How often do you brush your teeth (Zig’s motivation analogy)? Drink water? Give your body fuel?
Motivational products or presentations can be a lot like fireworks: spectacular, get you focused, and get you pumped-up and maybe even patriotic. But what happens when the fireworks fade from memory? Exactly.
Bruce Lee hit on something critical to motivation…Emotional Intelligence or your Intrinsic (Inner) Drive. It is NOT the same as emptying your mind and obeying whatever pops into it! Obviously a martial artist can’t do or learn his art if his/her mind is a blank slate. On the contrary, their minds are keenly trained with martial art skills, as are their bodies. So what is he talking about when he says “empty your mind” or “be like water” yet his motivational drive is through the roof?
I believe he means empty your mind of trash, useless goop, and misguided ego pursuits (etc., etc., etc.). Notice he said “be the water” rather than “go with the flow!”
Train and educate your mind with best always, then use it as water… a great dynamic resivoir of strategic knowledge and wisdom fine-tuned by discipline of your Emotional Intelligence able to strategically negotiate your journey, creating your own flow. In my practice, I call it Life Trekking Mental Toughness™ (www.LifeTrekkingCoach.com). As a Life Trekkingologist™ and Master Life Trekking Coach®, I find Bruce Lee’s unique Life Trekking™ fascinating!!
What do you think… Oh! But don’t think (clog your mind up with garbble), feel (discipline your Emotional Intelligence to focus on what really counts– and it’s not the latest hair color!). Here’s Bruce explaining in his own words…
http://www.youtube.com/user/LifeTrekkingChannel?feature=mhee#p/f/6/sDW6vkuqGLg
Best wishes,
Coach A.
