Rule 10.- Coming soon!
Hello! Just coming real quick to dust off the blog and let you know I will be back with some more posts soon!
Hello! Just coming real quick to dust off the blog and let you know I will be back with some more posts soon!
Those of you more familiar with superheroes, you might have recognized the words “prep time”, usually attributed to Batman…
While I debated myself over if this would be the very first rule, in the end I decided to leave it here since to be honest, all the rules in the codex are equally important to me. Let’s begin with the rule: Why the “why”? We often read a lot about doing things, about motivation,…
People used to get things done in the day, people nowadays seem to just want the day to be done.
Years later while on another volunteering trip, we had a mudslide happen right at the area where we were working, much to my surprise, I felt incredibly at ease while helping the veterans take both people and materials to safety…
Now, most “motivational” places tell you, “Get motivated!” as if one had forgotten to press a switch, but that wasn’t cutting it for me, I just couldn’t find that switch.
I think anyone who has ever lost motivation can tell you, sometimes, the fire just isn’t there…
Don’t be fooled by the apparent meaning of the word “almost”…there’s an infinite distance between “almost” and “done”.
Being a positive, altruistic, caring person it’s OK. Just don’t expect anyone to give you extra points for it.
Most schools today, focus on the “beauty” of making a form “right” , so that, after years of hard work and severe training, you become a lethal weapon, able to execute your form with astounding accuracy, and able to defeat any…wooden board…
Martial arts, they do talk a lot about death, dying and being willing to accept death.
But, why would anyone want to accept something so…negative?