Hello so I have been working on this particular lifestyle for a very long time. You would think I would be really good at it, but I am still improving myself. These 3 steps that I will be posting here are very much face value. Every step can become very deep and mind provoking and sometimes just a cold hard truth. Individually each step only gets you so far, so all 3 are needed for the best outcome. Well enough building it up here they are.
Step 1: Mindfully Living
This step can be a place of limbo, or a place of extraordinary potential. Multiple times I have been on the limbo part where I knew what I was doing wrong and I knew what my path is to fix it, or make it better. I would ask myself “do I need to practice Kung fu, answer yes, do I, no. Why am I not getting better, because I am not practicing. What am I doing about it, nothing.” So there entails a state of limbo. I have the solution in front of me, but I chose to do nothing. So my outcome was a bad one.
Mindfully living engages the thought process and problem solving of how to improve yourself. It also means being more mindful about who’s in your life and could help improve you. What I said “ I know Sifu Brinker, I could ask him for some help with my issue in Kung fu” I did not ask, but he called me and helped me come back to kung fu. He was someone in my life I did not ask, but should have. So not every problem or issue can be solved by others, but be aware of those around you that are good souls and would be happy to make you grow.
To drive it home this is important step to have because it’s the beginning of something wondrous. It’s a daily tool that keeps me engaged in life and how to go for my betterment of myself and those around me. This first step is very personal, because everyone is unique. There are definitely some commonalities, but how we all get there may be very different. Once you have mindfully prepared yourself the next step will work great with it.
Step 2: Just Do It
This step is pretty self explanatory, but I will still add to it. Take action, follow through, actually do what you have mindfully discovered. This is the step no one likes to do, because you have to do it if you want results. I have had lots of issues in the past with this, but it has also changed me forever, for the better. Once I followed through with practicing Kung fu again my life gets better and I become happier. Sometimes you just need to stop waiting for the perfect moment when the blue moon rises and just do it.
Step 3: Consistency
Now we are finally here we’re mindful and we’re taking action and now we need to consistently take action. The first 2 steps more times then not disappear after some short time goes by; New Year’s resolution. We get a plan and start doing the plan, but fails because we did the plan for a week or month or even a day. Consistency involves making that choice and action you chose consistently. Which can make your life better normally for the rest of your life. I consistently practice kung fu and now I am becoming more confident in my forms and myself. The results of doing all 3 steps together. This is the step of starting to go and climb your mountain and at the top awaits some amazing, extraordinary events that will change you forever.
In conclusion, I have been struggling with these three step for a good portion of my life, because I do not always have all three. I mainly live in step one. Once I get going life will get better and life will throw another curve ball, but I have been training for a long time and hope to be able to get through that and then get through the next one. Change in life is inevitable but if you go back to these 3 steps I believe anythings possible.
Easier way to remember it 1. Live Mindfully, 2. Hardwork, 3. Discipline. The very training we all have been trying to achieve in our school since day one.
Thank you for reading all this here are my numbers.
Acts of kindness: 120
Km: 110
Sit ups: 1400
Push ups: 1400
Da mu hsing: 30
Drum stick form: 35
Spar: 30
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