Category: Coffee With Jon

  • The Last Coffee

    “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.” —Andy Bernard, The Office Every so often you must stop and take stock of what you have going on around you, and ask if your current situation serves you, or if you serve it. It’s very…

  • Visualization

    I wrote this on November 22nd, 2023 shortly after finishing my heavy set of squats from that day’s workout. The story tells itself, but I will reiterate the moral of the story to drive the point home: visualization of your desired outcome in any given situation makes a difference. If you don’t believe me, you’ve…

  • Give Purpose To Your Daily Tasks

    “Wash the plate not because it is dirty nor because you are told to wash it, but because you love the person who will use it next.” —Mother Teresa of Calcutta Life tends to make more sense when we have a purpose, and all of the daily tasks that we deal with, when given meaning,…

  • The Unbiased Truth – Change Your Own Mind

    “They were not the same eyes with which he had last looked out at this particular scene, and the brain which interpreted the images the eyes resolved was not the same brain. There had been no surgery involved, just the continual wrenching of experience.” —Douglas Adams, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish It’s…

  • The Importance of Building Strong Bonds

    “And then—the watcher at his pulse took fright. No one believed. They listened at his heart. Little—less—nothing!—and that ended it. No more to build on there. And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.” —Robert Frost, ‘Out, Out—’ While this snippet of a poem is incredibly abrupt, it is also…

  • Are You Giving Yourself Patience?

    “Why ever hurry?Even water takes its timeflowing down the drain.” —Michael Chernin We’re kicking off the 2nd quarter of the year and it’s time for a personal check-in. Are you giving yourself the patience you deserve? Are you allowing yourself the room that you need to actually grow and accomplish your goals? There’s no hurry…

  • Giving Up Is Unacceptable…

    “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.” —Jack London There are many ways in which we can fail; we can fail a test, fail at keeping our word, or fail some other trial we encounter. As we’ve all heard, failing…

  • Personal Check-In

    “Why ever hurry?Even water takes its timeflowing down the drain.” —Michael Chernin We’re kicking off the 6th week of the year and it’s time for a personal check-in. Are you giving yourself the patience you deserve? Are you allowing yourself the room that you need to actually grow and accomplish your goals? There’s no hurry…

  • One Of The First…

    “But for those of us that love to do stuff, love what we do, are “People of Action”, understand that life is fleeting and should not be wasted being a busybody—you are who I admire. You are what makes the world better. You are who gives others’ inspiration. So play your music, feed your garden,…