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All of us are 100% emotional beings. The better you are able to control and direct your emotions, the healthier and happier you’ll be, and the better you will perform in the Martial Arts and in life. Master your emotions, or your emotions will become your master. Tang Soo Do training and daily exercise is absolutely the best way to destroy harmful stress and eliminate negative thinking patterns that can lead your emotions into a slump. Negative emotions…such as anger, fear, depression and sadness are often magnified if you allow tension to build up inside. Training eliminates stress!

Tang Soo Do training forces the negatives out of your mind, body and spirit, and allows you to breathe in the positives. Another great way to influence your best emotions is to purposely feed your mind and body the best information you can. Listen, read and watch things that motivate and inspire you. This helps to bring out your best emotions. If you allow yourself to constantly absorb negatives, it’s like junk food for the brain. It can and will cause long term damage to your emotional well being, your mood and your overall state of mind.

Black Belt Leaders & Champions strive to master their emotions, by purposely programming themselves for success and achievement. Everything you think, see, say, hear and do, influences your thoughts and emotions. Once you understand this, you may decide to be more aggressive on programming your thoughts everyday, by watching, listening, and doing things that influence your emotions in a positive and empowering direction. Positive programming leads you toward positive thoughts and emotions. Positive emotions and energy will bring you greater health, happiness and optimism toward life and better prepare you to face your challenges head on. Developing positive emotional control is similar to developing your confidence: it requires daily attention and regular conditioning.

As the year draws to an end, it is a good time to reflect on all of our accomplishments and personal victories. We have had many this year and it is in no small part due to all our collective efforts:

• Welcomed 13 new students (7 adults & 6 kids)
• Achieved record participation at the Black Belt Camp (26 students)
• Achieved record participation at the New England Regional Championships (28 students)
• Promoted our first youth students to Black Belt
• Promoted 4 students to Cho-Dan, 2 to E-Dan, 2 to Sam-Dan
• Promoted 1 Black Belt to International Master

I am very grateful for everybody’s contribution and support as we continue to build Cambridge Tang Soo Do. The old saying, “together, everyone achieves more”, is surely true in this case. As a TEAM, we were able to accomplish some great things. I look forward to more of the same in 2014.

I would like to thank everyone for all your continued support, dedication and loyalty!!!  The sky is the limit and with your help we will go very far. Keep up the great work and know you are appreciated.

Tang Soo!!!

To achieve your best in any aspect of your life, you must take action. I’m sure you realize that or you wouldn’t be training in the martial arts. Most people think before they act and that’s a good thing. Unfortunately, too many people think and think and think and never act. They fail to launch their action plan. Even worse, they fail to create an action plan. Sometimes it’s because they fear failure, other times they are waiting for everything to be exactly right to get started and sometimes they are just plain lazy. Some people suffer with a condition known as the “fear of rejection”. That is, they are afraid of how others will judge them if they are not successful so better to not try at all. What a shame and pity.

Achievers are action oriented, they don’t wait, they create. Once you decide you want to achieve or attain something, take action Today…and Tomorrow. But don’t wait until tomorrow to get started. Almost everyone has something they wished they had done or should have done. Maybe it was to start training in the martial arts sooner, maybe it was to start a diet sooner or start saving money sooner. If that describes you, realize you are not alone. Learn from your past…repeat what works and change what doesn’t.

If you have a tendency to procrastinate or avoid taking action; change your approach and take Action! Nike’s famous ad says “Just do it!” Many times that is a very fitting saying that applies to many things we should just do. It’s never too late to get started. However, the sooner you get started…the sooner you succeed. We can’t be afraid of new things and we can’t shy away from challenges either. Whether it is meeting a new person, designing our lives with the right calling, taking a new class, or even taking on the challenge of a new promotional test…we owe it to ourselves to at least try.

Become an Action Oriented Achiever…Do it Now!

On October 19, 2013, 18 students from Cambridge Tang Soo Do attended the 8th annual New England Regional Championships in Dover, NH. Congratulations to all the participants and a special thanks to Masters Brian and Robyn Hebert for hosting the championships at their Dojang.

A special congratulations also goes out to Mr. Thomas, Mr. Green, Samantha Averitt, Finn Paquette and Alex South for succesfully testing at the Dan Shim Sa. I look forward to seeing them wear their new Black Belts soon.

Tang Soo!