Classical Music

I have always loved classical music. It is able to stimulate the raw feelings of a moment and give it to another. I realize not everyone gets it but in the end it endures. Art and artistes are this way when it is all said and done what they leave behind endures. Earthquake or flood, if humanity lives on so does it. It is the truest form of immortality and yet it seems to be human nature to chastise it and diminish it. Yet when the clouds part it remains, because we all feel it and we are a part of it. without us it is nothing and without us it is the same.

Ready or Not here I come

       This final week of preparation will be filled with me , convincing myself that I'm ready. While I am not physically in the best shape of my life I am heading in that direction. Injuries will have that effect.  Mentally I feel I am strong , although my anxiety and self doubt is increasing each day , I hope I can use it to my advantage. Take those feelings wrap them up and release them , focus them intensely on what I must do to be successful. Luck will have no place there.

Scott Fuhr

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Self Doubt

There are times when self doubt can be a motivator or can totally strip your ability to make rational choices to improve yourself. When self doubt rears its head and starts making the decisions in your life one has to recognize this and not allow this self doubt to dictate your actions.

We all make choices on what we want to focus on and what we want to accomplish:  be it playing video games, partying every night or becoming an Olympic athlete.  Whatever it is we chose to focus our life on, we will have times of self doubt. We must remember that what we chose to do is a journey and not a destination.  A journey can have many failures along the way but they have to be looked as part of the process to get to your ultimate goal. Therefore, we need to look at the journey in smaller time increments:  instead of looking at what you want in terms of years, look at it in terms of days.  If what I do tomorrow is better than what I did today then I am getting to my destination and I am succeeding.

Understand that self doubt will be part of the journey and recognize it as such.  Then stomp on it and don't let it stop you from doing what you want.

The reason for the quote is that person who says it cannot be done is the same person who is doing it.

A New Beginning

The Year of the horse has ended. It will be another 12 years before the Year of the Horse occurs again. I hope everyone’s journey towards mastery has been one full of learning. Here is to a New Year the Year of the Sheep, and may it be an even better one.

Where am I? What am I doing?

Failure

A failure is not failure if you can learn from it. Take that failure analyze it, come to a conclusion of what has caused it to be a failure, and change what you did or did not do, so that it can becomes a success in the future. A failure is only a failure if you choose not to learn from it.

Where am I? What am I doing?

Priorities

Everyone has things to do, and everyone is busy, some more then others. So we must all choose on what gets done by setting priorities. If something in our lives has a low priority it will most likely be the thing that gets put off to the side to be done later, and the ones that have a high priority will happen right away. Only us as individuals can choose and set what priority each of the things in our lives have. Some times it can become a juggling act, and  we must do the best we can to try to accomplish everything. And there are times when we fail. Those are the times a person must look at and see if things could have been done differently, and if so learn from it. 

Where am I? What am I doing?

Fitness

I've come to the conclusion that when it comes to my training, I haven't placed enough emphasis on fitness. There are many reasons for this but the biggest one is laziness. The type of training that makes you fitter is not enjoyable for me and there is no instant payoff. Weight training, which is very enjoyable for me, gives you that instant feedback in the form of muscle pump. You feel tired but you also have that pump to let you know that you've done a good job. 

A few weeks back, Sifu Brinker asked everyone if we were in the best shape of our lives, and if not, why not? I thought about it and there was no good reason for me not to be. My 40th birthday is tomorrow but I still feel much younger than that. I don't have any physical limitations that prevent me from being in better shape.


I've decided to set a standard for myself where I will keep at least one belt ahead as far as the fitness test goes. So, if I'm a yellow belt, I will challenge myself to be at an orange belt fitness level. This will be one small step for me and maybe just that little bit will make me feel good enough to take it further. If I take a page from the rest of my training, I know that just by taking action, I will increase my engagement and eventually, motivation will follow. 

Cory Smid
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