The Noticer

Notes by Coach JB

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8 Think with me hereeverybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if youll remember,
mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a mountain. Sure, the view
is great, but whats a view for? A view just gives us a glimpse of our next destination our next
target. But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin
to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil,
learning and becoming what enables us to summit lifes next peak. Jones
9 Experience is not the best teacher. Other peoples experience is the best teacher. By
reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them
great.
13 Whatever you focus upon, increases. When you focus on the things you need, youll find
those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you dont have, you will
soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you dont have and feel
worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to losebut a grateful perspective
brings happiness and abundance into a persons life.
15 If you want people to believe the things you believe or buy what you are selling then
others must at least be comfortable around you.
15 Jones on perspective, You ate sardines and Vienna sausages in the sand. I dined on surf
and turf with an ocean view.
30 The kid who works at your local fast-food restaurant accepts you for who you are
because he doesnt care anything about you. But a true friend holds you to a higher
standard. A true friend brings out the best in you. A best friend will tell you the truth and a
wise best friend will include a healthy dose of perspective.
52 You worry because youre smartthe dumber folks among us dont worry much. They
aint afraid of nothingSmart people are generally more creative and imaginative than
dumb peopleWorryFearis just misuse of the creative imagination that has been
placed in each of uswe imagine all that things that could happen, that might happen,
that will happen if this or that happens.
56 The seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.
72 One can walk through the forest and never look up. But you can pick up a single leaf and
know all sorts of information about the tree you are underyou can tell a lot about a
person from the leaves they drop as well.
73 Wisdom is the ability to see into the future the consequences of your choices in the present.

82 It wasnt until 65 that Harlan Colonel Sanders took a family recipe and began
franchising restaurants to serve his fried chicken. Ben Franklin was 78 when he invented
bifocals and Winston Churchill was 78 when he wrote a book that won the Nobel Prize of
Literature. Nelson Mandela was 87 when he was elected President. Grandma Moses, the
artist, didnt sell her first painting until she was ninety and Michelangelo didnt begin his
work on St. Peters Basilica until he was 72.
83 Many of lifes treasures remain hidden from us simply because we never search for them.
Often we do not ask the proper questions that might lead us to the answer to all our
challenges.
83 Everyone of us is always in a crisis, coming out of a crisis or headed for a crisis.

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95 Rebuild with a grateful heart. You may have lost a house, but you did not lose your home.
Remember, you are still breathing
102 Life is like a game of Monopoly. You may own hotels on Boardwalk or may be renting on
Baltic Avenue. But in the end, it all goes back in the box. The next generation will be
getting out your stuff and playing with or fighting over it.
103 Most people that say dont sweat the small stuff are missing the picture. The small stuff
is what makes up the big picture. Jones makes an analogy by asking Henry if he has ever
been bitten by an elephant? Henry says no. Jones asks what about a mosquito? Of course,
is the response and Jones says, See? Its the small stuff thatll get you!
106 Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes.
111 Jones tells a similar story to the one I share: Click Here
120 Forgiveness is about the past, trust and respect are about the future. Forgiveness will be in
the hands of others, but trust and respect are in your own hands and must be earned.
120-122 Read these pages to students at the beginning of the year. Bolsters the statement you
always make about childrens current situation is of no credit to them. Whether their
parents are successful or useless this has no reflection of the childs future. However, what
they decide to do with their life will be a direct reflection of their choices.
137 There are people who dont mind the occasional curse word sprinkled into conversation;
there are also folks who dont want to her any curse words. Now, you may not think there
is anything wrong with cursing, but if you want to become a person that others want to be
around, you must always hold your life to the very highest standard.
154 Your time on this earth is a gift to be used wisely. Dont squander your words or your
thoughts. Consider that even the simplest actions you take for your lives matter beyond
measureand they matter forever.
154 The reason an answer is not often found in the midst of crisis is that many times, at that
very moment, a specific answer does not exist.
155 The best is yet to come

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Chapter 1 Summary
Though we may be going through tough times, we need to keep it into perspective. While most
of us want extravagant things, we have to remember its already a blessing we have the things
that we do have. Most people around the world get nothing. See the positive side in things and
more positives will come into your life, see the negative and the more negatives you will receive.

Chapter 2 Summary
Each person has their own love language of how they show or express their gratitude and
feelings for another person. In order to properly receive and send messages you have to
understand the other persons love language. Jones explains this through the example of people
from America and Scotland both speak English, but their dialects are very different. In a
coaching or playing perspective, one coach/player may express themselves by being very
aggressive and exuberant (thats what passion looks like to them) while the other individual is
quiet and methodical. Both are getting the job done and are competing hard, but the way they
approach the game is very different.

Chapter 3 Summary
4 Major Love Languages
1) Favors and Deeds expressing ones love through actions. (Goldfish)
2) Physical Contact expressing ones love through touch. Could be a simple pat on the
back all the way to a sexual relationship. (Cats)
3) Quality Time expressing ones love through actual QUALITY time spent together also
known as undivided attention. (Canaries)
4) Spoken Words of Approval expressing ones love verbally. (Dogs)

Chapter 4 Summary
If you worry regularly its generally because your intelligence and creativity is being used the
wrong way. You defeat these worries and issues with logic. If you know that logically these
doubts and fears should not even be in your head, then the easiest way to defeat them is logic.
Defeat possibilities with odds.
Example: 40% of the things you worry about will never happen to you. 30% of the things
you worry about have already happened, or the past (we cant change this). 12% of the
things you worry about have to do needless imaginings about our health. 10% of the
things you worry about are what other people think about us (we cant change this). 8%
of our life consists of actual things to worry about.

Chapter 5 Summary
Being true to your feelings and expectations when you fall into love/lust with someone is
important so that you can keep perspective on life. If you start to sacrifice the things you love
and care about for that individual, then when times get rough or stale you may seek these things
out or get sad reminiscing about them.

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Chapter 6 Summary
Jones gives perspective of whether or not you are too old to make an impact. He tells the story of
Norman Borlaug who received the Nobel Prize for inventing hybridized corn that scientists say
saved the lives of 2 billion people worldwide. But explains how none of this would have been
possible if it wasnt for Vice President Henry Wallace who started the initiative in Mexico to
find a solution. Or how it may have never happened if Henry Wallace wasnt watched over by
George Washington Carver as a little boy and how George Washington Carver may have never
been farmer if he wasnt rescued a raised by farmers in Kansas. Synopsis, our actions have
amazing consequences, both positive and negative. Consider your decisions before you make
them.

Chapter 7 Summary
Two small stories:
A squirrel climbed onto the Metro-North Railroad power lines near New York City. He
set off an electrical surge, which weakened an overhead bracket. The bracket allowed a
wire to dangle toward the tracks. The wire tangled in a train that tore down all the line.
As a result, 47,000 commuters were stranded in Manhattan for hours that evening. And
Ill bet it even wasnt a big squirrel.
The Hubble Space Telescope was conceived in 1946 and cost $2.5 billion to produce. Yet
when it was launched into orbit, NASA discovered that a particular lens had been ground
1/1000th of an inch less than it should have been. That little thing until it was repaired
by astronauts, rendered the most expensive telescope in history no better than a good one
on the ground.

Chapter 8 Summary
Jones explains the common problem we have when we are trying to change and expect people to
accept that change is that we blunder the difference between a mistake and a decision.
You werent home for your wifes birthdaychoice. You shorted your crews
paychoice. You bury irrigation lines too shallow to save timechoice. I didnt see that
signmistake. I forgot it was your birthdaymistake.
Mistakes can be corrected with apologies. Choices can be corrected by exhibiting true remorse,
paying restitution possible and asking the question, will you please forgive me?. Asking for
forgiveness however should never include, If I have offended you or If I was wrong because
a person experiencing true remorse already knows they offended someone or did something
wrong.

Chapter 9 Summary
Jones takes Andy to see a boy that was in the same struggle as he was when he first met Jones.
Jones leads him through the same conversation as he had with Andy and ends it the same way he
did with Andy by giving him the three biographies that he gave Andy, Winston Churchill, Will
Rogers and George Washington Carver. The lesson was about making productive changes to
yourself to help become that person that everyone enjoys to gain new opportunities for oneself.

Chapter 10 Summary
Jones says goodbye. Youll have to read this Chapter on your own!

Justin Matthew Brandt

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