There are many ways a person can be negativly influenced, but there are many ways a person can fight those influences and remain positive. With that in mind; I spoke with my distant cousin and inspiration to many, Phil Weber.
Many of you may know Phil, from the New York Knicks or the Pheonix Suns basketball team where you would find him coaching.
Phil's home town is Northport, NY and is a graduate from Long Island Lutheran High School. He ran the basketball team to the champinship where he developed a great passion for sports and pursued this field very seriously. He continued to play basketball in college at North Carolina University, which led him to his first coaching job at Florida State University. In 1999, Phil was asked to coach the Pheonix Suns in Arizona following that he went on the the New York Knicks.
Although, there was a long period of time that I was not around Phil to build a close relationship with him and the rest of my family on his side I knew enough to know I had to include him on this blogging journey of mine. He is a very poisitive but extremly deteremind man with very different views on life that other people should live by.
For starters, Phil is looked up to by so many, and spent some time in the public eye - so it would only be obvious to ask him for his opinions in regards to how and what to do in a paticular power struggle between finding ourselves in a world so impacted by media and society.
I remeber Phil having a strong mindset, He is the perfect person to coach. Lets take a few steps back from being a basketball coach and view him as a life coach. I say this because he told me his opinion on what the world faces in terms of the media and how it effects society. What he told me has a different spin from some of the others I have interviewed.
Phil takes the idea of media and technology being a huge driving force in changing the future of our children. He describes this thought with great concern. He felt very strongly about the younger generations parenting with the growth of technology, especially because in his eyes he sees great loss of connection.
The only way to live up to the negative and stay true to yourself is to gain knowlegde, described in his own words;
"Understanding what technology is doing to our society is such an advantage if you understand that simple fact. Why? Because now you can stand out so easily. Instead of a text, call. Instead of an email, write a heartfelt hand written letter.... Be anti- technology and see what happens to your world . Use all the good aspects of technology but understand the need to not let it run your life and take away all the most important and basic principles of life.
Hard work, persistence, true relationships based on caring for others and continual improvement which should be the mantra of every aspect of our lives."
Phil is a very positive person, whom always looks a light in only a positive way, to him there is no other way- this topic is something he seems to be very passionate about and believes in all of the words he says. He simply believes, "If we activly think positively, we will actively live positively and that attitude will spread". Phil explains in order to change these bad habits, or correct the parts of ourselves that have been effected is for starters to realize what is helping us to become weak, when we realize what it is we can therefore attack and change.
What would our world be like? To make things even more simple, what would we be ourselves, what would we think, act, say, desire?
Most importantly it is clear to state that if we change ourselves, we can and will change the world- What would be your first change?
My favorite video of Phil, to give you some insight on the mind set that phil chooses to walk with everyday!
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