I’ve spent some time today reflecting on the weekend, on the people I met, the team involved in the documentary and the bigger picture on Prostate Cancer.
Today I was faced with the prospect of meeting our finance director and other senior management team members to talk through how we provide our services to our customers at work. Before the weekend I would have felt nervous and apprehensive about the meeting, what I would say, how I would come across. But this is after the weekend and things have changed. Having met the other chaps involved, spent time will them all, and become fast friends, listened to their stories, each different but the same, and saw how they each dealt with things with courage, it has put things back into perspective. If these guys can face up to something like PC and deal with it so with such courage and conviction then a simple meeting just doesn’t compare. The throw in the fact that if I, a man’s man in the style of Jeremy Clarkeson, could stand up with these chaps, put on a dress, get made up, and learn to dance in front of the TV cameras, and then there is nothing that I cannot do.
If nothing else came from the weekend except for my new found confidence, then it has been worth every second.