On October 16, 2010, 18 students from Cambridge Tang Soo Do attended the 5th annual New England Regional Championships in Southbury, CT. We would like to thank Master Becker for hosting the event at his Dojang and congratulate our new champions.
A special congratulations goes out to Mr. Oleg Khodko and Mrs. Noelle Drewicz for becoming this year’s grand champion in the male and female division.
Tang Soo!
Cambridge Tang Soo Do would like to congratulate the following students for successfully completing the Fall 2010 testing cycle :
Adults
| Jason Green | Cho Dan Bo |
| Colin South | 6th Gup |
| Julien Daubriac | 7th Gup |
| Tommy Wisdom | 8th Gup |
Kids
| Luke Schlatter | 4th Gup |
| Finn Paquette | 5th Gup |
| Alex South | 6th Gup |
| Samantha Averitt | 6th Gup |
| Katarina Klacko | 7th Gup |
| Isabel DeLuis | 7th Gup |
| Maya DeLuis | 7th Gup |
| Je’mi Pearson | 8th Gup |
| Kalyani Duva | 9th Gup |
| Theo Cooper | 9th Gup |
Little Dragons
| Alec Klacko | Orange |
A warm welcome to the following new students:
| David Ross |
| Sam Stephenson |
Positive and healthy habits lead to a positive and healthy life. Negative and unhealthy habits lead to a negative and unhealthy life. Simply put, our habits in life can either make us or break us.
The biggest difference between highly successful people, and unsuccessful people, is their daily habits of life. Successful people have successful habits, unsuccessful people don’t! Mastering the Martial Arts, like anything else in life, requires the development of certain habits such as daily practice and improvement of fundamental skills, abilities and conditioning lead to long term success. Positive habits like daily exercise, good nutrition, proper rest and recharge. These are all habits that will improve your overall health, energy level and ability to experience on going positive progress in your Martial Arts training, and in your life. We are all creatures of habit, and our habits can either make us, or break us.
If you want to become even more successful in your future, than you have been in the past, it would do you good to begin to focus on developing the daily habits that will lead you in the direction of your dreams. Experts agree that it takes as little as 21 days to develop a new habit. Imagine if you decided to develop one new habit per month. At the end of each year, you would develop a dozen new habits. When you choose your habits in advance, they are likely to be positive habits. Think of how much better your life will be in the next 3-5 years, if you are constantly working to develop new and improved habits for the rest of your life.
Habits we Train are Habits we Gain!
Everyday we are all likely to experience positive things and people, as well as negative things and people. They both exist and nobody is immune to being exposed. Which one we focus on is a choice we all have to make. You can choose to magnify the negatives and allow yourself to get stressed out by all your problems and challenges. If you choose this route and allow this to happen, you will soon begin to attract more negatives. It will seem as if you have a black cloud over your head.
Whenever you magnify the negatives in your life, you will automatically shrink the positives. Remember, what ever we focus on 51% of time is who you eventually become. If you want better in your life, focus on better things. Ask yourself better questions. You become blind to the good stuff, simply because you are focusing on the bad stuff! Or, you can choose to magnify the positives and feed your spirit with optimism and the energy for excellence, an energy force that attracts more and more of the good stuff.
It’s a choice we all get to make everyday. Have you ever noticed how lucky some people are? Ever hear the statement? “The harder you work, the luckier you will become!” There is a lot of truth to that statement. People that work hard every day at pre-determined goals and objectives tend to focus on what they want in their lives. They are future oriented and are also solution based thinkers. They soon begin to attract the people, situations & opportunities that bring them the luck they need to become highly successful achievers.If this is true, then why doesn’t everyone just focus on the positives? The answer is that we are conditioned by all the negatives. Have you read a newspaper or listen to the news lately? How much of it is positive news? How much is negative? The majority is negative. We are all programmed by what we see, what we hear, what we say and what we do. This is truly one of the greatest secrets of all time. The subconscious mind absorbs everything…whether it is positive or negative. Most of us need to re-program ourselves to magnify the positives and shrink the negatives. I’ll never forget Zig Zigler saying one time in a seminar I intended that we take a shower everyday to clean our bodies and yet most of us never take a mental shower everyday to clean our minds.
A great exercise to better condition ourselves in this area, is simply to try for one week to focus only on the positives in your life: positive people, positive events, activities and actions. Read only positive and inspirational materials, listen only to positive, educational and motivational CD’s and purposely seek to watch positive and inspirational DVD’s. The more you flood your mind and body with the positives, the more you will shrink the negatives. Like anything in life….
Practice makes perfect!