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Create an Environment Where There Is Room to GROW!

Many parents and leaders don't recognize the importance of creating a climate conducive to building potential leaders.
To see the relationship between environment and growth look at nature. One great example is the shark. The reason is that sharks adapt to their environment. If you catch a small shark and confine it, it will stay a size proportionate to the aquarium in which it lives. Sharks can be six inches long yet be fully mature. But if you turn them loose in the ocean, they grow to their normal size.

The same is true of potential leaders. Some are put into an environment when they are still small, and the confining environment ensures that they stay small and under-developed. Only leaders can control the environment. They can be the change agents who create a climate conducive to growth.

The martial arts environment, at least the one that I work in, is designed to grow a leader! To challenge and stretch you to be the leader you have been designed and called to be.

Are you pursuing and creating such an environment?

Live like a Champion & More than a Conqueror.

Attitude makes all the difference...

This past Wednesday I had a 12:52 pm flight from Phila airport to Atlanta Ga.

The day went as follow:

At 8:00am I recieved an email that my flight was rescheduled for 3:25pm. At 1pm I recieve a message that my flight was rescheduled for 8:25pm! Then I recieved a message that it was rescheduled for 4:35pm... then it was rescheduled to 3:20pm...then, at 2:25pm we recieved an announcement that we were to board the plane "now" and get in the "air as soon as possible"!

Needless to say there were many people who were frustrated. Who could blame them. Of course I wanted so much to be one of those frustrated ones. But I was too busy working on my notes for my speech the next day at Fort Mcphearson. My message was to be about living like a champion and more than a conqueror...and living life with the "right" attitude!

With this, I found myself challenged by my own message! It took all my martial art and black belt training & abilities to overcome the desire to complain and rage about how horrible the airlines are at organization and....blah, blah, blah

In martial arts (and in life), the right attitude comes first. The development of a positive attitude is the first conscious step toward becoming an effective black belt leader. Successful leadership cannot be constructed without this crucial building block. Check out some "attitude" truths:

1. Our attitude determines our approach to life.
2. Our attitude determines our relationships with people.
3. Our attitude is often the only difference between success and failure.
4. our attitude at the beginning of a task will affect its outcome more than anything else.
5. our attitude can turn problems into blessings.
6. Our attitude is not automatically good just because we are black belts!

A positive attitude does not happen by accident. It happens on purpose!

Dr. Oz learns karate from little Hunter!

Young Hunter Williams teaches Dr. Oz the basics of martial arts. The Williams family explains that when they signed Hunter up for martial arts classes, they knew he would gain physical fitness from the cardiovascular workout from martial arts, but they were hoping he would also learn focus and self control.

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The structure of the martial arts classroom combined with the positive encouragement from his instructors made this an activity from which Hunter and his parents benefitted. Today, Williams is a 2nd Degree Black Belt with the American Taekwondo Association (ATA), a two time ATA World Champion, and a member of the organization’s elite World Demo Team. For more information about our fun, focused and fit martial arts programs for the whole family, visit us at http://www.dinotokarate.com/

Congratulations to DKC NEW Black Belts!

Congratulations to all our new black belts.
Everyone did an incredible job!

After the black belt testing presentation Mr. & Mrs.
Dinoto hosted a "black belt" celebration at DKC. Everyone had a great time.

Please watch the presentation below for some high-lights!

S.M.A.R.T. Goal Setting & Effort Increases Fitness

Email me at MasterLiciaga@dinotokarate.com or call me direct at 856-235-0414
ARTICLE: Effort Increases Fitness
Why are some people drenched with perspiration after a workout while others are barely winded?
Fitness level and body chemistry are two reasons, but another that is seldom discussed is effort. The amount of effort each person exerts during a workout varies. This is especially true when the workout has become so tedious that no concentration is needed to complete it. It doesn’t matter if you are doing kickboxing, aerobics, weight lifting, yoga or martial arts, if you are not concentrating on the required movement, then you are not putting forth 100% effort.

Laborious effort is necessary during workouts to benefit the heart, circulatory system and muscles. As you become fit, you will need to increase your resistance, time, weights or an element that will make the workout harder to get the same benefits that you got when you started. This means that if a very fit person does the same exercises at the same intensity as an unfit person, the fit person will not garner the same health benefits. Each person should work up to 60 to 80 percent of his or her maximal heart rate (220 – current age). The unfit person will work out closer to the 60 percent and the fit person will work out closer to the 80 percent.

Many people think that personal fitness trainers don’t have to train anymore, because they work out during their job. Most trainers work out before or after work to get in their target heart rate zone to stay fit. If the trainer is used to running a five-minute mile, but the client runs a 12-minute mile, then the trainer is not exerting enough energy to break a sweat.
The trainer is burning calories, but the fitness level would actually decrease if this were continued. If a martial arts black belt only trained with white belts, then the white belts would benefit by being highly challenged, but the black belt would not be challenged enough to progress.

This also means that people just starting a fitness routine should find their target heart rate and work up to it. Don’t think that you have to start there or you may find it so difficult that you give up. Plan ahead and start slowly. Tell yourself this is for the long haul, and you are going to increase your endurance level slowly so you do not hurt yourself or become discouraged. Build up to your target zone slowly and then increase as needed. This will not only help prevent injuries, but will also keep you motivated.

When a fitness routine becomes so easy that it can be done with no effort or without breathing heavily or feeling any exertion, then it’s time to train harder. Increasing the time or the level of training can help a person climb to a higher level. The old workout may be comfortable, but the routine should be changed every six to nine weeks to maintain a proper fitness level.
Let me help you take your training to another level. Schedule a private consultation and I will develop a plan to bring your fitness or martial arts training to the next level. Call me at 856-235-0414 or email me at masterliciaga@gmail.com .

GET BACK UP!

Sometimes the biggest mistake we make is in thinking that we should have no problems. We think problems are a curse, instead of knowing that our problems are a gift. The only way we usually grow is if we get a good enough problem to stimulate us to use our resourcefulness to find a part of ourself that is not being used.
Here is an extraordinary example of a man who chooses to view his “problems” as gifts, and a resource to show the world that there are no limitations to what we can do.
I hope you will be inspired.

Whatever your challenges are today....keep going and don't give up!
Be inspired to take your life to a new level.
See you on the training floor!
peter liciaga
masterliciaga@dinotokarate.com