Hi All,
I have posted the school information after the lesson of the week.

Lesson of the Week

The White Rabbit

Before you can achieve anything in life you, must do something else
first. In order to become a winner, one must accept complete
responsibility for who you are and everything that you become. The
first step in this process is to understand that you are where you
are and who you are because of yourself.

The basic law of cause and effect dictates that if you want things to
change, you must change first. Your thoughts determine your life, and
since you are free to choose your own thoughts and contents of your
conscious mind, you are in complete charge of the consequences of
those thoughts. Your thoughts determine your attitude, conduct and
behavior, and these attributes are the key to becoming a winner.

From early on, we are taken care of. We are provided food, clothing
and shelter. As children we live in a cocoon, where we are taught to
not worry about being responsible, because someone else will take
care of you. Ideally though, by the time a person reaches 18 he
should be a fully functional and personally responsible adult. Yet
many people tend to hold on and expect someone or something to take
care of them.

I once read a short story many years ago where the children were
taught that the secret of happiness was in the backyard, but in order
to find it they must never do one thing. They must never think of a
white rabbit while they are searching for the secret in the backyard.
Well, you know what happened – the more they thought about not
thinking about a white rabbit, the more they thought about it. No
matter how hard they tried, they could never find the secret to
happiness.

Each of us has our own white rabbits. Our white rabbits are our
excuses or road- blocks we use to not set clearly defined goals and
benchmarks for ourselves. You have heard these white rabbits from
others – "I'm too old", or "I'm too young". Maybe it was "I'm not
smart enough" or even " I'm just not ready".

In the martial arts, we have heard that our greatest enemy is
ourselves. I think this is very true. The pursuit of Black Belt
Excellence is all about looking deep within, identifying our own
personal white rabbits, and creating a plan of action to make them go
away. The ultimate rabbit defense, no matter what the situation, is
to look in the mirror and say, " I am responsible. Now what am I
going to do about this."

Happy hunting.

School Info:
There will be an in-house tournament next Saturday begining at 9 am.
For registration information see Mary.

"Ripleys Beleive It Or Not" will be in Colorado Springs next weekend
filming me catching an arrow for their show next month.

We will be close the 23rd through the 30th for Spring Break. Have a
great break!

Respectfully,

Terry Bryan