Newsletter
"The Source"
BECOMING A
BLACK BELT
3 Ingredients to become a Black Belt.
Desire, Determination, Be Teachable
1. Desire
- Your heart must call out for this. It must be a quest
not a fancy. Everyday you are reminded that martial arts
study is about learning how to live and not just how to
defend yourself. Nurture the fire within you. Desire to
be more.
2. Determination
- You must be determined and be willing to work
hard at it. Never quitting or giving up, no matter what
seems to get in your way. You must do what you've got
to do to obtain your desire to become a black belt and
then beyond. Set new objectives for yourself and take
them on one step at a time.
3. Be Teachable
- You must be teachable. If you come to a lesson prepared
in your wisdom of the only way it can be done, you will
not be open to learning from someone who has traveled
the path before you. Add to what you know versus comparing
it. Be respectful. If you do not have respect for yourself,
your art, your fellow students, and especially the instructor
teaching you, you will never make it. Your instructor
may choose to give his extra time to someone who really
wants to learn. You must be teachable.
Someone who is teachable and keeps coming to training
will someday get their Blackbelt. They may not be the
most talented student in class and it may take them a
little longer, but they will get there someday because
they are teachable and determined.
People who are not teachable skip from teacher to teacher,
style to style, and one day they reach their half empty
goal when someone just like them gives in and gives them
a blackbelt. Yet they don't have the knowledge of the
teachable student who had the desire and determination
to really learn an art and is a true Sandan with lots
of skill in about the same amount of time spent training
in the martial arts. Take pride in yourself and your training.
Be good at what you do.
|
