Ode to Matthew

He teacheth my hands to war.
 I shall pursue my enemies and overtake them.

 I shall not return until I finish them off.

I shall assault them and they will not be able to stand.
 
They will wail and beg and there will be no savior for them.

  He will not answer.

I shall pulverize them like the dust upon the face of the wind

  I shall tread upon them like the mud of the street 

Psalm 144

 You're making me angry.

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry. 

-Dr. David Banner-

I've learned in my many years of sales that selling from emotion is key.

Positive or Negative they gotta feel it ! 

I choose words that convey emotion to trigger a buying response.
 Don't let anyone tell you it is unprofessional to be passionate or enthusiastic.
 Emotional words make emotional connections.

 Everyone loves a story.

People connect emotionally with the story teller.

Buyers justify their purchases with facts and figures they buy on emotion.

In relationships,

Reacting  Bad....Responding Good !

Emotions are just emotions.
They are not right or wrong, good or bad.
However, when you allow your emotions to propel reactions, problems result.
Allow yourself to have whatever emotions you have.
Acknowledge them as how you feel.
Then, decide how you want to respond.
Reactions are derived from emotions alone.
 Responses are a result of consult with your brain before taking action.

In the movie Enter the Dragon

 while teaching one of his students Bruce Lee says,

"move with emotional content." 

 The student then snaps a kick with anger.  

With emotional content, not anger!

-Bruce Lee- 

 Joe Lewis teaches us,

 we must learn to allow thoughts to simultaneously participate in our actions,

 aggressive behavior (emotional content),

 combined with

 profound strategic certainty (confidence).

With good strategy there has to be appropriate balance

 or

 we will perform passively.

A fighter needs  style and subtance and above all attitude.

Control your Attitude or it Controls You

-Joe Lewis-

Fearless Fitness/Martial Arts: A Matter of Perspective

Fearless Fitness/Martial Arts: A Matter of Perspective: If you don't design your own life plan,   you'll probably fall into someone else's plan.  And guess what they have planne...

A Matter of Perspective

If you don't design your own life plan,

  you'll probably fall into someone else's plan.

 And guess what they have planned for you?  

  Not much.

-Jim Rohn- 

 

 

(A letter home from an Aussie soldier)

 

 

Dear Mum & Dad,

I am well. Hope youse are  too. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil that the Army is better than  workin' on the farm - tell them to get in bloody quick smart before the  jobs are all gone! I wuz a bit slow in settling down at first, because  ya don't hafta get outta bed until 6am. But I like sleeping in now, cuz  all ya gotta do before brekky is make ya bed and shine ya boots and  clean ya uniform. No bloody cows to milk, no calves to feed, no feed to  stack - nothin'!! Ya haz gotta shower though, but its not so bad, coz  there's lotsa hot water and even a light to see what ya doing! 

At brekky ya get cereal, fruit and eggs but there's no kangaroo  steaks or possum stew like wot Mum makes. You don't get fed again until  noon and by that time all the city boys are buggered because we've been  on a 'route march' - geez its only just like walking to the windmill in  the back paddock!!

This one will kill me brothers Doug and Phil  with laughter. I keep getting medals for shootin' - dunno why. The  bullseye is as big as a bloody possum's bum and it don't move and it's  not firing back at ya like the Johnsons did when our big scrubber bull  got into their prize cows before the Ekka last year! All ya gotta do is  make yourself comfortable and hit the target - it's a piece of piss!!  You don't even load your own cartridges, they comes in little boxes, and  ya don't have to steady yourself against the rollbar of the roo shooting  truck when you reload!

  

 

Some times ya gotta wrestle  with the city boys and I gotta be real careful coz they break easy -  it's not like fighting with Doug and Phil and Jack and Boori and Steve  and Muzza all at once like we do at home after the muster.
Turns out  I'm not a bad boxer either and it looks like I'm the best the platoon's  got, and I've only been beaten by this one bloke from the Engineers -  he's 6 foot 5 and 15 stone and three pick handles across the shoulders  and as ya know I'm only 5 foot 7 and eight stone wringin' wet, but I  fought him till the other blokes carried me off to the boozer.

I  can't complain about the Army - tell the boys to get in quick before  word gets around how bloody good it is.

Your loving  daughter,

Sheila

This letter made me laugh ,

 but also made me realize ....the women of Team Fearless have more

Courage, Commitment, and Consistency

 in training than any two of the men !!

 

 You must look within for value,

 but must look beyond for perspective.

-Denis Waitley-

Fearless Fitness/Martial Arts: A Question of Influence

Fearless Fitness/Martial Arts: A Question of Influence: Funny this started of as a story about Memorial Day and reflection.....   If we miss certain events in our lives  we were meant to ex...

A Question of Influence

Funny this started of as a story about Memorial Day and reflection..... 

If we miss certain events in our lives

 we were meant to experience

what happened instead..

-Dan Pachtman-

 Patriotism consists not in waving the flag,

 but in striving that our country shall be righteous

 as well as strong
-James Bryce-

Of the people, by the people, for the people.... starts with people.

The truest path to a strong collective is to strengthen the components.

So what does being a strong and confident individual mean ?

How do I achieve it ?

 

Lesson one you could take from my dogs Spiff and Meeka as I do.

Every day they are happy to eat, drink water and play in the sunshine.

 I think some times we get so wrapped up in our 'plan' or our schedule

that we forget the simple joy that is our life.

I don't mean become complacent and submissive......

I mean celebrate the simple things.

Lesson two comes from a little girl .

 

 She was acting in a local stage production.

She was to sing and also had several lines in the play,

 and had rehearsed tirelessly for months.

As opening night grew closer her speaking parts were taken from her

The lines were distributed among 'the older kids'.

When I  complimented her on her performance she told me about how

'local theater politics'  had caused her lines to be redistributed,

she said,

"If  I keep practicing I'll get the lines next time."

I was so proud of this little girl !!!!

I sure didn't have that confidence and perseverance at that age.

As a salesperson , teacher and a martial artist I watch people quit every day.

The first step to overcoming adversity is not to personalize it.

Peoples objections to your performance, your words or you personally;

 has to do with the noise in their own heads not with what's really going on..

A great leader sees things as they truly are, not worse.....

 then inspire others to do the same.

 

Transforming vision into reality requires strategic,

 incremental change to achieve radical results.

 

Fearless Fitness/Martial Arts: The Recipe

Fearless Fitness/Martial Arts: The Recipe: There are three ingredients in the good life:  learning, earning and yearning. -Christopher Morley- It doesn't matter whether yo...

The Recipe

There are three ingredients in the good life:
 learning, earning and yearning.
-Christopher Morley-

It doesn't matter whether your baking a cake, some gluten free brownies,
 (ha ha Susan)

or trying to develop a successful team with a sense of community.........

The blending of ingredients is the benchmark of success,
 not the ingredients themselves. 

 Grand Master George Mattson, Uechi ryu Pioneer

I've never known anyone to taste flour or baking powder

then smile and say "mmm boy is that gonna be a goood cake,,,,,,,!"

Often our vision turns out to be something  drastically different than we imagined.

Last night in Plaistow, NH...

 I watched 200 plus people celebrate their Black Belt Graduation.
The candidates were joined by an audience 1500 people from the community
These students had been mentored by Senseis' Buzz and Judy Durkin
 and the Butokukai  organization of outstanding teachers.
Associations and dojos have alot to learn from Senseis' Buzz and Judy.

Later during a brief conversation with martial arts legend, 

George Mattson I discovered an interesting lesson.

I said to George,
"It must be an amazing feeling to know your responsible for all this !"
He smiled and said he hadn't imagined this.

During a conversation about the release of my latest film project, 
'Anatomy of the Tide', originally due Sept 2012 now June 6, 2013.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1980038/

I told George I was a bad guy in the film and had used movements from the 
Uechi Ryu Kata Seisan in my fight scene then curb stomped my opponent.

He said sarcastically,
"That should be real good for Uechi Ryu..!

Each of us are merely ingredients in the recipe that is our art,
Our family, our style, our dojo .....our community.

Robb Buckland, Grand Masters George Mattson & Buzz Durkin, w/ Sensei Allan Azoff

 

Live life fully while you're here.

 Experience everything.
 Take care of yourself and your friends.

 Have fun, be crazy, be weird.
 Go out and screw up!

 You're going to anyway,
 so you might as well enjoy the process.

 Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes:
 find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. 

Don't try to be perfect; 
just be an excellent example of being human