Count Your Blessings

Hey family! I am alive and well and I hope you are too! What year is it? Who end up winning the election? Are we on Covid-23 yet? Is Facebook still locking the fact and fake down? Is Instagram still telling you to vote lol ? Are you still making Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tik Tok, Tinder, etc a major priority in your life? Have you seen Social Dilemma yet???

So many of you have probably noticed @supadrp_414 has not posted anything in a week, same goes for Facebook and Snapchat. That is what The Social Dilemma movie did to me. It was truly eye opening on how AI is literally keeping us on our devices, on social media. I mean crack, alcohol, opioids are a major drug, but yowza! If you have seen the movie, did anyone catch the part about the early Facebook investor mention, “do you check your Facebook before or while you are peeing?” GUILTY!

I am proud of myself for logging out of my social media platforms a week and 2 days ago. I do plan on logging back in, but I have to say, I am liking life without social media. What am I really missing out on that cannot be communicated with me via a phone call or text message? What are others missing out on about me that I absolutely needed to share? Well…

Last Saturday, 11/14/2020, I accepted the position of Assistant Coach at Grand Island Northwest High School. Praise God, I give him all the Glory! For a few years, I had been trying to take myself serious and the idea of coaching serious. I am a lover of the game of basketball, I still enjoy playing when I have time, and it has always been a part of my life. My brother has been coaching for 25 + years now, and he was my coach my whole life up until 9th grade (I honestly do not know how he put up with my crap). So one random evening I was at home with my two daughters scrambling around to get them some supper, because us dads like to wait to the last minute right!? My wife was at the salon doing hair and I get a text from the mom of the girl whom my wife is doing hair for, Tosha, and the text read, “hey come to BDubs for dinner with us!" I went through all the hard work to get my daughters supper and they are eating and now we are going to Bdubs… Oh well sounds like a date! We get there and Tosha, her husband Jeff and her daughter Brittanie are there with our family, and it is ALWAYS a blessing to be around genuinely great people such as them. As we are eating and laughing, Tosha says, “hey GINW is looking for an Asst Coach, you should do it!” Long story short, the night ended, I didn’t truly consider it and I told myself if it gets brought up again then I will most definitely think about it. Well the next day it got brought up, my wife asks me if I have considered it yet, when I was going to apply, “Just go in for interview, you don’t have to accept if its not right for you” and now the wheels are turning and burning. I prayed long and hard about it, I questioned myself, my commitment to coaching, and then with the help of Tosha and my wife, finally I said, “yeah I will do whatever for a interview”. The interview went great, the position is at a high school I did not go to, so I do feel like I am cheating a bit. But I know that this is a great opportunity to take coaching serious and have some fun. I always wanted to make an impact on kids, no matter what age, and now that it will be high schoolers, I am absolutely fired up. I truly feel that it is my duty to be a positive impact on these kids lives however I can. Last week was my first full week of coaching, it was extremely nerve racking, these kids probably thought I was a transfer from another high school lol I have that baby face! But before each practice, I pray and just ask God for the wisdom and the peace of mind and also to thank him to be in the position that I am in. My work was extremely helpful in working with me and my schedule and I am still getting home before my girls get to sleep! But I absolutely love the coaching gig, I love the guys that I am around, the coaching staff is amazing, like I am so fired up about how this year is going to go. Anything else, I would be worried sick, but not basketball. So Covid can take a back seat, doubt, negativity and anxiety can hit the road. Be Fearless people. If you do not take chances, you will wake up one day as a 40 year old regretting not giving it a shot. If this is as close as basketball that I can get moving forward, then I will certainly take it. These group of guys know how to play, they are respectful and I just cannot wait to challenge some of them to a shooting contest or a game of horse. I am just absolutely happy. I am telling you this via my Blog on my clothing website, so obviously I am still working silently with my brand and schemin up some ideas.

I truly hope you all the best, be on the lookout for some new DRP and remember to count your blessings!