During my hour of reading this morning at 5 I started getting a fair bit agitated. I was getting agitated at people who just want to play the blame game as to why they aren’t healthy or why they are rich. I hear comments from people on a daily basis about how life is too hard or there’s no time to be healthy or they don’t have enough money to eat healthy…and there’s a lot of people who focus on all three.

The fact is, the Laws of Nature, gives us all the same thing. It gives us time and results. If we do a certain thing it will give us just results. If we spend more time exercising it will give us better health, same with eating right.

I’m not saying we all are born on the same platform. Some people are born into wealthy families, just a fact of life. But don’t blame people who are born into wealth, it isn’t their decision. If you’re that jealous about it blame your family for not building great wealth so you could have been born with lots of money. I mean, at one time, those families were not rich. Somewhere along the line in their lineage someone took a risk and earned that money so his family could live without the worry of money.

And, in all honesty, you’re much better off not blaming anybody but yourself. So get off the blame train and take action on your new path. Bums on the street have become millionaires. Single moms with a million kids have become millionaires. People from all areas of life, no matter where they started or where they were currently, have made changes and took risks to live better lives and have succeed.

So why can’t that be you? It can…but only if you start focusing on the right stuff. Nature gives everybody the same amount of time in the day so start using it more efficiently and stop blaming everything.

Strive for perfection,

DG

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It’s a busy time around here in Nanaimo, BC. I’m constantly doing recruiting for two baseball teams…the college team I currently coach and the summer league team I’ll be coaching this summer. I’m getting ready for The Awesome Bootcamp to start in two weeks and I’m spending almost every moment that’s not baseball training related on my new book.

So today, I wanted to quickly share with you one of my favorite quotes of all time and it comes from the legendary business philosopher himself, Jim Rohn.

“Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom.”

If you’re not where you want to be currently then fix it…make change happen.

Strive for perfection,

DG

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It’s 6:50am and I’m sitting here with my morning cup of coffee. I’ve been up for a couple hours-I get up at 5am every morning to read for an hour. Right now my morning reading is Pushing To The Front by Orison Swett Marden-it’s a book from the early 1900′s.

If you are a writer who writes on a near daily basis you know that sometimes it’s hard to create material with great substance all the time-and this morning that’s me. Well, as they say, with every problem comes a solution and my solution to my problem is creating a blog post entitled ‘Morning Coffee Reflections’. Just a post where I reflect on something-maybe a few things-and if something comes out of it that helps you then that’s even better. And, as you know, it’s not necessarily going to be about health and fitness.

I’ve made a little press of my own lately in the baseball world. I got hired as an Assistant Coach in Weyburn, Saskatchewan for the summer. You can read the article here if you’d like. 

People frequently ask me why I went back into baseball and, I guess, the real answer is that I never really left. Sure, I wasn’t at the ballpark or teaching young kids about the game, but it was always there in my heart telling me to go back and be active in the game. So last year I made the decision to come back and I’m loving every second of it-even the times where I go home pissed off if I don’t think practice went that well

It’s one thing to believe in striving for personal excellence, but it’s another thing to get that message across to college players who are really just entering the world of independence and figuring out what path they want to take in life. But it’s a constant reminder to myself how long it took me to develop the attitude that I currently bring to my life-to always pursue growth and making each day my own personal masterpiece.

I was always a hard worker on the field, but there were times I let my studies get away from me.

I always loved the idea of reading a lot and learning what I wanted to learn-not what school did-but I never really did until about a year and a half ago.

I’ve always been creative and came up with ideas that could change people lives-but sometimes struggled with the courage and confidence to actually do them. And as I grow, that becomes less of an issue. My latest creation can be seen here with my new bootcamp – The Awesome Bootcamp Message. 

I now realize money truly means jack shit when it comes to your happiness-in the baseball coaching world there ain’t a lot of money.

So after 20 minutes of writing and reflecting I think I’ll end the first edition of Morning Coffee Reflections with this:

Never stop challenging yourself to reach your own form of personal greatness, for that is the only form of greatness that truly matters. 

Strive for perfection,

DG

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I’m working on a couple things for the blog for next week-one is a 3 part series on the fitness industry that should at least cause a few people to ponder. So today I’ll send you to a few articles that I found interesting over the last couple days.

I’ll be doing the Thoughtful Reads post every couple weeks probably. I got a lot of feedback on the James Bond Shower article I let people know about so it seems people are reading so I’ll keep posting good articles from others around the world (and they won’t necessarily be about fitness).

Who Cares? – Seth Godin

Ron Paul’s Conservative Lesson - Ron Paul. Listen, I know it’s politics but I’m finding it all fascinating right now and there are a lot of lessons that we can learn by doing what was once successful and follow those same guidelines today.

Paula Deen’s an Idiot! – Dean Somerset

James Taylor and Stephen Colbert singing Carolina in My Mind – This is pretty much a combination of a few of my favorite things. James Taylor is by far my favorite singer/songwriter, Colbert is my favorite comedian, and montage videos to me are the greatest things EVER! (The video ain’t great-don’t know why the uploader did that- but the audio is GREAT). Colbert is a pretty good singer actually.

Enjoy the articles and the video…I’ve already watched it three times in the process of posting this blog…whoops!

Strive for perfection,

DG

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I was at a baseball camp last night for some kids between the ages of 9-12. The camp ran for two hours and it started at 5pm. Now if you remember being that age sometimes it was a bit hard to stay focused for a 2 hour period especially after a long day of school. A couple kids there had been up since 4:30 in the morning so they could go to hockey school.

Anyways, I got the group together and as I usually do when I am at a camp I ask the question, “why are you here?”

Most usually have the typical ‘blank’ stare but there’s always a couple who will pipe up and say, “to learn how to play baseball?” (depending how hyper they are you can get a few other interesting answers sometimes too)

But once I get them all on the same page and explain that during the next 2 hours they have to remember the answer to that question because that’s how they will get the most out it.

Knowing the answer to the ‘why?’ gives you focus and gives you a path of action. Not knowing will give you confusion and unfocused action.

If you don’t know why you are doing what you’re doing, it can actually be fairly stressful since you don’t even know if you’re headed in the right direction…but then again…is there truly a ‘right’ direction? (maybe a thought for another time).

This leads me to ask you, “Why are you here?”

Once you know that then you can explore the next question, “how?”

Strive for perfection,

DG

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