Dealing with it all

As today is mental health awareness week, I thought I would throw in my 2 cents on how I am dealing with it all. Life moves quickly. I feel like, at times, life moves like water. At times, we feel a bit stagnated with how our life is going, whether we are not sure what we are doing with our life or lack the drive to get ourselves out there. When I use to play rugby in my teens at the best club in the world Oadby Wyggs. I was never a gifted player, but I always felt like I gave it my best. I have fond memories of playing and made two of my best mates from my time playing. I won the most improved player in my last season, and I know that could be seen as the pity award! But for me, it meant so much more. It meant I earned recognition for something I loved. I want people to know I try hard. I wouldn't say I like quitting on things because what is the point of giving up. When it comes down to it, the world will only reward you if you try. But at times, I do feel scared and wonder what I am doing. It took me a long time to realise that feeling is okay and normal. At times we live in, we want to paint a perfect picture that we have it all together, and we don't fail. But let's show our failures and what went wrong to normalise them.

At the time of writing this, I feel like Peter Parker in Spiderman 2. No, I am not fighting crime or dealing with supervillains and trying to balance my life. But I feel like I'm trying to balance everything from work, uni, family and friends. I feel like just like Peter in the best superhero movie of Spiderman 2, I am trying to balance it all and trying to find myself at the time. I love what I do and that I am grateful for. I have done jobs, but now I feel like I am chasing a career. This can be scary but exciting because we all want to go into an industry we want to do. There is no point chasing something for the money. Now I am no millionaire or billionaire. Heck, I still technically have my account details set up with the bank of mum and dad at times. But when you look at rich people, whether it be someone like Cristiano Ronaldo or Bill Gates, they are passionate about what they do and love it. So that's my advice for #mentalhealthawarnessweek do something you know you love. There is no point doing something you detested or hate for the sake of big bucks. If you enjoy it and it makes you happy, then carry on doing it.

I think everyone has a mental motivation someones story that inspires them. For me its quarterback Nick Foles. For those who don't know who he is. He won the Superbowl with my team the Philadelphia Eagles. He was a quarterback who was a journeyman in the league people doubted him he only played because the main quarterback was injured that being Carson Wentz. But he won it for us and became a legend. You see sometimes people will doubt us and at times we will feel like giving up. But keep going for what you want and enjoy the journey! Then who knows you might be celebrating your own super bowl one day.

My final piece of advice is enjoy the process and learn from your failure. Don't compare yourself and focus on yourself.