Coach Elliott

Just the other day I posted a beautiful picture and under it I shared: "We can dream, as long as we are alive".   What I think is that every one of you already know this.  The only difference for me is that we don't think about it, we don't set an intention to dream and we simply don't believe it.  We all know that we can dream and we all know logically that the reason we can continue to dream is linked to the fact that we are alive, yet for many of us we might as well be dead because we have lost our ability to dream, even our zest. Our dreams can be more accurately described as the things we want to happen more in our lives.  Our dreams are those things that bring us joy and prosperity.  We must know take note of what our dreams are before we can see them come true, but that is just the beginning.  After thinking about your dreams you have to devise a plan and not give up on that plan.  The reason that other people seem to make their dreams come ...

All of us either know someone who has become seriously ill or have had the experience first hand.  It is challenging for most of us to deal with someone who is struggling with serious health challenges and for some of us we know what it feels like because we are going through it now.  Faith is likely the most important key to opening the healing energy within us and perception is even more important.  How we perceive illness is gong to determine our degree of healing.  This short blog is going to be focused on what is sometimes referred to as a "health opportunity. I think that the journey to healing has a lot to do with how we see illness and I want to invite all of you to look at illness from a bit of a different perspective and as a health opportunity rather than just a health problem.  A health problem is one that we perceive as something we will solve and once we do that is that.  We can then move on with our life and hopefully we will be healed...

I recently had a conversation with my mentor who I will call Leslie about the idea that waking someone up from their sleep is rude, yet sometimes neccessary.  The state of sleeping is one that has become all to common in our circle of friends and family, even people who we experience briefly during the course of a day in our life.  Sleeping people are the ones who are not awake and people who are not awake cannot hear us or see us.  They are not literally sleeping yet they are asleep and their state of awareness is missing which is why they cannot see us.  The world is full of people who are asleep and although not everyone is asleep at the same time, most have been asleep and some will be asleep as some time or another.  While is it OK to check out from the hustle of life it should only be temporary and short lived, for those who stay in a coma like state may need to be reminded and given a little nudge. Our loved one, spouse, husband, wife or partner are one...

Making someone wrong doesn't  make us right.  Today more than ever this resonates as true for me.  Just because we can make someone wrong it does not mean that we are right,  In fact, making someone else wrong can make us falsely believe that we are right when in fact we are not and in the end why does someone have to be wrong and someone have to be right?  Why can it not be about each person having a valid reason to feel right and just in their way of thinking? Why can't it be that both people are right in their own right? Many of us have been programmed into a right vs. wrong way of living and many of us have a desire to make others wrong.  We think that if we can prove that the other person is wrong then we are fixed and all is well.  Our ego feeds on this perception and we walk about like a rooster crowing when we have made the point that someone is wrong and we prevail because we are right.  It matters not that there is no prize or recognit...

I am inspired this time by Diana Nyad, a record breaking swimmer who finally swam from Cuba to Florida, breaking a world record.  She made a statement that inspired these words.  Scientist can explain what the heart and mind can do but they cannot measure what the spirit can do.  I was bowled over by the words she used that I interpreted in my own way and that inspired me to write this blog.  She is a woman who demonstrated to the world that doing something like swimming across the ocean is not about swimming but about accomplishing something that others believe could not be done and that determination supersedes scientific truth.  Her journey across the ocean was really about not giving up and when she made it to the end of her journey at 64 people who witnessed it sobbed.  The tears were not about sadness but rather about joy and the idea that any one of them could accomplish something that they thought they could not.  It was about witnessing someon...

Everything we do and say has meaning.  I believe that it is important to know this because many times we forget that what we say and what we do is meaningful at some level.  I would go so far as to say that we should not dismiss anything we say or do because by dismissing it we say that it is meaningless and by dismissing it we give ourselves permission to minimize our life.  Nothing about our life is meaningless, everything about our life is meaningful. If it is true that our life has meaning then it is true that the things we do also have meaning.  If we believe that our life has meaning then we must know that what we say is meaningful, even the things that we regret saying.  For when we say things that are unkind those words have meaning and they also have a form of power.  This is why we should take care in  what we say to the best of our ability. We must also be kind enough to forgive ourselves for the things we do and say that are not necessari...

For a couple of days I have been posting messages on FaceBook about living our lives with intention.  It seems like a simple thing to implement yet many times it eludes us because we forget that living with intention gives our day purpose and creates what it is we want to see happen in our lives.   The alternative to living with intention is to live our lives in a way that we don't intend to live.  What is likely going to happen when we don't live with some intention is that things happen to us that we did not intend and we can end up unhappy wondering why.  This is reason enough in my opinion to live life with intention and purpose.  To decide each day what our intentions are and to begin each day working towards those loving, honest, rewarding and purposeful acts.  Living with intention means that we begin each day with a list of the ways we are going to manifest our very highest level of self-love and compassion.   There are many types of int...

I am once again compelled to write about a subject that I believe is one of the most important in living a healthy and happy life.  That subject of course is love and in specific self-love.  I would like to take a little bit of a different approach this time and that is the notion that we should be intentional in keeping a little more love for ourselves, not giving it away as it we ourselves don't need any of it.  I don't even know where we got that notion of giving it all to others and thinking that we will be OK or that somehow we will get it back.   The main problem with giving all our love and thinking we are going to get it back is that there are so many people who take it and don't give it back or who are incapable of giving it back.  The expectation that we will get some of our love back is simply not as realistic as keeping some of it for ourselves and loving ourselves just a little more than we love anyone else.  I am not sure that this includes...