✅ Money
✅ Fame
✅ Job they love
✅ Success
✅ Peak physical health
✅ Optimal nutrition
✅ Luxury car and clothes and watches
Also
✅ Loneliness
✅ Boredom
✅ Separation
✅ Small world outside of sport
✅ Lack of deep relationships
✅ Isolation
This article is a very real and common representation of many professional athletes.
For one person it may be sleeping pills. For others it can easily be gaming, gambling, girls, painkillers, porn, class a drugs (less so due to testing), shopping etc.
Life in sport can be very narrow and closed. You excel and focus one one thing to the max and everything else takes second place.
Athletes around the globe struggle with this, I have seen it first hand over 23 years of being in professional sport.
Some are fortunate to have other interests outside of their profession, but many don't.
If you ask most non-athlete people what they want more of, a common answer is more time.
Professional athletes often have lots of spare time - which is a killer.
Athlete life coaching is here to support athletes create a fuller and more meaningful life outside of their profession.
👉🏼 To find purpose and meaning beyond the court, track or pitch
👉🏼 To find fulfilment in activities which nourish ones soul
👉🏼 To find peace with solitude
👉🏼 To accept the quiet outside of the stadium
👉🏼 To be ok with time alone
👉🏼 To develop life skills for life beyond retirement
Jonjoy Shelvey has been candid and honest and he should be applauded for that.
There are thousands of him around and they need support
We hear you Jonjoy and others and we are here to help
Love to all you athletes out there
Alex
