I go to karate classes almost every week and almost every week I walk away with more than a martial arts lesson. Often my instructor says something that makes my ears perk up and my brain start humming because what he said is something directly related to what he is teaching, but it’s also totally applicable to everyday life. At one class during a kicking drill he said, “If you can see the kick coming in time for you to back up, you can see it coming in time for you to move forward. You are …
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