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Here are some thoughts and sayings collected over the years that might be helpful to you when your
"demons" try to sabotage your Martial Arts training.
Training and practice...
- The path to mastering any skill is through regular and consistent practice.
- Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, faith and endurance.
- Perfection is attained through attention to details.
- Transforming from the ordinary to the extraordinary requires EXTRAordinary practice! The mindful practice of simple basic tasks and techniques develops these and many other skills.
- That discomfort/pain you are feeling is the weakness leaving your body.
- Just do it. - Nike commercial
- Just train.
- Did you train today?
- The money you spend on training is an investment in yourself.
- There is a difference between being an Uke and just taking ukemi.
- The secret to ukemi is: No Fear
- The best way to help your dojo is to just train.
- We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training.
- We train day after day,week after week, month after month and year after year so that we can look back at our lives and have the self-satisfaction of saying "I trained".
- A dojo isn't a college. In a Dojo you train for your entire life.
- We practice Kihon Dosa to learn to control our own bodies.
- How can you expect to control an opponent's body if you can't control your own first?
- Become a student of Kihon Dosa.
- A "Black Belt" is someone who didn't quit.
You don’t have to be the best; you just have to be serious about your training.
It's about time....
- There is no substitute for mat time.
- Procrastination is time's enemy.
- Time management class should be required study in school.
- Students who say they don't have enough "time" to train need to learn to tell time better.
- There is television time, Internet time, computer game time, spectator entertainment time, alcohol/drug time, couch time and then there is "mat time". You Choose.
- Are others stealing your time?
- a person who steals your time is also called a thief.
- It is also possible to steal time from yourself.
- Once time is stolen from you it can not be returned, it's lost forever.
- As we grow older we come to realize how much time we have wasted.
- Time is like the gasoline in the tank of our cars. Our "Time Tank" is only filled-up once on the day we are born. There are no re-fills.
Excuses....
- Make it a habit of not letting excuses get in your way.
- Be careful excuse making can become very addictive.
- In the end an excuse is still just an excuse.
- It seems that everybody, in our society, needs an excuse to explain their failures.
- What's your excuse for not training?
Journey on the path....
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.
- Your journey starts by stepping onto the mat.
- If you stop your journey, you will never know what is at the end of the path.
- There are many paths up the mountain, but there is only one summit.
- It's not the destination, it's the journey.
- It requires courage to stay on the path.
- Should you lose the way without a doubt you will enter an "evil path".
Give no reign to the spiritual horse. Morihei Ueshiba
Health....
- Health choices we made when were young will affect us when we are old.
- It will all catch-up to you in the end.
- Martial arts training is a positive addiction.
- Relax....
- Breathe....
- Muscular/ skeletal strength, flexibility, cardiopulmonary/ endurance, diet.
- If you're not moving you are dying.
The Way....
- There is no "Off Season" in Budo.
- Budo is not a sport.
- One does not retire from Budo.
- If you don't live it, you don't believe it.
- This is a marial art, it's suppose to be "hard".
- A Budo Man / Budo Woman never quits.
Random Thoughts....
- The highest form of discipline is self-discipline.
- The highest form of praise is self-praise. (knowing you did a good job)
- If you want your situation to change, you must change first.
- Life is what gets in the way of your martial arts training.
- There is no whining in a dojo.
- Everything you need to succeed you already have.
- You are the biggest limitation in your life.
- Successful people do the things failures don't want to do.
- You already have the ability; you just have to develop it.
- The only way to know is by doing.
- We are the sum total of our experiences.
- Don't put an age limit on your dreams.
- Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever. - Lance Armstrong
OK. I'll see you on the mat.