Love Always - Coach J
...if you want to be. Regardless of people, places or circumstances you can be happy. If you want to be happy. Love is always there, just open up and let it in.
Love Always - Coach J
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If I said from this day forward you will live in a cage how would that make you feel? What does a cage smell like? How does it feel? What do you see and hear? Interestingly for some it would be quite relieving to have a secure place to stay with food and water provided without having to hunt or gather. External threats would now be irrelevant. You can hang up any pretty pictures or decorations you like. Don't you want to be safe and secure? Or do you want to live in the real world where it is scary and beautiful all at the same time. Get a little hungry and have to fight, scratch, and earn your keep. Is there pride and growth in earning your own keep? It's your choice. Hide away and decorate your cage or get out and see things you never can experience until you put a little on the line and live amongst the living. Love Always - Coach J Are you looking for Love or are you giving Love? Is Love an emotion or an action? When you look at a sunrise or set, the miracle of child birth or the depth of your wifes eyes do you feel Love in action? You should feel it because it is transmitted to you. However do not waste your time seeking it - make it and you will be surrounded by it. If you have heard God is Love you know it is through action that you find His Love, then you can bask in the feeling. “Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.” - Stephen R. Covey Love Always - Coach J The ability to stretch yourself and still return to your orginal state without loosing form. This can be great when you are looking for growth and new opportunities. Go beyond what your current set of standards are to gain new experience. This can also be detrimental when it is more aligned with stubborness. "blessed are the flexible for they shall neve be bent out of shape" - Coach Mo. Stretch yourself to grow, but always know who you are and where you are coming from and check yourself to see if your intent is true. Love Always - Coach J Servant Leadership. What image, thoughts, feelings or sounds come to mind with those two words? I suggest that many of you relate this title or phrase with helping others. Leading through service may be another outlook. Today we are going to spin this a little and still keep its intent. How do you lead yourself? What does your self talk sound like? Would it be beneficial to consider your strentgths and push yourself to new limits? Do you push yourself hard or do you baby yourself? What is the tipping point. If you raise yourself as you would your child would you feed, nourish and challenge them or would you have them live in a bubble of protection. How you lead yourself will overflow to how you lead others. Challenge yourself as well as reward yourself. Work and play hard and relax when done. Keep this spirit in all layers of leadership. Serve yourself first so you are in prime position to assist others. Love Always - Coach J Breathe the fresh air. Sitting on your porch you are enjoying the sweet sent of coffee in the morning or rain in the air in the evening. You are relaxed with life and energy flowing through your open heart. Now hear your neighbor yelling and they are yelling at you. "Your dog dug up my flower bed! What are you going to do about it?!" Let this flow through you just as the scent of the flower. You can address this situation without being or feeling defensive. Reply "I understand that seeing your flowers dig up is troubling, let me come over and see what we can do." Go to the flower bed experience the overturned soil, touch it and devise a plan to remedy the situation - even though your dog has been with relatives for the last week! This takes practice to execute, a lifetime of practice and when you miss the mark simply review and realize where you could have turned the situation for your next experience and move on. In the moment - Relax, Release any personal connection or emotion and Open your heart. What happens next is all about your growth. Live the best life you can no matter what others attempt to throw in your path. Love Always - Coach J I have been told that I am a special wonderful person on many occasions. While I appreciate that I know that I am no more unique than the next person. Praise is awesome but if you want to know the secret - here it is. I simply recognize the beauty around me more often than the average person. Second I call it out by name and smile at it. I introduce myself and make sure I truly capture that moment in my heart. Then I let it go - forget all about it and move to the next amazing experience. When you savor each breath of life, the sky is brighter, you can see trees breathing and you'll meet the most amazing people - right in front of your face. Behold the beauty that is your life and the ugly things will fade away into the background. Once you start to reflect the beauty around you people will think you are the source of the light when you are simply a reflection. Love Always - Coach J |
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