Indoor @ Stampede
Our last game with the team in Southlake was this past Thursday, and it ended with what is probably now known as the hardest right jab I’ve ever seen or heard. Long story short: Our guy gets fouled, thier guy kicks the ball away, our guy asks WTF?, there guy says something not so nice about our guy’s mother (ending in the word “mang” if that tells you anything), then our guy jabs the dude right in the nose - thier guy goes down.
I have to say, it was probably one of the best jabs i’ve ever seen. I just don’t understand why thier guy would talk so much trash and say the kinda stuff he said if he wasn’t ready for the repercussions… I mean at least stay at a distance so you can dodge and weave… Thier guy had it coming and I can’t say I was disappointed that he got it - it sucked because they called the game because of it. But at the same time - it seemed like a befitting end to a lackluster season that often left us more frustrated than what I consider worth it.
At least now i’m down to only one late night a week, and if I can change that next season, believe me, I will.
Happy Monday, here’s to a wonderful week.
Why should the simple act of thinking about who and what I’m grateful for make such a big difference in my life? Just a few reasons: * Because it reminds you of the positive things in your life. It makes you happy about the people in your life, whether they’re loved ones or just a stranger you met who was kind to you in some ways.
* Because it turns bad things into good things. Having problems at work? Be grateful you have work. Be grateful you have challenges, and that life isn’t boring. Be grateful that you can learn from these challenges. Be thankful they make you a stronger person.
* Because it reminds you of what’s important. It’s hard to complain about the little things when you give thanks that your children are alive and healthy. It’s hard to get stressed out over paying bills when you are grateful there is a roof over your head.
* Because it reminds you to thank others. I’ll talk about this more below, but the simple act of saying “thank you” to someone can make a big difference in that person’s life. Calling them, emailing them, stopping by to say thank you … just taking that minute out of your life to tell them why you are grateful toward them is important to them. People like being appreciated for who they are and what they do. It costs you little, but makes someone else happy. And making someone else happy will make you happy.
We all get caught up once in a while with a racing mind. Often after work or when doing something that we are fully engaged in, the problem comes when you want to switch off and your mind won’t allow for it. Racing with thoughts, images and dilemmas it can all be pretty confusing. This is not abnormal especially in today’s hectic and overwhelming society…..
Thankfully there are ways to quieten the mind that are easy to do and implement into your everyday life. Let’s have a look…..
39 Ways to Live, and Not Merely Exist - DLM
I was reading this over on Dumb Little Man, and wanted to share it with you. There’s a full list over there, and I encourage you to go and read it; here are a few of my favorites from the list.
Too often we go through life on autopilot, going through the motions and having each day pass like the one before it.
That’s fine, and comfortable, until you have gone through another year without having done anything, without having really lived life.
That’s fine, until you have reached old age and look back on life with regrets.
That’s fine, until you see your kids go off to college and realize that you missed their childhoods.
It’s not fine. If you want to truly live life, to really experience it, to enjoy it to the fullest, instead of barely scraping by and only living a life of existence, then you need to find ways to break free from the mold and drink from life.
What follows is just a list of ideas, obvious ones mostly that you could have thought of yourself, but that I hope are useful reminders. We all need reminders sometimes. If you find this useful, print it out, and start using it. Today.
Love. Perhaps the most important. Fall in love, if you aren’t already. If you have, fall in love with your partner all over again. Abandon caution and let your heart be broken. Or love family members, friends, anyone — it doesn’t have to be romantic love. Love all of humanity, one person at a time.
Take chances. We often live our lives too cautiously, worried about what might go wrong. Be bold, risk it all. Quit your job and go to business for yourself (plan it out first!), or go up to that girl you’ve liked for a long time and ask her out. What do you have to lose?
Follow excitement. Try to find the things in life that excite you, and then go after them. Make life one exciting adventure after another (with perhaps some quiet times in between).
Be positive. Learn to recognize the negative thoughts you have. These are the self-doubts, the criticisms of others, the complaints, the reasons you can’t do something. Then stop yourself when you have these thoughts, and replace them with positive thoughts. Solutions. You can do this!
Play with children. Children, more than anyone else, know how to live. They experience everything in the moment, fully. When they get hurt, they really cry. When they play, they really have fun. Learn from them, instead of thinking you know so much more than them. Play with them, and learn to be joyful like them.
Find spirituality. For some, this means finding God or Jesus or Allah or Buddha. For others, this means becoming in tune with the spirits of our ancestors, or with nature. For still others, this just means an inner energy. Whatever spirituality means for you, rediscover it, and its power.
Be in the moment. Instead of thinking about things you need to do, or things that have happened to you, or worrying or planning or regretting, think about what you are doing, right now. What is around you? What smells and sounds and sights and feelings are you experiencing? Learn to do this as much as possible through meditation, but also through bringing your focus back to the present as much as you can in everything you do.
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