Jay Leno

Jay Leno is a Good guy.  A comedian and host of the Tonight Show for many years, he saved his Tonight Show salary while living off his comedian income while working side jobs.  Jay has been married for 40 plus years and his wife has dementia.  Jay has stood by herself and is actually her primary caregiver. Jay's ethos is how may we serve.  And how can he give back with all the blessings his received. 

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We had the pleasure of seeing Jay at a corporate function and he is a tremendous American success story but throughout Jay has remained humble and down-to-earth.

With Love,

Coach K 

You Inc.

 You Incorporated. You Inc.  

No matter who you may work for remember that you are always working and representing yourself.  While we are working for another company, we work hard and represent the company to the best of our abilities.  We are Professionals and carry ourselves in a professional matter no matter the circumstances. Just like an athlete playing on a losing team, we work hard, strive to learn and get better, and keep a positive attitude and mindset. 

While we are working we pay ourselves first.  We save, invest, live beneath our means, and focus on building financial security.  Our financial security provides freedom and choices, and enables us to help and serves others. 

We may work for another company our entire lives, but we know and understand that the best You is also the best employee and the best Owner. 

Invest in yourself.  You are the best employee you will ever have. 

With Love,

Coach K

Something Bigger Than Yourself

 One of the keys to happiness is having a goal or future that involves something bigger than yourself. Many service people inherently have this and of course parents do also but may not realize while raising the little lovebirds.  When we are younger we are focused on building our lives, buying, acquiring and as we mature this concept becomes secondary especially as we start our families. 

When you decide to have children, you are deciding to nurture and care for them and help them become productive adults. And as we grow older, we understand that all the work acquiring life's goodies is meaningless without the love in our lives. Grandchildren really accentuate this point, when you hold the next generation in your arms you understand this clearly.  From the children to the grandchildren they are the very definition of love and service. 

The concept of How May I Serve has many applications.  And for us to have a fulfilling life full of love and gratitude, we need to instill this idea of Service into our lives.  What good are all the trinkets if we are without Love.  

Love and Service are the road to happiness.  How may We serve. God Bless. 

With Love, 

Coach K

Social Security

So much talk of Social Security and Medicare and how they will be out of funds and insolvent after folks have contributed throughout their working lives for a retirement income. One of the flaws of these Security funds is the investment vehicle.  The funds are invested in  United States Treasuries which pay a low yield that barely keeps up with inflation.  

The simple solution of course is investing a portion of these taxpayer funds in a higher yielding long term investment like the S&P 500 index and even the Nasdaq 100 index.  These index funds can produce long term returns of close to 10% surpassing inflation while creating a surplus of funds that will secure the Retirement programs for the long term.  

The solution requires no additional taxpayer or government funds but let's the long term market compounding do the work. When we take into account reinvesting dividends into the returns of these index funds is even higher. 

The solution is simple. The USA has some of the best capital markets in the world and it's time we use our financial strength to improve our own Balance sheet.  We can reduce our national deficit starting with the two Retirement expenses. 

America is a problem solving nation and is now time to Solve the Problem. 

With Love,

Coach K

Being Right

"What is right is more important that who is right" 

~ John Wooden 

With Love,

Coach K

Raison d'etre

 Who doesn't love a good French word. Raison d'etre meaning reason for being or reason to be. The concept of having a purpose in life doesn't have to be hard just enjoying the gift of life is enough. 

We can combine How may we serve with our reason for being. Just spreading a little love and kindness into the world can have a tremendous impact in our world. We want to be productive, we want to build and accomplish and we can do all those things, but it all starts with gratitude for simply being given the gift of life. 

As we are reminded, this is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad. 

Be patient with yourself.  Warren Buffet who amassed a billion dollar fortune said he knows many wealthy people and at the end of the day the most important factor in life was whether the person was loved. The fame and fortune mattered little if your family and personal life was in tatters. 

Can we have it all. Yes, but we need to focus on the important things are everything else will fall into place. As Jesus reminds us "you can do all that I have done and more if you but believe." 

With Love, 

Coach K 

Picasso

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to paint like a child" 

Pablo Picasso 

With Love,

Coach K

Three Musicians