How it all started

Ever since I was little, I had a way with words.

It started with reading, of course. 

As a kid, I used to read a lot of books and newspapers - including the stuff that only our parents were meant to find interesting.

As an adult, I'm usually the guy who'll read those really long posts you see on Facebook and keep scrolling because, you know, who the hell has the time and patience nowadays. Not only that, I'll probably read each and every comment too, even the ones that are definitely bots or just good old-fashioned trolls. 

Writing became more of a thing in my life when I was a teen, after keeping some kind of journal from a very young age. Once I got a little older I was contemplating about becoming a sports journalist, so I started writing more intentionally, focusing on what I knew best - which was soccer.

Later in life and for a while, I actually got to write and edit for a living.

That was pretty cool.  

A couple of decades passed, and I still write, but now it's mostly communicating with my players and clients. I put a great emphasis on communicating with the people I work with. And even though it never really became my full-time, long-term career, I still consider my ability to express myself in writing as one of my better qualities. 

The thing is, today pretty much everyone's a writer. We live in a time where few people avoid sharing their thoughts with the world, at least in some form. And don't even get me started about AI. I'll definitely write about that some day, hopefully with no help from AI...

Plus, if I'm being totally honest, I don't think I'm that great of a writer. Definitely not in English, which wasn't my first language - so there's that (you have to admit that it's a great excuse). 

Then, at 41.5, give or take a couple of months, I found myself being drawn to it again. Not just as a direct form of communication, but also as a way to (hopefully) deconstruct and then reconstruct my own outlook on what I do in life, and the way it affects both myself and the people I work with.

And so, here we are.

I've been coaching people and teams for a living for a long time now. You can say I've come to accumulate a lot of insights in 17 years in the field.

I decided to start sharing some of them, not because I think it'll change lives, but because of the fact that what I do has changed mine to an unbelievable extent.

And if it does help anyone else in any way - even better.

Thanks for reading. I hope you will, at the very least, enjoy it.

Guy