Love Always - Coach J
When is the last time you and your loved one worked on a puzzle together? Maybe your Husband, Wife, Child, Grandchild, or Parent took the time to work through a jigsaw puzzle with you and you never forgot that. Who was the one that wanted to do all the outside pieces first? Who simply looked to match colors? Who set up the picture on the box and worked from clues on each piece to start laying out the general area that piece might end up in? There are so many methods to attack a puzzle and so many different learning and problem solving styles that it is amazing to watch your teammates thoughts and organization when working through placing the pieces where they belong. To create a perfect picture we need to work together, honor the differencing styles and most of all enjoy the ride to completion. The feeling of accomplishment when the last piece is placed is exhilarating and the journey is what makes it all worth it. No matter the pieces your life is in there is a clear picture of the intent and purpose. Work with your loved ones to put it together. Most importantly enjoy your time together.
Love Always - Coach J
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Blessed is the man that has a strong foundation in the midst of the storm. A place of shelter, refuge, and safety. To know what you believe, to know where you stand even when being tossed about by life's storms is a priceless gift. Storms are part of the natural process of life. Those who prepare a home for the times of storm are wise. Invest in your shelter on the sunny days so you are protected when the winds of change come. Storms can be a financial emergency, family crisis, career change, physical ailment, or any other event that takes you off balance from your daily routine. Take inventory of the areas of your life from career, family, spirit, health, financial, community, education and deliberately plan how to invest in each of these areas a little at a time in preparation for the test or storm that will come. Love Always - Coach J We all have acquaintances, associates, buddies, pals, and friends. How many of you have a brother (or sister) friend? One that you have known for sometime and have been through trials with? Even more so that know your shortcomings and still chose to Love and invest in you. Who are these angels in your life? Where did they come from? What have you done to receive such a blessing? Appreciate them by being there for them, and send them a quick "I love you" message today. Don't hold back the feeling you have for another day - express your gratitude today with no expectation of return. Be free and open to love fully and completely everyday through expression, appreciation and no attachment to outcome. Let me know in the comment section what a brother or sister friend looks like to you. Love Always - Coach J Abba from Aramaic origin can be translated as the most intimate for of Father, such as "papa" = endearing in its nature. Ask yourself what would you have such an endearing attachment or emotional reaction to? Now look at the translation of Abba to mean Source. When you look at the father as the source you realize all comes from him through you. You are a representation of the source. Connect to the source to have a full, rich and endearing connection with others. The original Source, the Creator of all is your Abba. Do not be clouded by Earthly representations of Fathers. We all do our best on Earth to reflect the one true Abba, yet we are still only human in form. Connect to your original source. Love Always - Coach J Take a moment and think about how it feels when someone genuinely takes an interest in a project you are working on, your health or your family. It is a feeling of warmth mixed with excitement. We love to share information about things we are passionate about. When we share a goal we are chasing we feel stronger and more at peace with that goal when we can say it out loud and have another person really get behind us on it. Our language calls this taking interest in someone. Interest means we are curious or want to learn more about a topic or person. Anytime we project this type of energy we are feeding the other person. It also means a regular payout on an investment or loan. You have invested in this person and they will keep you updated regularly to keep the energy level maintained - this is interest. It is a self filling energy source. With this in mind when is the last time you really took interest in something someone you love is doing? Find that thing that excites them and ask them to tell you all about it and where they are going with it. Offer to be a resource or reference even if it is no more than just a work of encouragement from time to time. As you are taking interest in others, take note of those that take interest in you. Show them gratitude and return interest to there investment in you. Love Always - Coach J When you walk away from something consistent do not feel sorry for yourself when it does not come looking for you. Take this for example, if you have a job that pays well and is a stable place to work and you leave for another employer that is unstable you cannot expect your former employer to keep looking after you and check in on you. For all they know you are quite content where you are. You have to seek out the consistent positive forces in your life an align with them. When you stray you will see less of the benefit of that consistency. What has changed is you. Not the source. Do not feel sorry for yourself when others are not actively seeking you to check on you. If they are good people and consistent in their execution and beliefs than you can choose to align with them. It is your choice what you allow time for in your life and what you do not. The more you are consistent the more you will find strength in your every move. Love Always - Coach J Is there anything more adorable than watching an infant or toddler hug a soft stuffed animal. I mean those stuffed animals that have just the right filling and the irresistibly welcoming exterior. The ones that are so plush you sneak a hug in here and there because they are so comforting. To watch a child hug that toy and the comfort that consumes their entire being from body to soul fills me with joy simply watching their innocence and security be reinforced through that moment of pure bliss. Go out today and find a stuffed animal and close your eyes, go back to your childhood and hold on for dear life - forget where you are and who you think you are and just enjoy that moment of bliss and freedom. Tell me how it felt in the comment section below. Love Always - Coach J I have written before that the current marketing of television is to position children at the head of the household. To be the voice of reason and to have clear judgment and understanding. Parents are painted as silly or dimwitted while the child is sarcastic or victimized and has to create their own solutions. This is pretty common in the cartoon and teenage sitcoms. I thought of this while reading an article yesterday from Dr. Mercola's website - here is an excerpt: "Not only do these children spend $40 billion a year on snacks, toys, and electronics, using money given to them by their parents or family members, they also exert a powerful influence on their parents' spending. As noted in the documentary film Consuming Kids, children under 12 influence adult spending worth a staggering $700 billion a year, which equates to the combined economy of 115 of the world's poorest countries." In an attempt to gain market position we are severely damaging our culture and the natural order of support and guidance. We are becoming consumers more than we are providers of knowledge, information and guidance. As a parent or even a leader in your community it is time to invest in our youth, hear their concerns, take true interest in supporting their development and show them the wisdom that comes with age supporting the innovation and energy of youth. Love Always - Coach J I have a few friends that are ill or recovering from an illness at this time. I like to think of them returning to their complete and optimal health immediately when I think of them. One recovering from a digestive issue, another battling lupus, one out of the hospital from extreme exhaustion. I recall them in full form, as complete and restored. I wish not for the expelling of an illness but the return to complete health. For them to be whole, healthy and complete. Today in place of focusing on your loved ones illnesses just meditate and pray with the visualization of them completely whole, renewed and recovered. In optimal health. Love Always - Coach J As we began the evening ritual of preparing for bed last night we took a moment to select a desert of our choosing. One went with ice cream, another with a banana, I created a mixture of granola, dried fruit and kefir. Realizing how blessed and favored we are if we stay true to ourselves there are no losers. Love Always (and ice cream sometimes)- Coach J |
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