If your primary focus is on the next rank, your ability will top out. Your attendance will spike just before tests but will fall off between them. Your focus and attention will lag during “consolidation” periods – those times when the very purpose of training is to repeat your top-level skills until they are hard-wired into your nervous system. There are ability and character transformations that can only be gotten through real immersive training. That’s why it’s so important to pick an art and a dojo that you like; there will be some heavy weather on the way to greatness, but starting in the plus column of love for your art will help you get you through. It’s also critical to constantly remind yourself of the big picture so the connection between determined practice and your personal mission is clear.
Some exceptional martial artists don’t need to be told this. They're gifted with the passion or energy or obsession to train intensely most of the time. But those who may lack passion from time to time, or who have gotten as far as we can on what comes naturally, may need a push to break through to the next level.
Getting past that intellectual understanding and into a true emotional understanding of the depth and joy possible in your training has to come from inside you. Commit completely.
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