Daily Advance
Sunday, October 31st, 2010“Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending.” – taken from the Hagakure
Way back in 1996!!
I recently had another birthday!! Each year I look forward to each birthday as a time to reflect upon what have I learned during the intervening time between birthdays. I will say this past year has been a packed learning experience. I started off with deep winter snow camping and survival shelter building, progressed to learning from many notable martial artists from around the globe, voraciously read and practice self improvement, technical development, as well as many hours in the back yard shooting range. This
doesn’t even scratch the surface but the list isn’t what matters, it is the daily advance that matters.
Each day we awake as equals, with the same amount of time given to each of us. It is how we use this time to advance ourselves, or not, that truly makes the difference in surviving or thriving, poor or rich, good or great at the things we choose to take on.
So tomorrow my Ninjutsu friends, get up and go gather intelligence on a new subject and put yourself in the daily advance!
Bufu Ikkan