"If you don't heal your wound, you're going to bleed on someone who didn't cut you." -Author Unknown
Inside Summary Nugget-- If you're not in personal alignment, you cannot make anyone's life better, including your own.
First things first.
Guru speaks about his own biggest, personal, wrestling coaching disappointment.
Learn the down sides of NOT doing as the quote above suggests and first getting aligned, and Chris' own personal experience with the messy fallout that's likely to happen if you neglect to heal yourself from past trauma.
Discover how Ike Light, one of Iowa's best wrestlers ever, was poised on the inside track to become Iowa's next 4X High School State Champion at one of the nation's premier high schools, Lisbon, Iowa.
G candidly, and somewhat uncomfortably divulges this totally unfortunate fallout that can manifest if the person in a position of authority is not in tune with oneself.
G shares how he unwittingly and unconsciously, due to the four letter word know as human 'fear', let down his prized former athlete, whose career and ensuing life was adversely affected, because he, "G", wasn't in a good place personally, when he coached Ike in 1992 and 1993.
As an unnatural, but as g states a clear result of the G's own faults and personal discord, a young Ike ended up with three state golds instead of the much preferred four for the wrestling Lions.
Mistakes such as this are discomforting and a breeding ground for guilt.
The echoing words "Learn from my mistakes" can be felt as well as heard in this segment.
He implores , 'get your things together, Inner Engineering first and foremost.' like oxygen mask on airplane.
Ensuring you, yourself, are healthy before joining or helping with another is key.
In Coaching, relationships, Life, your job is to bring value and ease to another's life, not the opposite as some get unwittingly fooled.
G mentions how movies and tv have done many a man a disservice here in the courting realm of life and an interesting comparison.
'It's irresponsible to get into any new relationship unless you are in a good place personally.'
The real goal is to bring value to the relationship, no matter what that relationship is, and make your partner's life easier, your athletes' life easier, not harder, as some seem to perceive. This is why you work on yourself as you go through Life...this is perhaps the purpose of said Life.
G says a later segment will go into the mindful ways he teaches other coaches to INNER ENGINEER and potent ways to empower, align, and optimize your self.
In wrestling,
~da guru
-HG
