Pick whatever food you want to grow. Then grow it. Repeat again next year, and so on and so on.
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Showing posts with label bowling green. Show all posts
Sunday, January 16, 2011
I Challenge You!!
Easy challenge though, if you have a yard, or a balcony, or a porch, build a square meter garden. Not enough room for a square meter garden, do a square foot or a hanging plant.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Resolution?
Have you chosen a resolution for the new year? I'd like to suggest awareness.Wake up and look around you. Think about self defense, not necessarily from punches and kicks. Look at the threats around you and decide how you are going to protect yourself.
If you were walking down a street and you noticed that the further you went the more you were in the wrong neighborhood, a neighborhood that would most likely shorten your life, wouldn't you turn around and get out of there?
So take a look at the neighborhood you are walking into now. Do you smoke? Do you have lousy food habits like I did two years ago? Are you sitting on the couch day after day without getting up and being active?
If you are doing those things you are walking into a dangerous neighborhood, you are shortening your time on Earth. You are taking years away from your life, years that your kids could have you and they won't. Trust me, even when they grow up, they will still want you to hang around for a few more years.
Is it worth it to keep walking down that road? Is it worth your life to hang onto those habits? Is a little more nicotine worth the grief of your loved ones? Is taking the easy path, not getting up and getting fit, worth the price?
Wake up, get up, get aware, move towards health and sustainability, change a few habits. You don't have to go insane with it, you don't have to go off the grid and have a sheep farm. Drive a little less, walk a little more, eat a little healthier. Make small changes.
You can't run a race without taking lots of small steps.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Have You Gotten Complacent?
Are you feeling stagnant? Have you hit a plateau? Getting bored with where you are?
Are you doing the same old things and getting the same results?
That's how I was feeling about two years ago. I was doing some pretty good stuff and getting some pretty good results, but I didn't really feel like I was making much progress, in kung fu, in fitness, in life. . .
So I did something about it. Heavily influenced by my wife's F.I.R.S.T. program and Tom Callos' Ultimate Black Belt Test, I put together my own program. I called it the Ten Tigers Program.
It's fairly ambitious, 35,000 pushups and crunches in a year is just the tip of the iceberg. I did the program two years running, and it starts again in March. A few brave folks decided to join me on the journey and change their lives too. For my students, it also included one on one training sessions. It is hard, it is fun, it is life changing.
And it's coming again!
If you want to get up and do something about all that complacency, you have some choices, commit to your own training plan, (feel free to look at the Ten Tigers program as inspiration), commit to doing all the stuff I've already published in Ten Tigers, or come join the fun with us in 2011.
If you are one of my kung fu students, it's easy, come ask me. If you are a martial arts student with someone else, ask them to use my blueprint, if they won't ask them if you can do my program. If you aren't a martial artist at all, you can still do it, it's customizable.
So get off the couch, come join the fun, and change your life.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Fail or Win?
They called it a fail, I call it a win.
Alone at home, he spotted a masked intruder fought him off enough to escape and escaped. Good self defense.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Beware the Headlines!
Lose Weight By Eating Junk Food
All of these are real headlines, but none of them are really what they seem. The story doesn't always match what the headline implies. The goal of these headlines is to get people to read the articles (obviously), but it seems that in many cases the result is that people remember the headlines rather than the actual story.
Go ahead. Click on the first headline. Be sure to read down to the part where the nutrition expert says he does not recommend that you lose weight by eating junk food.
Click on the second one and get "the rest of the story."
Check the third one while you're at it.
Don't automatically believe the headlines, whether they're online, on TV, or coming out of people's mouths.
Master
In martial arts circles, one hears the word "master" a lot. Most of the time it is used as a title, such as; Master so and so will be here this week; or I learned from Master such and such. . .
In some cases that title is thrown around too easily, and in a few cases (still too many) a martial artist gives him/herself that title.
This is all coming to my mind because someday, my sifu will put that title on a certificate with my name, and I'm not sure how I feel about that. I've been doing a lot of thinking about it, and have found my peace.
I choose not to think of it as a title.
I choose not to think of it as a noun.
I choose to think of it as a verb.
Master Steven O'Nan.
That is one powerful verb, and one powerful call to action don't you think?
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