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I lost my WHOOP.

I think it's only temporary, but I got changed in the practice last week and put it somewhere, in a shoe or a bag or something, and I haven't had it since then.

To be honest, I was a bit down on the WHOOP anyway because I don't trust it or believe in what it's saying or maybe what it says makes me a little bit anxious or unhappy with myself.

I started comparing my WHOOP results to other people's WHOOP results and realised that I was doing the same as what I did on Strava and the same as what I did on Facebook and Instagram.

There is something great that I've learned from WHOOP, though (and I will find it and have it back on in a minute because I'd committed to 24 months to test it out, so I'll go from there).

But the good thing about it was the podcast that made me buy it in the first place.

Will Ahmed, the founder of WHOOP, was talking about building a business which is now valued at £3.6 billion (many hundreds of times the size of my business).

He did talk about the state, though, where he learned not to be so emotionally attached to the success of his business going forwards, and I found that fascinating.

I think we're all linked emotionally to many things we hope will be successful in our lives, whether that is relationships or parenting or running a boy's football team or running a business or anything like that.

And so, when something goes wrong, that's outside our control; it's very easy to blame ourselves and say it's something we've done wrong.

I turn up to work a lot of the days trying to find the format which allows me to do the tasks and for things to work.

But every single day that I turn up, there is something that is not quite right or something that is going in the wrong direction.

And so, I'll go into a little bit of a rut and think there is a problem here or there.

 I'm letting people down or letting the business down until I'm able to pull myself back out of it and realise that the events that occur external to me are outside of my control and my ability to react creatively to those events and to try to keep things on an even keel and on the right track is actually one of the greatest parts of my job, but also one of the greatest privileges.

It's likely that if I turned up every day and things were great and ticked along at 12% growth a year, moving and moving and moving, I would get extremely bored and go somewhere else and leave that job to someone else.

I think that when the challenge goes, the interest will go for me.

And so, it's essential for me to keep the challenge and to find things that challenge me.

And so therefore, I look for ways in which the format isn't working and try to improve the format.

As Simon Sinek said, though, the game is infinite, and there is no end point and no winner.

And so, with that in mind and one of my principles at heart, it's time to return to the process and not the outcome and love the process instead of seeking the format.

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