LifeSwordplay
Tying Art to Life and Life to Art
I study martial arts in order to get better at life. I get better at life to be a better martial artist. How I carry myself when I fence is an expression of how I physically carry myself as a human...
Life
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Life
Be Present to Your Audience
My friends Sean and Kiara were standing at the alter in a beautiful church in New Westminster. I was standing just to the side of Sean, his best man, joyfully watching my friend take a beautiful...
Life
Untying the Knot
Sometimes when I feel really afraid of something. Deep in the pit of me afraid. I take that fear and I go off into a room with it. I close the door and then I close my eyes. I dive down into that...
DanceLife
The Road to Mastery is 25% Technical and 75% Mental
When I look at my pursuit of mastery and proficiency in the various arts of my life I see more clearly now that truly a very small percentage of what is between me and mastery (meaning a high level...
Life
When Others Shine, I Gain
"When others shine. I gain." This is a shift I made in my own personal philosophy recently and it felt important to write more about it. I believe in choosing your philosophy. I feel that all...
Life
A Shift in My Personal Philosophy
Sometimes I struggle with jealousy. Not jealousy of a lover but jealousy over the successes of others. Sometimes I feel so small that when I look at someone else getting an awesome accolade for their...
Life
The Gift of Compassion – A Part of My Personal Journey
I like to say that I come by my confidence honestly. I have never been meek but I have had a lot of challenges of self worth to work through. Every area where I stand strong now I've had to come...
Life
My Favourite Definition of Maturity
Being grown up is not about having a serious and conservative view of the world. Nor is it about giving up being a child. Maturity is knowing when to be a child. When a co-worker gets on your nerves...
CoachingLife
Use Curiosity to Trump Judgment
Being critical of ourselves or others is a pretty common affliction. I say affliction as there are certainly places where we want to be critical and judge the merits of a particular action or...
Life
A Mantra for Change
There are many things we may want to change about ourselves or our circumstances at any given moment but change must come through acceptance. When we rail against the strictures of our life they bind...