Category: All the Things

Worry yourself not with how the entire stream of events necessarily flows. It's about the moments in between: ones when you make real connections, have a realization of truth, those of friendship, laughter and goodness.  No ones counting your degrees. No one's counting how many hours you worked. No one's holding your G.P.A. to you. ...

I just woke up from a dream where I found myself saying this to someone.  It’s a bit random – as my dreams always seem to be – but from what I remember, here it goes: I had purchased some new smart watch from some drugstore and decided to give it a try, but leaving ...

A form may be a whole, but one doesn't practice it only from beginning to end.  A martial artist, once the directions are know, must pull it apart into segments to practice them separately. Then, he must take those segments and break them down into isolated movements.  Only then can he find the parts that ...

"It is better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war."    - Unknown I am not the most patient person in the world.  In fact, if you know me well personally, I'm far from it. In the past few weeks, I've seen this great story about a ...

Building and running a business can be like a game of Jenga.  You can build it taking from the bottom - the people, the knowledge, the systems, the processes, the revenue, you name it - and putting it up top.  Once the bottom becomes thin, you start taking from the middle again, placing the pieces up ...

The Martial Artist must be wholly present when executing a hyung (form).  While being present in the current move, he must at the same time be perceiving 1-2 steps ahead, and even more see the whole form from the outside with himself inside of it. The Musician must feel each moment in every note as ...

As the saying goes, "Don't sweat it."  What terrible advice.   The stress hormone, secreted by the adrenal gland - which is the speed in your fight or flight response,  but also causes anxiety and fat storage - can only be purged by one of a few methods: urination, defecation, exhalation, and sweat.  Sure, you ...

You know you're doing ok when your Korean master, a few practices in a row, says, "You look strong." It's usually something like, "You're getting fat/heavy/slow" or "You look sick/weak/thin" (and even sometimes, "When are you getting married?") Your master will always tell you the truth, he says what you need to hear...your master will ...

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. --Haruki Murakami I hate running. I used to tell people that running is bad for you. It hurts your ankles, it's bad for your knees, the impact is bad for your spine and your brain, etc., etc.  I still don't love running, but I no longer hate it.  You ...

Never underestimate the power of being in nature.  Grab a trusted friend, your partner, or go alone, leave your technobabbly device in the car, and just walk.  Think, talk, or allow the silence.  In all ways, in this hyper-fragmented, over connected, attention-hogging world, getting out is the best way to get back. So, take a ...