Effective, Adaptive Martial Arts
If you want to get really good at something, and you don’t have 10,000 hours to do it, you may be in luck. In his book The First 20 Hours – How to Learn Anything… Fast, Josh Kaufman explains how you can get good – really good – at any new skill, in as little … Read more
I was watching one of the Batman movies the other day. There were several things he did as he was fighting the bad guys that I thought I’d like to be able to do, but it would require me to build my strength and flexibility in certain ways. The first thing I saw that I … Read more
We all want to win in life. Well, most of us, anyway, but that’s a different topic. How we go about winning is the important thing. There are at least two ways to win. The first is to work really hard, practice, get better, overcome your obstacles, etc., and reach or surpass your target. Boom. … Read more
So we’re now a few months past January first, when many people started (and by now have abandoned) some new goals. A lot of these goals had a time limit on them, like “I’ll lose X number of pounds by the first day of summer”. I think there’s a problem built into some of these … Read more
I read something this week that I thought was interesting and perfectly applies to our martial arts training and mindfulness. Now I don’t know if this is true or not, but the principle is sound, so I want to talk about it. The suggested idea is that people who walk in crosswalks are less aware … Read more
There are people, not all, but some, that want to make massive changes in their life. Some don’t. Some want the world to just accept them as they are and maybe even give them a participation medal. But some (like you and me), want to get better. We want to get much better. And it … Read more