Love Always - Coach J
If success is the pursuit of a worthy ideal or goal - what does success look like? It may look like the bus ride to night school, it may look like preparing dinner for your family. If it is a marathon it must look like the 15th mile. It may look like extra hours in the office or at the gym. It's the reworked proposal or extra rep. Often pictures of the finish line are associated with success but that is completion and commencement. The end of one journey and the beginning of the next. Success is the pursuit of a worthy ideal or goal - it is in the work. God is in the details.
Love Always - Coach J
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As the seasons begin to shift and fall approaches the sunrise and sunset are amazingly orange and pink - with velvet blues and hues. Yet the backdrop of trees are still a vibrant green and flowers are still in their summer best. What a beautiful spectacle to behold. Good morning and good evening my friends. Love Always - Coach J Cooking eggs and bacon this morning to the random YouTube mix of Dance Hall kicked off by Dawn Penn's No,No,No has been an absolute classic! Throw on a nice reggae or dance hall mix to start your day and I promise you'll be off to a jammin' start. Yesterday we woke to Baroque and the scene was just as beautiful. What is the first sound you allow in your ears? I hope it's not the news or Tel Lie Vision PROGRAMING. Start the day right. Love Always - Coach J As a leader of your home, business, or your life I offer a simple formula to success. Daily, weekly, quarterly, and annually you must have goals. To outline your goals you need to take some reflection time thinking. Part of the thinking and planning steps are to seek advice. Think about where you want to be, what you are best at and what areas you'll need support in. In the planning stage it is similar. What do you execute best and what will you need to enlist aid for? The second part of the planning stage is where you prioritize. You must place an order on your thoughts and actions. What comes first? Nothing else should happen until square one is accomplished. Now you are ready for action. Do what is necessary to achieve your plan. All the positive thinking in the world with awesome plans is fruitless with out action. Pick up the phone, knock on the door, write the manuscript - take the action that leads to the path you seek. The road will rise to meet you once you begin down the path. Love Always - Coach J Yesterday morning as my toddler pondered the consequence of eating the oatmeal placed before him of resting his head on the table for a quick return to slumber he was staring at me, or better said kind of looking through me with an unfocused gaze of someone not fully awake. He then proceeded to make a popping sound with his mouth, like when you are creating a spit bubble and just kind of pop your lips part and have that popping sound. He hit a few different octaves in that sound to which I responded - slowly at first with my own popping sound. Then I switched a few octaves. Then he responded. In my message I told him I love him, he was saying something like I am tired yet this is a fun and strange way to communicate. Those special moments of bonding that you have with family and friends are so intimate they can alter your reality. It made me recall the quote listed below and to encourage each and every one of us that we are restricted by our vocabulary to the volume we may experience life. No need to be eloquent, make a noise of sound of joy, glee, or bliss when you don't know the words to express it properly. Also continue to expand your vocabulary to expand your palate of life experiences. "The world is richer than it is possible to express in any single language” – Ilya Prigogone Love Always - Coach J To use the term rational - "Be rational" what does that mean? Does it mean to be careful? Thoughtful? Logical? Reasonable? Or does it mean what the meaning of the word is - to give a portion, a piece or a ration? To be reasonable means you are giving reasons - and as soon as you give something a reason you qualify or judge it. Logic - no thank you. Past logic said the Earth was flat or the 4 minute mile was impossible. So to ration your thoughts is to limit them - to even say their is a quantifiable measure to your thoughts is a slight to yourself. You are infinite, be that and not rational. Love Always - Coach J "You know what grinds my gears?" When someone uses the word coincidence and then proceeds to speak of a coincidence as if it is unexpected that the two or more things that are occurring are somehow connected. It will sound something like "It may just be a coincidence that... but we can't be sure until..." Coincide means for something to happen at the same time or synch together. That is the very meaning of coincidence! That MIGHT be a coincidence? No it IS a coincidence because the events coincide. Now that's off my chest I can go about witnessing the hundreds of coincidences that happen daily with inner peace. Next time you wonder if "that's just a coincidence" be sure that it is a coincidence and thank your consciousness for calling it to your attention to observe and marvel at. Love Always - Coach J Getting back to school - or day one of a new grade level. The beginning was always exciting to me. No nerves, more excitement about new faces, new teachers, new friends, new adventures. New clothes, new backpack, new supplies, new desk. Day one and even week one was always an acclimation period. Much like day one on a new job or in a new city. Let go of any fear - that comes from expectations. Simply deal with what is in front of you and observe the beauty in each moment. Here is to having a day one daily. And here is to those who are having a day one of some sort today. Love Always - Coach J I have witnessed a young man work hard at his academics and at his sport. In high school he was an average performer that always had to apply himself to maintain around a 3.0 grade average. He joined cross country in his junior year and fell in love with it but was not a top performer in that area. He trained hard and got better and was very respectable. His dream was to attend a university and run on their cross country team. He got accepted by the school and pushed himself to unbelievable degrees and made the team after being denied the first year. A side result of his training discipline is he became very focused in school and now maintains a 3.4 grade average at a top university. Also after making the cross country team he joined a triathlon for sport and found this is where his heart really is. His first major tri he placed second! He had a coach reach out to him to help him train, he has a major sponsor. He is breaking rookie records and is more fulfilled than he has ever been. He put the work in. Even when you are not completely sure what the work is going towards or you don't feel completely fulfilled any work you do, any strength you build is yours for future use. I raise my glass high to know this young man and I know that anything he does in life will be successful. I knew that from his first training sessions that junior year in high school when I had the pleasure of working with him because he's had the heart of a lion from the beginning. The best part of this story for me is now he knows it is only going to get better - and he earned it all himself. Love Always - Coach J |
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