Sometimes we may be dreading something, or even looking forward to it, but have a lot of anxiety surrounding the event. Whether it be a competition, work review, or starting a new project, nerves are completely natural. There are prior steps you can take that will make it easier for Continue Reading
The Importance of a Good Role Model: You Better Find One!
Who is your role model? When you look at Daniel Coyle’s The Little Book Of Talent, a book that helps the reader develop their talents or special interests through a series of tips, one of the first tips that Coyle provides the reader is “Stare at Who You Want to Continue Reading
Getting Started In Martial Arts – Part 1
Welcome to the “Getting Started in Martial Arts” series. Over the course of the last few months, I have had many people ask me how to get started in martial arts. They have asked me questions such as “Is it too late for an adult to start martial arts?”, “What Continue Reading
Harness Your Nerves and Unleash the Energy
I was a very shy and anxious kid growing up, and where I’ve gotten a lot better, sometimes I still feel that extreme inner child anxiousness where it feels like the world is crashing down around you. Where it feels like your mind is being squished and then pulled apart; Continue Reading
Trust The Experts, Not Your Ego
Let’s face it, everyone hates being wrong about something you thought you knew. What makes it worse is if the person who corrected you makes you feel bad about it. While you can’t control what others say, you can control how you respond to them. What’s important is to not Continue Reading
Do a Bad Job at Something Important, It’s Worth It
“If a thing is worth doing, It is worth doing badly” – GK Chesterton When we look at the quote above, we can easily become very confused. Why would we want to do a bad job with anything? Often, we hear the opposite, “If you’re going to do it, do Continue Reading
Use Things You Like to Learn Things You Don’t
There was a show I loved watching growing up, Drake and Josh, a comedy about two high-school age students who couldn’t be more different. Drake was a guitarist who played in a cool rock band, got all the girls, and didn’t care about school. Josh was an honor student who Continue Reading
Intentional Amateurism: Expand Your Horizons to Help Your Professional Life
Across many different sources of psychology and even philosophy, one of the main things that sticks out is the idea of the benefits of being an amateur. When we look at the word amateur, very quickly we think of negative qualities: unprofessional, bad or unskilled. When we look at the Continue Reading
Loyalty: Which Side of The Belt Means More to You?
Now I’m not out here to say that any martial arts organization is better than another, or to judge those people that are no longer part of an organization they once were. I happen to be very happy and loyal to my organization, but I am not here to criticize Continue Reading
Take a Step Back, Adjust and Improve!
A few weeks ago, I was in Tang Soo Do class and we were doing speed breaks. For those who may be unfamiliar the goal of a speed break is to break a board by generating speed versus focusing on power. I am used to power breaks, I have a Continue Reading