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Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Impact II
Pay attention! Pay attention to your thoughts, they turn into words. Pay attention to your words, they turn into action. Pay attention to your actions, they turn into habits. Pay attention to your habits, they develop your character. Pay attention to your character, it becomes your destiny. These words written by an unknown author caused [...]
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Potential
Potential: Refers to that state or condition of anything which is not in an active state. It is a static condition which means it is dormant. DDDP is the answer. The question is, “Why do so many not live up to their full or even partially full potential?” Before I go into details I need [...]
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Teachable moments?
Recently there have been several incidents where the proponents declared it to be a teachable moment. Well I have news for them and depending on the information at hand, I say all situations are teachable moments. This lovely sounding catch phrase is meant to defuse a given situation and to release one from further embarrassment. [...]
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Predict the future/change your past
I had a question and answer session with one of my former students a few months ago when he stated that you cannot change your past. I have proven to his satisfaction that his interpretation is incorrect since I have specifically experienced the contrary. The question to be asked: Where does this type of thought [...]
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
The Future?
Was my comment on being able to predict the future correct? I chose not to use this idea in my last blog as I felt it would distract from the more important issue at hand. Perhaps my thinking was flawed. Do you know for sure that one cannot see the future? Just because an act [...]
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
The Response
There has been to date, 14 responses to my musings on “time to leave.” Actually it felt more like I lit a fire and no one called the fire department while the house was burning down. Well, the house is still standing and I’ve received much advice and concerns. For all those concerned, thank you. [...]
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
An interesting question was emailed to me by one of my students. R. B. asked : “Do you have conversations with GOD?” This is an extremely personal question not usually asked by martial arts students. While I was a little curious as to where the student was headed, I don’t generally pass up opportunities [...]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Time to leave?
When is it time to throw in the towel and just walk away? How much is enough? Who wants what I have to offer anyway? Many years ago my first instructor, Steve McKnight told me that “when you start to dread going to class, that is the indicator.” He said “when that happens, when you [...]
15 Comments » - Posted in Martial Arts by Rick Berry
Monday, January 25th, 2010
New mat
We recently put down a new mat; right on top of the old one. We didn’t even the remove the old canvas. But we did extent the mat from wall to wall. What a challenge we encountered at 8:30 in the morning. The new mat material is 2 inches thick, 6 feet wide and 42 [...]
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
The Future
The question usually comes up as: What does the future hold? Then comes: Is there an answer? Short version, Yes! Realistically I may not know the exact answer. However, why concern myself over what I cannot control. But that calls up another idea. Do we or do we not draw to us what we agonize [...]
