One of the most effective ways to condition yourself for success and achievement is to constantly feed your mind with positive thoughts, ideas and goals. There are many ways to accomplish this. It can be done by reading, listening or watching inspirational and educational materials. You can accomplish it by modeling other successful peak performers. Yet another way is to network, attend seminars and webinars, and most importantly apply what you have learned. We call this closing the gap or turning intent into action.
You can also achieve this by observing your thought, contemplating or reflecting on your reality, and or meditating on your future success. Yet another method to train your brain is to focus on your intention, attention, and attitude.
- Intention: setting the stage with no attachment to the outcome. Examples include adding value, seeking to improve, relieving suffering, and doing no harm.
- Attention: what you focus on manifests. This is why you are best to focus on what you want rather on what you don’t want.
- Attitude: how you perceive your life experience. It is how you read things. It is being mindful that life is full of duality. Good and bad, life and death, give and take, high and low, blessing and curse.
It’s been proven that the more good you put in, the more good will come out. If you constantly allow garbage to go into your mind and body, you better be ready to deal with the garbage that is going to come out. Positive input, combined with positive self-talk and affirmations, will keep you motivated and inspire you to take massive action toward your goals. Champions in life frequently use these powerful tools to prepare themselves for Peak Performance.
For most people, one of the biggest enemies to success is their own limited thinking and the feeling that they’re not good enough. Some people even put themselves down and fill their mind with fears, uncertainties and doubt. Better known as F.U.D.’s. This can be very damaging to your desire and motivation to succeed. The more you fill your mind with positive thoughts, ideas and goals, the greater your self-esteem and confidence will become.
Every day you train your brain is a good day indeed so train your brain today and most importantly stay healthy!
I was doing some good reading the other day and the message the
author was sharing was “Anger is your Enemy”. This message appears to
be one that many on Facebook need to learn! I am very observant
with a few years-experience under my belt…and I do see many people,
especially on what little time I spend on Facebook (almost none actually) that
are letting their negative emotions get the best of them. Between the Federation,
the Foundation, my school, and my work, I have a pretty good eye for what’s
going on. Whether it is amongst our highest ranking members, in the training
hall, and or in our communities…I am concerned for the amount of negativity
that is shared via Facebook and via email. I am also amazed at the amount of “look
at me” that is going on. I am not sure what happened to humility but it
appears it has gone the way of the Edsel.
I am encouraged however that not all have chosen to focus on
negativity or what I call the “dark side”. I am also encouraged that sometimes
just a bit of awareness is all people need to realize they may be letting the
negatives sink deep into their subconscious where it can do the most damage for
the long haul. Guard the temples of your mind my dear friends as the peddlers
of doom and gloom are never far away!
Here’s some more food for thought. EVERYTHING IS ENERGY. Anger is hate actually turned inwards. Our martial way symbol or Moo Do represents stopping the sword. The sword cuts both ways. We stop the sword to stop inner and outer conflict. The root of anger includes self pride and the root of self pride is EGO. Did you ever hear the best way to win an argument? Don’t get in one! Choose not to participate…walk away come back another day. Would you rather be right or be happy? Remember, there are three roads you can walk. The low road, the middle road, or the high road. I choose to walk the high road!
I’d rather be happy, which is why I usually concede to those
who argue and must be right no matter what. I see the EGO for what it is which
is Eternally Guaranteed Obsolescence! There is a great Chinese proverb
that goes, “If there is no enemy within there is no enemy without.” The EGO is
the enemy within and it prevents us from experiencing peace of mind. If you
want more peace of mind and to reduce inner and outer conflict, let go of your
ego. It is that easy and that hard. I think you would agree that’s it’s
so much more fun to smile, laugh and live life in a happy way.:-) Which is why
I remind everyone that listens…
“Every day we train is a great day…which is why we train every day and please understand that training starts with the heart and goes through the mind before it gets to the body!” Lead from the heart first as that is where you center truly is. Then use your leadership or peak performance lessons to guide you to a higher level and then train the brain to make it automatic. If you are just training your body you become just another earthen vessel or “crack pot” who misses the bigger picture in my humble opinion. As we are all cracked as part of our human condition, it is our mind and spirit that helps keep it all together. For this reason alone, I encourage you to consider the mind, body, and spirit when you train and especially now during the Covid-19 pandemic.
There is no better workout for the mind, body, and spirit than emptying your cup, stilling your mind, and doing some serious hyung practice. That is why I train hard and train often. Want to feel better, look better, and become better than you were yesterday? Train your brain, your body, and your spirit every day and do remember to magnify the positives and shrink the negatives.
Dear Students and Parents of Tang Soo Do,
In an abundance of caution and for the safety of our students and community, we have made the precautionary and difficult decision to temporarily suspend classes at Cambridge Tang Soo Do effective immediately until further notice. While we have no confirmed cases of COVID-19 at CTSD or CAC, we feel that our ability to maintain a safe learning environment is no longer sustainable. Please know that this was not an easy decision to make. This situation is unprecedented and without a clear roadmap, but it calls for extreme measures to ensure the safety and health of our students and families and our duty to the community at large.
Please note CAC will remain open until further notice but that most group exercises have been cancelled as well. CAC has told me that if you do not plan on using the facility during the school closure, you are invited to temporarily freeze your membership. In order to do so, please call 617.491.8989 or email Carla in membership at carla@cambridgeathletic.com.
We will reassess our plans to reopen the school on a regular basis and we will send out communication if longer closure proves necessary.
Tang Soo!
Every day we are all likely to experience positive things and people, as well as negative things and people. What we focus on, is a choice we all get to make. You can choose to magnify the negatives and allow yourself to get stressed out by your problems and challenges. When you choose this route, you will attract more negatives. It seems as if you have a black cloud over your head if you choose to focus on the negatives.
Whenever you magnify the negatives in your life, you also shrink the positives. Or as motivational speaker Les Brown once said, “If you argue for your limitations you get to keep them.” Don’t become blind to the good stuff, simply because you are focusing on all the crap! Remember, you can choose to magnify the positives and feed your spirit with great optimism and an energy force that will attract more of the good stuff into your life. It’s a choice we all get to make every moment of everyday.
People that work hard at achieving pre-determined worthwhile goals and objectives, tend to focus on what they want in their lives. And are generally happier because of their excitement toward their goals. They soon begin to attract the people, situations and opportunities that bring the luck they need to become successful achievers. By focusing on positive personal growth, we tend to knock down our life goals accidentally as if by magic. The truth is however is there are no coincidences when it comes to becoming a world class achiever.
A good exercise for you to improve on in this area for the next seven days is to focus only on the positives in your life. Positive people, events, activities, language and positive actions. This may seem impossible during the Covid-19 situation but anything is possible to the willing mind.
OQP stands for Only Quality People. You will notice that quality people tend to focus on the positives. Negative people focus on the negative.
Like everything…Perfect Practice makes perfect!