THE BENCH: On a positive note

Last week so many of you reached out with amazing comments as well as , "Are you OK?" The answer is , yes, I am tremendous and certainly understand the "Are you OK?" as last week was a very deep but personally important message for me to share. The BENCH is always helping me , each morning to reflect, recenter on what I need to do, and perhaps, in a strange way who I need to be.

I need to be there for others when they need me. I need to be the BENCH for the family but for my friends and for my team mates at work as we fight the battles that each day seem to come at us.

The BENCH is stability. The BENCH is a safe place that is always there. Think about your day, think about how you may have a routine yet for some reason "life happens" and the routine quickly is destroyed by events. Think about trying so hard to do a job or a role and suddenly the carpet gets pulled out from under you. THE BENCH is a constant reminder that you must have anchors in your life, those things that allow you to stabilize yourself when "shit happens". This lesson plays the other way as well. YOU need to be the BENCH for others, there is no greater gift of learning, growing and actually feeling better about yourself than to give to others. YOU BEING THE BENCH for someone or something will make you stronger, make you more stable and make you have even greater energy than before.

You can be so much more than the challenges and the negatives that come at you, it all comes down to a mindset of having a purpose in what you do, and that purpose, that BENCH is having that something, that someone you help. You do make a difference, but you have to ACT to be that difference, be that bench or the days just flow by and suddenly life overwhelms you versus you overwhelming life. BE THE BENCH!