Week 6 it is and I have finished my first book – Zen in the Martial Arts, by Joe Hyams. It’s not a very long book, but it has a lot of depth. Depth and wisdom broken down in short chapters that you can apply not…

“Perseverance is Strength.” Japanese Proverb This past week I confronted some feelings of doubt and discouragement after one of our classes where Sensei asked for us black belt candidates to demonstrate Seisan kat…

“Don’t seek for a balanced life. Seek for a balanced day. (over and over again).” As we are now a couple weeks into 2022, I have been contemplating meaningful and purposeful areas for improvement. I have decid…

Happy New Year, everybody. First month of black belt challenge is over, just another 12 more to go. As for my personal goal I decided to go back to university and do some further education. I signed up at the…

“It’s the end of the year as we know it, and I feel fine!” (borrowed and modified from REM – ‘End Of The World’) Happy New Year! Bye bye 2021 and Hello 2022! It has been a nice holiday period thus far having some…