English midfielder Dele Alli shared that since 2024, he has placed a reminder on his phone every day at 11 am with the content "World Cup 2026". Everyone understands that it is ambition, it is a goal. However, when World Cup 2026 is only a few months away, what is it for a player who has just turned 30? He is unemployed and has to go to training for someone else.
Alli is considered an early blooming talent of English football, but it also fades quickly. After leaving Tottenham in 2022 was a bumpy period of his career. Giving a reminder about the 2026 World Cup is like a demonstration of determination, but it seems that he himself has not changed, not the phone that missed the reminder.
Alli was once judged as "not evolving professionally", lacking seriousness, erratic performance, feeling "no longer desired" and also controversial stories on the sidelines of life.
Life also has many people who are "Alli versions". There are still reminders every day, but how has time reflected how you reacted. If the reminder does not go along with a different way of life, even if very small, then over time, it will no longer be a motivation but become a habit to reassure yourself that you are still thinking about it.
The clock on the phone still reminds you, but if you just read and turn it off instead of having large enough changes, the so-called "subconscious" will have no effect. People often confuse keeping a goal in mind with really moving towards it, because keeping it only requires remembering, and moving forward requires changing. And change is related to consciousness, reason, and persistent action.
And perhaps the most thought-provoking thing is not whether the dream is still alive or lost, but the feeling that every day that passes, the distance between you and the dream is shortening or lengthening.
A reminder is a bell, and whether to stand up or not is each person's business. A correct reminder, but a wrong action, the result is still wrong.
