Life Lessons

One Moment… A Lifetime Of Lessons

Posted by admin on Aug 15th, 2010 in Life Lessons | 0 comments

This Is Dedicated To The Greatest Man I Have EVER Known… My Father

One Moment Can Change Your Life

Posted by admin on Aug 19th, 2010 in Life Lessons | 1 comment

Have you ever had a moment in your life where everything changed, maybe it was a moment where life was thrust upon you and that next moment changed everything, such as when my Father had a massive stroke on August 16, 2009 that changed my and my families lives forever.

Perhaps it was a time where you had an insight, a revelation, of what action step to take or decision to make.

Maybe it was a moment where you just got sick and tired of your own story, (more…)

Posted by admin on Aug 19th, 2010 in Life Lessons | 0 comments

Where to begin….

I remember the morning after my Dad’s stroke on August 16, 2009 like it was yesterday. I arrived that morning on the red eye from LA to Birmingham, we didn’t know if he would even survive the night, much less months afterwards which thankfully he did.

After getting out of Surgical Intensive Care which he had been in for about 2 weeks, he was eventually allowed to spend a few weeks in one of the finest Rehab Centers for stroke victims in the world which just happened to be in Birmingham.

It was there that he began to make some gradual progress and we thought he might be one of the lucky ones and make a comeback.

He transferred to a Skilled Nursing facility and was there for about a month and kept having Urinary Tract Infections and got Pneumonia which put him in and out of the hospital several times.

My Mother and I finally decided enough was enough and we decided to bring him home. We learned how to care for him on our own with the aid of Hospice who would come out and the guidance of Doctors, Nurses and Rehab Staff who helped train us.

We took care of him almost 24 hours a day although we had some late night help so we could get some sleep.

He was unable to move on his own and was kept alive with the aid of feeding tube that I learned how to use to feed him and to give him all of his medications through.

I also was able to provide him with some Nursing and Rehab Skills that I had learned in addition to properly care for him, to clean him up, change him, position his body every two hours, get him in and out of bed and I would have been happy to do that as long as he needed and wanted me to.

It was the greatest honor and joy I have ever experienced to have been able to do this for the most beautiful, unconditionally loving, brilliant, funny, wise and unbelievably kind and generous man I’ve ever known.

We lovingly and gratefully took care of him for over 7 months at home and all during that time he was seemingly, albeit slowly, improving.

What we didn’t quite know during that time was that he was also experiencing TIAs or mini strokes.

I’ll share more of my journey and some of the things I learned from this experience in my next posting tomorrow and in the meantime, please share with us what may have been a moment that changed you in some way and what you learned from that or those experiences.

I look forward to hearing about your experiences and being with you soon…

Until we speak again, May You Continue to Create Your Life as a Masterpiece, Live it as a Work of Art and Make Each Moment An Epic Adventure…

Garrett

Life Lessons, Part 2

Posted by admin on Aug 19th, 2010 in Life Lessons | 0 comments

Thank you for joining me on this healing journey…

The massive stroke that struck My Dear Father on August 16, 2009 was eventually more than his sweet body could handle, even for a man as strong and determined as he was.

During this entire experience, I have learned some extraordinarily valuable lessons and I wanted to be able to share them with you.

This inward journey of reflection provides me with an opportunity to go through the grieving process and to more deeply allow myself to process, understand and share with you these gifts of what I learned about my Father, my Family and Myself.

I have learned the meaning of unconditional love and that I can do things that I may have never thought possible. That in those moments where I was face to face with what seemed like overwhelming challenges, where I felt all alone, not knowing how I could possibly ever learn all the things I needed to learn to make the right decisions, while dealing with all the emotional and family issues that were normal in these kinds of tragic circumstances.

That it was in that moment of feeling all of the weight of this whole experience on my shoulders that overwhelm, that I just surrendered to that power within me, within all of us that knows all of the answers, that is our connection, my connection to God, the Universe, Universal Intelligence, Life Force, whatever term you resonate with, that it was when I surrendered the thought that I by myself could do any of this, it was then that I knew that I Could and Would be able to deal with whatever came up because I KNEW I was NOT alone.

It was one of the most liberating moments of my life. I was able to not just Talk about tapping into my Intuition, into that force, that Universal Life Force, God within me, not just talk about it in my Coaching and Training Practice but to actually have that experience, WOW, what an unbelievably transformational and humbling experience.

Thank you God, I am So Grateful
I’m honored to be able to share with you this powerfully painful and transformational experience and some of the things I continue to learn from it in my next posting tomorrow.

In the meantime, please share with us what may have been a moment that changed you in some way and what you learned from that or those experiences.

I look forward to hearing about your experiences and being with you soon…

Until we speak again, May You Continue to Create Your Life as a Masterpiece, Live it as a Work of Art and Make Each Moment An Epic Adventure…

Garrett

Life Lessons, Final Thoughts

Posted by admin on Aug 19th, 2010 in Life Lessons | 1 comment

Thank you for joining me and here are some final thoughts as I moved through this process. I hope this posting finds you well and has brought you insight into my life and the impact of how one event can change your life. I Thank You All for remaining with me through this journey of healing.

My Father was as strong as anyone I had ever known, both Mentally, Physically and Spiritually and it took all of that for him to even survive the first few weeks after his stroke much less live as strongly and with as much optimism and determination as he did.

I am a better man by having had this experience, a better Son, Brother, Uncle, Friend, Lover and Colleague.

I have learned so much in my life from my Father and I now that my Greatest Lessons that he taught me were during this experience that he endured.

Now some of you may wonder how that might be true and others of you may get it instantly.

You see, in addition to what I have previously shared with you, what I also learned from my Father during the last months of his life had to do with will, determination, NEVER EVER Giving Up or Giving In, Giving Your All.

I watched as he endured unknowable pain, mentally, physically and emotionally and he did so with endless amounts of Grace, Humor, Love and Compassion, Yes Compassion for the Other Person, for the people caring for him and for his family knowing what they were having to go through, that was My Father.

He was the most gracious, kind and loving man I have ever known. He would constantly thank everyone that was helping him in any given moment for taking care of him. He wanted to ease what he perceived as their burden or hardships of caring for him and he did so with tremendous humor, love and compassion.

I remember a particularly Challenging moment as an example of this.

It was the morning after we had brought Dad home from the Assisted Nursing Facility and the new night Nurse we had just hired had left to go home.

I went in to check on him and found him lying in filth, it was shocking. It was an exceptionally large mess and it was obvious he had been laying in it for a while. It was clear that the new night nurse had left without changing him and BTW, that was her last day with us.

I can’t even begin to imagine how embarrassing, painful and sad that must have made my father feel.

In-spite of all of that as he watched my Twin Brother and myself changing him, (My brother had just stopped by to spend a few minutes with him and us) he started laughing hysterically, he said Boys, I have now seen it all, I would LOVE to have a picture of this, My sons changing me and doing it together for one of the first times like it was some sort of Rubik’s Cube Challenge, in which it was quite obvious that we had no clue what we were doing, it was the definition of on the job training.

He then proceeded to talk and Laugh us through it, he was Taking care of us, his sons, as he always had and he continued to do so, even in the most challenging of times for him.

As I write this the tears are just pouring from me because that Was my Father, always looking to ease the pain and the burden of others.

It is a privilege and Honor to be his Son and to have had the gift of being able to care for him during his most challenging months.

I Love You Dad, More than I could ever hope to express in words, I know that you are with me now as I write these words, as I have the privilege of sharing a a little bit about you with others.

Thank you for how much you loved me and encouraged me to love and for teaching me to allow God to guide my life, for teaching me to be a loving man of Integrity, courage, compassion, intelligence, wisdom, kindness, peace and generosity.

I know that You will always be with me and MY Dear Father, May you continue to feel and express unconditional love and rest and play with the Angels, we shall all be together one day, I LOVE YOU SO VERY MUCH, Your Son, G

I’m honored to be able to share with you this powerfully painful and transformational experience and some of the things I continue to learn from them.

I look forward to continuing our conversations about how we can all continue to live a more Loving, Powerful, Passionate, Abundant and Fulfilling Life

In the meantime, please share with us what may have been a moment that changed you in some way and what you learned from that or those experiences.

I look forward to hearing about your experiences and being with you soon…

Until we speak again, May You Continue to Create Your Life as a Masterpiece, Live it as a Work of Art and Make Each Moment An Epic Adventure…

Garrett

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