Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Keep Your Eyes and Ears Open at All Times


The first thing you need to do when dealing with a toxic situation is get your head out of the sand and face the situation directly. If you don’t do this the only one who is going to get hurt is you.
The first step of any martial arts training is to keep your eyes fixed on your opponent so that you can anticipate any move he or she makes. This way you can block his kick, and take him off balance by leaning back or going forward. The same is true in the verbal arts. You need to keep both your eyes and your ears on the alert at all times.
It’s time to come out of the closet! It’s time to admit to yourself and to everyone else that you are a human being. You are a human being who both requires and deserves respect—respect from others, and most important of all, self-respect.
A self-respecting human being would never allow the earlier scenario to go so far. She would nip it in the bud immediately! When a soldier is engaged in actual battle on the battlefield, does she wait two hours, a week, a month, or a year to deal with the enemy who has just attacked her? Of course not! It goes without saying that she would be dead if she didn’t handle the situation immediately!

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