what is good enough?

Over the past couple of years I have lost my way on numerous occasions both personally and professionally.  The reasons for that might be as simple as motivation but they might delve deeper into trauma issues or psychological make up that needed addressing. I have no idea and to be honest we all have our shit to deal with so I won’t bore you or I with a profound conversation about life right now.

What I do want to talk about is culture, standards, wokeness and self confidence. These past few weeks you may have noticed a shift in message through our social media.  We want you to get to know us.  We want to show you around our classes, meet our coach’s, get a feel for how we operate. This change has made me start to really dive deep into what our community is all about.  But more intrinsically what am I about too?  While on this journey of reflection, introspection and maybe a little bit of soul searching it is quite clear that my life and my business needed stronger leadership.

Now when I talk about leadership I’m referring to style.  I have never run a team, I have been part of many however all I have ever needed to do is my job.  Work hard pick up any slack, cover for my teammates if needed and do what is necessary to get the job done.  This style has led to poor management, bad communication and a lack of mission and direction.  I guess you could say the style has been great for the day to grind and operations of the gym however the culture, direction and growth of the gym has been neglected.

I think the culture issue is one that sits high on my thought process right now as I feel that maybe through cancel culture, ultra PC opinions and whatever wokeness means our culture has been evolving in a way that hasn’t quite worked for me. When I started AFSCrossFit we were in the early stages of the CrossFit movement.  Pukie the clown was our mascot and hard work was not frowned upon, it was embraced and accepted as a right of passage to achieve your goals.

Pukie riding the Chunda Dragon

Through sales training, business mentoring, social media, other gyms the message we have been sending has changed, even diluted to the point I don’t recognise it anymore. Now this sounds bad, I will no doubt re-read this a few times and rethink the wording, fix my bad spelling and grammar, but ultimately this is a good process.  You have to understand where you were, to know where you are going and I’m getting my head around what I need to do to move us forward.

So being good enough is not enough.  I have been unhappy with myself because mediocrity has dragged me down.  Accepting good enough has never really sat very well with me. We are about to embark on a cathartic journey back to basics.  Back to our roots and back to doing what we love and not apologising for it.  We are a CrossFit gym and our workouts are designed to forge strong bodies and strong minds and being good enough isn’t where we set the bar.  We want you to be the best versions of your self and we are going to make sure you get there safely and effectively!

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