Tuesday, September 1, 2009

From: http://wujifaliangong.blogspot.com/2009/07/45-gongfu-hints-and-pointers.html
  • You are where you are, and that’s where you start.
  • Relaxed is not limp.
  • Relaxing in one area will aid relaxation in another area. The body is connected.
  • Connected is not locked.
  • Connected is not stiff.
  • Structure is not rigid.
  • Easy isn’t necessarily ease.
  • Ease isn't necessarily easy.
  • Don't rush it, it'll happen faster.
  • Your strength is your weakness.
  • Your strong point is your weak point, your weak point is your strong point.
  • Attention is different than focus.
  • Noticing changes everything.
  • It’s better to fall down than quit.
  • How would a baby learn?
  • Now I know what the "Chi" is? (Laughing)
  • Match is not living.
  • Pay attention to the minutest details for the largest gains.
  • Your questions reveal where you are, your experience, and what you’re working on.
  • Practice a pattern until the feeling reveals itself to you. Pay attention. Notice.
  • What's your purpose?
  • Why are you doing this?
  • If you can’t feel your body, then what’s the point of having a body?
  • The purpose of the method is to feel.
  • Feeling is a key, as kinesthetic is to foundation.
  • Feeling is a key. Grounded is foundation.
  • How do you know?
  • There is no end to feeling, understanding, and being aware.
  • The method is not the truth, once you get the feeling, get rid of the method.
  • Once you get the feeling, principle is second nature.
  • The method is not the truth.
  • The method is a medicine.
  • The various (suggested chi flow) feelings are signposts. Don’t confuse the signpost for the actual destination.
  • Using imagery is a trick (a method, a medicine) to get the intention to move.
  • Monkey mind and stallion – keep the monkey busy so the stallion runs freely.
  • A small step, no matter how small, starts the momentum. Keep taking small steps. Many small steps will take you a long way.
  • One small step for “a man,” a giant leap for most of mankind!
  • Practice the ordinary until it becomes extra-ordinary.
  • Technique -> Form -> Principle -> Philosophy
  • Three Rules: 1. Be responsible for your own development – be, response-able 2. Be rational and functional 3. Experiment, try, feel, get results
  • A good lesson teaches to where the student is. A not so good teacher teaches where the teacher is.
  • Different People learn in different ways.
  • Once you get the feeling, the principle is second nature.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. - Albert Ellis

Monday, March 16, 2009

The worst problem of the 21st century is that many people want positions of leadership, but they don't want to make difficult decisions

Carlos Ghosn, President & CEO of Renault/Nissan, in an interview to Veja on the difficult decisions he had to make in order to save Nissan from bankruptcy

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Corporate and critical successes are due to passion, customer service, and paying attention to the right things.

by Early To Rise

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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