Gain Absolute and Total Self-Control

because winning begins by controlling how you will be..

What separates the amateurs and professional is self-mastery..
how you walk the valleys. how you maneuver the turns. how you're able to get out of your own way..

mastering others requires force..
mastering the self needs strength..

believe what we believed
think what we thought

The Ancient Masters were subtle, mysterious, profound, responsive..

• watchful.. like men crossing a winter stream.
• alert.. like men of danger.
• courteous.. like visiting guests..

what I'm about to share with you ma sound like a mantra from the misty mountaintop.
but if you're willing to be unconditionally receptive, you too will discover why the Ancient Masters style were so effective..

are you ready?
take a few slow, deep breaths..

imagine that deep within you there's an oasis of inner calm. imagine too, a dimension of detached awareness. a dimension that makes it possible to see things from the vantage of a player on the field as well as an observer on the sidelines.

to imagine is to self-empower. you have just actualized what the Ancient Masters sought.

..its a still center..

now..

• imagine having the power to be aware of how you feel..
• imagine having the power to respond rather than react.. when you react the event controls you.. when you responds, you are in control.. how you choose to perceive a situation will often determine its outcome.
• imagine having the power to control your anger and emotions. to be aware of your gut impulses. to be able to lower your voices as others are raising theirs.
  
• imagine to have the power to be aware of the risk and consequences of giving way to your impulses.
• imagine having the power to separate what is important from what is urgent. the power to pause. to observe. to absorb before acting. to be aware of alternative solutions and their solutions and their benefits.

And here is something for my friend that makes you think..(its for Nas)

Every morning in Africa, a zebra wakes up knowing it must run faster than the lion or be killed..

Every morning , a lion awakens knowing it must outrun the slowest zebra or starve to death..

It doesn't matter if you are lion or zebra.. when the sun comes up, you'd better running..

All the above quotes can be summed up in three words.. live as usual ..



Confrontations with people who will argue about anything. Or even worse, who will argue about nothing. Confrontations with people who argue because they would rather be right than reasonable.

If you have a life without conflict, then you don't really have a life. Each of us aggravation. Problems. Frustration. Each of our lives is made of peaks and valleys, twists and turns. There'll be days you'll play hide and seek with the ghosts. What makes us different from each other is how we walk the valleys, how we maneuver the turns, how we carry the load.

You cant always control the conflict, but with a power of still center you can always control your reaction to it..

In the morning the sun will come up again. Nas, i'm telling you you'll be able to stop the race. But i do promise that as you discover the way to win, you'll become one of the best runner..

Heads up!!

"Absolute and self-control flows from still center..
having still center doesn't mean you'll always be in total control of the conflict itself..
It means that you'll always be in total control of your reaction to it"..

So for you my dearest friend, you'll think what is good for you because you are the player of your game. Don't let them win of your own game.