I had an eye opening experience tonight in class. I have been losing touch with myself and those around me. I have been using all these work hours I have been working before, and have not been doing any kung fu. Mediocrities have crept into my life and I let it happen. I have advanced in my career greatly, becoming a person that my work can rely upon and improved my overall competency at electrical, but life and kung fu has taken a step back.
I have been unbalanced as of late. Work, work, work. I have to come up with a better way to keep myself engaged when times of work come, because it will happen again, but I can prevent the outcome this time.
I know the year is almost over, but I have not given up. I here by recommit myself to Mastery of within reason. I will bring balance back into my life with a more sustainable plan.
Sifu Langner
Mastery by Stewart Emery
Mastery in our career and consciousness simply requires that we
constantly produce results beyond the ordinary. Mastery is the result of
consistently going beyond our limits. For most people, it starts with
technical excellence in a chosen field and a commitment to that
excellence. If you are willing to make a commitment to excellence and
surround yourself with things that represent excellence and pursue
events and experiences that become miracles, your life will change. (
When we speak of miracles, we speak of events and experiences in the
real world that are beyond the ordinary).
It is remarkable how
much mediocrity we live with, surrounding ourselves with daily reminders
that the average is acceptable. Our world suffers from terminal
mediocrity. Take a moment to assess all the things around you that
encourage you to remain average. These things keep you powerless, unable
to go beyond the limits that you have arbitrarily set for yourself.
Take you first steps towards mastery by removing everything in your
environment the represents mediocrity, removing your arbitrary limits.
Try surrounding yourself with friends that expect more of you than you
do. Didn't some of your best teachers, your coaches, your parents expect
more of you?
On the path to mastery, erase any resentment
towards masters. Develop compassion for yourself so that you can be in
the presence of masters and grow from the experience .Rather than
comparing yourself and resenting people who are masters, remain open and
receptive; a let the experience be like planting a seed within you -
with nourishment, it will grow into your own individual mastery.
Correction
is essential in power and mastery. You see, we are all ordinary. But a
master, rather in condemning himself for his ordinariness, he embraces
his ordinariness and uses it as a foundation to build the
extraordinary. Instead of giving up, like ordinary people do, a master
uses his ordinariness to correct his errors, which is essential in the
process towards attaining mastery. You must be able to correct yourself
without condemning or invalidating yourself, accept the results and
improve upon them.
Correct, don't protect.
