Final blog about last Friday’s bowling, I promise.
As I mentioned, there was 22 of us there.
Booking for this number had been surprisingly difficult.
But I’d got there in the end by booking for me, my wife Alex, and one of the kids on a lane each to reserve them.
When we got there they said they needed a list of everyone’s names before they could take a payment.
So I started writing down everyone’s names.
I got 21 in and I drew a blank.
Now, I know Shelly’s name – I use it repeatedly every time I see her in the club.
But for some reason it just popped out of my mind.
And it wasn’t for coming back.
And the more I stood there realising everyone was waiting for me, the less relaxing the whole process was and the less likely I was to remember.
So, slightly embarrassingly, I had to ask her to remind me of her name.
She was cool about it.
I was very disappointed in myself.
I’ve always prided myself on knowing the names of all my members and clients.
And often their spouses and children’s names and other details about them.
“I wouldn’t worry about it” my wife said later.
“You remember 99.9% of people’s names which is far more than they’d get at a gym or anywhere else”.
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And, it was only a tiny part of the evening.
There was no need to let it affect the enjoyment of any other part of it.
Although the human brain doesn’t always work that way does it?
We allow it to ruin our enjoyment of things over something relatively minor.
We stew and lament over things which, let’s be honest, aren’t that big a deal.
Beat ourselves up over the mistakes that we’ve made.
Or we listen to our mind when it suggests that one or two hours of over consumption means we should “write off” the remaining 100 plus hours in the week and continue to overconsume.
In reality, if things don’t go quite as we’d like them to……….
That doesn’t have to have any impact whatsoever on what happens next.
We all make mistakes from time to time.
It’s what we do next that is the difference maker.
Much love,
Jon’ny’ Hall
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