Those of you that know me or have read these blogs for a while may know that I used to be a professional wrestler.
Never actually stopped, just don’t do it very often now.
I don’t know if there are any other sports / forms of entertainments that people need to openly deride if I’m being honest.
When I was doing it regularly, barely a day would go by without someone feeling the need to say something like “It’s all fake anyway”, “You don’t actually hit each other, do you”, “You know how to fall, don’t you?” or “What a load of shite that is.”
It never bothered me as I fully accept that it is a bit of am odd thing to do.
I never quite understood why people felt the need to be so rude if I’m being honest.
I’m not a fan of, I don’t know, long distance cycling.
But I wouldn’t spend ages telling a ‘Tour De France’ fan how rubbish his favourite sport was.
Each to their own and all that.
And I wish someone had told my opponents that they weren’t supposed to be hitting me.
And I wish knowing how to fall had made landing on wood and metal (with a thin layer of padding) less painful.
It might have saved all the spinal damage I suffer with
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If there is one good way I know how to fall though, it’s forwards.
In life.
Taking the brakes off and just going for it will is the best way to an improved life.
There’ll be a few bumps and bruises on the way, sure.
But we never get anywhere by standing still.
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People often comment that Matt and I seem to know exactly what we’re doing.
Both at RISE and in general.
We really don’t.
We’re always making mistakes.
We look back at some of the things we did in the early days of RISE and wince.
And I’m sure we’ll do the same in a year or two about things we’re doing now.
It often surprises people when they first find out we’d only known each other a few months when we set up RISE.
But we knew we were both on the same page from our sheer willingness to throw ourselves into it.
Take the brakes off and keep falling forwards into the unknown.
It’s paying off now, but we’d do a lot differently if we had our time again.
It’s the same with the things you want to do.
People often never really get started on their dreams as they don’t quite know the best way to get to them.
Or get discouraged by set backs on the way.
Those brakes go on.
Whether it be doing something about changing your body or health.
Or going for that change of career.
Or trying something you’ve always wanted to do.
Only you can release those brakes.
Accept you’ll get bumps.
Just keep falling forwards.
And you’ll get there
Much love,
Jon ‘Doing a bungee jump on Sunday’ Hall and Matt ‘Scared of heights’ Nicholson
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