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Some how or other my two older sons have ended up as Man U fans.

I know, I know 😂

I’m a Derby Country ‘well wisher’.

‘Fan’ would be a bit strong as I’m not all that bothered.

But if I had to say I “had” a team, it would be them.

I was talking to the boys about the protests at Old Trafford the other week.

And they kept saying something I’ve seen many people say on social media in recent weeks (and months and years).

“United haven’t spent any money on players”

“That can’t be true” I thought.

So I googled it.

They’ve spent the second highest amount of any team in the world over the last five years (behind only Man City).

And have the fifth highest income.

Overall they are second in the world (again to City and out of the big clubs) on spend on players versus income.

So the suggestion that they’ve “spent nothing on players” is laughable.

It’s what their mates had been saying and what they’d seen on the internet, of course.

Now there are clearly discussions as to whether they’ve spent it on the right players for the right reasons.

On what else they’ve spent, their debt and more.

But if someone says “they’ve spent nothing” (or even “they’ve not spent enough”) then they’re just having the wrong conversation.

And all wrong conversations distract us from the right ones.

It’s like I mentioned in earlier blogs about the belief that “the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing”.

When the evidence shows the opposite.

It’s a spread not a gap and it’s more even (relatively) than at any point in history.

Or that “nobody’s following COVID regulations” when millions clearly are.

Doesn’t mean it’s where we’d like to to be or that there’s not still work to be done in both cases.

But those statements lead to, essentially, the wrong conversations.

And it’s the same with many of the things we could say about our health and fitness.

We say we “don’t have time to exercise” when, let’s be honest, we always do.

If we go by the actual official definition of what exercise is.

We could change that conversation to “I’m not sure what exercise I could do in the time I do have”.

Or just “I don’t feel like it” or “I’m tired”.

The kind of conversations that are more likely to lead us where we’d like to go.

Same with “healthy eating is boring / time consuming / expensive”……..

When it only is if we chose options that are boring / time consuming / expensive.

We could challenge our internal narrative of “I’ll leave it till next week / month” when we can’t do the theoretically perfect version of whatever it is……..

And, perhaps, instead ask ourselves “what can I do this week with everything else I’ve got on?”

Ultimately, we can choose to think about and describe things however we want to.

But if the narrative we’re hearing and adopting unknowingly from our peers and the media (conventional and social) isn’t serving us well………

Maybe we could question it’s accuracy?

And find a ‘conversation’ that’s more likely to lead us where we’d like to go?

Much love,

Jon ‘Gunnar Solskjaer’ Hall

Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.