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Bert Oliva

TEAMWORK

by Bert Oliva

Teamwork; now let’s look at the root word itself. Team: Together Everyone Achieves More. And notice there is no “i” in team.

If you have a dream or a goal, what better way to achieve it than working as a team? The reward is so much greater.

PowerTools:
1) Find yourself a group of like-minded Individuals who focus on similar goals and dreams.

2) Learn how to become a team player.

4) Create power meetings with your team.

I wrote this blog yesterday but did not want to post it to see what really happened. In my vlog below, I asked people to comment on my videos and tell me what they wanted to see me talk about. And I also invited them to become part of my BOWAteam. And the response was not what I thought it would be.

I have noticed that most people just watch and don’t get involved. Many only like to comment on negative or funny things. I have received more comments of other vlogs than this one.

I forgot it’s also the 4th of July weekend. So that might be a reason also…

So here I go again. I’m inviting you to be part of the BOWAteam. All you have to do is comment and tell me what you want me to talk about or share. And by forwarding this blog to others that you think might be interested in the same thing. Follow, subscribe, repost, share or like… get the message?

In life we reap what we sow.

Live Life,
Bert Oliva

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LJ Polin

RAIN IN MY LIFE

by LJ Polin

Today is day 16 of the BOWAworld Team’s “21 day vlogging challenge.” I had no idea what to talk about. I was out in the back, under our covered grill/spa area. And it started raining. Rather, it started POURING. I’m talking torrential here! That’s Miami July for you…

And it had me thinking, just sitting there in one of our swing chairs staring at the rain… How many experiences have I had in the rain? I can think of a mix between good and bad ones ever since I was little.

When I was really young I would love to run through the rain. For no real reason, but to just enjoy the experience. I would run around with my mouth open trying to drink it. Little did I know of pollution… lol

Playing soccer my whole childhood I would love playing in the rain. Tricks get more fun, running gets trickier and referees would call less slide tackle penalties. Great news for me when I discovered that since I loved to be aggressive on the field(I was defense anyways…).

I grew up watching the Discovery channel, The Crocodile Hunter, and survival shows about nature and animals in the world. I was so captured by it and had so much fun learning about the outdoors that on more than one occasion I would collect rain water in my backyard and purify it in a pot on the stove. It would make me feel like some of the survivalists I would watch on TV. I don’t think my parents ever caught on to why I was making water in the kitchen. 😛

When I got older I experienced kissing in the rain. Amazing experience and way more than fun. I’ll never forget that night. I got pretty sick that week. No doubt it was worth it though. Make sure you try this at least once!

I’ve gotten stuck in the rain as well… sleeping. Some during some fun times. Some… not so much. That’s a story for another day though.

I’ve been in the rain during bonfires and drum circles at the beach, too. That gets interesting… Depending on what stage of the night would usually determine if the activity was wrecked or if it got that much more awesome. Most of the time it just turned into a party in the water(if the temperature was manageable!)

A lot of people take such a frequent and naturally occurring thing for granted. We start to ignore what becomes routine in life. So today think about something simple. Think about the different experiences you have had… in the rain. And if you would like to have some new ones it’s never too late!

As far as I know, the rain won’t stop anytime soon… so why would you? 🙂

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Audrey Bracho

Golden Coin

by Audrey Bracho

A golden coin sounds like something we would all want to have or to be compared to, and in reality is the one thing I no longer want to be. I’m done with the pleasing, and the liking and the happy faces of everyone else except for mine. Pleasing the world or at least your world becomes a full-time job before you know it.

It all starts with the fact that we like how we feel when others are happy with our actions or our behavior but if in order to do that you find yourself being someone else rather than who you really are, then we are definitely missing the point. I realized that once I stopped trying to please everyone and started doing more of what makes me happy, those who you care about you will appreciate you for who you are and the world would be a happier place.

Now go on and make the world a happier place by starting with yourself.

Amen! Yihaw! Hijole!

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Alexa Oliva

A PARENT’S JOB

by Alexa Oliva

You can have a baby and think you’re a parent, but being a good, responsible and loving parent takes a lot more.

Being a real parent takes patience, it takes kindness, it takes understanding and it takes support.

If you are the kind to think you have to love your parents because they are yours I have a message for you. If they want respect, kindness, time they must give it to you.

The best parents do not spring demands on you or force their beliefs on you. The best parents do not do something one day and the next pretend they did not do anything wrong. The best parents are always there for you no matter what. They put you above everything, above anything and before anyone. And if needed can apologize. Yes they are not always right.

A good parent requires you to wipe your children’s tears not create them. It requires you to try to mentor them not embarrass them. It requires you to show them how proud you are of them for even the little things, not show off.

I am proud to say my parents exemplify every wonderful thing I have said here. I love you mom and dad and I am proud to tell the world and let them know what real parents should be like. Not perfect but always on my side.

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Eric Munter

THE PURPOSELY DELAYED PHONE SEARCH

by Eric Munter

I misplaced my phone. Actually, I really haven’t. At least I don’t think I have. I’ve only searched in one place and there truly is only one other place I could’ve left it. But rather than continue my search, I decided to take a phone break; and use this phone break as a theme for today’s post – convenient, eh?

I think from time to time it’s good to have a phone break. My phone is something that is nearly ALWAYS on me. Whenever I am without it I feel like an appendage is missing from my body – and I find that sad. I haven’t the slightest clue how many times I check my phone throughout the day. It must be in the dozens – I hope not hundreds. It’s hard to remember a time before this smartphone era that we now live in. But every now and then, I think how nice it was without having to carry around this little bit of ADD-inducing madness.

So I have left my phone somewhere in my home which will be found at a future date. In the meantime I am free to write without the threat of distraction because on my cell phone I either:

– got a text message

– received an email

– wanted to check what time it is, or

– felt a phantom vibration

But before I continue my peaceful writing, I am going to send a search party to confirm my phone’s exact location – I won’t be able to fully concentrate if it actually is lost. Here’s hoping it’s not – and here’s hoping I don’t bring it back with me to my computer once it’s located.

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Val Leichtman

THWACK!

by Val Leichtman

Thwack! The paddle hits me and I fly backwards. I bounce on the green table, echoing hollowly. Thwack! The second paddle hits me in the face, I spin and fly back in the other other direction. Disoriented, I graze the net with my bottom, flying off the side at an angle. Suddenly a paddle is below me, ready to lob me in the air. Thwack!
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Ever feel like a ping-pong ball? Ever find yourself in a situation between two or more people and feel like you’re the go-between, being thwacked in every single direction? I used to feel this way all the time, especially with my family. I would get thwacked in one direction by my father and then get thwacked in another by my mother. At times I felt like it really was a game they enjoyed playing.

Through my coaching at BOWA and my own dedication to my personal growth, I have learned to rarely play the role of the ping-pong ball in my family’s drama. There are still times when I fall back into the bad habit and allow myself to get thwacked once or twice, but usually after the second thwack I simply get up and walk away.

And you know what? It’s awfully hard to play a game of ping pong without the ball.

 

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Bert Oliva

LIVE WITH PASSION

by Bert Oliva

Tonight I want to talk about passion. And I’m not just say Pass-I-on. No I’m taking it a step further.

Some people think that when they see those people that seem to have everything that they must have aquired it through passion. However, that is not necessarily the case. I’m not saying that if your are passionate about what you do you won’t be rewarded. What I’m saying is that success is not measured by the money or things one has. Because you will always find people with more things and money.

To live with passion one needs to find it. It does not have an age. You can be in your teens, twenties, thirties and some find it in their forties or fifties…

When you find it you will feel it in your gut. And when you find it, share it with the world. Hone it and own it!

Your life will never be the same agin.

So let me know when you find your passion or if you already have found it. I would love to know.

Live Life,
Bert Oliva

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