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

Spend your time becoming a Subject Matter Expert on your own Personal Greatness!

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When I was a teenager and feeling extremely indestructible, yet acting self-destructive, I ridiculed and made fun of old age.

I saw no value in accumulating mileage, like moss on a Rolling Stone and for what?

So I could slow down and become less beautiful than I already was? Get forgetful and no longer useful in society? I never thought much about aspirations for longevity and accumulating wisdom.  However now I am reaping the fruits of my own multiple orbits around the earth and slowing down and staying connected to my breath so I can truly leverage all of the knowledge that I have inside me and available to me through my connection to my higher self and my higher power.

Today I say that I have three things to offer the world that seem to be of value, and that I have subject matter expertise in:

Golf, gratitude, and music.

All three of the above will be delivered with joy, love and compassion, and they seem to be what I am in an expert in and also what seems to have value for most folks or at least a lot of folks that I encounter(Golf is a pretty narrow audience window, however, when it hits it hits BIG from a value perspective).

This video here is a great reminder that whatever we do regularly, just like the saying that we are or we become our thoughts, is what we become an expert in and is what we are known for.

For many years in the golf industry, I was know as as Golf’s “GPS Dude” And I’m sure I had a pretty solid reputation for partying, even though my drinking didn’t really stick out at all for that particular industry…or any business is you are a producing “Rain Maker”.  

(Sidebar-the downside of being gifted in sales is that you can always make it rain and you could pretty much do whatever the hell you want with your personal life as you’re generating more revenue than anyone else in the company and the board of directors would literally beat the crap out of the CEO if he messed with you ha ha. Not a lot of motivation, financially to get sober from alcohol for me, and I definitely did not go through the challenges, self discovery and personal growth that was required to quit alcohol for the money. it has to be something much bigger than that it was for love, family, friends, and God)

Spent thousands of hours DJing studying reading, listening to music and combing through record crates traveling for shows, and have earned my stripes when it comes to understanding different genres of music as well as how to move a crowd from behind a set of turntables or from a DJ booth.

My brother Tony and I started DJing Fraternity/Sorority parties after negotiating tricky contracts to maximize our CASH, we even GOT PAID to get drunk hammered and DJ our own high school parties. We showed up smelling like Stroh’s Beer and they handed 16 year old Tony Fisher a FAT check. We would cash it at Krogers where John Collins worked and split that cold cash.

Folks rented out UFW halls and banquet rooms to throw open paid admission hip-hop parties going back to 1984 1985.  

For those of you that weren’t around back then, rap music and hip-hop were NOT at all popular in the white community(until the Beastie Boys) at the very beginning.

You did not hear any of it on the radio.  It was illegal to play on the radio until 1986.

For the young or the uninformed, rap music was actually illegal to play on the radio according to the FCC safe Harbor rules and laws until 1986 when Dougie Fresh and Slick Rick literally forced the government due to popular demand to allow rap music to be played during the day.

Anyway, was introduced to Reggae(Thanks Jah! AKA God, AKA The Big Kahuna) shortly there after and I had developed an incredible passion and love for the Caribbean gospel music known as Reggae. I have developed a super deep respect and love for the music, and I have shared my knowledge on public radio having hosted a few hundred hours of live programs here at WSLR(www.wslr.org). I keep listening and learning, jazz, soul, Latin, salsa, funk, classical, are favorites….more than rap to be honest, ha ha.

Gratitude came to me similar time in my life trauma experience as a teenager and then through the dramatic energy shift moment of my coach Rusty Fuller showing up at my house on July 30, 1984 and me experiencing a real time mind blowing intro to abundance and gratitude.

I simply shifted my focus from loss to abundance.  

I know that Rusty was acting as an agent the source of all love light energy and life, and now I carry forward that intention to help others either by chance or intentionally through my programs and one on one coaching.

Golf came to me serendipitously through my best friend and brother David Chessler when I was introduced to ParView, one of Golf’s first GPS systems for Golf Cars back in 1996.  

To put it bluntly, we had the best technology, the best people and the least amount of money.  That made us extremely dangerous, like a scary outcast, we were head to toe absolutely ferocious and fearless.  

That company set a model for customer service by putting our clients first and anyone that was associated with ParView will still attest to this day, our service and support was world-class.

I have not left the Golf space in now about 28 years so my 10,000 hours was probably eclipsed back about 20 years ago and at this point, I may be coming a golf dinosaur, AKA “Gratisaurus Rex”.

I realize now that I am truly embarking on a next level journey relative to what my future expertise will be and what I will add to my offerings as a subject matter expert.

My next mountain and summit of additional knowledge is squarely and 100% focused on Present Moment Awareness and teaching all of the tools and as many different ways to help individuals unlock both the comfort level and a relationship with stillness and the welcoming width and breadth of the generous present moment of now.

Any Sport, Golf, Tennis, and all aspects of life, will be improved with PMA improvement. Facts.

I did put in my time as being a self-absorbed and aggressive type of business guy, even with integrity and a focus on fairness, it was still a bullshit energy and all ego based.  

Results of big deals informed my sense of self and even though I loved building relationships and creating lifelong friends, I was fixated on hitting quarterly numbers, annual numbers, pleasing Board of Directors and not taking care of myself from health and wellness standpoint.

That shit will never happen again, that  I can promise you.

Give some thought as to what you wanna pour your daily time into and if it is something that you would look back on later on in life and feel really good about.