If you let me watch your morning routine -- getting up, getting dressed, eating breakfast, getting yourself to work or school -- I can make some pretty accurate predictions about how you train when practicing martial arts. Your everyday habits reflect your martial arts habits.
Follow my line of thought....
There are many areas in your life that are in alignment. For example, if we could take a peek inside your cupboards in your kitchen, we could learn a lot about how you ... keep your bedroom. If one area is messy and disorganized, it's a fairly good bet that the other will lack organization as well.
The same can be said for the tidiness of one's bedroom and how one keeps his or her locker or desk at school.
Habits and Your Martial-Arts Practice Sessions
So, how does your martial-arts practice session fare?
One aspect that we could take a look at is how hurried you are in the morning.
This morning, I had a few errands to run. As I drove the car down a fairly busy street, I noticed the masses on their way to work. A large number of them were trying to accomplish more than one task at the same time:
* Driving and stuffing their faces with "breakfast on the go"
* Cell phoning and driving ... and not doing either very well
* Buttoning a shirt while walking and talking to a friend
* Driving while fiddling with something in a briefcase in the passenger seat
So, do you run around at a frenzied pace early in the morning, or do you have a solid routine, that allows you to be mindful of each morning task?
If, while getting yourself into your day, you do one task at a time, and you do it efficiently and well, then I predict that I would approve of your martial training style as well. I know instinctively, that you are devoting all of your attention to your practice session -- to each exercise.
Excellent Martial-Arts Habits
You concentrate on precision. You aren't just going through the motions. You have good martial arts habits.
If, on the other hand, you try to accomplish too many tasks at once, then I bet ...
that you aren't improving your martial skills at a speed you are happy with.
Do you need to lecture yourself, at this point? Or are you a diligent martial arts practitioner?
Think about it, and then, make modifications in the way you train, if you need to, and ... maybe even take time to sit down, and enjoy your breakfast. If you know what I mean.
And who would have thought that taking time to sit down for breakfast would improve our martial arts habits?
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Keith Pascal is a martial-arts writer and has taught martial arts for 25 years.
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