Another blog from that Mammoth session on the Saturday before we moved.
Sat in the silence of my old office, which was in disarray around me as I packed it up.
This morning, I took some of our team around the new practice as we delivered boxes. It was quite a special moment to let them walk in for the first time, stood on a building site, but to see where they were.
At the moment they will be digesting that and it will be sinking in and it is terrific.
We all got together early on, had some coffee, ate some doughnuts and moved a load of boxes from the old place to the new place, which was quite difficult and tricky, but we did it together and it was great.
It was a “risk” because somebody could have hurt their back and sued the work, but god who cares, we will never forget the day that we moved the boxes on the Saturday.
Trouble is at the same time Callum was playing football near Newark, 40 minutes away.
I pretty much never miss his football games at the weekend (it was very rare).
On a Saturday he plays for a football team that are 6 divisions below what he plays on a Sunday and he has stuck at it really hard, even though sometimes it has been frustrating and difficult. Things are on the up for that team for one reason or another and they are moving along and it is great to see him become enthusiastic again about Saturday football and be fighting as a team member for that team.
On the WhatsApp group, it turned out that he scored a hattrick (and one of his best friends and a player who he plays with on Sundays scored a hattrick too).
All this time I have waited for Saturday football success and I missed the effing hattrick!
He doesn’t score many of those.
I was doing something important though and something good.
I was working with my team, to get a result to get us moved along, to take us to a better place, so was he.
I think maybe I learned that from basketball back in the day and I think maybe he is learning that from football too.
Sometimes in a team, one person has to go one way to do something great and the other person has to go the other and they come back at the other side and compare and then go again.
I think I will tell Callum that tonight and lay beside him before he goes to sleep, another little bit of coaching.
Blog Post Number - 2264
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