2017
My mother only ever asks one thing of me: if I disappear for an extended period – which, in mom-time, means 2-3 days – I should just make sure to call her. Just so she can hear my voice, just to hear that everything is alright.
Something similar is going to happen now, only this time I'm not calling my mom, but you. More precisely, I'm sending a message here to let you know that I've been absent for a while, but everything is fine.
I disappeared, and my disappearance was not accidental. I could beat around the bush for a long time, but I'd rather get straight to the point. We are preparing for 2017. Huge developments are underway, and by "huge," I'm talking about an investment of nearly 200 million forints.
Everything, and I mean everything, on LifeTILT will change, and you will see, and even feel, these changes starting in 2017. But what exactly is it all about? I'll summarize it in a few points, just for myself, because it's good to sit down sometimes and just look at what's being built, and what one is still a part of building.
EXPANSION TO ENGLAND
If I were to prioritize, opening up the British market would definitely be at the top. This is one of our biggest commitments for 2017. We already have our warehouse in London, we've signed a contract with a parcel delivery service, and the English-language lifetiltstore is being built. So, if all goes well, from February 15, 2017, you'll be able to order our supplements, apparel, and everything else we have across the entire United Kingdom.
It's even possible that I'll move to London for 2-3 months to work on a transformation with some Hungarians living there, but what's more certain is that we've already signed contracts with 3 English lifestyle bloggers to push content and introduce our "tilt" products.
NEW BRAND IMAGE
After 6 years, LifeTILT is getting a new logo, and in parallel, we're embarking on a very serious brand-building effort. Get acquainted with the letter T, because from spring 2017, it will be everywhere.
RENEWED WEBSITES, APPLICATIONS
All 3 LifeTILT websites will be renewed, and all 3 sites (lifetilt.hu, lifetiltstore.hu, lifetiltfood.hu) will get their own applications.
NEW SYSTEM
Around October of this year, I became fed up with the LifeTILT websites constantly freezing due to high traffic, so I signed a contract with one of the largest and most professional system-building companies. This company also built the backend systems for Libri and Groby. This development was long overdue, and my only regret is that I didn't do it a year earlier. But LOL. I didn't do it because we didn't have the money for it a year ago.
So, next year, the freezing due to traffic will end, and a stable, reliable system will operate under all TILT sites, along with all the associated developments, of course, which would be too long to list now, and honestly, I couldn't even list them all off the top of my head.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
From 2017, LifeTILT whey proteins will have the largest selection of flavors in Hungary, and I dare say, even in Europe. Specifically, 40 different whey protein flavors will be available from March 2017, and in addition to excellent nutritional values, all LifeTILT proteins will be LACTOSE-FREE. 40 flavors seems like a lot, I know, but I assure everyone that 100 flavors are planned for 2018.
THE 40 LIFETILT WHEY PROTEIN FLAVORS
Chocolate flavors
chocolate caramel, hazelnut chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, Belgian chocolate, chocolate marzipan, coconut-almond chocolate, orange chocolate, white chocolate, chocolate wafer
Fruit flavors
mango, peach, banana, raspberry yogurt, pear, strawberry, pineapple, kiwi, cantaloupe, pistachio
Cake flavors
somlói galuska, Sacher-torte, tiramisu, Eszterházy-torte, caramel brownie, vanilla cheesecake, creamy chocolate cookie, punch cake, chestnut puree, chocolate muffin
Special flavors
creamy almond, piña colada, mojito, Túró Rudi, lemon-lime yogurt, cinnamon chimney cake, tomato pizza
Good, right? Of course it's good, what else would it be.
But we didn't just go crazy with whey proteins. After a long time, LifeTILT will offer an alternative for those with milk protein sensitivity and lactose intolerance, and finally, rice protein will be available in flavored form. It was available before, but only in natural flavor, which, let's admit, was quite bad on its own. I think I'll even devalue the product to clear out the remaining stock and make room for the flavored siblings.
RICE PROTEIN IN 3 FLAVORS
MICELLAR CASEIN IN 5 NEW FLAVORS
The 5 flavors: coconut almond, milk chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, caramel brownie
BUTT SCULPTING 2
Oh, this is going to be so epic. The continuation of the great predecessor, a program that was already better than anything else on the Hungarian internet (and I have 28,000 witnesses to that). But what's coming now will truly be amazing. Because it's one thing to upload the workout plan, the diet, and everything else that's usually included, but it's another thing how it will be uploaded.
There will be 3+1 workout plans.
There will be a butt-sculpting workout plan for beginners, intermediates, and PROs, and there will also be a separate workout plan, and this will be the +1, with butt-sculpting exercises that can be done at home.
But how will this be done? HAHH.
We will photograph every exercise of all 3+1 workout plans, with accompanying helpful texts.
We will film every exercise of all 3+1 workout plans, and provide advice in the videos.
Now I'd say the absolute best part is coming, but I won't, because it's simply incredibly good that we'll also be filming interval training, with running drills and everything else that's needed for it.
And I've saved the truly best for last, but you'll have to imagine this in another universe. So, we've developed a product that supports this entire damn good system. This will be Drive, which we developed so that every single ingredient helps with butt sculpting. I'll write a separate post about the product, and there will be more details when the time comes, but I just have to write down the composition, because this information is unfortunately too good to keep to myself.
DRIVE
Drive contains BCAA, glutamine, Pyruvat ONE, collagen, HCA, L-Carnitine, Chromium Picolinate. Amino acids for shape, ONE, HCA, L-Carnitine, Picolinate for fat burning, and collagen for skin firmness, and all of this in 6 flavors.
Oh yes, the diet.
Naturally, we will put together a separate diet for each level (beginner, advanced, PRO, +1 home), because as the load increases, the diet also changes.
So this will be the program that already contains hundreds of thousands of forints worth of knowledge on its own, not to mention the implementation, but I don't give a damn, I'll put it all up for free, as is, and you do it.
It will be great. As great as all the previous programs on LifeTILT. Or rather, no. This will be even better than those, because it will be put together truly professionally.
It will be as good as your butts, if you follow it through, and I can't really think of anything prettier or better than a beautifully sculpted female butt right now.
More information in the #wearelifetilt Facebook group.
CLOTHING EXPANSION
Just as I started with supplements, I'm also starting to build up the clothing line. Next up, we'll release the men's collection, and we'll add 2 more pieces to the women's line. And with summer and the butt-sculpting program approaching, hot pants will arrive in March.
LIFETILT RESTAURANT
Big investment, big risk, you can lose a lot, which means exactly the conditions I like the most. There will be a healthy restaurant in Budapest. There will be a restaurant in Budapest that will exclusively serve healthy food, and this restaurant will be the LifeTILT restaurant.
LIFETILT FOOD RURAL EXPANSION
Finally, we are leaving Budapest with FOOD and starting to cover the country. The first stops of this expansion are Székesfehérvár, Érd, Velence, Szentendre, Leányfalu, Tahitótfalu.
IR/PCOS PROGRAM
It didn't start this year, but it definitely will in 2017. This program will be a huge gap-filler with lots of information, detailed program descriptions, and not least, the divine Berberine. It will be a very serious program with brutal results. Medical results.
This is so intense. It's a lot to just write down, and currently, we are preparing and working on these. It's no small task to put them together, because behind everything, imagine logistics, planning, execution, imagine a system that is necessary for all of this to be realized next year.
Today, LifeTILT has grown into a business with a revenue of 500 (five hundred!!!) million Forints.
I remember at the very beginning, I even wrote a separate post about how, oh my god, LifeTILT was not only read in Budapest, but I also had 4-5 provincial readers in addition to my existing 25, who, of course, were all my acquaintances.
Incredible. How I used to enjoy every little thing, how the slightest developments, or even the smallest signs of progress and growth, would electrify me. Yes. In the old days, I would commemorate all my smaller or bigger, but mostly smaller, successes in a separate post. I was genuinely happy when 50 people liked LifeTILT, not to mention when we reached 100. You understand? 100. I still clearly remember the joy I felt then, and as I write these lines, I am constantly smiling. You know, I'm talking about that smug, nostalgic smile. Well, imagine that on my face now.
I loved the first year of LifeTILT so much. It was so genuine, so carefree, nobody knew me yet. It was good to write posts until dawn, it was good to wake up in the morning and go to work, it was good to go to the gym after work, and it was good to write posts until dawn after the gym. And this went on in a cycle for months, and it was damn good.
From time to time, I recall the good old days, and from time to time, I write about how good it used to be, and how much harder it is now. I've noticed that whenever LifeTILT's development reaches a big and serious turning point, I always go back in time a bit to write about it.
My God, how good it was to wake up at 7 in the morning and travel to work on the crowded tram in -2 degrees.
It wasn't good. It was absolutely awful, and I did everything, put a lot of work into building LifeTILT, so that one day I wouldn't have to live the life I lived 5 years ago. I wouldn't have to wake up on time, go to work, I wouldn't have to earn 140,000 forints, and ultimately, I wouldn't have to do anything I did back then.
Of course, I could have waited for the big break, or FOR SOMETHING, that would eventually come, somehow. Do you think I'm kidding? The funny thing is that a significant part of society is hoping for exactly this, that sometime, somehow, things will be different and better. Of course, better without work and performance, if that's okay, because they don't want to do anything for it, because they're already very tired, and besides, they have no time at all. By the way, have you ever noticed that those who constantly claim they have no time, in reality, never do anything, and in parallel, remain solidly absolute nobodies?
A whole life for nothing, without realities, actions, ambition, and vision.
Now, of course, one could say what do I know about these people, and that life is hard, and everyone has a past, but before we read out all the relevant paragraphs from the cliché dictionary, which I guess everyone is already aware of anyway, I would gently like to point out that everyone has a past, everyone has been tossed around by life, and everyone carries that certain cross.
I know, for some people it is incomprehensible that they are responsible for their own life, that the decision is indeed in their hands, that they can change the course of their life at any time. I know it's scary that this is the case, and yes, I also know that if a few people were to face this fact, they would collapse right there. Everyone imagine a life where someone else is always to blame, where someone else always causes life's difficulties.
Someone once asked me what my biggest fear was, and I replied that my biggest fear is that one day I will no longer be in control of my own life.
In 2010, I earned 140,000 forints. Now I won't even write down how much, because someone might start convulsing in front of the monitor. Because we are the little people cursing from a 14-year-old purple Suzuki, who hate all Audi drivers from the bottom of their hearts, and they would never want to be like them. And why? BECAUSE HE DOESN'T USE HIS TURN SIGNAL.
:))))))
This is us. A little embittered, a little malicious, a little frustrated, but this is us, Hungarians. It doesn't matter what you do, or where you get, how far you reach, what you do, or how much you earn, you will always remain Hungarian, and there's nothing you can ever do about it, except for one thing.
It's solely up to you whether you're the one who harasses others, or you're the one who gets harassed by others.
As long as you harass others, you won't get anywhere. The moment others start harassing you, know that you're on the right track, keep going. Just don't forget to use your turn signal on this path.
Merry Christmas, kids. Thank you for this year. See you in 2017.
