The Daily G.I.F.T. from The GratiDude

I see you looking at that microphone. Grab it. Start singing.

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The G.I.F.T. Today

Grateful: to feel the reminders from my meditation during the day, very cool, like flowers blooming daily

Intention-never too much appreciation ever

First-yoga mat

Things-little big things

Morning Meditation from The GratiDude

Back in 2003 I remember catching up with a friend from the golf industry that I hadn’t spoken to in a few years when we ran into each other in San Francisco.

We were both at a golf event at Harding Park now TPC Harding Park and he looked a little bit surprised to see me.

He said something along the lines of “I heard that merger that you guys did with Prolink was all fucked up and that you bailed on the business and rumor had it left all together and were considering becoming a Buddhist monk or something.”

I started laughing hard and then he did too once he realized it was OK to laugh and that I wasn’t offended or worried about the rumors of shaving my head and heading to the mountain top.

Afterwards, I kind of thought about it and I wondered what it was about either my energy or something I said to someone that made somebody literally just makes something up out of thin air like that that was pretty radical in terms of a departure from what my true reality was at that time.

Far from being a Buddhist monk, but I was back living in Northern California and for many people I guess that’s about the same as giving it all up and moving to a monastery, ha!

What made me think, though for the first time since I had gotten into the business world, was that there was something about my energy that was saying I wasn’t completely content or satisfied with what I was doing.  Whoever started the Buddhist monk rumor must have felt a “vibe” of me being discontent, who knows? Or, realized I needed to start meditating, and then just decided to get super creative and make up something up a good story.

In any case,  when you meet me and you talk to me,  you will see that NOW, there’s just no faking the funk.

It is so clear to me and anyone that will listen to my happy ass that I am doing all the things I’ve dreamed about for many years and simply figuring out the brand building and monetization along the way.

I started a nonprofit with no clue, and I felt like a monkey trying to hump a football and I was equally effective.

But I learned the time and now I understand what I want to do, how I want to do it and how I can do it that will benefit the most amount of people.

That is also something I’ve realized is how I learn and get better is not by studying from the sidelines, but really getting in there and just starting and doing it and being OK making mistakes and learning from those mistakes.

The challenging part is that in the real world mistakes mean money and if you make enough mistakes and don’t make enough good decisions, it’s hard to always keep doing what you’re doing or to do all the things that you want to do efficiently and effectively as you need resources to get things done.

I love the guy in this studio because he’s a subject matter expert and some of these R&B songs given the amount of time it must’ve taken for him to perfect the intimations and accent and to do it in a place with limited access to all of the cultural elements that would support such expression.

To me I can feel this contentment, his heart, his soul being so aligned and happy when he’s singing Me songs and especially as he drinks in this surprised and appreciative reactions from the patrons who instantly become fans of his smooth crooning.

Yes, letting your personality shine can have positive impacts on your mental and emotional health, contributing to overall well-being by boosting self-esteem, reducing stress, fostering stronger relationships, and promoting a sense of authenticity, which are all factors that can positively influence your health.