My dearest Girls,
As you grow older, you are going to learn a lot about Daddy. Way back in my 20’s and 30’s, I coached. I coached, a lot! Every chance I got, I coached. We started baseball in December, I coached during baseball season, and then would coach during the summer. I coached my first team when I was 16! When I wasn’t coaching, I was learning how to be a better coach. It was an endless process that consumer most of my life from the time I was 16 until my early 30’s. There is an important lesson I want you to learn. This isn’t me talking, this isn’t even all my words, but sometimes we read things that strike such a cord and hit our belief system and we just think, “Yea, that’s right!”
I heard this audio of a famous football coach, Nick Saban, and it took me back to my coaching days. This summed up the way I felt during coaching and still to this day feel. Here it is…
You have read this before from me…I have said it a lot…but pay the price. If you want to be good, pay the price.
Most people think that they have all of these choices. People think they can do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it, and still be good. Most kids…they don’t always get told no, they don’t always get told this is exactly how you need do this. So kids tend to have this illusion that they have all of these choices.
(Girls, this next paragraph is big, so pay close attention.)
The truth, the fact of the matter….if you want to be good, you have very few choices because, in the end, it takes what it takes. You are going to have to do what you have do to be good. You have to make choices and decisions that require discipline and doing what is right. If you are going to be good, you have to do what is right…there are no choices. It requires discipline and focus to the process of being good…whatever good is or your goals are.
You MUST remember this. Experience is the best teacher. When you do this right, there are great rewards that follow.
When you don’t do this, experience becomes the harshest teacher.
The proof about doing it right or wrong….well, the proof is in the pudding. Make sure you pay attention.
I love you yesterday, today, and tomorrow,
Daddy
Dad of Girls 