#truthabouttennis

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A Business Not Driven by Profit?

I'm 22 - where's my career? If I learned anything from that phone conversation, life is about building relationships and careers aren't about seeking profits. People want me to be an investment banker, work in finance or major banking companies. Honestly, I wouldn't be happy working with numbers, cheating people, or alluding society to believing money runs the world. It's an important driving factor, but too many decisions have been revolved around financial needs rather than passions and goals. - I guess I'm going to be taking that huge risk to try and show people that I can make a successful living without owning my own financial firm or institution. Rather, I'll be doing something I love and creating my own business that isn't necessarily calculated on a balance sheet. I want to accomplish goals and this vision I've developed over the past couple of years. - Tennis is an expensive sport on the east coast, and I believe a lot of talented kids don't get the proper exposure because of financial restrictions. I've already begun teaching to clients at low rates and I hope I will continue to do so. I want to use tennis as a vehicle to implement good characteristics such as discipline, hard work, focus - attributes that can help anyone accomplish life goals outside of tennis. - I want to help people build character and a good tennis swing. And if I have the right intentions and help as many people as I can, I believe the rewards will come in sooner or later. The Porsche will come and so will the finances. As a coach, if I become a positive influence to a team of ten kids, that's great. If each one of those kids become a positive influence to their family and one more person, that's even better. I have to keep on pushing and believing, that is all.

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"You should charge more for your tennis lessons"

An insightful comment I received from one of my clients asking for my rates on private tennis lessons. Apparently I charge too little for the way I teach haha. Although I didn't get into details and give him a full explanation to my method, I told my client that I don't believe tennis lessons should be so expensive. Numerous times I've come across the dilemma throughout my tennis career that these academies, camps, and private lessons eat away quickly at any amount of money, piling up thousands of dollars instantly within a matter of weeks. One of the perks about teaching a high-class sport not suited for the masses is that you're able to network with the highly educated and wealthy class. The "important people". A strong amount of these clients own their own businesses, are surgeons, doctors, investors, etc. They're able to continuously spend their money at will without having to worry. What sickens me is the way some of these kids and people take advantage of their wealth on a tennis court. They waste time and take these hundred dollar lessons for granted. Basketball is different; you can lace up any pair of shoes and go to a local park to ball. With tennis, you have to pay court rates, spend thousands of dollars on clinics and lessons, and pay for tournaments. It's sad to say, but in America, those are the things necessary to make a great tennis player. In return we should teach some of these people to appreciate their time on the court, rather than to wish they were somewhere else. To conclude this thought process, tennis is too expensive and now that I'm finally facilitating my own tennis career in teaching and training, I'm slowly gaining more power to change that. It hurts seeing all these talented kids who want it more than the rich snobs who beat them in a battle of money. I know it's not just tennis where this is a problem, but someone's going to have to start something somewhere. I want to give these hard-working and talented kids a chance; something I wish I had when money wasn't a problem. Tennis isn't for the rich, it's for the focused and capable.