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In martial arts one of the key elements is timing. For example, without proper timing you can’t effectively block a strike — too soon and your opponent can compensate and get past it … too late and you simply get hit.

In the same way, timing is just as important to striking — in order to take advantage of an opening you must be able to catch it when it comes … and sometime, those opportunities can pass you by in an instant! For that reason, timing is only part of the equation in success — technique is the other. With proper technique your flexibility on timing becomes greater — you’re much faster with perfect technique and that gives you a larger time frame in which to seize your chance to strike!

All of this combined gives well trained martial artists a much keener sense of battle. Whenever you hear someone talk about how everything seemed to slow down and they could see everything happening in slow motion, all at once, it’s because they have the skills of timing and technique combined; however, that doesn’t necessarily guarantee success — even the best martial artists miss. (I mean, Babe Ruth struck out hundreds of times in order to make all those hits)

So, one might then ask: where does strategy come into play? Well, that’s a good question and it has to do with knowing your own strengths and weaknesses while also recognizing those of your opponent. When you know what moves your opponent favors and where they are lacking in skill, you can use that to your advantage. Bringing in the concept of chess and you suddenly have a situation where a fighter must think ahead … plan out what moves he/she will make and what they expect their opponent to do. When a martial artist can see multiple moves ahead and know how to react so that they create the pattern of strikes and blocks on both sides of the battle — that is a true master!

  Today I was once again made aware of how far I am from being a true master in business.

Over the last several hours I played out the pattern of moves that can be expected to come from a simple decision I made only a couple days ago … and I saw myself lose the perfect opportunity to strike out at huge success. The worst part? I even knew better. (don’t ya just hate that!! when you know that you know better but you do it anyway! geez!)

In NLP we say there is no failure, only feedback; however, that’s different than loss. Failure is an executed plan lacking the degree of success which was expected … on the other hand, loss is the removal of something in return for nothing. Failure happens when you stop moving towards a goal. Loss refers to the things which are given up or taken away.

Although I have not failed (the feedback I have received is to be more committed and cognizant of the purpose for my values in the future) because I will keep working towards wealth and success … I did have a huge loss — 3 years of work to be precise. And yes, some of that work can be salvaged, but it still takes an emotional toll on one’s hopes and dreams when we watch in slow motion the outcome of a decision turn our life down a different path than we had planned.

My father always taught me to never risk what I wasn’t willing to lose — so, I took the risk knowing that if it didn’t work I’d just need to pick myself back up and keep going … yet, I feel I’ll need a short time to grieve for my losses of effort. I mean, just because a millionaire can lose it all and be able to build their fortune back up, doesn’t mean they aren’t angry and upset about losing it in the first place.