A few months ago, I recorded a video for social media in front of the Town Hall.
You may have seen it.
A little test as to how people would interact with a video with a different kind of background to my normal ones.
It got a lot more interaction than normal.
So I did some other ones at different places in Macc.
One was of me walking down the 108 Steps.
It got a lot of comments.
Many “correcting me” that it wasn’t the 108 Steps.
Saying it’s the nearby Step Hill or Brunswick Hill.
It wasn’t.
One guy really wouldn’t have it.
Kept replying insisting I’d got it wrong and I should check the signs.
Even when I replied with “Will do. But it’s called 108 Steps on maps. Everyone I’ve ever met since I’ve lived in Macclesfield calls it the 108 Steps. A tea towel I have with a picture of 108 Steps on is clearly of these steps. I did a sponsored climb of these steps a few years ago and everyone involved (including the local paper and radio) called them the 108 Steps and no one corrected me calling them that.
I’m happy to do a video of me walking all the way down, coming out by the side of the Nags Head and showing the street signs there if that helps?”
I did the video.
He didn’t reply.
Because as humans don’t really like being proved wrong, do we?
Which is a shame really.
Because, when we are wrong, we have two options.
1. Realize that we’re wrong
2. Continue to be wrong
And I know which of these will lead us to better results in life.
I’m sure that we’ve all been wrong about things in the past.
I know I have.
So what would make now the time in history where we’re, all of a sudden, finally right about everything?
I can pretty much guarantee that will all be wrong about something right now.
Something that we will look back on in the future and wonder “What was I thinking?”
So, could we just jump straight to that future now?
Realise that we’re wrong and change our viewpoint without having to wait?
Could we welcome being wrong?
Encourage discovery of it?
Knowing it will lead to us being more right.
What’s might ‘future us’ look back at and realise that we were wrong about now?
That we were “too busy to exercise”?
That “healthy eating was boring and expensive”?
That we “had too much on”?
That we were “happy with our weight and body”?
The how we’re feeling now is just an unavoidable sign of getting older?
But we fundamentally “had” anxiety or depression rather than we were just feeling anxious and depressed at times?
That there was “no point”?
That we’d get there with “I know what I need to do, I just need to do it” (it’s www.myrise.co.uk/apply if that’s where you’re at right now as pretty much everyone that’s started with us was at some point).
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There’s no automatic correct answer here.
But recognising that we’re probably all wrong about something right now, as we have been in the past………
And more quickly realising what that thing is and changing it……….
Can only speed up our progress.
Much love,
Jon ‘808 State’ Hall
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RISE in Macclesfield was established in 2012 and specialise in Group Personal Training weight loss programmes for those that don’t like the gym and find diets boring and restrictive!
