#115 Can inconvenience damage self-esteem?

I apologise for the lateness of this post. My VA agreed to edit and post as per usual but did not do it and has since not replied to my messages. Her father died over a week ago, so assuming something has prevented her from doing the work this week.

Today's nugget is about the inconvenience of both listening to people who are close to us, because often they know us best but also because they are closest, they are often the hardest to listen to and easiest to dismiss and how dismissing them can make them feel like an inconvenience.

As a tennis coach on tour my life is very busy with a huge amount of travel which can get very tiring. Additionally, through my choice I have a thriving private client business mentoring and coaching on mindset around the world, this podcast, my Locker Room Power group helping parents and coaches, newsletter and currently writing a new book called “Tennis Tough” for sports publishers Human Kinetics.

WhatsApp and email are my two major ways of communicating and of course messages and emails come in non-stop, so it is easy to get caught up in the game of looking at every new WhatsApp message that comes in. I feel like I have email under control and will only check three to four times a day.

But WhatsApp, because of clients' needs, often includes messages that require a quick response, especially from competing athletes, which makes it difficult to ignore for too long. However, most messages can wait and I'm still not good enough at letting these messages sit until there is an appropriate time to answer them.

My wife Joy is very patient, but rightly so, she will periodically get annoyed when I get distracted if I'm alone with her or when we are with the grandkids.