Believe You Can and You Will!
Posted on 22nd July 2024 at 11:32
I’ve been reflecting mindfully this week about the football. I don’t know too much about football, nor a regular follower of the sport but from young age I have always enjoyed watching England play be it the World Cup, the Euros, or charity games.
It’s never been about watching the football for me but being part of the energy, being part of the community and feeling connected. I love to be in places where I feel this way and over the past few years I’m lucky to have found so many spaces to feel connected fully and these not football related!
I like to try and understand what I’m feeling a little more nowadays and as I writer I usually journal do this, I did so after Sundays final and a lot came up for me and I share some of this here.
During this latest tournament support grew for the country, flags went up, excitement rising. In passing conversations the usual British chat about the weather extended to the game.
What I started to notice and then try and understand was that despite all the hype, the flags, the support - there seemed little true belief behind the country and the team. I can’t speak for other countries and this is only my personal opinion but the more I gave time to thinking about it this, to what I felt so many seemingly sharing thought and opinion on how they can manage a football team better than Gareth Southgate! Critical comments flowing in the news, social media and in the pubs. The same message for the team. ‘He shouldn’t be playing, we’re never going to win. They’ve played terribly!’ Despite many of the country turning out to support this game, the words not carrying that same message, in fact very negative and this has to be felt and hold impact.
Most people watching the football assuming the team not good enough, not capable of winning so why should they win? That fixed mindset ‘we never win!’ Throwing opinion left, right and centre! Now, in the event any passionate football supporters read this I hold my hands up! I know barely anything about the game, I’ve just about got my head around the off side rule but from a manifestation point of view, a mindful outlook all this lack of faith in the players can’t be doing so well for the team. What they then read and take in ahead of stepping out on that pitch?! I appreciate it’s become part of this lifestyle but it has to have effect.
This message I’m connecting with here carries into other things, us as people in our own lives, children trying to navigate through school the words heard and received. In the workplace, life in general. Words have huge impact on how are able to show up, how we can perform.
My point here is our experience. We all got to have an extra night in the pub, or gather with people and feel that community spirit during the final. Feeling the build up, that buzz and connection despite the win or lose. For many it’s the feelings that stick. The outcomes rarely hold the same importance, it’s the journey and how we navigate through this that make the experience impactful and this can be in a positive or negative way.
If we feel supported and connected we are more able to be present and perform. We can show up and be free to be ourselves without the weight of others opinions and views taking hold.
Being on my own journey I see that we attract more of what we want when we are connected to who we truly are. When we are able to be present fully with who we are the experience changes. The meaning in the experience not about winning but being grateful to have a place, to have people surrounding you who create a space for you to be you! People never forget how you made them feel.
We can only be fully ourselves when we let go of what doesn’t fit and connect to the importance of that moment. The outcome is rarely important, it’s ongoing.
Believe you can and you will.
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