🎙 ALWAYS ANOTHER GAME
Shaun Thompson
AAG was born over a decade ago yet the funny thing is I never knew it until recently. It was a term I used to bring myself back down after a poor performance or loss in Ice Hockey to help remind me that there is another game. I can’t dwell on the past I need to focus on the NOW and how that will help the FUTURE.Yet after retiring from the sport I loved, a lot of what made me mentally successful went out the window until one famous night. I was highly stressed on this infamous day and my parenting tolerance had reached it’s peak, so without shouting I sent the boys to bed early before it had the chance to reach that point.Only to come downstairs full of guilt and shame that I was not at my best and this is not what I wanted to be as a parent.Then it hit me...We get to go again tomorrowHow can I be better for myself and my loved ones because that’s how I used to do things in my sporting careerI would look for solutions not excuses and that is when it hit me that all the skills I