Greetings!
I have a Great training concept for you today! It will ensure that you will see amazing results in your training! It will ensure that all of your friends on the Mat will see the same results, as well!
I would like you to entertain the thought of being a Partner...not an Opponent. We use the phrase "Team" in class a lot, don't we? "Great job, Team!" Ever hear me say that? Doesn't the word Team indicate that EVERYONE is working TOGETHER to achieve a goal? If the goal is for EVERYONE to get in great shape and be great at Martial Arts, then don't we ALL have to work TOGETHER?
There are many skills we need to aquire that REQUIRE a partner to learn. Agree? Then isn't paramount that we learn how to be a good PARNTER? The students with the BEST partners always learn the MOST! The real key is to be a great partner for your friend, and they need to be a great partner for you. Then you BOTH become great! We all need to take Pride in helping our friends learn the Martial Arts. After all, isn't one of our goals knowing self defense? We all play a part in our friends knowing they can protect themselves. They play a part in ours. If we help each other learn, and care about each other, we all can protect ourselves and our families. Not too mention, we all have more FUN! Does anyone like training with someone who doesn't help them out? Not really. It's never fun to train with someone who's only concerned with their own skills.
This week on the Mats, I would like to encourage you to be THE BEST PARTNER on the Mat. Be the student that EVERYONE loves to workout with because you genuinely care if they are improving. Take your time, be helpful, compliment, and encourage. Chances are they will return the favor! And guess what?...EVERYONE GETS BETTER AS A TEAM!
I hope you gained some benefit from this Today!
ALL THE BEST!
COACH
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Happy...not Satisfied.
Greetings!
I hope your week is off to a Great start! As summer is upon us, I hope you are still attacking the Goals you set for yourself back in January! That being said, I would like to share an idea with you today. That idea is to ALWAYS be happy, but NEVER be satisfied.
As we work toward our goals...on the Mat, school, at work...it is easy to get frustrated. It is also equally as easy to get complacent. When we are not hitting the goals we want, we might get frustrated. When we reach a certain level of success, we might get complacent. Neither will get you to reach your full potential.
That's where our idea this week comes into play. ALWAYS be happy, just NEVER satisfied. I think it's safe to assume, as we chip away at a goal, we make progress. The challenge is, sometimes we don't take the time to recognize our progress. We focus on what we don't have instead of what we do have. Always remind yourself that you work very hard, and you ARE getting better. Remind yourself to be HAPPY.
Once we reach a goal, it is then key to keep setting NEW ones. To NEVER be Satisfied at what we have achieved. We must always strive to reach new levels of growth...personally, professionally, athletically. If you were very overweight, your first goal would be to not be obese. Once you reach a certain weight and fitness level, you can't stop there. You can't be satisfied at just reaching one goal. You need to strive to CONSTANTLY IMPROVE.
It is so important for us to keep a healthy, happy lifestyle. Not just for ourselves, but for the people we impact on a daily basis. So, remind yourself this week...I am ALWAYS HAPPY, just NEVER SATISFIED!
I hope you gained some benefit from this Today!
ALL THE BEST!
COACH
I hope your week is off to a Great start! As summer is upon us, I hope you are still attacking the Goals you set for yourself back in January! That being said, I would like to share an idea with you today. That idea is to ALWAYS be happy, but NEVER be satisfied.
As we work toward our goals...on the Mat, school, at work...it is easy to get frustrated. It is also equally as easy to get complacent. When we are not hitting the goals we want, we might get frustrated. When we reach a certain level of success, we might get complacent. Neither will get you to reach your full potential.
That's where our idea this week comes into play. ALWAYS be happy, just NEVER satisfied. I think it's safe to assume, as we chip away at a goal, we make progress. The challenge is, sometimes we don't take the time to recognize our progress. We focus on what we don't have instead of what we do have. Always remind yourself that you work very hard, and you ARE getting better. Remind yourself to be HAPPY.
Once we reach a goal, it is then key to keep setting NEW ones. To NEVER be Satisfied at what we have achieved. We must always strive to reach new levels of growth...personally, professionally, athletically. If you were very overweight, your first goal would be to not be obese. Once you reach a certain weight and fitness level, you can't stop there. You can't be satisfied at just reaching one goal. You need to strive to CONSTANTLY IMPROVE.
It is so important for us to keep a healthy, happy lifestyle. Not just for ourselves, but for the people we impact on a daily basis. So, remind yourself this week...I am ALWAYS HAPPY, just NEVER SATISFIED!
I hope you gained some benefit from this Today!
ALL THE BEST!
COACH
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Attract the Positive...Repel the Negative.
Greetings!
Do you consider yourself a positive person? Are you a "cup is half full" type of personality? Or are you a negative person? Do you somehow find "what's wrong" in every situation? Be honest.
My encouragement for you this week is to make it a habit to Attract the Positive and Repel the Negative. If you already have a positive outlook on life, that surely doesn't mean negativity doesn't come your way. I'd simply like to remind you that when hit with a negative, always respond with a positive. Take a few moments to breath and collect your thoughts when a challenge comes your way. As Tony Robbins says, "It's not what happens, it's what you do that makes a difference." Easier said than done to be sure, but necessary to stay focused and driven. When we have a positive outlook, we tend to think better AND do better. We take ACTIONS that lead us to our goals!
If you tend to be a negative person, you have a big challenge ahead. A crucial one. One you must face head on. Your first step would be to create the mindset of being a "good finder". Our nature as humans is to pick the things wrong with a situation FIRST. That's why it is important to CONDITION yourself to start finding good in bad situations. You can condition your mind the way you condition your muscles. You just have to keep "working" your brain muscles just like any other muscle. You have to stick with it, too! In time, if you don't work your biceps, they will atrophy and lose their tone. So will your "brain muscles"! It's key when you are hit with a negative to take a moment to THINK. Ask yourself powerful questions. Questions like, "If there was something posititve about this, what would it be?" When you ask yourself good questions, you will get good ANSWERS. When we ask ourselves negative questions like, "Why does this always happen to me?", rarely does anything good happen. You shut down the notion of using the situation to grow and improve. Again, is this difficult? Absolutely. But, what goal worth accomplishing is easy? Not many. You have to want to improve. You have to want to achieve more. If you can make a HABIT to repel negativity, you have a great chance to always MOVE FORWARD!
Repelling negativity can also mean the stimulus you chose to surround yourself. Negative people. Negative reading. Vocabulary. Situations. If you constantly work at REPELLING the negative around you, it's easier to be POSITIVE! Surround yourself with POSTIVE, GOAL ORIENTED PEOPLE! Read INSPIRATIONAL BOOKS! Listen to energizing people on your iPod! Engulf yourself in positivity! ATTRACT IT! Be a magnet for positivity...and a polar opposite of negativity.
Each day that you work on this, you will achieve more. When you are in the RIGHT STATE OF MIND, you are EXCITED to accomplish your goals! And when you are excited, things get DONE!
I hope you gained some benefit from this Today!
Be a POSITIVITY MAGNET!
ALL THE BEST,
COACH
Do you consider yourself a positive person? Are you a "cup is half full" type of personality? Or are you a negative person? Do you somehow find "what's wrong" in every situation? Be honest.
My encouragement for you this week is to make it a habit to Attract the Positive and Repel the Negative. If you already have a positive outlook on life, that surely doesn't mean negativity doesn't come your way. I'd simply like to remind you that when hit with a negative, always respond with a positive. Take a few moments to breath and collect your thoughts when a challenge comes your way. As Tony Robbins says, "It's not what happens, it's what you do that makes a difference." Easier said than done to be sure, but necessary to stay focused and driven. When we have a positive outlook, we tend to think better AND do better. We take ACTIONS that lead us to our goals!
If you tend to be a negative person, you have a big challenge ahead. A crucial one. One you must face head on. Your first step would be to create the mindset of being a "good finder". Our nature as humans is to pick the things wrong with a situation FIRST. That's why it is important to CONDITION yourself to start finding good in bad situations. You can condition your mind the way you condition your muscles. You just have to keep "working" your brain muscles just like any other muscle. You have to stick with it, too! In time, if you don't work your biceps, they will atrophy and lose their tone. So will your "brain muscles"! It's key when you are hit with a negative to take a moment to THINK. Ask yourself powerful questions. Questions like, "If there was something posititve about this, what would it be?" When you ask yourself good questions, you will get good ANSWERS. When we ask ourselves negative questions like, "Why does this always happen to me?", rarely does anything good happen. You shut down the notion of using the situation to grow and improve. Again, is this difficult? Absolutely. But, what goal worth accomplishing is easy? Not many. You have to want to improve. You have to want to achieve more. If you can make a HABIT to repel negativity, you have a great chance to always MOVE FORWARD!
Repelling negativity can also mean the stimulus you chose to surround yourself. Negative people. Negative reading. Vocabulary. Situations. If you constantly work at REPELLING the negative around you, it's easier to be POSITIVE! Surround yourself with POSTIVE, GOAL ORIENTED PEOPLE! Read INSPIRATIONAL BOOKS! Listen to energizing people on your iPod! Engulf yourself in positivity! ATTRACT IT! Be a magnet for positivity...and a polar opposite of negativity.
Each day that you work on this, you will achieve more. When you are in the RIGHT STATE OF MIND, you are EXCITED to accomplish your goals! And when you are excited, things get DONE!
I hope you gained some benefit from this Today!
Be a POSITIVITY MAGNET!
ALL THE BEST,
COACH
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Do You Think Ahead?
Greetings!
Here is a Great idea for you this week ON AND OFF THE MATS! Do you plan ahead, or just hope? Do you look before you leap, or do you leap before you look?
The idea today is, thinking about what you are going to do before you actually do it. On the Mat, rarely is it a good idea to try to pass your partner's guard with no plan. It's rarely a good idea to try to throw a punch without thinking about how your going to land it...or more importantly, how your not going to get hit first. As we grow as Martial Artists, we need to constantly be in search of how to execute our ideas with intelligence. Do we have ideas and strategies we can employ to raise the success rate of the techniques we attempt? Every day on the Mats we certainly hope to do just that. Learn to account for what our opponent can do to us before we begin our move. If we do that, he cannot counter us along the way. We've already taken care of his attacks in our mind. By the time we go for our move, every attempt he has to counter will surely fail.
On the battelfield, a General must prepare for the worst if he hopes to succeed. On the Mat, we must do the same. And, in our everyday life, there is no difference. If we take the time to sit down and thinks things through before we act, it is more than likely we will have better actions.
Sorry is a word that we use when we make a mistake. As none of us are perfect, it is an important word when we don't do the right thing. I believe one of our goals should be to keep our "sorries" to a minimum. That will only happen when we think things through, and not act on impulse.
In business, or whatever endeavors we have, intelligent thinking is key before action. At the end of the day, we NEVER know 100% if we are doing the RIGHT thing. I'm sure you would agree, however; that we can at least make a point to TRY to make the best decision possible.
This week, I would like to encourage you to have some "Forward Thinking". Try to account for things that can go wrong before you "go for your move". You may make some Great decisions along the way!
I hope you gained some benefit from this Today!
ALL THE BEST!
COACH
Here is a Great idea for you this week ON AND OFF THE MATS! Do you plan ahead, or just hope? Do you look before you leap, or do you leap before you look?
The idea today is, thinking about what you are going to do before you actually do it. On the Mat, rarely is it a good idea to try to pass your partner's guard with no plan. It's rarely a good idea to try to throw a punch without thinking about how your going to land it...or more importantly, how your not going to get hit first. As we grow as Martial Artists, we need to constantly be in search of how to execute our ideas with intelligence. Do we have ideas and strategies we can employ to raise the success rate of the techniques we attempt? Every day on the Mats we certainly hope to do just that. Learn to account for what our opponent can do to us before we begin our move. If we do that, he cannot counter us along the way. We've already taken care of his attacks in our mind. By the time we go for our move, every attempt he has to counter will surely fail.
On the battelfield, a General must prepare for the worst if he hopes to succeed. On the Mat, we must do the same. And, in our everyday life, there is no difference. If we take the time to sit down and thinks things through before we act, it is more than likely we will have better actions.
Sorry is a word that we use when we make a mistake. As none of us are perfect, it is an important word when we don't do the right thing. I believe one of our goals should be to keep our "sorries" to a minimum. That will only happen when we think things through, and not act on impulse.
In business, or whatever endeavors we have, intelligent thinking is key before action. At the end of the day, we NEVER know 100% if we are doing the RIGHT thing. I'm sure you would agree, however; that we can at least make a point to TRY to make the best decision possible.
This week, I would like to encourage you to have some "Forward Thinking". Try to account for things that can go wrong before you "go for your move". You may make some Great decisions along the way!
I hope you gained some benefit from this Today!
ALL THE BEST!
COACH
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