Guiding Principles

                               

 

 

In my attempt to remain true and act on what I feel are good moral standards, I have put together a list which I think about to remind and give myself direction.

• perception- always more than one way to view a situation and the correct one…who knows!
• Listen - we have two ears and mouth for a reason. A verbal response is not always wanted or required.
• Humility - learning capability is diminished substantially without this quality.
• Surround yourself with people who will assist in your growth.
• Material things…well they are just material things.
• Simplicity may be hard but it will create the easy.
• Faith and spiritually are a lot more tangible than we are able to comprehend.
• Empty, compassion and understanding just need to be. Practice this.
• I believe staying mentally healthy is more important staying physically healthy, because the later is nearly impossible without the other.
• Friends…be honest with them! True friends are difficult to find…you will know who they are. 
• Don’t be ignorant, complacent. Be the master of you.
• Judge. Just don’t do it! I have no authority to judge. 
• Life can be tough. It will challenge me. The challenges will help me grow.
• Love. Learn what that means.
• Breathe like you mean it. Don’t breathe lazily. 
• Don’t fall trap to the last 60 years of societal changes or current societal accepted disfunctions. Be aware of what you’re doing and not doing.
• Exercise. Push your brain and body to reset the mediocrity tendencies.
• Eat to serve your brain and body. Learn to read your body. 
• Drink water. 
• Be one with nature. Learn to ground yourself.
• Meditation. Learn to be with yourself, nurture your body with stillness and breathe.

Last but not least and there are likely guiding principles that are not on this list. 

• Grace. Learn to give myself some grace, I’m not perfect and never will be. Learn to relax and stretch some of the above a bit once in awhile. 
• I read that the body needs a reset once in awhile as it tends to take some things for granted; like always eating chicken for example. Switch it up with a different source of protein once in a while.

Nov 16 (day 293) 

Acts of Kindness recorded - 1021

Push-ups (& weights to strengthen upper body) - 16525,

Sit-ups and or equivalents - 18300, 

Rehab and fitness - Squats & step-ups started May 28th - 2200, 

Kilometers (over and above daily function) - 1759.6

Meditation/ inversion table  (min.) - 1079, 

Stretching/ rolling. Physio exercise (started Sept 7) (min.) - 3150, 

Sparring/ grappling (min.) - 78, 

# of forms re-familiarized - 7.0

Form reps - 266, 

Form time (min.) - 742,

“Mastery” recite (min.) - 101

Blogs - 39