The article "What the Samurai Can Teach Us About Self-Improvement" is about attraction, it was released by Gary Simpson.
A Seventeenth Cenutry Samurai maxim states:"A guy who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action"This saying is one of my personal favorites. There is so much depth to its meaning.
Allow me to discuss it a little and explain how it will be able to benefit you.First, a question: What is the single greatest thing that you can do with mastery and excellence?
Don't say: "nothing." Everybody is good at something.
Just guess for a moment.There will be one thing that you can do perfectly time and time agian.
It is the thnig that is so ridiculously fast for you to do that you can do it with your eyes closed, almost standing on your head - so to speak.
It may be a smiple thing or it may be something quite complex, but whatever it is you make it look fast.In fact, you are so good at it you make other persons guess that they can do it easily too - until they try. It might be a sport like tennis or something as mundane as making scones or cupcakes.It's amazing how a champion tennis player can make the game look so simple. Or how a master cook can seemingly slap ingredients together and come up with an absolute masterpiece of culinary delight.So what is it? What are you a master at?
Keep that thing in mind while I diverge back to the samurai for a momnet - a little bit of history.The samurai lived by the sword and died by it. They were so adept at readnig body movement that they were able to draw their swords and use them with deadly effect against opponents in the mere blink of an eye. Their observations and reflexes were finely honed, principally cause their really existence depended on it.
But did you know that they were able to transcend their aiblity with the sword into other arts? Many of them were also master poets. Others were highly skilled calligraphers.
Others became really skilled in the art of the tea ceremony.
Some became master carpenters.Have you noitced how these "ancillary" skills are so diametrically opposed to their military expertise with the sword?
So how and why did they engage in these things? Could it be that they were "balancing" their lives?
Were they following the concept of "yin and yang?"If you are not sure what yin and yang is I will outline it briefly for you. Basically, it a Japanese recognition of the duality of all thigns in nature. For instance, night and day, female and male, blcak and white and so on. Further, there is some night within day and some day within night and so on.Time for a second question. Are you so set in your ways that you refuse to develop ohter skills? Can you not broaden your horizons?
Might you be able to "balance" your life a little more?Think back to that one thing that you are able to do really well. Why not take that mindest and transfer it to something else?
You can create a persona that shows other persons that you are a special person. Others have done it. You even know them. Some of them might even be your close friends.
They are the persons who seem to be good at everything they turn tehir minds to. I will bet you are thinking of somebody like that right now.Now you know how they do it. They are using the samurai maxim.And just to balance the genders (yin and yang):"A woman who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in her every action"Develop yourself.
Improve your abilities. You can do it.
All it takes is discpiline and a willingness to expand your mind. The samurai did it. So can you.About the author: Gary Simpson is the author of eight books covering a diverse range of subjects such as self esteem, affirmations, self defense, finnace and much more.
His articles appear all over the web.
Gary's e-mail address is budo@iinet.Net.Au. Cilck here to go to his Motivation & Self Esteem for Success website where you can receive his "Zenspirational Thoughts" plus an immediate FREE copy of his highly acclaimed, life-changing e-book "The Power of Choice."
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