “to babysit” and never came back. Worse still, as a child who was already sensitive to feeling unwanted and unloved, he was sexually abused.
Eventually, Williams found a calling in competitive sports. He learned all he could about health, nutrition and natural bodybuilding and set international records. Simultaneously he learned to feed his spirit and to serve others as a non-denominational pastor. Today he serves entrepreneurs and clients as a professor of exercise physiology, an author, and developer of the Iron Chest Master product many fitness enthusiasts have seen. Ron Williams is an entrepreneur, author, professional coach and a non-denominational pastor.
To that end, I asked Williams about his observations for leaders in business. He strongly maintains that of the people he observes, those who are most successful in business (and life) are the ones who protect and nourish both their physical and spiritual health. The two are best when working together, hand in glove, he maintains. In that light, these are the things he suggests that entrepreneurs do every day:
A master fitness trainer, bodybuilder (he’s participated in more than 250 competitions and has been Mr. Natural Universe 7 times), Williams experienced a childhood of poverty as a foster child. At age three, his father had left him with another family “to babysit” and never came back. Worse still, as a child who was already sensitive to feeling unwanted and unloved, he was sexually abused.
Eventually, Williams found a calling in competitive sports. He learned all he could about health, nutrition and natural bodybuilding and set international records. Simultaneously he learned to feed his spirit and to serve others as a non-denominational pastor. Today he serves entrepreneurs and clients as a professor of exercise physiology, an author, and developer of the Iron Chest Master product many fitness enthusiasts have seen. Ron Williams is an entrepreneur, author, professional coach and a non-denominational pastor.
To that end, I asked Williams about his observations for leaders in business. He strongly maintains that of the people he observes, those who are most successful in business (and life) are the ones who protect and nourish both their physical and spiritual health. The two are best when working together, hand in glove, he maintains. In that light, these are the things he suggests that entrepreneurs do every day: