M.A.N. C.A.V.E. PROGRAM
October 2023
2023 M.A.N. C.A.V.E. FATHERHOOD SUMMIT Letter from Project Director
Enjoy the Moment of Now During a Nurturing Fathers session, I asked the question, “ What are you struggling with that you want to change ”?
I started thinking about how much of my time is spent speeding through life. I can tell you firsthand, that a large portion of my life has been spent moving way too fast. I spend a lot of time being preoccupied and thinking about how my future might play out or thinking about things that happened in the past. Why do I do this? Why do we do this? Why do we spend so much of our time looking to the future and wondering how our lives might be different? Or looking into the past and analyzing how or why things happened the way they did? All that we need to live for is TODAY - RIGHT NOW. There is a proverb that says, “ Don't brag about tomorrow, since you don't know what the day will bring. Today, lets "Enjoy the Journey". What does that really mean? "Enjoy the Journey" means that whatever happens in your life, regardless of whether it's good or bad, you've got to embrace it. The absolute most important part of life is enjoying the "going" part of the journey, not the actual destination itself. I realize I need to SLOW DOWN, pay attention, and enjoy my life right now, exactly as it is. And this is true for being a father, as well. When I am not working or facilitating a Nurturing Fathers or Marriage & Parenting program, I like to release my stress by working out. Understand, my comfort zone is training that's tough, hard, and fast. I can go into the gym and pound out a killer workout and in 45 minutes I ’ m drenched and lying on the floor, crying like a baby. That's easy! That ’ s extreme! My wife tells me, “ I take everything to the extreme ”. For me, it's much more challenging to slow down.
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