Don't give up

Teacher Mike once told me, (and he used a word I forgot) that the mental ingredient to progress in training is to channel the stubbornness of human nature into one of productivity. To "not give up" even when you have a bad time. To "prove" to yourself that you can do it, even if it takes a life time to succeed.

We are all stubborn, it is just human nature. But the key is not to get stuck by it. Instead let it be a drive for moving forward. This counts as much in Kung Fu training as in life.

Remember that life always comes in good times and bad times, it is a matter of how to go through it with calmness and acceptance as part of the enrichment of your life.

So don't get stuck, instead, move and progress. As teacher Mike would say: Be all you can be.