A Leader or a “Needer”?

So Tananarive is back from New York, and I can relax a bit and dream. Now that it SEEMS that the physical aspect of my training is on track for Manila in ’24, I can put that on automatic, and look at the emotional and mental aspects.

This week is probably time to focus on the mind. Finances and career. The nice thing is that the notion of a week-long Filipino Martial Arts gathering is inspiring and challenging — for the next year it will be easier to motivate myself to be really disciplined.

The most important thing with the emotions is to use them as energy to drive action. Do that, and you are automatically in greater alignment with your internal gears than the majority. And the best way to do that is to change your physiology — MOVE! The Morning Ritual is all about that.

So…move (Tai Chi), visualize your mentors and happy memories and things you love, and see the end point of your goals. That’s the mind aspect: in this sense, the mind is a problem-solving machine, and the primary problem is “how to avoid pain and gain pleasure?” As this involves long term solutions, you need to “solve the problem” of money. There are few things sadder than people who lie and say money doesn’t care, but then complain about things money would solve:

— time to go back to school

— time to practice their art

— working in a terrible job

— living in bad circumstances, with bad roommates