The Three Questions You Must Answer Before Entering the Battlefield of Life
Master and disciple walked side by side through a beautiful garden. The disciple suddenly stops and asks: “Master, you talk about and preach to me the ways of peace. Yet I have learned from you deadly techniques of combat and the tactics of war. How do you reconcile the two?” The master gracefully squats, chooses a flower and plucks it. “My disciple: it is better to be a warrior tending to his garden than a gardener in a war.” [Go to full article…]
What a Warrior Needs to Know Within and Without
A man was running late to a very important business meeting when his car stalled. He couldn’t believe his luck! This appointment with a top business executive was going to change his life and his car decides to do this! While standing, looking befuddled at his car’s engine compartment, another man walks by, stops, and looks at the engine. After a few seconds of looking around the engine, he tells the owner of the vehicle that he can fix the car “right now” for $100. The man considered his options, there weren’t many; he had to make that meeting! So he agreed. The other man then selected a small hose from the engine, plucked it out, blew on it, and set it back in place. He then told the owner of the vehicle to start the car. The car started as if it had never stalled in the first place. When the man came over to collect his $100, the driver said “I can’t believe it! $100 to blowing on a hose?” The other man answered “No! For knowing which hose to blow”. [Go to full article…]
The Skills of the Peaceful Warrior
A lady walks into a restaurant for lunch and orders the soup of the day. After a few minutes, the server gracefully delivers the bowl of soup and summarily leaves. The lady stares at the soup for a few moments and calls the server over and this conversation ensues [Go to full article…]
Anatomy of a Choice
There are very few that are not familiar with the story of David and Goliath. The story of the underdog against impossible odds. But what if I told you that the choices made by David were measured and backed by his knowledge and skill? That he knew from the moment the opportunity was presented to him that he was going to be victorious, would you still think him the underdog? [Go to full article…]
Opportunities: Making Success Inevitable
In the late ’90s, to bring the Olympic spirit to developing nations, the Olympic Committee decided to allow a small number of athletes from those nations to participate in the Games, by giving out what they called “wild card” entries. These “athletes” did not have to go through any qualifying rounds in order to compete, as a consequence some arrived woefully unprepared. One such athlete was a swimmer from Equatorial Guinea named Eric Moussambani. When the call for athletes went out he was the only person to turn up to represent his country in the sport of swimming at the Olympics. [Go to full article…]
Alone
Humans are a very powerful race. While other species face extinction we thrive. Damage to our planet and exaggerated consumption of resources notwithstanding, we make it happen. I live in Florida and enjoy doing local tourism and I can only stand in awe at what natives did to survive. And as much as I despise the callousness with which the colonialist exterminated the local population I am also awed at how they survived and established colonies that were the building blocks to the society in which we now live. It is impressive what a group of humans can achieve, not only on the specific time in history being occupied but on the collective non-stopping timeline that is our history. [Go to full article…]
The Three Questions You Must Answer Before Entering the Battlefield of Life
Master and disciple walked side by side through a beautiful garden. The disciple suddenly stops and asks: “Master, you talk about and preach to me the ways of peace. Yet I have learned from you deadly techniques of combat and the tactics of war. How do you reconcile the two?” The master gracefully squats, chooses a flower and plucks it. “My disciple: it is better to be a warrior tending to his garden than a gardener in a war.” [Go to full article…]
What a Warrior Needs to Know Within and Without
A man was running late to a very important business meeting when his car stalled. He couldn’t believe his luck! This appointment with a top business executive was going to change his life and his car decides to do this! While standing, looking befuddled at his car’s engine compartment, another man walks by, stops, and looks at the engine. After a few seconds of looking around the engine, he tells the owner of the vehicle that he can fix the car “right now” for $100. The man considered his options, there weren’t many; he had to make that meeting! So he agreed. The other man then selected a small hose from the engine, plucked it out, blew on it, and set it back in place. He then told the owner of the vehicle to start the car. The car started as if it had never stalled in the first place. When the man came over to collect his $100, the driver said “I can’t believe it! $100 to blowing on a hose?” The other man answered “No! For knowing which hose to blow”. [Go to full article…]
The Skills of the Peaceful Warrior
A lady walks into a restaurant for lunch and orders the soup of the day. After a few minutes, the server gracefully delivers the bowl of soup and summarily leaves. The lady stares at the soup for a few moments and calls the server over and this conversation ensues [Go to full article…]
Anatomy of a Choice
There are very few that are not familiar with the story of David and Goliath. The story of the underdog against impossible odds. But what if I told you that the choices made by David were measured and backed by his knowledge and skill? That he knew from the moment the opportunity was presented to him that he was going to be victorious, would you still think him the underdog? [Go to full article…]
Opportunities: Making Success Inevitable
In the late ’90s, to bring the Olympic spirit to developing nations, the Olympic Committee decided to allow a small number of athletes from those nations to participate in the Games, by giving out what they called “wild card” entries. These “athletes” did not have to go through any qualifying rounds in order to compete, as a consequence some arrived woefully unprepared. One such athlete was a swimmer from Equatorial Guinea named Eric Moussambani. When the call for athletes went out he was the only person to turn up to represent his country in the sport of swimming at the Olympics. [Go to full article…]
Alone
Humans are a very powerful race. While other species face extinction we thrive. Damage to our planet and exaggerated consumption of resources notwithstanding, we make it happen. I live in Florida and enjoy doing local tourism and I can only stand in awe at what natives did to survive. And as much as I despise the callousness with which the colonialist exterminated the local population I am also awed at how they survived and established colonies that were the building blocks to the society in which we now live. It is impressive what a group of humans can achieve, not only on the specific time in history being occupied but on the collective non-stopping timeline that is our history. [Go to full article…]