"What is Truth?"
I remember talking about this very question with an orthodox monastic Elder once and I will get back to that at the very end of this...
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brian041278
- Apr 30, 2020
- 8 min
The Greatest Pandemic (perhaps)
The greatest pandemic we might be currently undergoing is one of anxiety. AN EPIDEMIC is a disease that affects a large number of people...
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brian041278
- Mar 13, 2020
- 5 min
When Sports Ends...
"Every depth has a surface but not every surface has a depth" is something I heard from an Elder from Simonospetra monastery on the Holy...
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brian041278
- Nov 20, 2019
- 4 min
How much is too much?
When parents are considering getting their children into youth sports I feel it is very important to look into at least a few items...
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brian041278
- Oct 11, 2019
- 4 min
Social Media, Emotion, Culture
Let me start by saying that emotion itself is a state of illness. We have become overall such a pleasure seeking and self satisfying...
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brian041278
- Sep 25, 2019
- 6 min
Have sports turned into idolatry?
While approaching this subject, let us first define both sports and idolatry. Sport as a noun with the plural being sports can be defined...
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brian041278
- Feb 26, 2019
- 2 min
Πάλη
Pal - lee // The Greek word for wrestle. Which very ironically or not, now that I look at my last blog https://www.wwv.life/blog/struggle...
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brian041278
- Dec 21, 2018
- 3 min
Struggle
In a modern sense the word struggle is something that people seemingly try to avoid at all cost! The word itself may even make people...
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brian041278
- Nov 28, 2018
- 3 min
The Answer to Life
There was a night when I was about 4 1/2 years old when my mother woke me up in the middle of the night and asked me to quietly to go get...
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brian041278
- Nov 24, 2018
- 2 min
Who am I?
Often I mention to my students that wrestling is not the totality of our identity! No sport or extra curricular activity can or should be...
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brian041278
- Nov 19, 2018
- 2 min
Goal Achieving Strategies
We have talked a lot about setting goals(https://www.wwv.life/blog/setting-goals), using these goals as a foundation for decision...
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brian041278
- Nov 15, 2018
- 2 min
To See What is Right...
I have been talking a lot to the students about decision making. One thing I have repeatedly said to them "to see what is right and not...
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brian041278
- Nov 9, 2018
- 3 min
Motivation
Last night was interviewed by Joe Williamson "Joe Flo" of flowrestling (national wrestling coverage) who has an expanded site called...
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brian041278
- Oct 19, 2018
- 3 min
Social Media/ Vaping
I attended a meeting today at the school that I coach wrestling at during the regular season and it addressed these challenges that our...
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brian041278
- Oct 18, 2018
- 2 min
Time Management
Another lesson I have been working on with the students is one of time management. It is such an important concept to become aware of in...
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brian041278
- Oct 15, 2018
- 2 min
Setting Goals
Something we have been focusing on these past few seasons with the wrestlers and especially this summer with the creation of the...
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brian041278
- Oct 11, 2018
- 2 min
Thrill of Victory/ Agony of Defeat
Many times as a coach I have had to comfort a defeated wrestler and many times as a coach I have had to temper a winning wrestler. Many...
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brian041278
- Aug 20, 2018
- 2 min
Random Thoughts 11 weeks in...
What a first summer of existence for WWV as a program!!! Often when I am coming home from nights on the mat at WWV, I recollect the movie...
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brian041278
- Jul 14, 2018
- 2 min
Fargo
https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/6219477-how-did-the-2018-ncaa-champs-do-at-fargo https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/5067744-what...
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brian041278
- Jun 21, 2018
- 2 min
MORE SAINTLY WISDOM
A large part of the responsibility of for a person's state of existence lies within the family. For children to be released from various...
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