It’s 1am and I can’t sleep.
I stared at the ceiling for half an hour before deciding to go for a run.
We’re at an airport hotel, so I do some laps of the block, and mid run, a heap of questions start running thru my mind:
Why am I doing Alfred?
Why am I still transitioning careers?
What habits do I have that’s slowing the transition down?
What do I want from the rest of my life?
All questions I’ve thought a lot about before.
But because I’m on holiday and not in a rush, I’m going sit on them for another week or so and reflect.
This will allow quality thoughts to surface, and I’m going to avoid consuming content by leaving my phone in my hotel room as often as possible.
That way I can be present, let my brain relax, and let the cream rise to the top.
Why did you go to the RWC? Is it really important? Would you have been happier at home? Why is going somewhere, anywhere the solution? In my opinion many run away from their lives and pretend they will be happier somewhere else!
I would probably try to distance myself from rugby . There are better things to do.
Why am I still transitioning careers?
I've done a bit of reading recently on this topic, particularly around athlete career development and some of the literature viewed the athletic career as a series of transitions. So now I'm wondering if perhaps the same applies to life in general. We're constantly transitioning?
I'm currently on holidays too, more time and space and lots of thinking and reflecting.