weight loss

Sabunim was talking with us last Saturday. He told us that we couldn’t wait for an opening to kick…that we didn’t wait for opportunities but that we had to create them. When we create an opportunity for ourselves then we know when to kick… and then the kicks that we throw are timed and aimed properly and not sporadic. If we just kick and kick and kick without setting it up or without an actual opportunity to hit our target then our energy is wasted and we may miss more than we hit. It just turns out to be a waste or we might kick an elbow  or hit knees with our opponent and end up hurting ourselves more in the end.

We must evaluate and analyze our opponent; as well as exercise timing and balance and perseverance and create the opportunity to begin with.  Now sometimes opportunity will present itself to us and it would be dumb of us if we were not to take those opportunities… if we were to stand there and not to kick. I guarantee the planned opportunities will be more common than the others. Yet Sometimes people will stand there open and forget to block… but sometimes they wont. Probably more often than not we will have to create our own.

What does this have to do with life? EVERYTHING. If you sit around and wait for opportunities to come up and just throw your energy at the universe then you aren’t likely to hit much. However, if you set yourself up and create opportunities yourself then your possibilities are limitless. If an opportunity isn’t given to us and we just give up or throw our energy and efforts to random places then we waste our time. However, if we place our energy and effort into creating opportunites and opening up our own doors then we are more likely to get somewhere. What’s the point? Don’t wait for opportunity to come to you… Create it Yourself! Apply this in every area of your life and I’m sure that you will be impressed with the results. I guarantee it.

My life is changing right now. I have opened more doors than I had ever imagined were possible to open at one time. Tomorrow I am moving and Tuesday I start my first Graduate level class. I’m not going to lie; both situations are absolutely terrifying. My world is changing. I could have continued to stay at the status quo. I could have been comfortable I guess… as I threw my energy into the universe. But instead I began creating opportunities. Opportunities that I knew would be positive for my life. And once those opportunities were created I began to throw my energy into them. And look at what happened: everything.  This my friends is a good thing.

I had to analyze my situation. Then I had to look at the timing. Next I had to make sure that no matter how many times I thought I had failed… I still had to get back up. And learn to balance everything else that was going on. I had to continue trying no matter how tired I was.  Through these experiences I learned many valuable lessons. I needed to move on. I was just standing there… staring at my opponent. My opponent had blood on his mind and wanted to destroy all ambition that I had. So I made my hands into fists. I called my energy from deep within. I had to do something. I had to beat complacency I he looked me in the eye. And as the fight started I had to do something.

I couldn’t just stand there and let him kick me in the head… and I couldn’t bounce on my toes while I kicked thin air. I suppose these things have their time and their purpose… but that time was not this moment.

Instead I waited. I watched. Instead I planned… and I watched my opponent try to destroy me like he had destroyed many others. So with my fists tight and my body relaxed I faked an attack; and then I exploded. I exploded just like Chogyonim tries to teach us in class each week. I’m not very good at it when I am kicking in class… but I seem to get better at it as I kick the struggles out of my life.

With my fists gasped tightly and my mind in the right place I began round one and then two… and so on. Sometimes I wanted to give up, lay down and pretend that I was dead. But then what would my life consist of? So I fought; though I was tired I fought. And a small miracle happened. My energy exploded. The universe didn’t know what was coming. My aim was precise and my timing perfect. And as I heard the snap hit the body of the universe I knew that though my world had been shaken it was a good thing. I created the perfect opportunity and then I took it.