May is Health Awareness Month!

It's that time of year again, to focus a bit on our physical health, so
we will be blogging about health in the month of May.

Why not, the weather is warming up a bit, and it's time to get outside
and move the gift that we were born with, while examining other things
that can also affect our health.

Throughout the year we seem to focus on all that life brings us,
whether it be work, relationships, family, or just plain getting things
done...which are all great, but if our bodies and our health are going
down hill, those things become less important...when they don't have to.

Let's all unite in month of May and focus on our health, so that all
the other things that are so precious in our lives can be experienced
and appreciated for years to come:)

Yours in "Focus on Health" - Coach

The Things I Do...

The things we do are graded not only by ourselves but others as well.

What are the things you do that make a great and positive impact on
your life as well as the life of others?

Is it the way you listen to others...the way you make people feel about
themselves, or maybe it is what you do on a consistent basis that makes
the world turn a little sweeter?

Only you know...and it's pretty nice when you can proudly say to yourself at
the end of the day, after you brighten up the world around you...

"The Things I Do"...

Yours in "You" - Coach

How do we get...

Our life to become the way we want it to be?

We can take all kinds of routes.

Some like to take it to the "Next Level" on a slow but sure basis. They
don't really try for home runs, as base hits win ball games, but once
in a while things "go yard" by themselves which is a nice treat.

Some like to keep changing things and redirecting their efforts to get
the results they want, which is also a great way to go.

Whatever route is chosen, the common denominator in having your life
becoming the way you want is YOU. Paying attention to where you're
going or where you are, in relation to where you want to go or where
you want to be, is all instructed by You.

Yours in "YOU Choose" - Coach

I have a sister...

Kathy - 4 years younger, she grew up with much less supervision and
rules then me, I think my parents cried "uncle" after raising me and my
older sister Teri...definitely Teri.

Kathy seemed to figure things out early...she "flows" through life...we
call her Mrs. Magoo - everything comes to her at the right time.

Birds and animals don't plant seeds or tend herds , but they get fed, don't worry, have a great life and things work out.

That's her deal - "flowing" through life. while enjoying living - pretty impressive...

Yours in "Trust" - Coach

Who's Life is it, anyways?

Do you sometimes get the feeling you are not in control?

Are you doing
things you have always done, that you don't like...or don't want to do?

Well, it's time for you to take control and do things your way.

For me...I now cut the crust off my bread...never liked crust, but always ate it - not anymore...and it feels pretty darn
good.

Yours in "Your Way" - Coach

A fly in the ointment...

Is never a good thing.

Either is anything that can spoil our attitude by being a nuisance.

But many times, we go through life with that fly in the ointment, or
that pebble in our shoe...souring our every move.

What we need to do is take the time to remove the fly or the pebble
that has been so bothersome, and get back to moving forward and taking
our life to the "Next Level".

If we don't take the time, we have that nagging problem which tethers
us down, not allowing us to reach our potential.

Yours in "Take the Time" - Coach

We are Thankful...

For our part in paying the rent, it keeps a roof over our heads and
keeps us dry.

For our utility bills, it will help keep us warm with heating and water.

For the low gasoline prices, it let's us have more money for what we
want, instead of what we need.

For our tight clothes, it means we have enough to eat.

For our lives, for the other option is inevitable, which reminds us how
precious our future is.

For Everything...it's all part of Our Wonderful Life.

Yours in "Perspective" - Coach

In any game...

Whether it be the game of life, work or play...on paper, there can be
favorites, and also a projected "Winner".

But we don't play on paper.

This is pretty cool, because when we play our game, we often times
receive doubt, opposition or resistance from others - which sometimes
gets in our heads.

But last time I checked - once the game starts, all the bets are off -
maybe that's why there no such thing as a "sure bet".

And this is because when the game begins, it's the focus, desire and
determination of the players that produces the outcome...and not what
they have done in past.

Yours in "We don't play on Paper" - Coach

One step forward, and...

Two steps back?

Maybe "Spin it" into "Two steps forward and One step back"?

Why not - That's life.

In understanding, that as we move ahead, we have roadblocks and detours
that are part of the deal is very important.

And an occasional "step backwards" IS part of the deal, so we must not
be concerned with the temporary lack of progress.

Sometimes, frustration and worry that we have to start over, can
consume our thoughts, and stop progress altogether - but we know better
and just sometimes, we need to reminded.

Yours in "Progress" - Coach

Just enough...

Or maybe just a little extra?

Many of us go day to day with doing just enough to get by.

And at the same time wanting just a little extra out of life, and
themselves.

Well, we sure can get a little extra out of our life and ourselves
simply by just doing more than just enough.

Getting up a 1/2 hour early can easily jump start that exercise
routine, more focus on what we do can save some time for other things,
even cleaning up some unfinished business can open up all sorts of
opportunities.

So if we want just a little extra - we just do a little extra...and it
comes our way.

Yours in "A Little Extra" - Coach

Things aren't going your way?

Well, stand in line, there are many others waiting too.

We would all like things to go our way - all the time - but that's not how life works.

But thinking back, we can remember times when things were really
"clicking" and we seem to be controlling the "dial" on the success
machine.

And those times will be back, when we least expect it, and we will be "clicking" once again.

We just need to be patient and do the things we may not like to, and
handle the things we are supposed to, because things will soon be going
our way, once we handle the things that were in our way.

Yours in "Getting things Handled" - Coach

Did you know...

One of the greatest secrets in life is having both wisdom and patience?

They go together splendidly.

One can be wise and full of knowledge without a lot of common sense -
as seen in the "absent minded professor".

Or one can have patience without wisdom, and it won't get them very far.

But Wisdom coupled with Patience is the perfect match...by allowing you
to know what to do, and when to do it.

And we've all heard before - "Timing is Everything".

Yours in "Wisdom and Patience" - Coach

Do we like our Life?

I sure hope so, for it's the only one we got.

Pondering the question of "Do we like our life?", can bring about many
different scenarios.

We always have the ability and choice to like our life, even if there
are some things in it that we don't necessarily like.This may sound
like rhetoric, but there always is something going on in our lives, but
doesn't mean we can't like it overall.

That's because life brings us stuff that we don't always need or want,
and it is up to us to de-select those things that we don't need or
want, it's just part of life, and we always need to pull the weeds to
make
the grass grow.

So we we need to stay mindful not to focus on the "stuff" that enters
our lives, that's not to our liking, but instead, focus on liking our
life.

Yours in "It's All Good" - Coach

I'm ready for whatever...

But whatever never happens, because I'm ready - That's the way I roll -
How about You?

Life's going to throw junk at us on a consistent basis, that's just the
deal, but when you're ready - it make no difference what it is, for
when it comes your way - it's not junk - it's life, and that's the way
you take it.

So let's just all say "Bring it" when it comes to life and what's
inevitably in store for us...because we can always be ready for
whatever happens.

Yours in "Bring it" - Coach

Always Positive?

Can't be.

We all have received some pretty hard blows in our lives, and they could of
been personal, financial, physical or spiritual...it's just part of
life - things happen, and we occasionally get hurt.

After a hard hit, we tend to match our emotions with our
experience...it's just part of balancing out.

So when the experience demands it, and not otherwise, go ahead and go
through all the scenarios in your head ONLY - get angry, imagine
retribution, think of how you could of prevented it, if possible - for
however long you need - Let It Go and then...

Spin it and Win it - into a Positive or a Lesson.

Your in "Spin it and Win it" - Coach