Are you a hammer or a nail?  Both have a purpose.  Are you a hammer acting like a nail?  That can make for a curious life.  Play to your strengths and it all seems to make sense.  Work together with others and the world begins to change.  What are you?  Where are you?  Next - Where do you come from?
Love Always - Coach J

Why do you do the things you do?  When you interact with family, friends or coworkers are your actions transactional or transformational?  Transactional is doing something for an expected outcome or return.  Transformational is to create change.  Consider what great inventions or movements might have been missed if the leader or inventor was waiting to get paid before offering their services.  Do you do what you do for something in return?  On some level we all do, however what if we could shift our intent to a new outcome that benefits all?
Love Always - Coach J

Being in the moment does not mean that life will always be peaceful.  Beinging in the moment allows you to be an observer of the actions and the emotions that fuel your perceptions.  You will still feel emotion, you may be upset, or happy, or uneasy but you can look at these emotions as signals for your next steps in place of feeling victimized by them.  Feeling like you have no control doesn't mean you will ever control your feelings completely but you can react with the next steps better planned if you observe and listen to the signs, then react.  Your choice is in the responce/reaction.
Love Always - I am thankful for every moment - Coach J

"Chance favors the prepared mind." Louis Pasteur
"Prepare for the worst, but expect the best." Unknown
Can you be preapred without carrying bagaage?  What fitness tests can you apply to your mind and body, your business as well as your personal life.  Check in with where you are at today, find your weaknesses and strengths.  Work at what will bring you the most return in relation to your priorities and goals set under them. For me "Success is when preparation meets opportunity."
Love Always - Coach J

You don't know what you don't know.  Then you become aware of something that you didn't know.  You must keep it front of mind to use it now.  Eventually with enough practice you will aplly this new knowledge without having to think about it.  The moral - continue to learn, practice what you learn and grow as an individual.  Is it better to live it, or be a walking wikipedia that can recite lessons?  I don't know but I can work on it each day....
Love Always - Coach J

Lounging with snacks and good company after running errands all day.  No expectations, no agenda, just good company and giving your body a period of rest.  I suggest investing in a recliner.  Place it near a window where the sun can hit you and keep a couple good reads within reach of that chair.  Such a place of refuge can build you while you rest.  Life is awesome.
Love Always - Coach J

Do you ever feel like you don't have enough time, or that time is running out?  Try to concider that time does not exist.  How you manage your time is all up to you.  What you prioritize as important and give your attention to for any amount of time is your choice.  You can try to point to external forces that make you do things, however these time eaters are truly all choice.  Bodily functions are the only thing that can stop your being and take control.  Everything else is a choice you make based on an expected outcome.  Stop chasing time and have an honest conversation with yourself about your priorities and then enjoy each moment of your choosing.  Then you will see that time is not your enemy, in fact it doesn't even exist.
Love Always - Coach J

My boys wrestling and laughing while I prepare dinner.  The connection of a brother.  The love of a father.  The grace of being in the moment.
Love Always - Coach J

I am so grateful for having "work" to do.  Being able to serve others, research topics, stretch myself to understand ideas outside of my comfort zone, sit still...  Sometimes work for me comes in the stragest places.  But I find my discomfort and sit in it to learn.  The more I press myself to work the less uncomfortable I become.  Even in uncomfortable situations I see the joy in the work and the stress on my mind and body feels refreshing.  I am so grateful to have work to do.  Find you good work and be refreshed and inspired.  Love Always - Coach J

We have been taught to overcomplicate life.  I have seen most people (myself included) play to the past or the future.  Reacting, or acting in a certain way becuase of a past result or in hopes of a certain outcome.  We think and live life in our mind instead of in the moment where it is really happening.  Worry not about the "What If", and realize that while it is happening everything will be as it should.  Take time to study with the masters - read from great books and you will be prepared to enjoy each moment to the fullest.  Time will no longer matter and you will live much longer.  Becuase what is life if only lived in your mind?
Love Always - Coach J