Monday, February 14, 2011

USK Karate Academy Technical Tip Series - Defensive Hip

Weekly Tune Up - Install Your Updates

By Master Instructor David Alvas, Director

Have you every turned on your computer or booted up a program when you need to get some important work done, only to be interrupted by a message telling you that you have updates that must be installed?  Then the computer proceeds to tell you that while the updates are being installed, you have to shut down all other programs or applications.  Finally, the computer tells you that after the installation of the updates, you must restart the computer.

Annoying, right?  You have work to do, not time to install updates!

Let’s take this analogy and apply it to life.  You probably read my Tune Ups every week, along with other important “self-help” messages, and sometimes just feel overwhelmed.  Maybe you don’t have the time right now to stop and “install the updates”.  Maybe you are doing something more pressing that requires your undivided attention.  It’s ok.  You can install the updates later, when you are ready.

In martial arts, we embrace the philosophy that people will shift (change) when they are ready.  We make room for that in this school.  That is why everyone proceeds at their own pace.

Everyone is ready for different messages at different times in their life. Open and install your updates when you are ready.

All the best,
David Alvas