Love Always - Coach J
I had the pleasure being driven from my hotel in Dallas to the airport by Mr. Eric Pratt owner of Riccos Limousine. We had an amazing discussion on management, customer service and people management. Eric quit his positions as one of the region's top business "cleaners" for convenience stores - meaning he consistently took underperforming stores and turned them around to profitable locations before being handed off to someone to maintain and he would move to the next problem store. After being constantly overlooked for promotion Eric took matters into his own hands and bought a vehicle and started his own limousine company. I asked him how he turned those stores around and he gave me a talk straight out of Good to Great or any HBR study. He spoke on how he built and empowered his team. How he made it a pleasurable place to work and created processes and clearly defined guidelines. When he spoke of his current venture he spoke on customer service and the customer experience. I asked him who taught him these things and he mentioned he worked for the treasury of Sierra Leone (his native country) and used to listen and take notes from his most successful managers. What a ride... Never put limits on yourself even when others try to. Eric gave no excuses and never let another person's "no" hold him back. When in Dallas give him a call - not only for a ride but also for a lift. 214-282-7419.
Love Always - Coach J
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I have no doubts that we are comprised of energy; the same energy that fills the universe from the distant reaches of the galaxy to the innermost workings on a cellular level. Reflecting this morning I took the perspective of what an honor it is for this energy to be concentrated in the human vessel. To observe, judge and create our surroundings. We are so powerful and so helpless at the same time it is truly awesome to be in this vessel as concentrated energy. Love Always – Coach J Being able to open your home to friends with aligned values is a true blessing. Building thoughts or sharing expertise is awesome but just being able to sit back and watch your loved ones interact is enough to make my heart overwhelmingly grateful. Find people you can fellowship with to increase your life experience. Love Always - Coach J Looking through old photos and gazing into the eyes of our past. The struggles, victories and unknown future captured in the moment. As I reflect on all that those before me trailblazed I ask myself if I am putting their legacy in place currently. Capture my picture now becuase I am working toward a future time when someone else can reflect and carry on. I am in the moment - catch it with photograph. Love Always - Coach J The law of gravity is undisputed and undefeated. As soon as you understand all natural laws work this way you will attract that which you align with. Your beliefs, thoughts, and actions will bring people, actions, and events into your path that are in synch with your vibration. If you need to; check your surroundings and work backwards to see on what level you contributed to bringing that situation to your reality. Love Always - Coach J The lens through which you view the world shapes your reality. What do you see through your lens? Humitly, inspiration, graciousness? Or do you see death, disease, crime and war? A lot has to do with what you choose to put in your filter. Your environment, your friends, your television. Take delibrate care with that which you allow into your lens. If you must, change out your lens to change your perspective to change your life. Love Always - Coach J In the past I have heard this term as plus 1. As in you are on the guest list plus 1. You could bring anyone you wanted, you were the key as your name is on the list but the plus 1 could be anyone. You have the power and authority to bring that other person along. Recently this term has been used as "And 1". It is a blessing to realize those that have us in their heart and add us to their blessings as an "and 1". To become the one on someones list you must be in practice of adding people to your list. It compounds and grows. Thank you to my team that keep me on the "and 1" rotation. Love Always - Coach J You've done it! You achieved your goal and reached the mountain top. Ahh the view is magnificent, but then wait - what's that?! Another peak off in the distance... Life is about climbing, pushing, and pulling to grow. The view from the mountain top is glorious, take time and enjoy it. But long term living on a mountain top is not sustainable and really after sometime not all that rewarding. Challenge yourself to tackle another mountain and end up on top. When you have found the mountain top that you will retire atop and call home you will know. Until that time enjoy your success and plan on the next goal you want to tackle. Love Always - Coach J When I hear someone say they did have access to a resource or knowledge to be as successful as they could have been I can't help but wonder if they are using that as an excuse or if they exhausted every resource at their disposal. At the most basic level let's look at reading. there are people in the world that cannot read. They were never taught and have not learned to read. These people are at disadvantge but not helpless. Then there are people that can read but chose not to. Even as the person that cannot read you can still use the power of asking for assistance, watching others, and learning through trial and error. The claim of I was never given a chance can be true in a moment, but in the next moment you have a choice to create your own "chance", to educate yourself on any topic. Dig deep, kick, fight , and scratch for what you came to Earth to do and let nothing hold you back. Love Always - Coach J |
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