Learning is More Valuable!
If you value learning over money and things… the money and things you do have will be worth more.
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Archive for January, 2013
Consistently Move Toward Your Goal!
It’s like chopping down a huge tree of immense girth. You won’t accomplish it with one swing of your axe. If you keep chopping away at it, though, and do not let up, eventually, whether it wants to or not, it will suddenly topple down. When that time comes, you could round up everyone you could find and pay them to hold the tree up, but they wouldn’t be able to do it. It would still come crashing to the ground. . . . But if the woodcutter stopped after one or two strokes of his axe to ask the third son of Mr. Chang, “Why doesn’t this tree fall?” And after three or four more strokes stopped again to ask the fourth son of Mr. Li, “Why doesn’t this tree fall?” he would never succeed in felling the tree. It is no different for someone who is practicing the Way.
—Zen Master Hakuin
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Self-Expansion!
To avoid a bumpy flight and find smoother air, a good airplane pilot learns to rise above poor weather conditions. Likewise, we should learn to rise above the endless material distractions and petty emotional maneuvers of others by pursuing self-expansion; that’s where we find the smoother air and avoid the bumpy ride.
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Control Your Emotions!
Those who can control their emotions, instead of letting their emotions control them, always appear smarter and wiser than they really are; and eventually, it will become more than just an appearance.
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To Master It!
To master anything worthwhile, we must love the subject involved, be naturally drawn to the subject involved and spend endless amounts of time learning the subject involved; there is no other way to master it.
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Take Small Bites!
Any personal goal worth achieving is earned through patience and a series of connected small steps, one followed by another. Slowly chipping away at a goal, taking small bites, allows a solid foundation to form beneath it, while some forward progress is continually met. A goal pursued without patience and small steps is eventually met with an insurmountable divide that will never be crossed; this is where a goal turns into a dream that’s never met.
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Simultaneous Rewards!
Everything in our lives can and will be taken from us over the course of time; this fact is widely ignored and generally unaccepted within our society. But intelligently training our minds and bodies to remain strong, even when fully aware of the unavoidable future, is what we owe to those who care about us. The bottom line: work to improve your mind and body, and you directly reward yourself, while simultaneously rewarding others with your efforts.
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10,000 Hours!
Countless hours, year after year, immersed within the same subject, makes someone a professional; add quality to those countless hours and you now have an expert. Many call themselves by a title they haven’t earned and certainly don’t deserve. Generally speaking, the more hours spent performing operations, the better the surgeon; the same rule applies to personal training and personal trainers. 10,000 hours applied makes you better than most…
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Thank You!
Experienced, skilled personal trainers do what they want to do; all other trainers do what they can. I can’t ask for anything more, thank you to all of my clients who have made my life as an athlete possible and continue to allow me to approach training with a sense of balance and deep appreciation.
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