07/02/2025
Almost 3 years ago I started my business 'Aijan Ltd' - It's an acronym for 'Age Is Just A Number'.
I wanted to tell a little of my story as to how and why this came about, how it's changed me, and how it's changed so many lives.
Everyone knows they have something inside of them - a mission for good if you will, and at 50 I realised that in my career choices up to that point, I had been contributing very little to others' lives, and that did not sit well with me.
At 42 years old I'd found myself overweight, lethargic, lazy and full of the same excuses I'd been making to myself for the previous 20 years - at that point I made the decision to do something about my life, and for once... stick to it!
I lost my weight and claimed back the body I'd had when I was in my early twenties, I felt amazing, confident and accomplished, but that wasn't enough. As days, weeks and months continued I still managed to stay slim, and definitely in better health than previously, but I wasn't fit or strong and a realisation dawned on me:
If my hair is now more grey, and my skin has lines and is less bouncy and smooth (all visual and obvious effects of the deterioration and ageing of my body) then what is happening INSIDE my body? How are my bones, muscles, organs? I asked myself - "If I continue on a journey of ultra processed foods and little to no exercise what will life look like in 10 years?".
This was the early part of my journey towards helping people over 40 realise that their own future is in their own hands.
Soon after my realisation I found a gym that would train me in a group (as my own motivation was not enough to push me as hard as I needed to be pushed). I began to learn and earn my stripes on physiology, nutrition, exercise - but above all, MINDSET!
In my 20s and 30s I had always thought I was at the wrong gym, or on the wrong diet - that wasn't true! I was LISTENING to the WRONG version of me! I was listening to the person that had been making excuses to himself for the previous 20 years - how could I possibly have succeeded in anything if I'd continued to listen to someone who had continually fallen at the first hurdle?
I started Aijan 10 years after I lost my weight. I wonder, had I started sooner, how many more people I could have helped out of the daily anguish caused by constantly struggling with weight and fitness, and above all the mindset and motivation surrounding it.
I'm delighted that this is the path I've chosen, and my members have lost a combined weight of around 300 stone since I started - but it's not about the weight - it's about their realisation that they can change their own future and live a different (and a healthier and longer) life, thanks to the fact that I would no longer listen to the BS I used to feed myself.
I learnt a valuable lesson - Take control of yourself for the sake of others and when they win - you win!
I've posted a little video of some happy folk whose lives have changed for the better ###
😊
