God and The Universe set me up like The Feds. And then They set Me Free.
“God will set you up like the Feds!”
Me? I quit drinking to AVOID divorce, and my sobriety ended up CAUSING it.
If you don’t think that God and the universe have a great sense of humor, you had better think again“.
I’m another great example of how funny God can be because I got the firm instruction and I needed to quit drinking alcohol to make sure that I didn’t blow blow up my family and end up getting divorced.
Well, guess what?
I’m one of the few people you’ll meet that drank for 30 years and quit cold turkey using the power of neuroscience discipline, meditation, yoga, and divine intervention.
The irony is that when I came out of my semi drunken stupor and became extremely clear and focused on my health and my personal greatness my now ex-wife didn’t quite recognize the man sleeping next to her.
I think back on how scary and difficult this must have been for The Mother of My Children a few years ago. What an incredibly beautiful and wonderful woman, who was simply doing her best with all of my changes.
Too much.
Too fast.
Too different.
I get it.
Thank you.
I had abandoned all fear.
I no longer position myself in any narrative as a victim, and the gap between us from a communication standpoint was literally growing by the moment.
I had almost become like living with someone that had survived a near death experience combined with a religious zealot that perhaps had just found Jesus Christ for the first time and was literally knocking on everyone’s door in the neighborhood to make sure that they had heard about this cool book called the Bible.
She didn’t know what the hell to do with me, and God bless her for having the patience of a Saint, as we did our best to bridge the communication gap and see if we could find a way to make it work, even though I was clearly not the same man she had married on a fundamental emotional and spiritual level.
The real gap was that I had embraced was created by the fact that I had firmly embraced my Faith as I saw it as the only opportunity to escape Tito‘s vise-like grip around my spirit’s scrotum.
When one person is operating from a position of faith and another person is operating from a position of fear. You literally have an oil and water type of communication.
You just can’t get there from here.
When we have difficulties and challenges in our life, it reaffirms a lot of things, and there are a lot of solid concrete learnings that we can take from these experiences.
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The first one is that you really don’t know what’s going to happen in your life and you need to embrace every day as the beautiful mystery that it is. Hard stop.
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Your life is really what happens in between the moments that you’re planning your life because that’s the moment of now and that’s where the action happens.
This is why our focus at www.grateful4.org is on educating individuals on how their mind operates where their thoughts are coming from. We can then discuss and teach how to cultivate a practice that allows You to spend more time in the present moment of NOW.
Being in the moment of NOW is what drives a higher level of happiness, a greater degree of productivity, stronger relationships, and more love in your life.
If you’re into that kind of shit….ha ha.
The cool thing is that I love doing this coaching because I’m just not one of those coaches that is talking to talk and hasn’t lived it. Not saying that there are those types of coaches out there, the reality is that my life has been out here in the public relative to the golf industry and everything else over almost the last 30 years. I am not calling myself a public figure or anything like that however, my occupations have been forward facing, or industry or customer facing, having been involved in entrepreneurial endeavors sales and marketing business development, all of which require a public persona and an availability from a business standpoint.
That having been said many of my closest friends in the golf industry guys like Greg Nathan and Jay Karen, Rich Cessna and others remind me that I need to take the time to re-introduce myself to people so that they can meet the 2.0 version of myself.
I hope that my LinkedIn activity and writing like this will suffice as a second introduction because I’m pretty focused on everything else that I have going on ha ha.
Short term setbacks that forces to dig deep and leverage our personal strengths and even require the humility to ask for help our character building in the truest sense of the word.
I visualize that taking OUT the experiences in my life that caused trauma or were very difficult, would be like removing major bones from my body. I fee like it would be akin to pulling out a femur or an entire series of ribs or something.
I would just fall apart without those experiences that were like the fire that forged the iron.
So I don’t pray for hard times in an effort to get stronger, as I know that hard times continue to happen just through the impermanence of all things and the nature of human existence.
To paraphrase the words of Mick Jagger, I will “get my fair share of abuse”.
And all of those experiences provide more learnings and more insight into how I can grow and continue to pursue my own version of personal greatness and in the process, do all I can to elevate as many people as I can simply pay forward all of the love and support from over the years and continue to receive even today.
SHAMELESS PLUG #107…….Look for an email on my Individual Coaching launch coming this week and I’m only gonna take on a few serious folks that are ready to elevate and stop messing around and quit treating this life like the dress rehearsal life.
If life were a FAT T-Bone Steak from The Omaha Steak Company…..AND if YOU are ready to eat all the way down to the T-bone itself, and then break the bone in half and suck the marrow out of the bone….I’m your guy.
C’mon, You KNOW there is MORE!
Let’s find out together, with an Attitude of Gratitude.
EVERY DAY:
Love
and
Gratitude
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Thank you sincerely.
The G.I.F.T. Today
Grateful: not needing an EXCEL spreadsheet to check if I am winning or not. Unplugged from the Matrix, Suckahs!! Ha ha
Intention-where the flow goes i go don’t you know
First-Talk to some Cali peeps like HOP, I miss them
Things-clean up kitchen disaster
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Every day, every way, grateful.
KC
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