Now Hear This: It’s time to listen to your coach
I heard the voice. I wonder if you have? It spoke from within.
I am your COACH. I’ve always been your coach ? but most never listen. I am speaking to you from the lockeroom of life. It’s time. In fact it’s past time. So, listen up men and women, boys and girls.
The new year has arrived, so let this be our start date for amazing things to happen in the next 12 months.
Before we get started you need to know I am the coach of all mankind, and my desire is to teach each one to be all I have intended. No matter who you are or what you’ve done, you are my lifelong project. I’ve been in this coaching business a long, long time and have thousands of years of proven expertise.
I can take you from where you are and turn you into something quite extraordinary. But you’ve got to listen and do what I tell you.
This is not a game of golf. I don’t want to hear about your age, or your handicap. They’re both irrelevant.
You were created for success. God don’t make no junk! Even that person which appears to be less than gifted has been given much. Fix your eyes on those who have had to maneuver over seemingly insurmountable hurdles either through birth, sickness or accident.
James Russell Lowell, one who listened, and prospered, surmised: “Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.” If you grasp the blade of a difficulty it will cut you, but if you grasp the handle of a difficulty, then you can cut your way through all manner of obstructions.
You have been blessed beyond measure, yet you use so little, and complain constantly. Be ashamed.
All you will ever need for your welfare and service to others is already within you. You doubt, however, and have a weak belief in yourself.
You let problems blur your vision, cripple your plans, and cause you anguish. Another of my prize students was Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. He realized and understood, and communicated to millions, the profound philosophy that sees a problem as part of the creative process of testing and growth. If you didn’t have problems, you would have to invent them, because your directional facility would be lost without problems. Problems help to steer your course through the years.
If you haven’t already, you must learn, and quickly, that in every adversity there is a seed of equivalent benefit. It is the hidden treasure of difficulty, and tragedy. It is always there. But it is up to you to find it.
“Winning is not a sometime thing. It’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while. You don’t do things right once in a while. You do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” The words of Vince Lombardi, a great coach and a better student.
What do you want to do or be? Remember, age doesn’t matter. Handicap is no-barrier. The promise has already been made. You can be or do whatever your heart desires – when you believe.
Do you believe?
Another who listened, and learned, Dave McNally, discovered that seekers who thrive have a secret. It is a secret because it cannot be described ? it must be discovered.
Are you now ready for that discovery? If so lets begin the journey.
Thanks coach. And Happy New Year!
(Hope Hines is a television sports reporter and a Nashville personality.)