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  Winning in Life and With God Do you have a winning attitude about life? What is your definition of winning?  That all depends on your personal views, background and experience with winning and losing. As a long time career football, wrestling and softball coach I have had to look at winning from two perspectives.  One of those being actual W's and L's.  How is my football team competing or how are my individual wrestlers doing? Are they beating people on the field or the mat. That is a statistical way to view winning and many coaches only view it that way.  I know Hall of Fame coaches that have win totals I would love to attain.  They are well known for those stats during their career. The other way to look at winning is "winning in life" and life after death.  As a coach it is my job to mentor my students/athletes to be active, hardworking and goal oriented adults.  Adults that learned through competition, winning and losing to overcome and push forward. I love se

  Dealing with Grief Before it Destroys You Many times in life we face events that devastate us emotionally, physically and spiritually.  I think back about those toughest times of grief in my life and they tend to be centered around the death of a loved one.  I have unfortunately lost my mom (2017) and my dad  (2009).  Other situations such as job loss, divorce, automobile accidents and things that suddenly change the way we live and our current state of reality.   We suddenly are without a special person we have always had.  When I lost my mom and dad, the grief and pain literally almost destroyed me from the inside out.  I held it in and tried to be a tough guy,  I tried to be the person my family could lean on and in the process literally wore myself out emotionally, physically and spiritually.  I leaned on God, but did not use common sense to protect and take care of myself.  I was focused on everybody's needs and I forgot my own needs.  I held onto grief for several years and

  God’s Expectations and Being Non- Conforming to Indoctrination of Evil While watching television today and browsing social media sites I saw so many messages that are non-conforming to God’s word.  I wrote down a list of these things and will not address all of them on here today.  However, it is clear after going back and reading 2nd Timothy that we are now in times that were described in that scripture.  In 2nd Timothy Paul warned Timothy about difficult times that will happen in history.  Paul wrote that people would become lovers of themselves, lovers of pleasure, abusive, unforgiving and show an ungodly attitude.  Ungodlike acts of violence, the breakdown of the family unit, drugs, alcohol and acceptance of anything goes has left the United States in a complete mess. Jesus also warned his disciples in the bible that Satan would plant his deceptive ways among the church and in people's hearts.  The world would become full of false believers and be guided by false doctrine. 

  Talk Is Cheap, Action Speaks During my coaching career I have heard many inspirational sayings from coaches before games, during meetings and at coaching clinics.  A few of my favorites that stuck with me are “Don’t talk about it, be about it”, “Talks cheap, action speaks” and “Don’t tell me, show me”.  I have said these many times to my football players, wrestlers and team members.  We say these things to our athletes to inspire them to be more than talk, to be more than they currently are.  We want to challenge them to become bigger, stronger and faster and tougher.  We want to show the opponent through our play that we are tough, will battle and fight to the last whistle. In today's world of social media many athletes like to talk trash.  They post  about who is going to to win, lose and all that hype.  It isn’t a bad thing and is designed to encourage competition.  However, when the whistle blows, many of these tough talkers falter and fall short of their own expectations.  T