Tag: Philosophy
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Day 15: Shaping Discipline
I woke up this morning, but chose to stay in bed and rest for a little bit longer – gotta love having a child in daycare. But I got up by 5:15 and then get everything done even with my son waking up. I started reading Living the Martial Way today and after reading the…
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Day 14: Shaping Discipline
I’m wondering if I’m getting enough sleep – I keep waking up before my alarm – like 10 or 20 minutes. Generally that means I got in bed early enough the night before. I’m probably worrying over crap I shouldn’t be – just wondering why I’m fighting something else now that I just got over…
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Day 13: Shaping Discipline
It is a fight to get myself to do things I know I should be getting done. I need to put myself into whatever I’m doing fully. I got through my daily list, but I don’t like the end result – it was half-assed today as was my whole day. How to hold myself accountable…
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Day 9: Shaping Discipline
I let myself sleep in this morning because it’s Saturday and then I got up and did my meditation first thing, then my mobility work, and martial practice. Then I did my professional reading – there have been some interesting insights in Cyberjutsu that I hadn’t considered before. So yeah the book is definitely worth…
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Day 4: Shaping Discipline
I didn’t get out of bed until 4:47 this morning – so no credit there. But I did get everything done before I left for work this morning. I had a good conversation with one of my grandmasters today, he was talking about an experience with Ed Parker Sr. where the senior black belts kept…
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Day 3: Shaping Discipline
It’s interesting to me how I’m suddenly having a massive amount of resistance around doing martial practice today – I’m going to get it done. But even writing this journal entry is a form of resistance to doing what I know I should be doing. Yeah, I think it’s that I really do love the…
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Day 2: Shaping Discipline
I let myself sleep in this morning – it’s Saturday after all. I got up about 7 (when my son said it was time), I took a shower and got ready to go to breakfast with the family. We went to McDonald’s to let my boy play, but he wasn’t interested today, so we ate…
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Day 22: Starting Off Winning
I want to say I hate being sick, but really it’s not something I can control – outside of taking preventative measures. I’m a generally clean person, so that’s all I can do aside from taking care of myself while I’m sick. I had a meeting this afternoon and I’ve been dealing with a sinus…
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Day 21: Starting Off Winning
I wish I was feeling better, but I’m not – oh well. I’ve at least kept the blog going as part of this process. I’ve been debating on doing anything as “penance” for not getting the other things on my routine done while I’ve been sick, but no – the point is not to punish…