Love Always - Coach J
Look beneath the surface today. For all the similarities you have daily it is possible you are missing the little miracles that happen right before your eyes. Just as each day has its own challenges it has its own blessings. A day that seems uneventful is a day where you are not fully alert. Events need not be massive to be wonderful. Look for the inside joke, how many times you see your favorite color, what your wife's hair really feels like and how heavy your kids are. Where are all the cracks in the sidewalk and how awesome is it that you can grow hair without even trying. Each day is so much the same and yet so different all at once. Find the beauty in each day and you'll be pleased at what you find hidden inside a "normal" day.
Love Always - Coach J
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For all we accomplish, for all we accumulate, for all we learn, one thing is in common - it will all pass. The rich and the poor both have the sun shine on them. The wise and the foolish both die. What do we really have? This moment. Breathe it - cherish it, hug it, love it, know it because in a moment it is all changed. Follow your passions, but not to the detriment of your joy. Trust your feeling, feel your soul, be alive. Love Always - Coach J What a marvelous day of exhausting relaxation! We started early to go to a neighborhood event with a bounce house, kids games, caulk art, snacks, beverages, and great company. We came home took a quick nap then back out to the store, then park for playground run around, took a nice stroll over to the reservoir. Headed home at dusk to tune into boxing that ended swiftly (round three) and mercifully to end the day. I was hugging my pillow with the day of non stop relaxation and participation behind me. Love Always - Coach J In this fast paced society plan time to listen to songs from your youth. Watch a movie you watched as a child. Teach your friends or children a game you played when you were young. Eat figs right off of the fig tree or crabapples. Things that take you back to your youth. Get that good energy of your youth back. Stay young, and take memory lane with you. Love Always - Coach J It is possible to give and still increase, as is it is possible to withhold too much an be in poverty. What are you holding back that you can give? Time, Money, Love, Attention? You get what you give. Are you giving happiness or pain? Don't hold back the gift you were given to share. Love Always - Coach J What comes to mind when you hear the words inspired, motivated, encouraged? Stop and think about the things that motivate you. Adversely think about what makes you feel inadequate or gloomy. Realize that energy flows through you. Just as what you eat affects your output. The energy you surround yourself with and the things you chose to read, watch, and entertain will flow through you. I'm grateful for the energy that flows through me. I am empowered, supreme and ready to go! Love Always - Coach J It can be tough enough to wake from a slumber to jump out of your bed with enthusiasm but how do you deal with waking to an unexpected event? For example you wake up to your power being out, or a water leak in the house, maybe you or one of your loved ones is ill. So first you wake up and say "This is a great day that I will own!" Then you leave the bed half sleep still convincing yourself that it will be an amazing day and you step into the water from the leak and BAM! your mood changes instantly. When any unexpected even hits I'll ask you to consider this method. Review your roles in life and react from that position. By roles I mean, father, husband, brother, neighbor, coworker - whatever. and go from a victim to a leader within the role you play in relation to the event. You'll find courage to act and a foundation to act from. No longer the selfish person upset by the change and fretting about how this will deter the rest of your day - no - now in this moment you are superhero, husband, son , father, whatever and the rest will fall into place. Nothing better than being able to rise and shine - well maybe except to be aware of how to shine all day long. Love Always - Coach J I wrote a few days back about toddlers hugging their favorite stuffed animals. Today as I dropped off my little one at day care there was a younger girl that had her soft blanket from home she would not let go of as she walked around the center. Now that you are older what is your thing of comfort? I think of my teenagers and immediately think it is their phone. They cling to that for sure. For me - is it my computer? Books? I am not sure and will take some objective feedback on that for clarity. What I do know is we should cling to God, to seek knowledge, gain understanding and apply wisdom. We should cling to spending time and attention with our loved ones. Cling to being gentle and firm at the same time. I ask that we enjoy the external pleasures but squeeze and release them. And definitely do not cling to them. Love Always - Coach J You don't need to slay a dragon, take a village or Kingdom to prove your heart. The brave face themselves, they go inside and ask what all can I be? How great am I willing to be? To speak up against the things, people and establishments that violate their values. The war is won in your own heart once you commit to your values and beliefs and lead with them in mind. You may lead in the boardroom, the street, the classroom, or in your family. Perform a self inventory and check your actions and motivations to see if you are putting the work in to gain the reward you seek. Love Always - Coach J |
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