You may be celebrating the Independence Day holiday, but I am celebrating the official launch of the new edition of Dojo Wisdom.
Of course, I will also be celebrating the Independence Day holiday. Everyone needs some fireworks in their lives! Hope you enjoy yours!
For the next few weeks, I’ll be running excerpts from Dojo Wisdom, which is officially releasing on July 1. This is one of my favorites, #50: Know what to do next. Know what to do next. For every Plan A you devise, you should also have a Plan B in mind for when Plan A…
I have already settled on an approach! I am just going to label entries by week. That way you can follow along without my having to pretend this is anything more than a series of blog posts prompted by my revisiting Dojo Wisdom. Last week I talked about what people sacrifice to reach their goals….
One of the most important lessons in Dojo Wisdom is the one that says, “If you think you don’t have enough, you will never have enough.” The human appetite for more is enormous and insatiable. That’s the fundamental principle of philosophies such as Buddhism. And the cure is to stop feeding the craving. This is…
As regular readers know, I am very excited about the re-release of Dojo Wisdom, which will be out July 1. (You can preorder it here.) To that end, I’m planning to excerpt a few of my favorite lessons from the book. Here’s one. #84: Embrace the Dragon According to martial arts legend, Shaolin temple…
It is probably apparent that for most of my life I have been a type A, achievement-oriented person, and so my response to every challenge that comes my way is to do something about it, which is why being Jessica’s mother is so maddening. There is nothing I can do about it. There ought to…
When I first began training in the martial arts, I had a lot of fear. I was afraid I would get hurt and that people wouldn’t like me and I would never fulfill my dreams and I would never have a family and on and on. The first kick started breaking away the fear. But…
