Balance

Life lesson #1: Having balance is the key to success. Now, I think that I have heard this throughout my life over and over again, but it was not until this week that I really understood what having balance exactly met.

As many of you know I took a job down in Hilton Head to work at Van Der Meer Tennis Center. Included in my job description, I take on many different responsibilities at the company. One of these responsibilities is an academy coach. For the new year, one of our goals at the academy is to have all of our tennis players work on the basics of tennis. Now matter their level, we are breaking down their strokes and determining do they have the basic fundamentals to make them a great tennis player. One of these basic fundamentals is the ability to stay balanced. Now you may be asking exactly how this correlates to life, but believe me it does.

In any good stroke in tennis, you have to be able to keep balance. This means that your entire body is working together to achieve one goal, winning the point. Balance is the foundation to any good player. Without it, you can only achieve so much. Same with life, keeping balance and learning the foundation is the key to success.

I always thought that I would enter the work force knowing that I would be successful. Not to say that I have not been successful at Van Der Meer, but I have still a lot to learn and sometimes that can be extremely frustrating. It was not until this week that I realized that I am just beginning my journey. I have to be able to put in the work at the bottom of the totem pole before I can start to climb. Over the seven months that I have been here, I definitely have put some time at the bottom. Doing exactly what others want me to do exactly at the time they want it done. Now I have come to realize that’s ok. Now my opinions are starting to matter and my employers are asking for my input.

Life lesson #1: Having balance is the key to success. You have to start at the bottom so that you can work your way up. If you start at the top, where’s the challenge?

A new year and direction

Ok, Ok... so I have not been the best at posting updates since I created this before starting my first job out of college this past May. There have been a few distractions, but I don't want you to have to hear about a mouth full of lame excuses. Anyways, I have decided like millions of other Americans to come up with a few New Years Resolutions that I would like to accomplish during the year 2010.

#1, like billions of other Americans I would love to get in better shape. Of course the success rate for this resolution is likely to happen to only 10% of everyone who makes this goal, but of course it is going on my list and will be accomplished. #2, not letting the small things get me down and going more with the flow. I have a tendency to over react and become extremely emotional to the littlest details. I want to be able to "roll with the punches" and become a lot more flexible. #3, this is an interesting resolutions that was brought to my attention by a former professor of mine at Wittenberg, Dr. Smith. During a visit yesterday to campus, I was able to visit with some of my lovely professors of communication. While talking to Dr. Smith about different odds and ends, he asked the pondering question about my un-updated blog. I told him a couple of reasons why I had not been able to update it, later thinking that these were no excuses at all. Yes I have been busy down in Hilton Head, but those are not reasons why I should not be able to keep up a little blog ever so often. So, New Years resolution number 3 is to update my blog twice a month. Goal set, now the tricky part is to stick with it.

With this new goal of mine, I also want to add a little spin to the blog. I still want to update people on what is going on in Hilton Head, but also take what I am learning from my job and share it with my few, but loyal followers. Thanks Dr. Smith for inspiring me to start anew! That's the wonderful thing about a small school like Wittenberg, relationships are built between professors and students and kept longer then just four years!