The Palestra
Perhaps the plaque inside The Palestra explains the arena’s aura best.
It reads: “To win the game is great. To play the game is greater. But to love the game is the greatest of all."
With Love,
Coach K
Perhaps the plaque inside The Palestra explains the arena’s aura best.
It reads: “To win the game is great. To play the game is greater. But to love the game is the greatest of all."
With Love,
Coach K
During these unprecedent times and the year's challenges, it's easy to surrender our goals and aspirations.
Keep the faith. We shall overcome.
If it is to be, it is up to me .
We have this incredible ability and obligation to achieve our potential. To make our lives a masterpiece and become the best we can be.
It is our sacred duty to take this miracle of life and do the best we can. Life is what we make it. You determine what you will be, what you will achieve. Never surrender your desires, or goals, to anyone, or anything.
We have to keep our balance and take time to tune in and focus on the positive around us. Turn down the news.
The Good Lord gave us our answer. Nature!
Get away from the news and focus on your aspirations.
We have this day, this moment, this breath.
Let us rejoice and be glad.
God Bless.
With Love,
Coach K
I was watching a NFL special on the exceptional Ronnie Lott Hall of Fame football player for the San Francisco 49er's who played with tremendous enthusiasm. He was driven to excel in every game but more importantly every play.
He had a passion for achievement and a driving desire for immediate success. Being from a military family he would listen to a speech from General George Patton on American exceptionalism to prepare himself and get in the proper mindset before every game.
His personal mantra is that he wanted to exhaust life. Leave nothing in the tank and give his all in every game.
What if we all brought that same passion and attitude to our work and play.
We too could be Hall of Famers.
With Love,
Coach K
Wawa has nothing on my culinary creation. I have created the Turkey Bowl that is simply put better than Thanksgiving dinner.
Yes, that is a big statement.
Turkey Bowl recipe:
Take all your leftovers and put them in a saucepan.
Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn, cranberries (if you choose) and anything else you may enjoy with your Thanksgiving meal. The key is the GRAVY! Gravy makes everything taste better so add copious amounts of gravy. And you can also add water to thin if you choose.
Now, just heat it up and flavor to taste.
The end result is a culinary masterpiece that is the ultimate comfort food that sticks to your ribs.
Just what you need after a blustery chilly day of blowing leaves in 30 mph gusts. Fun.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Enjoy.
With Love,
Coach K
Our Ego's can be a hard master. I, I, I. Me, Me, Me.
How do we disconnect from the inherent selfishness or turn it down to just background noise when we can find instant gratification all around us. From an Amazon box to a mouse click. When we focus all our energies on ourselves and limit our growth and spiritual development.
If we think of our EGO's as that noise that keeps up busy, busy, busy on running around try to accomplish all of life's daily tasks. You know the ones we never really are able to complete and we're are somehow left wanting more.
From my friend and mentor, Dr. Wayne Dyer, EGO stands for Edge God Out. The more we focus on the EGO demands we find less time for the the spiritual needs of love, hope, charity, faith, consideration, cooperation, and community, We become so focused on our wants and needs that we forget we are here to serve.
Our service enables us to live from our higher selves and experience the joy and bliss of our spiritual selves. While our human selves splash around in the material world our spiritual self thirsts for something more.
What is that something?
A relationship with God. Better said, a Friendship. Worship and sacrifice are lovely words but the key word is friendship. As Dr D. states again whatever name you want to give God is your business, but the important thing is to get to know God. Have a conversation, a prayer, a meditation, and then listen. Asking is a wonderful way to start. Ask for peace, love, health, or even that new car.
And then be patient, humble, and when your prayers are answered we respond in graceful gratitude.
And when we understand all of these tremendous blessings, we learn to become givers ourselves and in giving and sharing we live from our higher spiritual selves.
Give it a try for a few weeks or months and see how your life is transformed.
EGO gone. Asking, receiving, giving present.
God here.
With Love,
Coach K
You move too fast. The song from Paul Simon
One of the best things we can do for overall sense of well being, temperament, and health is to SLOW DOWN.
We go racing from one task to another without really savoring the accomplishment and achievement or taking a little time to thankful and appreciative.
On the roads we seem to be racing to no where. Maybe the next stop sign, red light, or the brake lights twenty feet in front of us.
Take it easy. Slow down. Enjoy the view and the journey. That's half the fun.
Take is from Paul and Art.
Life I love you all is Groovy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So0ZrTwf8vI
With Love,
Coach K
To Be Enlightened. Meaning? To see the Light. To Be the Light.
Either way the meaning sounds pretty good and the Word sound good.
Our words have power. That's why it's IMPORTANT what we say and how we speak.
Practice speaking using loving, kind, caring, supportive language with yourself and others. This the fatest way to inner peace and tranquility. When you fill yourself and others with joy, goodness, and positivity you naturally become that very essence.
Yes, that simple. But challenging in a way. We can control our sensory environment just like we can control what we put into our bodies. Our bodies are Temples and what we feed them is sacred. T for Temple U! University! Had to get in that Shout Out for the alma mater. And so it it with our minds and Spirit.
Just like the body want to be nourished so do the mind and Spirit. When need to fill them with uplifting, joyful, inspiring, thoughts, words, deeds, and imagery. Gratuitous violence, negativity, news, and entertainment only dampen our Spirit. And impede our children.
That's why we need to be mindful what we feed ourselves. We need to reconnect with our Spirit.
We need to ask for God's help and immerse ourselves in God's love and forgiveness. For when we stumble and we all do we know that God is merciful and kind and welcomes us with loving arms.
When we lead EGO centric lives or Edge God Out lives we are focused on ourselves, materialism, consumerism, and other earthly pleasures.
When we focus on the higher vibrations of peace, love, charity, hope, and compassion we move to the higher realms toward goodness, enlightenment, and Godliness.
Remember we are made in the image of God. And one our purposes is to reveal and connect with that Divinity. God wants us to do his work on earth and practice his teachings and his learnings so that we can be at Peace.
A wonderful book ont this subject is Power vs Force by Dr. David M. Hawkins which describes how the body inherently knows if something is good for us and when the object is held, viewed, heard or experienced through the senses it will go weak or strong depending its inherent energy vibration. Fascinating and right on the money! Check it out.
Try reading the Bible or other spiritual texts and see if the wonderful words resonate and inspire you. Oftentimes, we don't need a prescription for a pill.
We just need to begin Feeding ourselves the Good stuff!
With Love and To Your Health,
Coach K
We take vitamins to nourish our bodies and give them the fuel so we can live and perform at optimum levels. But what about our Spirits. We all need some vitamin G. God!
As, Sting of the Police sings, "We are spirits in the material, We are spirits in the material, We are spirits in the material world."
And the Police have to be good to produce such wonderful music.
We are indeed Spirits in the material physical word and we must nourish our minds, bodies, and souls with the Good stuff. The bible and other spiritual texts are ripe will the words of Jesus, the prophets, and other terrific teachers hiding in plain sight if we just take the time to read, listen, and apply.
We need to fill ourselves with the good. Good words, good music, good food, good drink, and good company. A life filled with love, friendship, and good will. When we live not for just ourselves but for others we realize our highest self, our highest potential. For in serving others, we serve ourselves.
We all get lost, absorbed, and too distracted at times with the baubles of the physical material world. And at these times, our Spirits begin to fade to weaken and must be replenished, fed, nourished, strengthened. When we return to the Divinity from which we sprung we are renewed in the Holy Spirit.
Take the time to get to know God in whatever form you choose. For the Holy Spirit is the answer to any challenges we may be having. We are indeed infused with this same Holy Spirit and when we are connected all our concerns fade. We are abundant, healthy, healed, loved, and at peace in an instant.
Try it! Whatever challenge you are facing today. Ask for God's help. Ask the Holy Spirit to assist in whatever you need help with and see how the peace washes over you. We must humble ourselves and fill our hearts with gratitude for we are blessed with radiant abundance every day if we just clear our eyes and hearts.
We have the gift of this day! This moment!
Let us rejoice and be GLAD! A glad heart. A glad soul. A glad Spirit is a God spirit.
With God all things are possible. Remember with the faith of a mustard seed, we can do all things.
All things!
May the Peace of the Holy Spirit be with us all. God Bless.
And so it is.
With Love,
Coach K
Four simple low key Power moves courtesy of the great spiritual teacher and Dragon Lao Tzu you can do to dramatically improve and change your life right now at zero cost!
Try practicing these four things in you daily everyday life
Heaven on Earth swirl in the Heavens
And Heaven and Nature sing, and Heaven and Nature sing, and Heav--------en, and nature Sing. The two become one and rejoice.
We are reborn from our sleep into a new day. The first day. We are awed and humbled about this daily miracle that occurs under our own sleepy gaze unaware of how we are all infused with the life giving omnipotence of the Creator.
We have been given the gift of creation and what are we to do with such power. Do we change the world for the better. Do we live our own lives for good and to better those around us family, friends, and fellow world travelers. The 8 billion of us are connected by this Cosmic force, this Universal energy, we are One.
One Love. And it's ever present everywhere, And it's ever presesnt everywhere it's One Love from the great Van Morrison. I often think that the word's songwriters and musicians are our greatest sages.
And together with our love and goodness we can change the world in an instant. We have been endowed with enormous powers when harnessed properly can surpass the sun.
So it is time now for us to affirm
We affirm that the pandemic is over, fear is banished in the name of the Lord. Amen
We affirm that countries will live in peace and harmony, and work for the betterment of all citizens in the name of the Lord. Amen
We affirm that abundance will flow to all people and countries in the name of the Lord. Amen
We affirm that we are God's people of one Universe and together we can continue the manifestation of heaven of earth in the name of the Lord. Amen
We affirm that we are the Light of the world and can share that Light and Grace throughout the Universe in the name of the Lord. Amen
We affirm that Peace, Love, Compassion, Kindness, Gentleness, and Grace shared across the cosmos can improve life exponentially in the name of the Lord. Amen
When we are in harmony and one with the Creator we can do all things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
With our little acts of loving, kindness, and compassion practiced in our homes and families we can literally transform the world. One simple candle can light a room and dispel the darkness. Just think what we can do when we all light are candles!
With Love,
Coach K
Of all the things we do as human beings the most important is our our role as Parents.
Mothers Fathers heed the call to be that Parent that is supportive, loving, gentle, and kind. Put aside our concerns about the job, the finances, the house, the car, the payments.
The most important thing is your relationship with your child. The child only wants your Love and Support all of the other stuff is unimportant.
You simply NEED to be there for them. Always. Parenting is a lifetime job but the best job you will ever have!!!
Parenting is a tough job and we need help at times. We need to ask for help. Ask God, ask family, ask friends. Reach out. A simple prayer asking for help with all of your challenges can produce amazing results. Pray Ask!
When we are in the moment as parents with dirty diapers, crying babies, and a hundred things to do it is easy to get sucked into the vortex, but know that This Too Shall Pass and you will come out better and stronger than ever.
One thing is for sure. Time will pass and when you reflect on your life and your legacy you will see and have your children. No money, accomplishment, or career will substitute for your life as a parent.
We need to work on our marriages and see them through. Too often we call it quits at the first sign of trouble or adversity. Our selfishness must be put aside. We can make time for ourselves without abandoning our responsibilities with time management.
Let's Build up our lives, spouses, children, and family. It will be the biggest accomplishment and achievement of our lives.
With Love,
Coach K
FAST!
Fasting will transform your health and well being and will do so quickly. A simple change to our eating habits will have a dramatic impact to your life. Consult with your Doctor. And then put down the fork, the meds, and let your body's natural healing mechanism go to work!