Love Always - Coach J
A respectful, and thoughtful opinion can help us gain deeper understanding of our position. When someone is in opposition to us and we voice our perspective one of two things happen, one - we have a expressed our belief out loud and given it more power and meaning to us, two - we see where our thinking may have blind spots and we can consider the new information received. A respectful, and thoughtful opinion is never a negative thing. Look past your feelings of needing to be "right" and recognize the gift of feedback and interaction.
Love Always - Coach J
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When you are disconnected from something you are not aware of its current state. If you are disconnected you can make assumptions about its progress but you cannot be sure. When you are disconnected from a person it can appear that you may not care for their current or future state, when simply you have no current information to go on. When you attempt to connect and cannot connect what is next? My perspective is to remain consistent and available. If you are steady and consistent, remain available, and let your intentions be known of having a desire to connect there is not much more you can do. This way you know you have done everything you can and when the other party wants to connect, they can see you are in the same place and welcome the connection. Too many times a lack of connection can be perceived as a lack of caring. A break in an electrical wire will cause the current to stop at a the break but electricity is still electricity and love is still love, just sometimes it is disconnected. If you have a connection you want to want to repair simply do your part and let the rest happen. Love Always - Coach J A crucible is a melting pot where metals are forged. It is also used as a term for an extreme test. In the test we find our strength that we work for in training. Without the test we never really know how strong we really are. In being tested and demonstrating our strength or knowledge the lesson is internalized into a deeper understanding than we had prior to the test. It becomes part of us and not just a philosophical point of view. We can study and train all we want, but if we never get out into the world and test our studies we will be weak in the face of adversity. Take your lumps, test your theory and use the power of the crucible to your advantage. Love Always - Coach J when you eat are you breaking a fast? A period without food/nourishment? Not just eating to eat. Consuming to consume, rather eating because it is time to refuel. Consuming because you have digested the previous lesson and are now ready for more. Take time to let the food sink in, savor it and even push a little past the want into the need to refuel so you partake of the new food or information with enthusiastic hunger. Take your time, chew slowly, savor and digest when you break fast. Love Always - Coach J Take a quick moment and reflect on your average day. Break your time into a mental pie chart. How much of it goes to work, or career? How much to family? How much to study or education? How much to recreation? How much to rest/relaxation/sleep? Within each slice make sure you are taking care of yourself first. You must be healthy and strong before you can assist another. We should do all we can to assist others, after we've taken care of ourselves first. Find some way to invest in yourself a little each day. What will you do toady - right now to invest in yourself? Love Always - Coach J Have you ever had a thought or revelation that made you not only feel, but literally exclaim "I am going to shock the world!"? And as you pressed towards sharing your revelation you found you were simply ignored like the homeless preacher shouting the gospel on a street corner. I ask you as you seek revelation, are you willing to continue down the path even if no one follows you? Are you willing to stand alone for your belief? Sometimes the only world that is shocked is your own. With this in mind, please continue to shock the world, but do not wait for a response or acknowledgement from anything external from yourself. Those seeking self mastery are true warriors indeed. Love Always - Coach J To integrate means to pull things together for one process, or to combine so that they become whole. To live a life of integrity is to live one life, honest and transparent in all you do. Be true to yourself and your beliefs and there is never a question of what the right thing to do is. Look to integrate and when it does not fit, discard it. Keep record of it for reference but do not try to fit it into your movement. To live the life of integrity bring all your being to one movement - be whole. 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 |
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