CG 🌲 #055: Win Your Level

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Welcome to edition #055 of the Chase Growth Newsletter!

A peek behind the scenes of what I am building online.

One letter goes out each Saturday encompassing but not confined to:

• Tech + Systems To Build Your Brand/Business Online

• Curated Content Creation Concepts

• Personal Development Tips

Today's edition be a 4 minute read.

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Win Your Level

Today is a strange day.

Good strange, but strange nonetheless.

It’s Saturday as I sit to write this email.

I usually write these emails a day or two before sending them.

So to sit and write today feels a bit strange.

This week has been very hot! But today is cool.

It is overcast and I can feel a cool breeze blowing.

Yes, it’s just a change in the weather but it feels strange for Saturday morning.

When I finish writing this I am going to have lunch with one of my best friends.

He currently lives in Canada and is only back for a few days, so this is a pretty rare and what some would call a strange occurrence.

As I type this, Antony just intercepted a pass and ran through to score for Man United. VERY Strange indeed.

Finally, today is game day for me. Usually, game days are on Thursdays and Sundays, however, tomorrow is a holiday in Barbados so the game is playing tonight. Slightly strange.

What’s very strange is that I am excited for the match.

Let me explain…

Since returning to playing, I have felt many emotions.

Some that come to mind:

• anger

• disgust

• disappointment

The hardest part for me has been just accepting my reality.

Accepting the fact that I play in the Barbados premier league.

Whatever the reasons behind it, this is the level that I am currently at.

This sucks, I never imagined that I would be spending my prime playing years in the Amateur Barbadian League.

At the beginning of the season, I was angry about this all the time.

Training on bad pitches, playing with amateur players and referees, no fans, no pressure, nothing.

And I hated it.

Not only did I hate it, but I tried my best to act as if it wasn’t happening.

I tried to keep playing at my “high level”.

I expected players and referees to be on “my level”.

I was never going to let “my level” drop.

This left me frustrated and emotionally exhausted.

It also created a divide between me and my teammates.

I was not only asking them to be on a level they were not capable of, but they also did not care about being on that level.

My hard work and effort just ended up tiring out my teammates and left them confused tactically.

More frustration.

About halfway through the season, I finally came to a realization.

I needed to fully accept the reality.

I needed to play to the level I was at.

It did not help me to have unrealistic expectations about the attitudes and performance of my teammates in matches and games.

It’s amateur football in Barbados, it is what it is.

I needed to find a way to just enjoy and make the most of what I was doing, otherwise, it made no sense doing it.

So I got off my metaphorical egotistic high horse and started trying my best to meet people where they were at.

More importantly, I changed my north star.

Instead of pushing everyone to get on “my level”.

I would focus on “following the process” and “playing with a smile”.

This has led to me having so much more fun in practice and games.

Instead of rueing another game, now I look forward to just having fun with teammates.

This is my current football story but I think it is so pertinent to life and business.

Sometimes, you get so frustrated because things aren’t the way that you want that you don’t see the beauty in the scenario right in front of you.

By being so hard and fast about trying to make things look “perfect”, we miss the perfect imperfection of reality.

If everything happened exactly the way we think it would, then that is not the present or the future but ultimately the past

So really, the only thing strange about this Saturday is that I am open to embracing each second of it without any preconceived notion of how my Saturdays should go.

I think my recent trip to Mustique has contributed greatly to my getting back into this mental space of being open to new experiences.

I made a short video all about it, check it out below.

And more importantly, focus on playing and winning YOUR level!

Let go of the idealistic milestones you had set for yourself, focus on the process, smile, and execute!

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