Matt & Kalee's Playlist: Expect Nothing. Look Forward to Everything.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Expect Nothing. Look Forward to Everything.

In the next 2 months, Matt and I will be moving to Goodyear, AZ for the Reds Spring Training. I know that I will deeply miss my newfound oasis here in Austin, TX but I have so many things to look forward to...

Looking forward to:

Warmer temperatures which means,

More brilliant sunshine and

Some sweet, sweet color on my skin again which means I'll be

Busting out the shorts and tanks and swimsuits!

Spending time with my grandparents who'll be less than an hour from us and

Hanging with my lovely cousin, Samantha, and her fiance, Luke, who live in Phoenix!

Seeing familiar baseball wives and girlfriends whom I love dearly and have missed this off-season and

Being around girls again! ...its pretty much been 24/7 guy-time for the past 3 months... uuugh.

Heading up a Baseball Wives Book Club for spring training- yay!- our first book: The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve aaaannd

Getting a Baseball Wives Body Weight (BWBW) Bootcamp started so that I can get back to doing what I love- teaching, training, positively affecting and interacting with people, and helping them change their bodies and minds.

Meeting new people, in and out of the baseball world.

Seeing our dear friends Cynara and Darnell McDonald (former Reds teammates who live in Phoenix) and their beautiful daughter Jiana AND soon-to-be-born baby girl!

Being a mere 15 minutes away from one of my best friends, Samantha Rhew, who'll be in Peoria with her man, David Pauly, for the Seattle Mariners Spring Training... this means

Spending lots of time with her and her 8 month old daughter, Emme, whom I absolutely adore!

Exploring another new city and everything it has to offer.

Learning to appreciate a new and different landscape, new plants, and new scenery.

Visits from both our families (Maloney's & Basting's) during March!

New restaurants to try and

A new fitness center to work out in AND

A new Bikram Yoga Studio to practice in!

Outdoor workouts.

Touristy to-dos like

Visiting the Grand Canyon,

Driving up to Sedona,

Las Vegas perhaps... to see one of the Cirque De Soleils!

Checking out Tempe- they tell me I'll love it!

Another visit from my best girlfriends- Kelly, Kate, Amanda, and Dana- at the end of March!

Living in another new home and

Being oh-so-close to where Jared and Audrey (a Reds teammate and his girlfriend whom we are very close with) are living, which means

Walking Lucy, Gus, and Ruby (Jared and Audrey's new Boxer pup) with Audrey each day!

Catching up with teammates we haven't seen in a while.

The beginning of BASEBALL SEASON and

The crack of the bat and

That lovely sound of the ball smacking the catcher's glove and

Watching Mo DO WORK! Woo hoo!

So, here's to the beginning of another adventurous season, with good friends to share it with, great families to support us, a clear head and a positive mindset to work with, a renewed sense of love for what we do, a healthy mind and body, a commitment to make a difference in the world, an intense desire to give ourselves completely to everything we do, and a deep faith that the Universe is unfolding as it should. Cheers!

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Philosophy

Talent is God given: be humble.

Fame is man given: be thankful.

Conceit is self given: be careful.

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Be good to yourself.

Be excellent to others.

And do everything with love.

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Life is change.

Growth is optional.

Choose wisely.

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Hard work beats talent,

when talent doesn't work hard.

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It is my deepest and sincerest belief

that we all have a responsibility to

take care of one another.

Basics

Matt...

-grew up in Huron, Ohio and is the son of Joe and Kim Maloney.

-played baseball for The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss Rebels) until his Junior year (2005) before getting drafted in the 3rd round to the Philadelphia Phillies.

-was traded in 2007 to the Cincinnati Reds.

-made his MLB debut in June 2009 against the Chicago Cubs.

-enjoys playing the guitar, listening to music, hiking, adventures with his wife and dogs, grilling out, and road trips.

Kalee...

-grew up in Huron, Ohio and is the daughter of Chris and Lisa Basting.

-attended THE Ohio State University and graduated in 2008 with a degree in Communication, with a focus on public relations.

-is a National Academy of Sports Medicine certified personal coach/trainer and enjoys working out/weight training and helping others to enjoy it too.

-practices Bikram Yoga 5-7 times a week and believes it is much more than exercise, stretching, and sweating- it is a way of life.

-is constantly growing and learning to LET GO and JUST BE.

-has faith in a Higher Power and a Life Force that runs through everyone and everything.

-is passionate about Yoga- healthy mind = healthy body = healthy life.

Quotes Worth Quoting

In All Things, Everything.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on. We must remember that.

Your outlook on life is a direct reflection on how much you like yourself. -Lululemon

We must be aware that we come from the same source... the illusion of separateness is what divides us!

Men, for the sake of getting a living, forget to live. -Margaret Fuller

Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

When you are able to embrace All That Is in love, all there is is love.

We are what we repeatedly do.

What you resist, persists.

There is no seperation between God & us. We are divine expressions of the creative principle. -Shakti Gawain

We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are. -Anais Nin

Be simple, be innocent, be present and your life will be charmed. -Deepak Chopra

The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes. -Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. -MLK

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. -Rumi

You get treated the way you teach people to treat you.

Practice love until you remember that you are love. -Swami Sai Premananda

At the CORE

In terms of spirituality/ holiness/ godliness... briefly:

"I think that you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. If humanity never evolved in its exploration of the divine, a lot of us would still be worshipping golden Egyptian statues of cats. And this evolution of religious thinking does involve a fair bit of cherry-picking. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving towards the light.

Even in the most unlikely and conservative of places, you can find sometimes this glimmering idea that God might be bigger than our LIMITED RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES have taught us.

I see the universe in terms of karma, a process of constant circulation, which is to say that you don't really "end up" anywhere at the end of your life-not in heaven or hell-but just get recycled back to the earth again in another form, in order to resolve whatever relationships or mistakes you left uncompleted last time."

- E. Gilbert