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What is your excuse for not reaching your potential?

What are you blaming?

  • Drugs/drink

  • Everton

  • Utterly on your own with no support

  • Purple Aki

  • Lack of generational wealth

  • Tories stealing my milk and opportunities

  • Alison Booth!!!

  • Laziness

  • So much porn, so little time

  • Cheese on toast (obesity)


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….football with me. I have sussed out that I had my life planned out, good job, wife and kids but football was unsafe without a career structure. Despite being very talented and signing for RS in 1971, I genuinely had no intention of being a footballer and disliked every moment of my 3 years there.

Footy is as much about attitude and application as it is about talent, saying that the ‘Boot Room’ set-up at RS was very odd.
 
The movie fight club.. it came out on video or DVD about 3 months before the leaving cert, and instead of studying we were all out in the local park every evening beating the crap out of each other.
 
….football with me. I have sussed out that I had my life planned out, good job, wife and kids but football was unsafe without a career structure. Despite being very talented and signing for RS in 1971, I genuinely had no intention of being a footballer and disliked every moment of my 3 years there.

Footy is as much about attitude and application as it is about talent, saying that the ‘Boot Room’ set-up at RS was very odd.
Do you think your attitude would of been different if you had signed for us ?
 

Interesting question. For me it's also a bit of a dangerous thing to expect too much of oneself as it can lead to feelings of failure and all of the feelings associated with that. Albeit in some scenarios it Is beneficial to push yourself to improvements.

Personally I am a lot more at ease with myself when I accept what I am. That isn't a cop-out either. I still try to do the right things like be a reliable person and keep my body in check etc. But I also accept I have my limitations and try not to be something that I'm not.
 
Never had any potential,was always bang average at everything i did,was never the best or the worst.new from an early age i was going down the pit and was looking forward to it.hoped to get married and have kids which i did.happy with how things turned out.
 
I recall being told at school by a careers officer at 15/16 years old that if I worked really hard I could be become a teacher or a policeman. And there we have it - the glass ceiling for the working classes.

I haven't underachieved though I was stuck for a while because I believed that the glass ceiling was real. It's not. Be brave, take chances and maximise your opportunities.
 

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