Like all Irish people, Séamus is an avid sports fan and a member of the Munster Rugby Red Army, whose motto ‘To the Brave And Faithful, Nothing Is Impossible’ happens to work well in a coaching, mentoring, NLP and training context too!!
Séamus has also been a faithful Atletico de Madrid season ticket holder since 1999. His first ‘Atlei’ game was in January 1991 at the Vicente Calderón. There has been many days and nights of sporting frustration and joy since then.
While the club could certainly work harder to remove a less tolerant element of the fan base from the stadium, ‘el Atleti’ is particularly important for Séamus because of its sense of community and identity. The Atleti slogan ‘Otra forma de entender la vida’, which could be translated as ‘a different way of understanding life’, resonates particularly true.
Every second weekend in autumn, winter, and spring Séamus visits the Estadio Metropolitano in Madrid to watch ‘el Atleti’, where he happily and intentionally decides to leave some behavioural management training, and a little self-control at the turnstiles!!
You’ll find songs from The Blue Nile, The Go-Betweens, The Triffids, U2, David Bowie, The Gloaming, Bell X1 and a host of others on his music playlists and at weekends you will often find him cycling along the bike lane which surrounds Madrid.
You can get in touch with Séamus at seamus@useyouredge.com
