What could I of done. Do you performance. If it is I was never an elite athlete and I threw hammers, I was ranked in top 8 as a junior and no sponsorships were available at that ranking unless you were a distance runner…
Could it been worth it. That is a hard call because I don’t know what it would been like. When I to make a decision I look at the opportunity cost.
Opportunity Costs - what is lost when a decision and direction is made.
I would of got everything out of myself for the sport I love and would of been happy with that, but it would probably mean I wouldn’t have a career in the professional I am in now.
I like most people have moments of ‘I wish or what could of been’ but I don’t regret the decisions I have made.
The phenemon of people wanting things now. In particular teenagers who want to get top marks in school, be elite athletes, want mobile phones, cars, girl/boyfriends, money and go to parties. It is possible to do all that.
One of the parents was upset, only because there child was. The child works part time, studies, goes to parties and is tired at training yet wants to become a medical specialist and be an elite athlete. The parents of this child are on good money, so child gets what she wants, so she doesn’t have to work.
Another of the athletes priorities are
- Party and getting drunk
- Working
- School
- Sport
Yet they want to be good at sport.
Now, I am not a parent but there are 24 hours in a day, you need 7-9 hours (min) sleep a day. If you want to do sport but consider school/work more important fine, but you can’t do it all.
Rant finished, I wrote a short article for my sporting association on it if anyone is interested.