I can do 5 good ones.
I can also do a forward roll and something that passes as a cartwheel.
Yet I just found myself being critical of someone who performed an amazing routine of the gymnastic rings when he stumbled on landing from a double back, double twist.
I feel dizzy on the teacups at Drayton Manor.
My brain can’t compute how to do a double back somersault, let alone adding in a double twist, and then landing.
We’re loving the Olympics and watching just how spectacular the human body truly is.
It amazes me how quickly we can go from being in awe to being critical of the finest details.
We all do it, not just at Olympians, not just the people around us, we go straight for the source.
How quickly and how often do you put yourself down or criticise the little mistakes you make rather than being proud of
who you are?
If somebody said some of the things I say to myself to Fran, our kids or my friends, I wouldn’t accept it.
I shouldn’t accept it about myself either and nor should you.
Try to catch yourself doing it and switch the mean words for something positive, it will take consistent practice.
But doesn’t everything worthwhile.
Darren “Alexander”
Checkley