Always remember that you signed up for this

Always remember that you signed up for this

You could have done something else but this was the game you decided to play.

We play for the thrill of the uncertainty not the control.

To see if we can solve the puzzles more and more elegantly.

To see if we can fully experience ourselves.

To see if we can support others to fully realise themselves.

To see if we have the audacity and the skill to disrupt the status quo.

The game requires stakes that ever increase.

The game requires vulnerability.

The game requires letting go to see if it will fly.

The game requires facing those challenging questions about ourselves and the world that an easier life might allow us to avoid.

This game is like having multiple chest games going at once.

Some winning, some losing and some so complex that you just can’t see where to go next.

The real game is gathering the lessons and the data in amongst the drama and emotion so that you can play bigger, longer, more.

But you signed up for this. To experience yourself this way.

You can step back from the emotion. You can witness it as part of the data.

You can use it to inform entering the next level of the game.

Breath. You are the player. Not the pawn.

Times are challenging right now.

It reminds me of that old saying,

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

It sounds like a cliche but multiple studies into professional and collegiate sports support the hypothesis.

Our greatest leaps forward come not from the boom times but from our greatest adversity.

Injured athletes have reported greater social network, better tactical and technical awareness (from assisting coaches) and returning to action stronger than when they stepped away.

Warren Buffet said
"Be fearful when people are greedy and greedy when people are fearful".

What he meant by this is that what most people see in front of them is their greatest obstacle.

When a great obstacle appears like a recession most will turn and run but over half of the Fortune 500 list were started during economic downturn. They were too busy doing what needed to be done to notice what might, one day, stop them.

Often we wear our obstacles as our reasons.
Here; this is why I don't have what I want, what I deserve.

But hidden inside that obstacle or under it is the direction we all must take if we are to triumph.

History is lined with people who achieved what we want to achieve facing much greater obstacles than ours.

The obstacle that stands before us is not an impassable mass...

It is showing you the way.