Hopefully an unnecessary reminder to the team - our monthly meeting will be going on the 3rd Thursday this month because we had no classes the first Thursday. So that would be next week, September 15th at the Kwoon at 7:30.
I cannot stress enough how important your engagement in your classes and meetings is. Some of you have missed an awful lot of your class/meeting commitments through no fault of your own as they were excused absences. It is important that you remind yourselves that excused absence or not, mastery does not care and those absences have harmed you. You do not get multiple chances to exploit opportunities. Those opportunities are gone forever.
Self-awareness of the consequences of your choices is the only way you will be able to properly prioritize your training when it comes to all the other things you have going on in your lives. As always, kung fu should not be THE priority but it should be a priority. You need to decide how bad you want to master the art and then set your goals and priorities accordingly. And make no mistake - when I say ”master the art”, I am saying “master life” and “master yourself”. Just think of all the doors you are opening through your engagement in your kung fu.
Kung fu literally translates as “hard work“. Either you are going to do the work or you are not going to do the work. The choice is yours and the consequences of your choices are well-documented. What do you want?
Jeff Brinker