{"id":420,"date":"2018-08-29T13:11:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T13:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=420"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:43:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:43:56","slug":"change-of-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2018\/08\/29\/change-of-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Change of Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cStart children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u202dProverbs\u202c \u202d22:6\u202c \u202dNIV\u202c\u202c<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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I am starting this post as I sit between practice courts 1 & 2 at the US Open. I\u2019ve been watching world number one Rafael Nadal practice for the past 1\/2 hour.<\/div>\n
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This is the first time\u00a0 I\u2019ve come to this tournament as a coach. It has struck me how it has changed my perspective drastically. The last time I was here I was a player. I viewed it as a player.<\/div>\n
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As a player, you are only thinking about yourself. How can I apply this to<\/div>\n
my life? How can I be better?<\/div>\n
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As a coach, you\u2019re thinking about others. How can I apply this to my students? How can I make them better?<\/div>\n
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As a player, the pictures I took were for me. The videos were for me. As a coach they are for my students. I\u2019m getting all I can so I can take it back to them. So I can help them start out right.\u00a0 So as they grow into the game they will have the right foundation.<\/div>\n
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Being a player helped me learn and apply it to myself, as a result I can help others do the same.<\/div>\n
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My walk with Christ is similar. I have to get in the game, read the Scriptures, figure out what God is telling me. I have to learn how to study it and apply it to my life. The more I do this, the easier it is for me to help others do the same.<\/div>\n
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I love learning God\u2019s word and applying it. I love even more helping others do the same.<\/div>\n
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Here\u2019s the caveat, in order to be a good coach, I\u2019ve got to keep<\/div>\n
playing the game. I\u2019ve got to keep teaching myself so I can then teach others.<\/div>\n
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Life is the same way. Every day I\u2019m faced with new challenges. Every day I seek God to help me deal with them. He always has a solution.\u00a0 Often it is not at all what I would think, but always there.<\/div>\n
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He never wastes it. What He teach\u2019s me, He often gives me the opportunity to share with others. To help them deal with the same thing. As long as I stay open to His leading. As long as I stay hungry for His word and humble in His presence, He can use me. Not always the easiest thing to do, but definitely worth it.<\/div>\n
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The most important part is getting the right foundation so you can build on it. Start them out right and they will grow the right way.<\/div>\n
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Are you building the right foundation? It\u2019s always the first step!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cStart children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u202dProverbs\u202c \u202d22:6\u202c \u202dNIV\u202c\u202c I am starting this post as I sit between practice courts 1 & 2 at the US Open. I\u2019ve been watching world number one Rafael Nadal practice for the past 1\/2… Continue reading Change of Perspective<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}