Written by Sensei Mitch on August 12, 2023
Be Realistic
Awareness . State of Mind . Training notesEmbrace the journey to your best self with realistic expectations, small, manageable steps, and the courage to break free from bad habits. This guide is more than just motivation; it’s a practical roadmap towards personal success and fulfillment. Dive in to learn how to face your fears, break down big goals into achievable tasks, and reconstruct yourself into the Champion you are meant to be. Your path to greatness begins here!
Written by Sensei Mitch on March 16, 2023
The Good Enough Generation
Articles of Interest . Competition . State of Mind . Training notesThat’s good enough. This statement leaves me speechless. Always has always will. so then… “Good enough” is the ideology representing the mental embodiment of a person who could physically obtain perfection, but, under the circumstances, does not. Therefore, he is good enough.“It might not be the best, but it’s good enough.” This person displays a
Written by Sensei Mitch on March 23, 2022
Driven to Achieve
State of MindWe achieve greatness by striving to be better and never quitting. But is that enough? Is that really all there is to it? No. While our attitude is a key ingredient in our chance of success there are certain things we can not learn or master by ourselves. We need to be Challenged too. Those
Written by Sensei Mitch on March 21, 2022
Never Give Up!
State of Mind . VideoOne of my favorite Movie quotes is from Batman’s Alfred Pennyworth: We fall so we can learn to pick ourselves up! In other words we never quit. When I was a younger lad in High School I had one rule, and I would share it with my anyone looking for trouble. My rule was I
Written by Sensei Mitch on February 26, 2022
Why We Fall Down
A Zen Thing . QuotesOne of my favorite quotes is from one of the many Batman Movies. “Why so we fall down, Master Wayne?” “So we can get back up”This simple exchange says it all. In life when we fall we don’t simply lie there and quit, we get up, we try again. If we let things keep us
Written by Sensei Mitch on February 4, 2022
Your Chances of Success
A Zen Thing . Articles of Interest . State of Mind . Training notesWords that other people speak only have power if we give them. The Words we speak can either empower or defeat us before we even start. I use the above chart with everyone but mostly my younger/adolescent students. Honestly hearing anyone say I can’t makes my blood boil, nothing is harder to overcome than someone
Written by Sensei Mitch on January 5, 2022
Physics & Getting into Shape
Diet . Fitness . Training notesWe all want to get into shape. No one’s says I want to become a Sloth! Yet look around the next time you are at the Mall and I think you will agree, the Sloths are winning! Why is that? Why have we become so lazy? How did this happen? Simple; It’s Physics! See the
Written by Sensei Mitch on March 22, 2015
5 things you should never say or think…
Karate . State of Mind . Training notesWe live in a sensitive world. That doesn’t make it right. Below are 5 things people say almost daily that most people find “acceptable”. That doesn’t make it right. I was raised in a sticks-and-stones household. I went to a sticks-and-stones high school. For some the term sticks-and-stones may be a foreign concept, that is
Written by Sensei Mitch on February 18, 2014
Keep your head in the game
A Zen Thing . State of Mind . Training notesYour Legs are not giving out;Your Mind is giving up. Defeat is easy. There are always a million excuses lying around for you to grab onto. We typically defeat ourselves, but that moment before we allow defeat there is an opportunity to be better than you are. Face it your mind wants to give up
Written by Sensei Mitch on January 4, 2014
What does your 2014 look like?
Articles of Interest . Competition . Karate . Training notesForget New Year resolutions, they don’t work for a litany of reasons. One of those reasons is you are taught through media and social engineering that you are OK the way you are. You are taught there is no ideal or perfect way or state of being. You are taught to be consumers not producers.
