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The Legends Approach – For Children, Parents and Coaches
October 17, 2011, 2:50 pm
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The Legends Approach – For Children, Parents and Coaches

Be a positive life force. Empower people, especially children, with your example and your teaching. Be determined to live each moment of every day to its fullest. Grab the fruit of life and squeeze every last drop of juice from it. If it’s worth doing, do it well. Do it with an open, honest frenzy and fervor that others will admire and wish to emulate. If you fear it, you have the greatest reason to attempt it. Step beyond your comfort zone to the greatest degree possible. In so doing you will push the edge of your abilities further in your lifetime than you ever imagined. Others, especially children, will see your power and follow your brave, creative example. In your mind’s eye see yourself as omnipotent; as capable of reaching for, and achieving, the highest goals and ideals. Work with a reckless passion at everything worthwhile. Fill your seconds, minutes, and hours only with important things. Live your life fast and frenetically. If you teach, or coach children, leave nothing in your tank when the lesson, practice, or game is over. Give, give, give and give again. Then give more. Give until you collapse exhausted into a deep, untroubled sleep with a smile on your face at the end of each wonderful day. Find a career you love and never retire…not at 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 or 100 years of age. Keep amazingly busy in ways that challenge your body and mind to its fullest extent. Go where you have never been before, and when you get there, change it for the better.

Abandon the sofa and the TV, for the classroom or sports field. Work, travel and embrace diversity of race, religion, gender and preference, with the certain knowledge that most people are good, and can be trusted.

Crucially, make a huge impact and difference. Improve yourself while challenging others to grow and flourish. Build your own wings, while helping others to fly. Soar to the highest heights, and laugh at the lowest lows. Do so in the certain knowledge that you bring your own weather with you. Understand that storms are in the mind. Believe in your “one of a kind” indomitable spirit. Laugh at those who tell you that the goal of life is security. These are the people who will never really live.

Be the first amazing you. Not the second, and poorer version of anyone else. Shock and surprise everyone with your unique talents, love, and intensity. Bring these talents to the party of life and make it better! Live totally in each precious and dynamic moment. Embrace everything, in such a way that you show those you influence a vision of how to focus on all worthwhile things. Trash any notion there are limits to what you can achieve. Only the weak see opportunity and rewards as limited. Believe in abundance. Make it happen, and along the way, share it with everyone. Avoid the fear of scarcity. Your energy is best spent passionately in the pursuit of shared spiritual wealth, not hoarded against some imaginary danger.

Always remember that a great life is made by the go givers not the go getters…a stranger is just a friend you haven’t met yet…never judge a book by its cover…no person is so tall as one who stoops to help a child.

Trade security for love: suspicion for trust: misery for laughter: rest for passionate hard work and money for priceless riches of the spirit.

Moment by exciting moment, make your life the most stupendous it can possibly be.


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