You just have to start…
Welcome again to my blog. I had been waiting to start it because I believed that many people would judge what I can offer them by my first post so I was waiting to figure out the perfect post. But I realize that there is no such thing and I would be waiting forever.
So I asked myself, if I was the client, how would I coach me?
The answer was simple, as it often is. Be authentic and self-expressed and just start writing. Don’t suppress yourself based on an assumed outcome that you made up - what’s important is that you start. Why wait for this imaginary Judge to pound their gavel and pass sentence. What am I being so afraid of?
Don’t we all do that? We limit our self-expression because we are afraid of Da Judge!
Well, forget about that. I have decided to just write (as you can see) and so my first post is actually my third post which is good because I don’t want this blog to be predictable or routine.
I hope some of what I write will inspire you, motivate you, make you smile, make you reflect, piss you off, even make you sad sometimes. But it isn’t as important what you feel, it’s just that you do feel. We are too numb these days and way too suppressed and if I can spark any feelings and /or a response in you, I will be satisfied.
Please add your writings to this. You are not a spectator here but instead an encouraged and welcome participant in this game. Get your ass out of the stands and onto the court! We may hit one into the net here and there but who cares! We are in the game and that is what’s important. Let the judges sit in the bleachers and throw their cowardly edicts down.
Welcome, to our blog. I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
Peace and Possibility
mj
June 21st, 2006 at 9:34 am
Just do it! The popular Nike ad hit it on the head, right? So many times I just talk myself right out of something before I even begin. THE VOICE…it’s so powerful! What has helped me recently is to personify “the voice”. When the voice says, “go ahead, have that cookie, you deserve it” I just picture a face of an ugly, mean, smelly guy with rotten teeth (someone I normally wouldn’t take advice from)and look him straight in the face and laugh. When the voice says, “aw, come on, what makes you think you can do that?” I do what I usually do to people who think they can tell me what I can or cannot do…I defy them and do whatever the #$%! I want. So I wanted to share my personification of the voice…so maybe it can help others. Our own voices are our own worst enemies!!! I know the voice will never go away, I just have to put it in its place so it doesn’t have control.
September 13th, 2006 at 6:47 am
Hi Mike and Sabrina:
I am so overjoyed that I was able to get in touch with you guys again. I have to say that 911 was devestating for all of us. I saw the towers on tv get hit and I almost hit the floor. I thought of all of my friends back home in NY, I did not know Mike worked in the towers but others might have. I later found out that Freddy V passed on that day and I could not believe it.
I have to say Mike’s wake up call and decision to stay home with you was a good thing to do that day. I am sure Mike told you about my family and that I have a daughter who’s name is Emily Sabrina, I was searching for names with my wife and thought of you and what a great person I always thought you were. I asked my wife if she liked the name Sabrina as a first or middle name and we made it her middle name. I told her the name came to mind from a old classmate from my past.
I am very happy that your coaching has taken off so well. Maybe Mike can coach me like when I was in 12th Grade and was not sure to do with my life? He was ahead of his time.
Much warm regards and hugs from The Dolin Family. Take care.
Sincerely,
Todd R.Dolin Syosset H.S. Class Of 1985