I look over to my left and see the perfect downward dog followed by a fantastic upward dog and think wow where did he learn that? I have only ever tossed a stick for him. You might be asking yourself what does this have to do with studio management software? My yoga instructor is my best friend and life mentor, my 14 year old lab Teko.

I am a co-owner of two companies one that specialises in personal training the other provides studio management software to the fitness industry. These two companies keep me very busy so my free time is precious and I need to maximise this time. 7 years ago I discovered the secret to having a dog’s life. It was this discovery that inspired us to design and build our studio management software. The implementation of this software  has allowed me to still have the time needed to do the things I want while running 2 businesses.

What happened 7 years ago to change my life?

Teko, my lab, had injured his leg and required a visit to the vet. Anyone who owns a pet and has experienced this knows how we tend to place our emotions onto the pet during this traumatic experience. Look at him limp, it must be painful or look at his eyes, he is in such discomfort. My vet, also a personal training client, loves it when I do this because I rarely show this empathy for her during her personal training sessions.

Now like his owner, my dog Teko doesn’t want assistance with things and struggles and kicks when you pick him up even with the immobilised leg and lampshade around his neck. As far as Teko was concerned he did not have an injury, he was normal, and really want to be treated as such. I know this because I saw him run after a squirrel completely ignoring his peg leg and lampshade.

Once my laughter settled from watching a three legged cone headed dog chase a nimble city squirrel up a tree I realised why it was so important that I implemented our studio scheduling software. You see Teko sensing my amusement looked over at me disapprovingly and promptly start to trot back over in my direction when he saw a stick on the ground. A stick is like candy to Teko but the lampshade is preventing him from a good chew. Did this stop him? Not a chance. He was in a moment and at that moment a stick needed to be chewed no matter what. The previous moment a squirrel needed to be chased. This was when I realised Teko’s, and all dogs, trick to life- Live in the moment because nothing else matters more then what you are doing or about to do right now.

Right away I thought about how I want to have as many right now moments as possible. My implementation of our studio management software has provided me many of these moments. Free time to walk and play with my life mentor was because of my studio management software was running things. Taking in an afternoon baseball game was a moment owed to my studio management software. The ability to train for my first Ironman I owe to the free time allotted from using the Volo studio management software. These life moments are precious and I was able to achieve them by having tools in place to assist my personal training business.

Do you want to lead a dog’s life?

Do want to live life in the moment without worrying about your fitness business?

Then you need to look at Volo`s studio management software and start to create life’s more important moments.

Live life like Teko!