Nerves II

Published June 15, 2019 in Personal - 1 min to read

I’ve probably already written about this before, but many years ago I heard the following from a top British fencing coach:

If you’re not nervous about it, it’s not worth doing.

The saying has stuck with me ever since, and it must’ve been a good 10 years since I heard it. I was pretty nervous about today, and it turned out to be worth doing, and I am pretty nervous about tomorrow also - hopefully it turns out to be similarly worthwhile. Nervousness is an odd feeling - in a way it feels bad, but it also seems very possible to lean into the feeling, embrace it and channel it into something positive.

Anyway, wish me luck for tomorrow!