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THE HORIZON IS A GREAT DREAM BUT A LOUSY YARD-STICK

Uncategorized Feb 13, 2024

I’m a big fan of Dan Sullivan, world class consultant and business coach, especially his Gap and the Gain philosophy. It is well known amongst entrepreneurs, but it is also something that desperately needs to be known and understood by parents.

The Gap and the Gain concept is a self measurement tool. It ensures we as humans are constantly growing, thriving, and learning, instead of just staying stagnant. Additionally, it ensures we do it in a healthy way.

DAN REFERS TO THE GAP AS HOW WE SEE OURSELVES COMPARED TO OUR IDEAL FUTURE. IMAGINE, AS AN EXAMPLE, YOU ARE ON A LONG JOURNEY. AS YOU ARE WALKING YOU ARE KEEPING YOUR EYE ON THE HORIZON.

You know your destination is out there somewhere, but you’re not exactly sure where. You just keep your eye on the horizon and keep walking toward it. The problem is, as you walk toward the horizon, it keeps moving away from you. As many steps as you take toward it, it keeps adjusting just as many steps away from you.

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Uncategorized Oct 05, 2023

Zig Ziglar used to say that many people are stressed because they are always traveling. To clarify, I don’t mean specifically traveling, I mean mentally travelling. I agree. When they are at work they are thinking about their family… then later when they are with their family, they can’t be totally committed to being with them because mentally they are worried about work, and the work they didn’t get done while they were there because they were thinking about their family. When at work, they are mentally traveling home, when they are home, they are mentally traveling to work. Zig would say, “no wonder everyone is so exhausted, they’re always travelling.

I HAD MY OWN REALIZATION ABOUT THIS WHILE LEARNING MARTIAL ARTS FROM GRAND MASTER PHILIPMAN CHOW.

It was over 15 years ago. Our club in Scarborough had been asked to put on a Kung Fu demonstration for Chinese New Year at a cultural centre in Toronto. Sifu asked me to demonstrate a couple...

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The Wisdom of Swords and Tea Pots and How it Applies to You

Uncategorized Apr 20, 2023

When I was a young apprentice in the kung fu school, I was always taught that it was good etiquette to hang swords with the handles on the left.

I was amused to learn there was a practical reason for this.

The reason was that if there was ever an intruder invading the school, and they lunged for a weapon, they would be grabbing it with the left hand. The odds are 90% that the intruder would be right-handed. This would mean they would either be wielding the weapon with the wrong hand, or they would have to spend crucial seconds fumbling with the sword to switch hands.

I always found it interesting how etiquette was built around this practical little idea.

While rival schools breaking into the dojo for a lethal showdown isn’t really a problem anymore these days, but there is still a valuable lesson to be learned.

I thought of this this morning when I grabbed a teapot off of the shelf to make myself tea.

Whether at the kung fu school or at home, I always shelve my tea pots with...

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Teriyaki T'ursday - Episode 8 - Developing Habits That Bring Your success

Uncategorized Feb 20, 2021
 

 

Sifu Atalick and Ms. Gibbons talk about dealing with stress and tension, meditation, and chi kung - 35 min

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Teriyaki T'ursday - Episode 7 - 3 Legged Stool of Self Cultivation in Holistic Kung Fu

Uncategorized Feb 15, 2021
 

 

Sifu Atalick and Ms. Gibbons talk about dealing with stress and tension, meditation, and chi kung - 35 min

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Positioning in Holistic Kung Fu - Part 1

In Self-Defence, real self-defence, not combative sports or contests, The Best Defence is not a good offence. The best defence is not being there.

A good offence is the second best defence; if you’re not there in the first place there’s nothing to defend against. If the best defence is not being there, then the best offence (or counter attack) is simply being there. As Woody Allen said, “80% of success in life is just showing up”. In combat, this means if you are in the right position to counter attack, you may find yourself possibly in your opponent’s blind spot, or at an angle where you can easily knock them off balance, or a position where you can hit them easily while they cannot hit you. Alternately, if your position is poor, even if you hit them with more speed and more power you may still lose if you’re not in the right place at the right time.

In Holistic Kung Fu, this is what we call Positioning.

This is a versatile concept that doesn't...

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Teriyaki Tuesday - Episode 6: The Tao of Sleeping

Uncategorized Feb 06, 2021
 

 

Sifu Atalick and Ms. Gibbons talk about dealing with stress and tension, meditation, and chi kung - 35 min

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Teriyaki Tuesday - Episode 5 - dealing with stress

Uncategorized Jan 25, 2021
 

 

Sifu Atalick and Ms. Gibbons talk about dealing with stress and tension, meditation, and chi kung - 35 min

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Teriyaki Tuesday - Episode 04 - Breathing

Uncategorized Jan 20, 2021
 

 

The importance of Breathing in Holistic Kung Fu for Stress and anxiety management, for longevity, and for self defence

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Teriyaki Tuesday - Holistic Kung Fu Podcast e03 - Spiritual Recession

Uncategorized Dec 16, 2020
 

 

 Sifu Atalick and Ms. Gibbons chat about Holistic Kung Fu and the importance of values during times of adversity

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