Our Spiritual Athletic Journey: 7 Powerful Messages to Help You Take Your Game to the Highest Level

By Rodney Scharboneau

Our Spiritual Athletic Journey introduces many powerful ideas for making the most of our athletic experience. Our mission as the coaches and parents of young athletes has always been aligned with and deeply rooted in spirituality. Applying the spiritual principles in this book will lead any coach, parent, or athlete to a peaceful and fulfilling place that has much less to do with win-loss records and championships and has everything to do with accessing divine direction.

Discover seven impactful messages that will give you practical tools for replacing cutthroat competitive ways with creative methods for building self-esteem which are one with true spirit. Find out what wonderful things happenlike success and victorywhen we decide to create instead of compete, to tap in to the true source energy of our teams, to replace fear with love, and to faithfully look forward to the next play.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jun 13, 2014
• ISBN: 9781452516608

Rodney Scharboneau

Rodney Scharboneau is a highly respected high school basketball coach, basketball skill-set trainer, and mentor from Trenton, Michigan. He has been married to the beautiful Melanie Monaghan for twenty-three years. Together, they have a wonderful son, Matthew, and a terrific daughter, Hannah.

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ISBN: 978-1-4525-1661-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4525-1660-8 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014910451

Balboa Press rev. date: 06/12/2014

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1. Stop Competing, Start Creating

2. Fear, Love, and Our Teams

3. Dreaming and Pretending—Act as if It’s Done

4. We Are all Connected

5. The Spiritual Sports Parent

6. The Next Play

7. Source Energy Is Everything

Afterword

The five S’s in sports are stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

—Ken Doherty

Foreword

I have known Rodney Scharboneau for years as a husband, coach, father, and friend. It came as a pleasant surprise when he told me he was going to write a book.

His work is an efficient and effective communication vehicle for sharing important insights. His lifelong experiences in various roles have led him to some very astute and valuable guiding principles, which I endorse and commend to your reading.

While you read Our Spiritual Athletic Journey, you will remember events and circumstances from your own life, situations as a player, coach, fan, teammate, or parent in which you had an opportunity to make a contribution or a difference. After you finish this book, you will reflect upon your actions and think about the impact and influence you had: I remember when I said ———, and what happened next. Was the result positive or not? Was the impact on others positive or negative?

Rodney calls us to think on a different plane, whether we are competing, coaching, supporting, encouraging, or being teammates. The principles herein provide a valuable framework to guide actions toward positive outcomes in a host of circumstances and for a wide variety of roles.

Our Spiritual Athletic Journey contains valuable insights which you can apply for the good of others and yourself. This book is not just for coaches; it applies to players, teachers, coaches, managers, workers, dads—and you, too, moms.

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