KEEP - N - MIND

Fast Minds 

What happened to creativity?  Is it age, luck, or talent?  Maybe it is our habits, environment, or attitudes.  

I want you all to take a moment and think. . . Think deeply about your early life.  Remember, when we were kids, our mind never stopped to wonder about time or even the future for that matter.  We played and lived in the present moment.  We didn’t have cellphones to distract ourselves.  We were always open to new experiences.  We absorbed those experiences like a sponge of possibilities.  Example; The possibility of jumping off the roof with the trash bag and landed safely.  Of course, we learn fast — that doesn’t work.  And just because your friend jumped over an open construction trench and lands doesn’t always mean you will too!  But we learned fast because the world around us was excited to develop.  

I have come to the terms of believing our minds can stop growing and move with excitement.  One of my favorite teachers, philosophers, thinkers, and Stoics.  Aristotle taught that life is defined by movement.  If that was the case, then what doesn’t move would be considered dead or what doesn’t grow must be removed.  This growth can come from areas in life that have value.  The tree cannot grow with toxic chemicals that are contrary to its development and a lush garden will never produce year after year with intoxication.  I hope that makes sense. 

We have a few new babies in our church, and I’m reminded weekly of how we all start off with a mobile mind, but as many get older, and the more distractions we allow possible, our minds becomes immobile.  All too often, we are enslaved as human beings by the looks.  By the new trends, politics, economy, environment, entertainment, etc.  But what we truly need is the fluidity of the mind that we once possessed and have received from the beginning of your existence.  I genuinely believe when we have our mind on something that angers us.  Something that frustrates us.  Something that makes us depressed.  We must try even harder to revert back to our child like mind — when something flashy could still are attention and we can forget about the anger, frustration, stress, desperation or pain.  I believe we have the power to distract ourselves with something positive or something worthy.  

I love being a leadership/life-skills coach — one of my powers is training young people that our connection to our mind starts with our attitude, habits, and choices.  Second to that is our connection to others when we are in the present.  I challenge you not to waste your time, or your energy on things you cannot change or influence.  As one of the great comedian Sebastian Maniscalco says “Never hold the line-up, just keep it moving.”  So, once again — I challenge you to keep that mind moving in the right direction.  

Coach Frank Sagasta 

Leadership & Life-Skills Coach 

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