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founder of m�agine!,
is a professional
coach and trainer,
author and creative artist, whose work has been featured throughout
the world.
Michael is a
Certified Practitioner
of the
Myers-Briggs
Type Indicator.�
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who might benefit
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It can be difficult for us to see beyond the nose upon our face, especially--I might add--for some of us. Difficult to see past the things that are transient, the things that are urgent, the things that are sensory.
Consequently, we tend to invest an inordinate measure of our time, talent, and treasure in, as the apostle Paul described, "the things we see now [that] will soon be gone," rather than, "the things we cannot see [that] will last forever" (2 Corinthians 4:18, NLT). What would it look like if we could "flip the frame" of our reference and view our story from the inside out? What might be possible that otherwise proves elusive?
My passion for classic black-and-white movies meets my passion for baseball's historic heritage in the 1942 film, The Pride of the Yankees. Gary Cooper played Yankee immortal Lou Gehrig, whose workman-like career and very life were cut short at the age of thirty-seven by ALS, a deadly neurodegenerative illness now known as Lou Gehrig disease. Charming Teresa Wright portrayed Gehrig's wife, Eleanor; several legendary Yankees, including an ailing Babe Ruth, played themselves in the movie. It's a wonderful story of love and baseball. The two pastimes--love and baseball--must have commonalities for, as a young boy and as regards love, I thought I'd never get to first base.
Although he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal, Gary Cooper was an unlikely pick for the role of Gehrig. For Gary Cooper disliked baseball; he had never attended a game; and, he required extensive coaching even to appear competent at bat and in the field.
By the way, you may not know this about me, but only two things prevented me from playing baseball at the Major League level: talent and opportunity.
The greatest challenge, however, was that Cooper was right-handed and Gehrig was left-handed. To overcome the discrepancy, the production crew created uniforms with the numbers and names reversed. During filming, Cooper would hit the ball and run to third base, rather than first. Then, in post-production, the frames were flipped to show Cooper batting from the opposite side of the plate and running to first.
They flipped the frame of reference
and viewed the story from the inside out.
What would it look like, then, to similarly flip our frame of reference with regard to the flesh and the spirit, the seen and the unseen, the temporal and the eternal?
French philiosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) wrote, "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
Incarnate beings. What's your sense around Teilhard's observation?
If Teilhard's "flip" is accurate, how might this perspective transform our thoughts and lives?
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Michael Fox
m�agine!
530/613.2774
407 Myrtle Drive
Farmerville, LA, USA 71241 |
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In addition to personal and professional coaching,
m�agine! specializes in spiritual transformation coaching,
employing its proprietary models
--Values, Vision, Voice and Heart, Soul, Mind & Strength--
as well as
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator� curriculum
published by CPP, the People Development People.
Michael's books include
Complete in Christ,
Complete in Christ Spiritual Transformation Workbook,
and Biblio�files.
Coaching fees are based upon a sliding scale. Contact us for details.
For additional information, visit our website at maginethepossibilities.net.
Limited scholarships are available for spiritual transformation coaching.
On the flip side, if you are able, please inquire about opportunities
to fund scholarships for those who cannot afford coaching fees.
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