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I'm 32. And I have a decision to make.

Christian HaslbeckChristian Haslbeck·

I'm 32. And I have a decision to make. Football has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. But for the last few years, I barely played…

I'm 32.

And I have a decision to make.

Football has been part of my life for as long as I can remember.

But for the last few years, I barely played.

First, I was building my business.

There was always something more important to do.

A problem to solve.

A client to take care of.

Something new to build.

And when I was working as a personal trainer, there was another problem:

Getting injured would have been pretty stupid.

It's hard to demonstrate exercises when you can barely walk.

So football slowly disappeared from my life.

Until last fall.

I decided to play again.

And I loved it.

There was just one tiny problem.

I tore my ACL in my 4th match.

Perfect comeback.

So now, at 32, I'm asking myself a question:

Do I stop?

Accept that football was a chapter of my life that's basically over?

Or...

do I do the exact opposite?

Come back properly.

Get ridiculously fit.

Play again.

And maybe even build something around football myself.

I think you can probably guess which option my brain prefers.

Because I've noticed something about myself:

When I care about something, I don't really know how to do it halfway.

And strangely, I think that's also one of the reasons I became an entrepreneur.

I don't just want to use things.

I want to understand them.

Improve them.

Build my own version.

And that's exactly how I work with businesses too.

Most business owners I talk to don't actually have a lead problem.

They have a "what the hell happened to that lead?" problem.

A Meta lead comes in.

Someone sends a WhatsApp message.

Another person asks for information.

Someone says:

"Call me next week."

And suddenly your entire sales system depends on you remembering everything.

That's insane.

A good system should remember it for you.

Lead comes in.

→ CRM.

WhatsApp goes out.

→ automatically.

No answer.

→ follow-up.

Questions.

→ AI can handle them.

Interested.

→ appointment.

That's exactly the kind of system I'm building for businesses right now.

So if your CRM currently consists of WhatsApp, some notes and...

"I'll remember that"...

Click here to schedule a free demo.

Tell us what your business does.

We'll tell you what I'd automate first.

Christian

P.S. As for football...

I'm increasingly leaning towards:

One more time.