18/12: MY BIGGEST CHALLENGE
Category: Andy Dickinson's Power Talk
Posted by: Sensei
MY BIGGEST CHALLENGE
It has been too long since writing to you all and I have missed not sharing my thoughts with you over the last number of months. This year has been an interesting one. For the first third of the year I decided to take my foot off the throttle and smell the roses after what had been a very very busy couple of years.
I spent time with my son Tom and helped him prepare for various scholarship and selective highschool exams. Tom did do extra study at a great coaching school (if you want the details email me) and after a great effort was actually awarded full scholarships at Newington and Trinity Grammar and also gained a place at Leichhardt Selective. Tom has trained at Northstar since he was 4 and I believe the skills learned at martial arts helped him to excel academically.
I will be writing a guide on "how to prepare your child to gain the most out of them and at the same time enjoying their child hood." If you interested in getting a copy please email me. So all of the effort that we put in as a family really helped Tom excel.
As the year went on, with the help of our great trainers team and office staff, Northstar has continued to thrive, regardless of the economy. With your help, Northstar has become a wonderful community for like minded people. It is an honor for me to be part of such a positive and supportive group. My focus is and has always been learning about life through the mode of martial arts....never about fighting.
Over the last 6 months I have felt a change happen with in me. For many years I have been hiding or rather relying on a hard supportive shell created by many years of martial arts. I originally started martial arts so that I would never be bullying, picked on or touched ever again. I learned and relied on the physical power to get control of my life and protect me. But that hard shell stopped me from growing and was no longer serving my greater good. It was another part of my ego that was stifling me personally and also how I related to others.
When there is enough pain, change will happen. I have felt the dropping away of something that has been a part of me for so long. Initially there was a resistance but now there is an acceptance, a surrendering to the notion that I really dont have that much control over anything and the univeral laws of nature or the only constants in our life. It has been a profound learning experience and I feel quite raw and emotional as I re build myself from the inside out. This has been a challenge that has tested my soul at its very depth. It was the support of great friends and family that have enabled me to feel this experience to the fullest and begin to learn a new way to live, love and relate.
I have not met many of you this year. Next year I will be back to full strength and you will once again see me around alot at class.
Take time to stop over the break, reach out and smile, contact friends even if they have not contacted you, call your family even if you have not talked for a while live every moment as if it was your last, and love like you have never loved before.
Andy Dickinson
andydickinson@optusnet.com.au
It has been too long since writing to you all and I have missed not sharing my thoughts with you over the last number of months. This year has been an interesting one. For the first third of the year I decided to take my foot off the throttle and smell the roses after what had been a very very busy couple of years.
I spent time with my son Tom and helped him prepare for various scholarship and selective highschool exams. Tom did do extra study at a great coaching school (if you want the details email me) and after a great effort was actually awarded full scholarships at Newington and Trinity Grammar and also gained a place at Leichhardt Selective. Tom has trained at Northstar since he was 4 and I believe the skills learned at martial arts helped him to excel academically.
I will be writing a guide on "how to prepare your child to gain the most out of them and at the same time enjoying their child hood." If you interested in getting a copy please email me. So all of the effort that we put in as a family really helped Tom excel.
As the year went on, with the help of our great trainers team and office staff, Northstar has continued to thrive, regardless of the economy. With your help, Northstar has become a wonderful community for like minded people. It is an honor for me to be part of such a positive and supportive group. My focus is and has always been learning about life through the mode of martial arts....never about fighting.
Over the last 6 months I have felt a change happen with in me. For many years I have been hiding or rather relying on a hard supportive shell created by many years of martial arts. I originally started martial arts so that I would never be bullying, picked on or touched ever again. I learned and relied on the physical power to get control of my life and protect me. But that hard shell stopped me from growing and was no longer serving my greater good. It was another part of my ego that was stifling me personally and also how I related to others.
When there is enough pain, change will happen. I have felt the dropping away of something that has been a part of me for so long. Initially there was a resistance but now there is an acceptance, a surrendering to the notion that I really dont have that much control over anything and the univeral laws of nature or the only constants in our life. It has been a profound learning experience and I feel quite raw and emotional as I re build myself from the inside out. This has been a challenge that has tested my soul at its very depth. It was the support of great friends and family that have enabled me to feel this experience to the fullest and begin to learn a new way to live, love and relate.
I have not met many of you this year. Next year I will be back to full strength and you will once again see me around alot at class.
Take time to stop over the break, reach out and smile, contact friends even if they have not contacted you, call your family even if you have not talked for a while live every moment as if it was your last, and love like you have never loved before.
Andy Dickinson
andydickinson@optusnet.com.au
