A little goes a long way.

 The weather has turned here in South Australia, there is a distinct bite to the wind and the Dojo is becoming like the winter icebox I have come to know so well. 

Its cold outside 

Training in the cold is always good when it's over. In a conversation today, I talked of how to overcome low motivation. Something the cold weather seems to embrace as it is always more difficult dragging yourself out of a warm house in to the cold to train. But then again, with this said, it all comes down to discipline. 

I read a post last week that said, if you do something for just 16.5 minutes a day, every day, then at the end of a year you will have done 100 hours. I used this in the conversation I had {did not take credit for it} and said the most difficult thing was actually doing the first 5 minutes. 5 turns in to 10 turns in to 20 then 30 and maybe 40. Which if you did every day then more than 240 hours would be achieved in a year.

The Karate maxim of doing a little every day never rang so true, and if nothing else gives purpose and meaning to what might otherwise be sedentary and mundane. A little really does go a long way. 

Be ready....

 Where I reside was a life choice. It's a sleepy little town with low crime and almost zero violence. I like it. It is a complete contrast to the urban areas of inner and outer Birmingham where I grew up and lived for forty years.

But this said, there is always the occasional wanker who might just be out to try and ruin your day. I experienced such an asshole today.

Minding my own business he threw verbal abuse at me for pulling up at a petrol pump he wanted to use, apparently I should be a mind reader and understand that although he was facing the wrong way and turning around, I should have know he was next in line. So acting all tuff he verbally abused me. For about 5 seconds, then he stopped. I wonder why that was. Well, he was faced with an imoveable force greater than himself, an imoveable force that is no stranger to being accosted albeit not that often These days and, as is the norm he turned to mush. Altercation over and he never got hurt.

Ok so my little story, whilst being dead set true is one thing but, it got me thinking and raised a few questions.

The small town I live in is under development and is set to grow quite substantially.

Q,  so will this mean more assholes?     A, quite probably.

Q, Will there be an increase in crime and violence.                     A, Probably. .....solution- work more on fitness and speed to eliminate self doubt and to create readiness.....Better to be prepared and not need it than to need it and not be prepared. 

It's a changing World we live in with snowflakes, namby pamby's and those easily offended like woke people. The thing is there is little to no patience that these people have and flying off the handle so to speak is a normal occurrence for them, they just don't know what to do when someone doesn't give a flying FK about them .... My advice, be ready.