Life By Eight

10/02/2026

We’ve loved helping this team of young ballers with their mindset & emotional regulation. Big thanks to Jackie Wilkins Rebecca Dale Sam & RedCity Roar Basketball for giving the kids this opportunity. We’re excited to follow their progress not only this season, but how they develop into strong resilient young men 💪🧘‍♂️⛹️🚀 Let’s Go Red City 🦁🏀

Our 16B Pride team are proving to be a dominant force this season and are continuing to gain traction as the season progresses.

This weekend saw a rematch against Seahawks, which Pride previously won by 3 points in the grading rounds. Our goal - to show our development over the past 2 months and get the win - and did we what!

A whopping 41 point victory (103-62) saw an amazing display of teamwork, support, team first plays, energy and intensity from all of the boys. Our variations in press, zone and man defense kept the Seahawks guessing and unable to gain momentum. Offensively all players contributed to the scoreboard with their hustle, passing and finishing.

The second game of the day was a welcomed match up - Pride in 5th on the ladder v Phoenix Orange sitting 2nd on the ladder. Our goal - to show we can push through to the top 4 teams.

Our team mantra of ‘Stay In It’ was pertinent in what was a nail-biting game from start to finish. Down by 2 pts at the first break, 3 points at half time, and 1 point at 3/4 time, the boys left nothing on the court. With the score even with 15 seconds to go, Pride missed an offensive opportunity to give Phoenix one more crack at the win. Tight defense resulted in 1 missed shot; however an offensive rebound gave the opposition 1 more chance for a mid-range shot right on the buzzer - and it went in. The referees deliberated as to whether the shot was released before the final buzzer, and decided the points were awarded. A heartbreaking end for Pride, but proof there’s a much bigger story to come for these boys yet.

Thank you to all of our parents and supporters for always showing up and contributing to the amazing team culture we have developed. A special shout out to Liz from UBX Capalaba who has been our gym trainer for the season, with the physicality and strength the boys are showing on the court testament to her work. Also, to Bec & Paul from Life By Eight who are our amazing mindset coaches. Our work during the week definitely carried over as learned strategies were put into place on both the bench and court. We are now looking forward to a full day team mindset session this weekend when we get a reprieve for Wildcard Round.

27/01/2026

There are people who keep trying.

They make the changes.
They do the work.
They tell themselves this time will be different.

And still, things keep falling apart.

Plans don’t land.
Momentum disappears.
Something always seems to go wrong just as they start to build.

After a while, it stops feeling unlucky.

It starts feeling personal.

You might find yourself thinking:
Why does this never work for me?
Why does everyone else seem to move forward while I’m back at the start again?
What’s the point of trying when it all collapses anyway?

That kind of fatigue runs deep.

It’s not just disappointment.
It’s discouragement.
It’s the quiet grief of effort that never seems to pay off.

And over time, it can turn into something heavier.

Resignation.
Numbness.
A sense that no matter what you do, life will just keep proving you wrong.

Here’s something that often gets missed in conversations about “resilience” and “mindset.”

Most people aren’t failing because they’re not trying hard enough.

They’re failing because they’re building on foundations they’ve never been taught to question.

Beliefs formed in survival.
Patterns shaped by fear, people pleasing, or proving worth.
Choices driven by what felt necessary at the time, not what was true or aligned.

So every time they try to build something new, they’re still standing on old ground.

And that ground is unstable.

Life design isn’t about positive thinking or forcing optimism.

It starts with truth.

With the courage to look honestly at what you’re building your life on.

What you believe about yourself.
What you believe you’re allowed to want.
What you’re still trying to outrun, fix, or earn.

Transparency with yourself can be uncomfortable.

It means naming what’s not working instead of pushing through it.
It means admitting when something no longer fits.
It means letting go of versions of life that were built to survive, not to sustain you.

But this is where things change.

When the foundation shifts, the outcomes shift.

When you stop designing your life around old protection strategies and start designing from alignment, clarity, and nervous system safety, things stop collapsing in the same way.

Not because life becomes easy.

But because it becomes coherent.

If you’re in a place where it feels like nothing works no matter how hard you try, please hear this:

You’re not broken.
You’re not cursed.
And you’re not meant to keep rebuilding the same thing forever.

You may just be standing on a foundation that was never designed to hold the life you’re trying to create.

And the moment you start telling the truth about that foundation is the moment real design begins.

Not force.
Not hustle.
Not pretending.

But intention.

And that changes everything.