2018... Focus On Your Journey

As we are about to get the season started with trials and getting the teams ready to rub shoulders with Gautengs' best. We are back in action on Tuesday, I am excited and nervous for the year ahead but so ready to tackle the challenge that this year is about to bring.

The past two weeks I have been in a small town in Northern Cape called Groblershoop, what a great experience to see life from a different side. I’ve lived in the city for most of my life so to see an undeveloped city that has a lot of potential was a good experience but as I had this time away I used it to reflect on my journey from a player to where I currently am. As I reflected, I realized how many lessons I have learn’t on the journey but when these lesson were actually been taught, I was rejecting it because I thought I knew everything (Who could tell me what, right?) but as you get older, more mature and look back you come to realization that lesson I rejected was equipping me for the journey that was laid out for me from the time of birth.

While I was reflecting, I looked at my playing days and what I could have done differently that maybe could have made me that professional player. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, that was never my destiny, God did not put me here to be a professional soccer player. He obviously had his own plans and as I grow what he wants for my life tends to keep showing itself in different ways. I am not saying I was not a good player, I could play the game of soccer but I struggled with confidence. Every team I went to the players would do anything to bring me down because I had my parents at the game, I had the best boots on, I was equipped with whatever I need and I also had a car to go to training with. Not every team treated me this way, the Lions FC squad that was coached by Calvin Petersen was a real brotherhood. Then we had Leciester City/Brazil FC where most players where from my community and that was also a great brotherhood. So because these certain players would look at me that way I would go into my shell and that affected my game BUT that was a lesson that was been taught to me.

I would sit and look at other players and where they are and question as to why am I not where they are? Why can’t I be as fortunate as they were? Well when I look back now I kind of had the answer already. These same players are back in the community and trying to make something of themselves again which is not an issue but why did I watch them instead of concentrating on my own journey and focusing on what I wanted instead of comparing where I am to where they are. That is the problem with majority of us is that we fail to see our achievements because we are too busy pointing fingers at others achievements we forget to celebrate our own achievements.

The main lesson that has been on my mind lately is that we all have our destinations that we want to reach but our journey to reach that destination is different from person to person. We could start in the same place but at some point you will go your way and I will go mine but will we meet at the destination that we both want? Probably not and that is because we will rather watch other people on the journey and tend to forget about our journey. We will try and create a shortcut to the path that was not meant for us and when we get there we realize that this does not suit me but your journey has been lost because this path was not designed for the person that God made you to be.

So keep on your path because whatever you going through is all preparing you for what is in store for you at the end of the journey. Keep pushing when it feels like you failing and keep doing what you are doing when everything is going great because “GOD NEVER GIVES YOU MORE THAN YOU CAN HANDLE!!!”

Thanks

Coach B