Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell is the great American painter whose paintings graced the cover of the weekly Saturday Evening Post. Rockwell's paintings had the ability to capture what Americans were feeling at any given time in their lives.  

This painting Breaking Home Ties captures the spirit of what every family and Father and Son experience when it's time to leave the nest.  The son is excited going off to college to start a new life while Dad is wistful and perhaps longing for days gone by.  Normal Rockwell is one of America's great national treasures.  So many of his paintings will bring a smile to your face. 

With Love,

Coach K

Squeeze the Lemon

 The simple lemon is one of the most powerful foods you can eat. Lemons are loaded with vitamin C including the peel and seeds.  Lemon juice is a great detoxifier cleansing the liver and kidneys. Lemon juice also counteracts oxlates and can help eliminate kidney stones. 

Enjoy your lemon juice in the morning on an empty stomach. One thing that you can do a regular basis is to simply throw the entire lemon in your Vitamix and it will produce a lemon juice powerhouse that you can water down to suit your taste. 

If you are looking to do a cleanse, all you need is the simple lemon.  A little green tea with lemon juice is a powerful tonic. The lemon can help restore your immune system reactive by cleansing your liver and kidneys by removing any toxins in your system. No special pills or yucky drinks just a 10 cent lemon will restore your health and well being. 

To Your Heath!

With Love,

Coach K 

The Buck Moon

 Welcome to the Buck Moon. The Buck Moon is a full moon that arrives in July and is the time when the male deer antlers begin growing. Fun fact that I never knew. Funny story I didn't even know that bucks shed their antlers.  

The young Buck in enjoying a rest at the castle. 

When I told my brother he laughed and asked why are the woods are not filled with antlers. We made a little side wager, it turns out the antlers drop after the mating season and then begin to decompose and are eaten by wildlife for the calcium and phosphorous. I'm still waiting to collect!

With Love,

Coach K

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 

The Remedy for Love

Henry David Thoreau is an acclaimed author and great lover of Nature, Individuality, and Freedom who lived life on his terms has great quote 

"There is no remedy for love, but to love more."  

Henry David Thoreau 

 Let us all love more.

With Love,

Coach K

Caffeine Drug

Caffeine is the number one drug in the world. The world runs on caffeine. And like other drugs we have to monitor our use. Everyone enjoys the boost caffeine can provide but like anything we don't want to be dependent on the kick. 

Whether it's the Red Bull, the Starbucks, or the Coke we need to be aware of how much caffeine we are consuming and just as importantly the sugar that accompanies these beverages. They can wreck our health. 

The coffee bean has some excellent antioxidant properties and green tea is high in polyphenols yet relatively in caffeine. 

A great alternative before any caffeine, especially upon just waking in the morning is a pinch of sea salt with lemon water. An excellent detox for the kidneys and liver and full of Vitamin C. 

As the Huey Lewis song goes, I wanna new drug. 

With Love,

Coach K

What's In a Name

 The most important word in the universe is a person's Name. 

Why? 

When you think about it for a moment that single person is the most important person in the world.  When you call someone by their name you validate them, you acknowledge them, you see them as valuable.  And you connect with them on a personal even friendship level. 

Each of us is unique with a Divine Spirit.  We have a one of a kind voice, fingerprint, and DNA. 

A simple act of Kindness that we can all do is to just simply call a person by their Name.

God Bless. 

With Love

Coach K

Burnt Shanty

There is a beautiful mountain road named Burnt Shanty that I came across recently and was intrigued by the name and its origin. The name of the road came from a logging village that was removing lumber from the Pocono mountains when a fire swept through the village burning the shanties where the lumberjacks and other folks lived.  

Now a 100 years later a beautiful town has risen from the ashes where hundreds of beautiful homes surround a stunning lake. 

The Burnt Shanty has been transformed and may it shine for another 100 years. 

With Love,

Coach K

Drama

 One of the easiest things we can do to improve our quality of life is to remove the Drama from our lives. Turn down the negative news and Social Media clips that are meant to get a reaction, but most importantly focus on the loved One in your life. We all know that family and those closest to us can push our buttons, but we have the power to control how we react. Drama causes stress and that can steal our health and well being. 

We have the choice to choose Peace, Love, and Kindness regardless of what others our doing. This concept of Peace in our lives is very powerful. We know the saying don't sweat the small stuff and remember it's all small stuff. Why should we let little inconveniences steal our Joy. 

We are in Control. 

One of the ways we can expand our Peace and Joy is to immerse ourselves in Nature. We spend too much time inside and on screens.  We need to disconnect and get Outside.  Fresh air and Sunshine does a body good. 

Let there be Peace on earth and let it begin with me.

With Love,

Coach K