Interview with child athletic prodigy, Luke Khozozian, son of former Princeton Hockey Captain and well known pugilist, Mark “Backo” Khozozian.
Luke shows his humility while keeping his crazy good skill under wraps.
Aging Gracefully With a Ducati and a Tattoo
LIFE…you young guy folk and older people in my life teach me so much. I see the younger ones begin a journey and it makes me realize that as much as I may be at a midpoint in life, my journey is no less advanced or near a perceivable end.
We start and almost never cease to ask ourselves so many different questions along the way: who am I ? what am I ? how do I define myself ? what do I love ? who do I love ? who loves me ? am I good enough ? what do I want to be ? where do I want to go ? to live ? to work ? what do I want ? who do I want ? am I right for this job ? person ? is this safe for me ? consistent with my values ? do I have what it takes ? what should be the ultimate barometer of success ? happiness ? Is there a universal standard of being ? what should be my standard ? how much giving is enough ? to whom ? for how long ? how much will make me happy ? what do I care ? and Where do my responsibilities to myself and others begin ? Where do they end ? What is left for a greater power ? Is there a greater power ? A God ? Will I be taken care of in the end ? my loved one ? and so forth and so on..
The one thing I have learned and which I still struggle with, is that I usually grow unhappy and discontented when I compare my life to the way I think it should be instead of comparing it to the way it was. If I can see where I am relative to the past. I have gratitude. If I look forward, I am unsettled and begin to fall prey to projective fear…which by definition, is false because it is about something that has not happened and is therefore untrue. Today’s lesson, each day try to learn honesty, humility and patience. These aren’t static accomplishments or attainments…they are daily process and practice. And there is no way to “work” or “succeed” or begin a process of “self-improvement” that will lead to a feeling of grace. Grace is something that will come over you, its a concrete and tangible feeling…for some ephemeral for others, it seems to be in everything they feel and others they touch. Are we being summoned? Must we decide ? Choose happiness ? What are my limits ? Is 44 too old for a tattoo and a Ducati?
Leave the bitter pills in the medicine cabinet and start chewing on sweet today. I’ll try to do the same.
My Interview with Pro Tennis Great Jay Berger
Here I interview the USTA Professional Development Tzar and former top ten Jay Berger about critical success factors in tennis.
My Interview with Tennis Great Patrick McEnroe
Patrick McEnroe’s much anticipated book, Hardcourt Confidential…stories from a life in tennis, hit the shelves yesterday!
Watch my short interview of Patrick McEnroe where he discusses practicing a spirit of giving back to the sport of tennis and where I praise Patrick who has clearly established himself as not only a tennis champion but also a world recognized Ambassadors of the sport.
(2 minutes 36 seconds)
Action Abe?
Abraham Lincoln : “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have…”
Is ignorance bliss?
“It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” Dr. Carl Sagan
Honesty has many faces but you cannot lie to the man in the mirror
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)
