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