“When I was a very small boy, very small boys talked to me”

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If you’ve read these blogs for a while, you’ll know that I’m sometimes listening to the wireless in my car and a song lyric jumps out at me.

You’ll also know that I say olde words like wireless (for the radio) that were already outdated when I was young, just to wind my kids up 😉

The other day ‘True Faith’ by ‘New Order’ came on.

And the line that jumped out to me was the one it the title above.

“When I was a very small boy, very small boys talked to me”

Which makes sense.

As a species we often find it easier to talk to those we consider to be similar to us.

Whether that be age, gender, interests, outlook and so on.

This is why we share so many stories from our members.

And stuff about ourselves.

On here, Facebook and elsewhere.

Because we know how people see us before they get to know us.

We live in a gym.

We eat nothing but chicken and broccoli.

We love exercise.

Burpees in particular.

We don’t drink.

We don’t have fun.

We’re young, no family and injury and commitment free.

We don’t like people who don’t exercise regularly and / or are over weight.

Hopefully those that do know us know that somewhere between most and all of that isn’t true.

I’m nearly 40, have four kids and injuries coming out of my ears (actually my ears are about the only bit of me I haven’t injured).

I enjoy what I do but don’t feel the need to be there any more than I have to.

Exercise is ok, but’s it’s mainly a means to and end and I’m not keen on burpees.

I quite like chicken and brocolli’s ok I suppose – just not them alone and not all the time.

When ever I get together with my old school and Uni friends I realise I have more fun on a daily basis then all of them combined.

I like a drink 🙂

I wouldn’t like or dislike someone based on whether they were overweight and / or didn’t exercise.

And the rest of our coaches would give approximately similar answers (Kirsty trumps me with five kids and another full time job as a midwife).

So, whether you knew before, or know now………..

I am a (figurative) very small boy.

And so are you.

Talk to us.

Hit this link to take the next step if you haven’t already. The find out more meeting is tomorrow now! –> myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting.

If you already have, either keep those channels of conversation open……………

Or reopen them.

Talk to us.

We’re here to help!

Much love,

Jon ‘Plastic’ Hall and Matt ‘Restless’ Nicholson

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