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ying... Ring... Ring...

.1 turn over in bed, opening my eyes just long enough to make out the time on my bedsideclock.

it's 4:30 in the morning.

Huh?

The ringing stops, and I fall back asleep.

The ringing starts again.

Who the heil's calling at 4:30?

! pick it up and begin speaking groggily.

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"Ahhiih, hello?"

The voice on the other end is all busine'is.

"Hdlo, this is ycur security connany caliing. We havz a fail to o'len at the Planet Fitness ir.

Bloomington, at 10o06 France Ave. Is tnis your property?"

"Yup."

i hang up the phor-':; and sit up in bed.

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Where is the person who's supposed to open the gym? Why d-'dn't the Manner answer his phone whenuiey called?

I hop out of bed, put on ray Planet: Fitness golf shirt and pn'ir of khakis and I'm oui: the door. It: takes 24

minutes to get to the store, and it's already 4:45 a.ra. The gym is supposed to open at 5:00 a.m oil the

dot, which means I'll get tliere nine minutes late.

i . opei'ully, there sren't too many pecple ', /aiti'ig to get in. But the early risers don't exact:!y take a casual

approacij to exercise.

The firLt time I retired, it was from r !;yor League BasebLiIl. Today, it is with great gratitude - and, ifi"mbeing holiest, with a lot mare anxiety - ihat I announce my second retiremen,:... from Planet Fitnesj.

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Why more anxiety? Because making money in the re^l world is hard! In :ny first career, 1 was a thirdbaseman. But in my nex,: one, I h;:-:l to learn hoi/ to 1)2 a utility player. At Plariet Fitness, I played just

about every position you can imagine:

- CEO

CFO

CMO

CTO

W of sales

front desk employee

cleaner

salesman

marketing intern

sign flipper

- plumber

accountant

repai.-man

deiiveryman

HR manager

customer service manauer

project manager

real estate attorney

HR aLtoney

... and on top of that: father, buAand, teseball coach and hockey coach.

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Ba'iically, what I'm trying to say is: hitting a baseball was easy corpp-rcd to building a succc<:sfi:l

business.

One unfortunate truth aboii; the rea! worid is thai: if you want to build something, it's much easier to

lose monsy than i0 make rnoney.

in the beginning, 1 did a lot of the former.

it's 5:09 a. m. when I arr've at the store in Bloomington. There are 15 angry customers Wc.iuni; for the

doors to be open. And they're all laying into me:

"Oil! Oil! Big boss 'irad to get: out of bed- don't you p;:y somebody to do this?!"

"This is the second f- ing time this month' What a f-ingjoke! What kind of operation are you runninghere?"

I really had no good comeback. The bottom line was that these people had paid for a membership and

expected the gym to be opened up on time. There was nothing I could say but, "Sorry, grab a Gatorade

out of the cooler, on me?"

The employee who was supposed to open that d:iy stumbled in at 7:30 a. m. smelling like a bar i]oar and

looking like he rolled to work through the rnud in a windstorm. I was ticked.

"Hey, what is going on? You're 2 >/2 hours lat5."

"I am so sorry, but my best friend v.'as killed in a head-on collis- :>n last night in my car and I walked from

downtown."

I was obviously shocked. I gathered myself and said, "I am so sorry, I czn't imagine what you are going

through right now. You should take the day off, go home."

As he was leaving, I peaked out the wiadov/ and watched }vm walk to his car the c:ie he brd just toldme had been destroyed in a head-on collision - and left. Tlrs is die first time 1 had to deal with

somebody blatantly lying to icy face in oraer to save his or her job.

... At icast th;!; I knew of.

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Later that day, a gym member comes up to the front desk to inform me that ihe toilet is closed. I w^iit:

to see what was going on.

I didn't realize I was about to step into a war zone.

? walked in and was greeted by a toilet: slightly overucwing, filled with toilet paper. I grabbed rubber

gloves and started cleaning out the debris. When I finally dewed through all the toilet paper, there was a

surprise. One of the biggest turds you've ever seen (and this is saying something, because I was in MLB

clubhouses for nine years).

! promptly began dry henving. (I actually just gagged while writing this.)

As I got down to the bottom of this mountain of joy, I thought to mysdf What the heVam I doing? I've

played nine years of big league ball and now I'm up to my elbows in somebody else's t'reshly churnedcolon kebabs.

I didn't need to be dcdn^ any of this. 1 made enough money in my career to not do another tiling for th"

rest of my life. But like most athletes, I went stir crazy after I retired. So I figured I world become a

"businessman. " I mean, how hard could it be?

1 dabbled with some busit,ess opportunities here and there, but I didn't get serious about it untili

overheard my then seven-year-old son Joshua and his buddy talking one day.

"What does your Dad do? lie's home all the time."

"I don't know; be plays golf sometimes, but nothing realiy."

Everything I'd ever learned about work ethic was from my parents, and immediately upon bearing that ithought. What kind of example am I setting for my boysf. I knew i needed to do something... but, what?

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What kind of skill set does a high school graduate who bounced around between three coPages before

playing i6 years of baseball really have? Never mind the fact that I was still dealing with post-concu'. '. on

syiT-ptcms from my playing days.

thought: it over, and after nine yer-rs in the Majors, I figured that could buy some ;»kii] sets.

Boy, did I almost make some dumb choices- But my saving grace was that I was cheap. Manitoban

cheap.

To give you an idea. of what I'm talking about, thi; is how I was Caught tte v.-lu^: of a dollar while I was

growing up ill Canada.

One day, when .1 was 7 years old, I threw a fit because my mom wasn't going to buy me what I wanted.

in my anger, 1 ripped a dollar bill into a thousand little pieces. When my morn foun'J the torn iip dojlar

in tLe garbage, she made ;, ure that 1 understood the error ofiny ways.

Once I had the ability to sit on my butt again, I had to pick up all the pieces and put the dollar back

together again, tt was like the world's smallest jigsaw puzzle. Then my mom taped it, framed it and hung

it right above my bed.

"Don't ev-cr forget the valus of a doiiar and how hard people have to work to earn it."

Twins' initia] offer of $3 million for three years.

l-'cr my Grs'i foray into "buyiness, " I decided thai I was go;ng to become a real estate mogul. Heck, if

Donald Trump can do it, anybody can, right?

So I tried to buy a couple commercial properties. But the guys I was deaiing with were speaking a whole,

different language. Present value, future value, amortization, depreciation, vacancy rate, CAM, CAP

Rat'j, blah, blah, blah, blah. I realized i was playing with 'the big boys, and I needed to put c.i my big boy

pants. Lucky ibr me, the owners d.cin't take my ou'ers and I didn't budge from my initial one. If I had

"won" those properties, i wouid be writing a diC'erent story.

A family friend, Jeff Majkrzak, was on the board of Planet Fitness and told me to look into opening a

franchise. I was immediately drawn by t!i_ $10/n]onth membership and toe Judgement Free Zone.

Cheap and no judgement spoke to my Canadian heart. But then I stopped anu thought, Wait, how do

you make money offa $10/month gym?

He told me to do the due diligence and find out. I don't tbiiik he figured I would partaLe in as nauch due

diligence as I did. 1 called every franchisee - every single one - to learn as much as I could about what I

was getting myself into. Finally after a year, I took the plunge and became a Planet Fitness franchisee. I

opened my first location in January 2010 and i-cy second location in May 20.10.

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Two franchises, double ths opportunity to make mistakes. Perfect.

So this might shock you, but it turns out running a business is IIOL like piaying a p. 'ofessional sport.

When [ was playing professional baseba.1], I fanc'-d myself a biranessman as wei!. i w,:s an idiot.

Side note: To the athlete'; currentiy reading this v/ho piay a professional sport, focus on playing the

g;. rne you love. You wili have the rest of your life to dabble m iiusiness. Make as much rooney as you can

righi : now play in;,; your sport, becaiue you're not making that idnd ofirciKy in J-c reai world Vi'ithout

risk.

Side-side note: To those athletes who have two phones, lose the second phone, man. '['hat second phone

is no good for your career! You only need one phone. Toss the shady phone in the trash. Jm, ; play the

game and enjoy every moment of it. There is no place out there that will HI1 your tank like it ij ijeing

Bll'-'d now.

My business career went a lot like my baseball career. In th' beginning, I had no experience and i reaLy

sucked. 1 couldn't catch a ball in the minors ar.J I couldn't retain an employee at Planet Fitness. In

b-iseball, i took ground ball alter ground ball. In business, I r;ad book sfter book. In baseball, at the end

of the day, my personal success was all up to me. In business, it was all up to everybody aroimd me.

At Phnet Fitness, I had to depend on the competence ofotturs in order to do the job to a Major League

standard which is to s^y -- to strive for perfection. And I was a Hall of Fr.me-level fault finder. I could

walk into the gym and teli you 15 things that needed to be "made better" before I blinked my eyes.

Suffice to say, my business career started off with a Lmd. I got to the point where 1 wa'; hemorrhaging

mor. ey on a d;uiy basis ::Tid losing several employees every month via tenmnatiop or quitting. This went

on for about 18 agonizmg months.

The turning point foi- me occurred at'" a.m. on a Monday. I v/as in bed and hadn't slept a wink. 1 was

having heart palpitations because 1 was so stressed and frustrated. I did what plen.y of stressed people

who can't sleep at: 4 a.m. do: I turned to Google.

"Why don't employees do wiiat I -wp.n'i them to do?"

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I find out there's a book titled, Why Employees Don't Do What They're Supposed To Do and Miat ToDo About It.

Barn. Ordered. Amazon Prime next day delivery.

Oh look, there is another book in the series.

Coaching for Improved Work Performance.

Barn. Ordered. Amazon Prime.

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And then I stumbled onto ,-rother book Why We Do What We Do.

Ordered.

Around the s<3m-?. time, 1 started wat ching a s5iow called 7^e.ProStw:tb Marcus Lemonis. This may

sound weird, but this TV show was really valuable to me. 1 learned that even though the numbers are

important, 1 needed to do a better job of being accountable to the people at my businesses. The

common chnominator anong all the firings and quittings was me. I needed to change.

1 needed to come out of my shell with my emp'-iyees. ! needed to build a relationship based on trustwith them. I needed to learn how to have a conversation that would mov- them forward and not tear

them down, I needzd to earn die right to speak into their lives.

After a !ifetu. ;.e of playing sports, I discovered that fading in sports is diij'erent than leading in the

bu:.iiT:ess world. Sure, there are siinilarities around teamwork and striving toward a common goal. But

leading a group of college or ̂ rofessian;;! athletes who possess an internai drive S:c> succeed is relauvely

easy. Compare that. to a world, where you arc one of a million job opportunities - with many of them

paying a simiiar amount. The speaking circuit might have it backwards. Professional sports teams shiuid

be bringing in entrepreneurs who built their company up with regular people to speak about leadership,

instead of the other way around.

Now that this phase of my life has come to a dose, it's cool to look back and see how far the franchises

have. come. Once 1 got a handle on how to actually manage people, filings completely turned around.I

found out that you definitely can make money from a $10/month gym if you run it the right way. We

went from losing a lot of money, to a business that has enough merit to be acquired. The majority of the

emp1 oyees I had working for me at the lime of the sale had been there for two or more years. Seven of

them had been working for me for four-plus years. This was something I was vzry proud of, because the

average tenure of a person taking on an entry-level position in the gym industry is just 5-7 months.

This wouldn't be a proper retirement letter without at least a few th-ink yous: I am so appreciative of all

the Planet Fitness franchisees who helped me refine my process, took my many phone calls and

answered my many stupid questions during the ear'y days. I'm also thankful for the opportunity that

Planet Fitness gave me in opening up the busiiiesses. Finally, I'm very grateful to all my employees and

members. Without you, I would be nothing. To my two longest tenured employees, Anna George and

Boranica Ly, than;; you for beiiig there with me since the beginning.

1 paid a lot of money for this real life business education, but I wouldn't change a thing. The failures

forced me to look internally and grow as a person. Now I'm not just a better businessman, I'm also a

better father, husband and human being.

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After al] these experiences, here are some very costly lessons I learned. Athi-ites and young

entrepreneurs, listen up, because I am. about to save you a lot of money.

1. If you are not willing to roll up your s'eeves and dive into the "colon kebabs," stay on thesidelines. You need to learn tne business and be active in the business. Nobody is going to watchyour crap like you.

2. It is not about you. It is about your employees! If you care about your employees, they willcare for your business.

3. Trust takes time. You can lose it in a flash by what you say or do. Choose what you saycarefully, and remember: DWYSWYSYWUI (Do what you say when you say you will do it). Okay,that's a long acronym.

4. Surround yourselFwith wise people. Levercge wisdom.

5. Finaliy, and most importantly, always look to evolve and grow as a person. Learn from yourfailures. It is not always somebody else's fault:.

COREY KOSKIE

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Pre Writing - Memoir Name

For each time period write down a memory and or experience you have had in regards toa relationship, person, object and or place.

COMPLETE 7 OF 14 - EACH MEMORY SHOULD BE 2 SENTENCES

Kindergarten

Grade 1

Grade 2

Grade 3

Grade 4

Grade 5

Grade 6

Grade 7

Grade 8

Grade 9

Grade 10

Winter

Spring

Summer

Fall

Memoir Web Organizer

For 3 of the 7 Memories - Expand Below

i Detail

Detail Detail Detail

Detail Detail

Personal Memoir Outline

For 1 of 3 Memories that was completed in the web organizer -

Expand on 1 in the below outline.

Paragraph One Introduction / Identify the event, individual or place ofthe memoir. (2-3 sentences)

Paragraph Two Describe the setting -time/place (2-3 sentences)

Paragraph Three Describe characters involvedRefer to the adjective word handout(4-5 sentences)

Paragraph Four Discuss the subject (event, individual, and place)that had an impact on you. DetailsRefer to tone worksheet.

(10 sentences)

Dialogue / If no dialogue needed begin a 5th paragraph continuing to discussthe subject

Paragraph Five Describe your thoughts and emotions regardingthe subject. / Refer to tone worksheet(2-3 sentences)

Paragraph Six Discuss the resolution of the conflict and or the subject,or the changes that occurred for you because of theevent, individual, and or place.( 2-3 sentences)