I have had the first four weeks of my summer filled with baseball, and I must admit it has been awesome!! Sometimes I have to remind myself how lucky I have been to be able to spend virtually every day of my adult life around baseball, around baseball players, and around other baseball coaches. I couldn't ask for anything more.
It isn't just the sport of baseball that I am grateful for; it is the people I get to be around because of baseball that provide me with a life full of blessings. Every day I get to work with kids who have a love for the game and who desire to get better every day. Whether the kids are under ten years old, are teenagers or college guys, they constantly fill me up with positive feedback and I benefit so much from these relationships. Most of these relationships last a lifetime, even though there may be hundreds of miles and many years that separate me from such inspirational people!!
Doing lessons with kids, coaching teams, and working at baseball camps give me so many opportunities to help kids plant positive seeds about themselves in their own minds. I can't claim to always say the right things or the best things, but I sure enjoy it when I can feel as though I can enhance a day for a kid or two.
The networking and relationships that develop with other coaches is another thing that never fails to add happiness to my own days, and for that I am always grateful. Working with other coaches in the dugout, on the field during practices and games, at camps, etc., provides me a sense of belonging to a special group of people who are of high character. Other coaches regularly exhibit quality behaviors that I can try to emulate and that remind me of the many great reasons we choose to teach a kid's game.
As usual, I couldn't ask for a better way to live my life!!
It isn't just the sport of baseball that I am grateful for; it is the people I get to be around because of baseball that provide me with a life full of blessings. Every day I get to work with kids who have a love for the game and who desire to get better every day. Whether the kids are under ten years old, are teenagers or college guys, they constantly fill me up with positive feedback and I benefit so much from these relationships. Most of these relationships last a lifetime, even though there may be hundreds of miles and many years that separate me from such inspirational people!!
Doing lessons with kids, coaching teams, and working at baseball camps give me so many opportunities to help kids plant positive seeds about themselves in their own minds. I can't claim to always say the right things or the best things, but I sure enjoy it when I can feel as though I can enhance a day for a kid or two.
The networking and relationships that develop with other coaches is another thing that never fails to add happiness to my own days, and for that I am always grateful. Working with other coaches in the dugout, on the field during practices and games, at camps, etc., provides me a sense of belonging to a special group of people who are of high character. Other coaches regularly exhibit quality behaviors that I can try to emulate and that remind me of the many great reasons we choose to teach a kid's game.
As usual, I couldn't ask for a better way to live my life!!
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