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What are You Willing to Sacrifice: Your Character Ascertained by Your Actions

Being open to judgment is one of the first lessons one needs to learn to be able to progress through the journey of attaining efficient skill.  As an instructor of Tai Chi Chuan, not only must I be able to sacrifice my prideful vanity of knowledge to be able to better understand the teachings of my instructors; also, this sacrifice must be made to be open to the critiques of my students.  For some it is difficult to appreciate the nature of proper judgment.  For some, it is difficult to understand that not all judgments are negative.  I believe if one does not attain the understanding of what judgment is they can never efficiently instruct.  Learning that judgments given are tools to help one better assess the reality of a matter aids one in developing a better understanding of who they are and where they are in their development.  Learning to be able to take criticism properly is a major skill to help develop a robust and healthy mental and emotional wellbeing.  Properly gaining this skill as a student aids the learner to properly rise to the responsibilities of an apposite instructor.  It is my belief that a fit instructor not only be able to give tutoring and censure, they must also be able to listen, understand and learn from those around them, be they mentor or apprentice. Hubris hinders proper growth.  Ignorance of meaning hinders proper growth.  One who is full of themselves, unable and unwilling to properly listen to judgment, and who is ignorant of their major and minor shortcomings is destined to fail at whatever they endeavor.  Learning to properly sacrifice to gain proper growth is necessary in the development of efficiency.  Learning to sacrifice your hubris and comfortable ignorance will allow you to better understand judgments made about you, noting that not all positive judgments qualifies one for greatness and not all negative judgments relegates one to failure.   The question is: “What are you willing to sacrifice and why?”

What people are willing to sacrifice is a significant factor of who they are.  Some people are willing to give up their personal relationships for the success they find in having depth of monetary wealth.  Some people will give everything they own to make sure the people closest to them never feel the pain of need.  Others are willing to give of themselves to the detriment of themselves, while others will not sacrifice anything they value for anything other than themselves.  Judgments made based on relevant information can be used to measure one’s self and one’s values to the value sets of those they are around and/or choose to be a part.   The question I have come to find, if honestly answered, that can bring a grand insight on a person’s nature is, “Why did you choose to sacrifice what you did and how does your sacrifice benefit you, your environment and the people you hold most dear?”  This question should be asked of one’s self, one should make it noticeable they are open to receiving this question, and this question should be asked to the people you choose to place yourself around and/or are around. Doing so will open the opportunity for one to gain a clearer understanding of reality.  The problem that arises is many people are willing to ask “why” questions to others and not to themselves and/or are willing to properly answer the question when it is presented by another.  Their comfort level decreases when they are faced with asking themselves this question or when this question is posed by others.

When “why” questions are asked about one’s actions, whether or not the question is interpersonal or intrapersonal, the answers given normally lead to judgments of a person’s character.  We are consistently being judged and judging people, this is how we choose our choices in life.  We, hopefully, accurately weigh the pros and cons of a situation with the given and relevant information available and then make a proper assessment.  There is an imposing negative connotation around the term judgment.  “Who are you to judge me”, “Don’t judge me”, “You’re judging me, stop”; these phrase are uttered in this time of ours, and to me, with no actual accurate account of what judgment is.  Being criticized for one’s actions should aid in the development of one’s being in a society.  The positive attribute gained, from understanding one’s perspective from judgment, is the ability to objectively study one’s self and one’s nature.  It is my belief that we should ask of those we place around ourselves to consistently give their account of our actions thereby giving us the opportunity to evaluate ourselves properly.  Why hold people close to us and not respect their outlook and assessments of our lives?  Shouldn’t we surround ourselves with the most loyal, trustworthy and honest people around us; which are adjectives of judgment mind you, so that we can have proper feedback about ourselves and our actions?    Not all people believe this to be true.  Some people have the desire to never understand the failures and faults of their actions.  Some people are willing to sacrifice evidence of the truth to maintain their outlook on reality.

We can measure priorities of a person by how they choose to sacrifice their time.  The choices we make sacrifice what it is we did not choose.  To make the better choice is to make the choice that betters yourself and others efficiently.  Do you spend time with those you will miss, or do you go do other things that will enrich your life in some other form or way.  Thinking of yourself solely will lead people to judge that you have no true want or desire to have them in your life, which will lead to you not having those you claim to want in your life actually being a part of your life.  The choices of your past and present define your future environment.  What do you do when you are faced with the opportunity to study and focus on a long-term goal and you also have an opportunity to develop a chance that can bring you a perceived instant gratification?  What we choose to do in our lives is a defining factor of who we are, what we believe, and what we hold the most dear.  The moments of change in our lives are preceded by moments of choice.   Our choices of what to sacrifice and what to save shows the people who are aware of the choices we make what we value most.  What we do, why we do it, and who we do it with allows the people around us access to our thought processes and they are able to assess our character accurately by the choices we make in their presence, whether we choose to believe it or not.  What it normally comes down to is the most important things receive sacrifices of the highest levels defined by our personal moral code and the least important things receive little to no sacrifices. Observing what someone chooses opens the opportunity to measure what is the most important to that person.

Choosing what work, hobbies, and other personal life matters are all issues faced when looking at one’s life as a set of options within a finite set of space and time.  We must be able to properly judge those within those realms and ourselves to efficiently make choices.  Not always must we sacrifice one part of our lives for the betterment of another part of our life.  Not always are judgments made negative.  The idea that one has to sacrifice something positive to gain in the product of another positive facet of their life and believing people have no right and should not be able to judge others because judging in and of itself is wrong, to me, is one of the greatest misconceptions people have allowed themselves to believe.  One should not have to give up positive relationships to gain in other endeavors.  One should not have to sacrifice their value set to be able to understand a person or persons of a differing moral order.  This is the difference between compromising and collaborating. Make sure to realize that not all judgments are bad.  Understand and accept what you sacrifice points out what it is in life you hold most dear and those around you will define you by their judgments of your choices; also make sure to hold yourself to your standards and rules, make sure to accurately judge yourself.  Instead of stating to people never to judge you, make sure to ask counsel of those you hold most dear in hopes their judgments of your actions will lead you to creating a better environment for in which you will exist.  Be open to the understanding that when you sacrifice your time for one thing and will not for another, you categorize what it is you hold most dear.  Make sure that what you actually hold most dear can be observed by what you sacrifice.  Make sure that what you hold most dear brings you efficient growth.  To maintain the judgment of high esteem, from yourself and others, make sure your sacrifices are evidence of what you actually hold dear and are of the effect to better yourself and those you hold most dear.  Be willing to sacrifice your hubris and your ignorance so you are better able to attain efficient understanding of the environment of which you are a part and to have an efficient effect on your environment as well.

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.

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Making Your Life Easier on Yourself: Positive Framing

Sometimes the only thing needed to remove stress is a change of perspective.  Many times great mental and emotional stress is placed on a situation because of the mindset of the parties involved.  In my training of students in Tai Chi Chuan, I have come to find the lesson of “What is Winning?” as one of the hardest for people to grasp.  When training students there seems to be a grand necessity to win; however, when I ask my students what it means to them to win and I then ask them to match-up the ideas of winning they have with the ideals I have told them are held in the practice and study of Tai Chi Chuan, the students have a great inability to soundly match their ideas with the ideals that are being taught to them.  In that instant, the instant they realize that there is a major discrepancy of realities, I have come to find that students either end up leaving class shortly their after or they redirect their energies to better understanding what it actually means to win in the context of the Tai Chi Chuan.  Normally this paradigm shift happens in two situations: during practice of the solo- form and during practice with a partner or partners.

While training the solo-form some novice students get bored with repeating patterned sequences.  While training, many novices become progressively less attentive to the form of each posture and the transitions in the progression, and in many other cases they simply stop doing the exercise all together and they either start to do something else or do nothing at all.  I approach each situation differently depending on the student; however, the message is always the same: “You seem bored”.  I ask them to not think of the process as doing work to get to the next point.  I ask them to focus directly on what it is they are doing without worry or stress over what it is they do not know and/or have not been presented.   I tell the students once they are completely comfortable with what they are currently doing they open up the opportunity to progress to the next point without strain or stress.  I point out they never get comfortable with where they are because they are so strenuously focusing on the next point that it causes unnecessary mental and emotional stress.  Worrying over the unknown ruins the progress of the known and the present.  So even if they can do the postures shown, their unease, their worry and stress over the unknown, causes negative effects on their current situation and closes any opportunity for efficient progress.  If they change the way they perceive their current situation; if they focus directly on the positive growth that can be gained from where they are and what they are currently attempting to accomplish, they will naturally progress to the next level with ease and not stress.

To the point of working with people doing partner work, and seeing students having negative issues with their progressions, I have noticed many points as an instructor where I see the opportunity to help students gain a better understanding of changing their outlook to evoke positive growth.  When monitoring partner work, one way I have come to find, with those that allow me the opportunity to engage them, for a change in perspective is when I see someone who comes to the state function of a drill shown; however, their actions are completely inefficient.  What I have gleaned is that many students inefficiently force an issue to get to the state function of a drill given. What has a tendency to happen in these situations is one of the participants, or multiple participants, begins a battle to struggle overly muscularly to gain advantages of position.  This is never the point of any of the partner drills in Tai Chi Chuan. What I have come to find through instructing is that participant(s) get more involved in the idea of competing to win as oppose to studying and practicing to gain proper skill.  What happens is the will to defeat and compete overrides the nature of the teachings Tai Chi Chuan provides, of which include minimal effort to produce the maximum product to a total positive gain throughout all point of a situation.  The participants that decide to progress a negative framework as their base to produce the state function frame the encounter as a battle with a definite winner and loser.  This mindset has the tendency to breed inefficient skill and inefficient technique with high occurrence.   Giving tactile examples in these circumstances to the participants who are struggling through the drill progressions is one of the most efficient ways I have come to find to start the change of their paradigm.  I allow each participant to do what they did during the drill; however, I allow them to do it with me so they can feel the difference, so they can feel the different types of energies put forth to reach the desired state function.  I tell the participants that I do not frame the encounter as a battle; I do not see the situation as something I have to conquer.  I do not believe that there is a point of winning or a point of losing.  Everything that is done is a point from which I can efficiently study and properly learn.  So in essence I am always gaining.

Having the mindset of not caring of winning or losing throughout my training, not focusing on defeating someone as a point of victory versus shame, opens the opportunity for me to gain the skill of gaining advantages without the product of stress or strain.  Freeing myself from the confines of portraying those around me as combatants, as negative beings, allows me the opportunity to see and focus on multiple and more efficient ways of dealing with situations.

To me life should never be about winning or losing.  When properly done, living should always produce positive gains.  To me life is about taking every opportunity and framing it as such that there is never a stress or a strain on my physical, emotional, mental and spiritual self; so that no matter what I do I allow for the positive and natural occurrence of the opportunity of prospering efficiently to always produce itself and always to take efficient advantage when efficient opportunities present themselves.  In my training, study and instructing of the Tai Chi Chuan, I have come to find that removing the need to defeat to win, removing the worry and stress of the unknown, and replacing it with the positive mindset of efficiently taking advantage of situations leads to one having greater opportunities for positive natures and opportunities to occur.  It is up to us to always take efficient advantage of positive natures and opportunities. It is up to us to remove ourselves from our habits that affect us negatively.   It is up to us to place ourselves in positive frameworks we produce so that we are able to take efficient advantages of conditions when they present themselves.

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.

 

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“Well, It’s Better Than Nothing.” – Training Yourself to Fail

What sparked this post is the saying, “Well, it’s better than nothing”.  This saying is an excuse used to make one feel better about failing.  This is one of the worst things to actually believe.  The meaning of this phrase is that one did something to the positive affect of the actions completed.  But does that really even make good sense?  Think about it this way; is taking out the trash halfway to the proper spot of placement better than nothing?  Is turning in unfinished, below minimum work better than nothing?  Doing a below minimum job is never better than doing nothing.  When an action is completed ask yourself if what you did is something that if you consistently did things in that manner would raise you to your goals efficiently?  The answer to that is always “no”.  The reason I assert this is that when you look at the phrase, “Well, it’s better than nothing”, from a mental health point-of-view, what one does when they believe in this ideology is they minimize their failure to properly prepare and execute the necessary/wanted action.  This minimization accesses one’s ability to believe a non-truth that can lead to the understanding that what they did was good, causing them to allow this happening to reoccur without fault or negative consequence.  People fail to realize that this form of thinking lends itself to producing less than mediocre results.  They fail to realize that it is okay to harshly criticize one’s self for failing if it leads to a healthy realization that their lack of preparation is what they need to focus on in the future.  Telling yourself that you did a passable job when you fail is harmful for your overall health and development.  Rationally and critically managing and maintaining your well-being, thought processes and preparation tactics is healthy; it leads to positive and efficient growth.

Don’t believe lies that allow you to take failure lightly.  When training in Tai Chi Chuan, an instance that I encounter when studying, training and teaching is that people believe that because Tai Chi Chuan, in general, is practiced slowly, relative to other martial arts, there is very little necessity to diligently train and study.  Many practitioners go to class thinking that if they can just follow along with the instructor that they will efficiently grow and develop proper skill.  They believe that going to class is just enough and that is all that is necessary.  To them, showing up to class is good enough and being able to follow along without properly focused thought is better than nothing.  To them, they believe that if they can mimic the movements it is the same as them mastering the movement.  Something that I tell them is, just because you can read the words on a page it does not denote that you understand what you just read.  Proper study needs to take place.  There is a respect for what it is you are doing that has to be present.  There must be a standard you place on yourself, that if you fall below that standard you discipline yourself appropriately.  Do not train with the idea of just coming in is good enough.  Make sure you are always challenging yourself.  Make sure you always hold yourself to appropriate standards that allow you to develop efficiently.  If it is not challenging, it is not changing.  And to me, that is one of the grandest pieces of evidence that the message of “Well, it’s better than nothing” is a false message of progress.

People do not state, “Well, it’s better than nothing” if what they did was something that actually challenged them.  This is something that is stated when there was no challenge because of a lack of preparation and due diligence.  I do believe that doing something that betters yourself is better than doing nothing to better yourself; however, rationalizing failure as success is never better than doing nothing.  In the stead of saying and thinking that something that brought no productive challenge and no productive growth actually begat positive change, what one should do is face the fact that they failed due to  their own inadequacies and challenge their self to execute more effectively in the future.

There are times that I set aside to practice my Tai Chi Chuan forms, and there are times that I do not properly prepare and spend less time on the forms than I had planned.  In these cases I have self-disciplinary actions that I take.  One thing that I do is note that what I just did was a failure.  I recognize the fact that I did do something; however, I note that even though I did many good things it was not enough to call what I did a success.  I liken it to taking a quiz or an exam.  If one gets 4 out of 10 questions correct, and each question is worth one point, they still failed.  No pats on the back for failure.  Another thing that I do in my self-disciplinary action is remove time from things, that for the most part, are leisure activities and add that time to the time that I schedule for future training; making even more time for training in the future.  Doing so, adding time to future training/ studying sessions, allows me to do the repetitions that I missed during my failure.  Once again, likening this to taking a test or quiz, make time for more study in the future to be able to sufficiently review what was missed.  Too often the miscued message of “Well it’s better than nothing” leads to the idea of, “Well now that I know that I missed it, I’ll get it right the next time”, and then people don’t study what they missed.  They just move on to the next time, not adding extra time to study what it was they missed.  When they fail again they are surprised that they missed the same question again. 

Just showing up is not good enough.  Doing something is not always better than doing nothing.  When you fail, when you falter, you have to do even more work than what you previously planned to catch-up, and then even more work to properly and positivity progress.  If you rationalize failure as success you will train yourself to fail.   Don’t train yourself to fail.          

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.  

 

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Don’t Be Mad If You Don’t Score: Running the Bases the Wrong Way.

When it happens to a 3-year-old at their first T-Ball game it is positively amusing.  Everyone knows that the child believes they are doing everything they are supposed to do: swing the bat, hit the ball, run around the bases, get a hug, and drink a juice box.  The best is when you see it in their eyes when they are running; they are so happy. Hopefully mom, dad, coaches and spectators are gleefully laughing while the base coach is yelling, “No! No! You’re going the wrong way!”  The sad part hits when the child gets to home base and they have no idea why their score did not count.  This is where the life lesson hopefully begins for the child.  This is where they are introduced to the idea that it is not just following the rules they understand, life is about following the rules properly if you want to score in the game being played.  There is another account that happens to us in our later years.  It is when we make ourselves overly busy; however, when we get to what we believe should be the end where we score, the product produced is not what we wanted because is not acceptable for the reward desired; even though we believed we followed the rules. 

When practicing, studying and teaching Tai Chi Chuan, I see this over and over.  Points I have to consistently make are:  when you spend your energy make sure it is worth it, and put your time and energy into things that will get you to where you want to be by following the way that will give you the reward you desire.  To know this and to do this, one must be aware of what they truly desire.  Do they want to learn what is being taught or are they doing what they are doing for some other reason?  In sum, what it really comes down to is a person’s focus.  What is it they really want?   What is it that they really value in life?

Our actions are the clearest evidence of what we value most in life.  Some people just want to get on base and do not focus on the proper way to get there, all they want is to say that they did it and get credit for it.  Their focus isn’t getting the goal; their focus is on getting the praise for the goal.  Getting the hug and drinking the juice box is all they really see; and in fullness it shows that they have no true regard for the rules, solely the praise.  They are willing to sacrifice the system and ultimately the objective because to them the objective in place is of no consequence.  They are willing to dismiss everything for their own selfishness and greed.   This comes through frequently when training and teaching people Tui Shou (Pushing Hands).  What people have a tendency to focus on is off-balancing and pushing their partner out of their center.  People have a tendency to negate the understandings of the teachings of how the displacement should happen and what they focus on is the state function of their partner being thrown.  The arrogance and greed of being the “winner” supersedes the objective of becoming efficient in movement.  In the stead of learning what is taught and understanding the development of the particular skill-set of using one’s body to its most efficient nature, what happens is the practitioner disregards the teachings, the rules, and winds up doing exorbitant work for a loss.

When doing something make sure that you are performing properly so that you are not wasting your time and energy.  Understand that when there is a product to be produced, and there are procedures in place to produce the product, that your greed, arrogance and want for notoriety does not replace your desire to properly generate the product.  When you are working within a system make sure you are working the parameters properly, make sure that when you sacrifice your time and energy that you are doing so for the compete betterment of yourself and for the environment of which you are a part.  When you are willing to make great sacrifices for one thing make your sacrifices count for the improvement of all things in your life. 

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.  

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Truest and Dumbest Statement Ever: We All Have the Same 24 Hours in a Day

If you don’t know, there is a saying, “We all have the same 24 hours in a day”.  This statement is absolutely true, to a point.  Some people have access to more of the 24 hours than others.  Depending on a person’s station, capability and access to certain resources the 24 hours of peoples’ days are different.  So yes we all have 24 hours to work with each day.  Most people of Earth spend all of their lives on the planet; and unless you believe certain myths that are out there, time has never stopped for anyone.  When making statements to people make sure that you are putting yourself in their shoes.  One thing that can happen when you are stating certain things is that, even though you believe you are coming from the most urbane of places, and you say a statement with no negative intent; sometimes it is what you say that is extremely offensive, because what you say is noted as what you believe, and even though you think you understand something, someone, or a situation, what you say can prove completely different. 

When you tell someone something make sure you are truly noting who they are.  Do your best to look at their station, their capability and their access to resources.  I move you to read Kenneth Burke’s Grammar of Motives. Kenneth Burke established an acute method termed Dramatism. The base of Dramatism is the notion of motive: the causes why people do the things they do. Burke believed that all of life was drama and we may discover the motives of people by looking for their particular type of stimulus in action and discourse. Burke generated a “Pentad,” which are five questions to ask of any discourse to begin rooting out the motive: Act, Scene, Agent, Agency and Purpose. The Act is the actual action or inaction.  The Scene is the environment, both literal and figurative, of which the action or inaction took place.  The Agent is the person or persons doing the action, or inaction.  The Agency is how the agent acts, or does not act, and by what means they do so.  The Purpose is why the agent acts.  Now here is where things get tricky for some.  Instead of ignorantly answering the questions of what is the (add part of pentad here), actually ask the person or persons involved and believe them when they answer.  It is okay to note their answer; if something they say or do contradicts what they formerly stated, make sure to let them know of this discrepancy.  Call them out on it, as it were.  In doing so, you will be better able to understand a situation and know surely if anything of relevant note needs attention.

So, make sure to note a person.  Secure an accurate understanding of their station.  A person’s station consists of their age, their educational state (i.e. schooling years, working years, and field experiences), their socioeconomic standing and their system of moral values.  Understand of what they are actually capable.  Take into high regard their actual mental and physical dimensions, and their emotional and spiritual understanding of their Self.  Make sure to realize that not all people have equal access to resources and adjust your framework accordingly.   Some people may physically be closer or further away from a resource.  Some may not have knowledge of resources.   Also, others may not understand that there is even a necessity for/of a particular resource.

It is unreasonable to assert that just because one person can do something then others are equally as able to do so, and so, they should thereby go with the standard noted.  Solely because a standard is efficient for one does not necessitate the particular efficiency for all others.  It is unreasonable to assert that just because one person knows something then others should have this knowledge as well and believe as deeply as the one that holds said knowledge.  It is unreasonable to assert that just because you feel or believe something then others should feel and believe as you do.   It is unreasonable to assert that just because you act or measure reality a certain way then others should act that way as well. 

We all have the same 24 in a day, and we all have opportunities to do and not do things; we all make our own choices, hopefully.  It is unreasonable to believe that someone notably different from you should do everything the way you do and be the way you are.  Actually learn about someone, their systems and way of thinking before you categorize things in your reality around them.  When making statements there are times we inadvertently negatively judge others.  Don’t only watch how you say something; note what it is you are actually saying.

 

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.  

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Sometimes You Need Your Alone Time

Pausanias, a Greek traveler and geographer of the 2nd century AD, is noted as stating “Know thyself” was written in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. The communicative theorist Kenneth Burke defines humans as: the symbol-using (symbol-making, symbol-misusing) animal, inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative), separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making, goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order), and rotten with perfection. Fundamentally, arguing humans are divergent from other animals by the high caliber of their exploit of symbols to communicate, their understanding of contradiction, their division from nature by their own techniques, their existence in differing social structures, and her/his goal to become better than he/she presently is to a fault.  My training in Tai Chi Chuan consisted of the lesson of doing the solo forms with the intension of learning deeper who I am with the understanding also to learn what it is to be done to better myself properly and in a positive manner, by virtue of learning myself completely.  The tool used to do this was doing the form by myself, literally.  By definition only you can do the solo form.  I assert that grand learning can be attained by doing the solo form with no other person around, with no distractions, literally by one’s self.   Being able to be by one’s self will give the person doing the form the opportunity to have nothing else to reflect on other than doing the form properly and their self, thereby allowing the practitioner the opportunity to not only study the form without distraction, the practitioner also gains the opportunity to study one’s self.  Sadly, this opportunity does not guarantee that one will fully and efficiently take advantage of the opportunity.

As I believe Kenneth Burke would assert; humans by their own nature remove themselves from their natural position of knowing their self by the nature of their own existence.  By the nature of our own accord with being, we remove ourselves from equations of reality.  Removing one’s self can be a great asset in understanding one’s surroundings; also it could be a great hindrance to understanding the actually of reality.  Naturally removing ourselves from situations to better study reality lends to us not having as many opportunities to learn and understand who we are and why we are the way we are.  Understanding how and why we process things the way we do is imperative if one wants to truly better their self as a part of the social reality of which they are a part.  Being able to know how we respond to our environment and being able to process and accept our part in nature/reality is a point of having time alone to practice the solo form as to be able to create an environment for self-reflection.

Know thyself.  To do so one must be able to be open and honest with one ’s self.  When you honestly know yourself you have a social advantage over those that do not and are better equipped to understand the nature of reactions in your environment.   Those that are ignorant of their self have a tendency to inadequately adapt with the world of which they are a part.  Humans are social creatures and knowing one’s self helps one to better function and properly adapt to their environment.

So, know thyself, know that by your nature you remove yourself from the reality of which you are a part and better yourself by understanding that what you do, who you are and why you are the way you are has a direct affect on your environment.  You are a major part of the results that you receive.  If you receive positivity, you more than likely implanted positive actions into the function that caused the product.  If you receive negativity, realize that it is highly probable that you feed a mass of negativity into the function.  We easily accept that our good actions bring us good things.  It seems difficult for many to note that negative actions received are because they themselves cause the negativity to happen.

Go have some alone, if you do it right you may get uncomfortable when you dig inside; it’s okay, just keep digging, properly, and work toward positive growth.

 

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.  

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Applications: One Idea to Fit All Situations

One does not simply understand the single thread/vibration/membrane that binds the universe.  Okay, well they could but for some reason, seemingly more times than not, they make things harder than what needs be.  In the study of Tai Chi Chuan, drills are practiced and preformed.   The drills done, hopefully, provide context for practical applications for postures and transitions maintained in the Tai Chi Chuan form sets.  These drills are meant to simplify the movements by removing them from the realm of the hypothetical and theoretical, and move them to the point of working out the practical.  By properly practicing drill sets and maintaining focus on simplicity of movement, hopefully, a practitioner will learn to see how all the movements and all the drills are connected and bound by one theme.  Once that straightforward, minimal, undemanding idea is recognized the practitioner’s focus should then turn to understanding that idea; as to be able to apply that concept to many, if not every situation they face.  Alas, sadly that is not the case, for the most part.  Many times hubris kicks in and the practitioner works to find massive numbers of techniques that are overly complicated; diluting the value of the simplicity learned.

More often than not, practitioners make drilling, what is supposed to simplify the form set; arduous, over complicated and demanding.  For me, from my understanding, drilling parts of a form, either with a partner or without, is supposed to allow the practitioner the time necessary to develop and gain a sound understanding of a root element within the drill as to give the practitioner a solid base for developing a ubiquitous skill.    From what I have observed, very few practitioners utilize the time to actually understand the root element of a particular drill; instead what they do is use that time to develop many auxiliary movements thereby creating a very specific set of techniques whose purpose is solely for a particular condition.   Because of the lack of ability to use their techniques in many situations they have to amass a large array of techniques to cover various states.  This trait of valuing quantity over quality is one of many hurdles people place in front of their path to enrichment of self, creating a more difficult path than necessary.  Another obstacle people have a tendency to want, and effectively place in their path to fulfillment, is straining as oppose to relaxing through their techniques.  For some pain-of-struggle has to be present so they have something to measure as to feel as if they are doing something.  A concept I train people to understand while doing drill work is: you know you are doing something right/well when you don’t feel like you are doing anything at all and you produce your desired result.   Gaining what we want in life is simple; being simple is sometimes the most difficult of all things to do. 

The product of Tai Chi Chuan drilling exercises should be the ability to easily become one with any given situation.  In the proper way this is taught, people gain the understanding that it is not the one that knows many tricks; however, the one that knows a few techniques both in breadth and depth to the point that the few techniques known will be able to defend against and overwhelm any situation presented.  Those practitioners that have developed many shallow techniques; however, only have a shallow knowledge of what they learned and will not be as efficient in coping with varying situations.  In other words, they have evolved to an extreme specificity, and those that evolve in such a way have a tendency to die off when drastic changes happen in their environment.  They become to ridged; too myopic, and in the long-run fail. 

In life there is a simple understanding that we should treat others the way we want to be treated.  The drills in life are all of the differing situations we are placed.  Some people make life difficult, not understanding the depth and the breadth of the applications of life’s drill work to the point of properly gaining the understanding of not treating people in a manor one would not want to be treated.  Some people make life too difficult by applying too many unnecessary rules and regulations on their lives and on the lives of others, complicating what should be the most simple of interactions. 

Understand how you want to be treated, understand what it is you value in life when it comes to how you want people to interact with you.  Make sure you understand how the people around you want to be treated, make sure to realize that you are not the only variable that matters in the function of your interactions with your environment.  Understand simply, if you would not want to be treated such a way don’t treat others that way, and if someone wishes to be treated a certain way and that way brings no harm to you, then treat them the way they want to be treated.

So, whenever you interact with someone ask yourself this one simple question: would I want them to treat me the way I am treating them?  Also, don’t be surprised when people treat you the way you treat them.

 

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.  

 

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Just Make the Shape: Just Go

Relax and let go.  This is one of the most direct lessons I have ever learned through my training in Tai Chi Chuan.  Also, it is the hardest.  There are many things that we do to our lives that make situations more difficult than what they really are because we add more to the process of doing it, whatever it is, than is necessary.  One part of being an active instructor is that you are constantly and consistently reminded of your own journey by what your students say and bring up during their training.  As of the most resent, I had a student state, “… but that is completely counterintuitive”.   My reply was, “I know it is for you, that is why we need to change your prospective on what is and what is not necessary”.  Through my training I came to realize that there are many things that I do that keep me from reaching the products I set forth to gain.  There are two lessons that I had to learn that taught me the same thing.  The first was the lesson of Just Go and the second was the lesson of Just Make the Shape.  There are state functions in which we deal when doing the martial arts.  There are many varying ways to reach these state functions, postures; however, what differs between practitioners is the way they reach these postures, state functions.  When doing solo form, drills, san shou and tui shou with my instructors they would make a comment of, “Just make the shape, you’re using too much”, or, “Just go, don’t hesitate or restrict yourself”.  I for the longest time I never understood what they meant, I understood the words they were saying however I did not comprehend the meaning of the words.  I thought I was doing exactly what they were doing.  I would look at the state function; I would note the postures and the positions.   I would take note of the feet, the hips, the shoulders, the breathing, and all the things I was supposed to look at when doing the form, set or drill.  Visually things were spot on, yet I was still not correct in my actions.  One day while doing form sets and drilling with my tai chi chuan instructor; he said something to me that pulled everything together.  What he stated wove a thread through everything up to that point in my training in the differing forms that to this day I still practice.  There were many instructors saying the exact same thing to me, message wise, and now that I look at it they could not have made what they were saying any simpler.  What brought it all together for me was this saying, “Don’t let your back foot hold you back”.  My mind was figuratively blown.  “Don’t let your back foot hold you back” was what I heard, what I felt was a release, an openness, an expanse.  We were doing a punching drill where one would take a step forward and send mass and momentum in the form of a punch to a targeted area.  While doing this with my instructor he noted things I was doing and corrected them, then he stated that I was not making proper impact because I was not allowing my body to completely commit to the technique.  He stated that my back leg was holding me back and that I should allow it to move freely as it wants not as I think, as I thought myself, it should.  What went through my head at that time was, “Don’t let your back leg hold you back, just go and make the shape.  Relax and let go.”  At that moment I actually froze from the awakening.  I was momentarily unable to move due to the processes occurring in my mind.  Then I let go … and just went.

I had to change my perspective on what I was doing.  I had to let go of trying to produce a certain outcome.  I had to free myself from the knowledge I had allowed myself to learn, and realize that what I learned was not taught to me; however, it was what I improperly thought was right and what I added to the formula; and realize that what I added was unnecessary and causing major disruptions.   I had to relax; stop doing all the unnecessary things that were causing stress, strain and inefficient action.  I had to let go; I had to forgive myself for doing so many things to myself that produced pain and agony upon myself, I had to release everything about me that was allowing me not to move forward.  At that point I realized that ever since the beginning of my training I had been given the proper instruction to be the most efficient.  All I had to do was do it.  Just go; make the shape.

Our embarrassment is our own.  It is what we have taught ourselves. Our embarrassment is what we learned to shame ourselves; to punish ourselves.  Our embarrassment is what we decide for ourselves to be ashamed of in our lives.  Our desire to be seen as pristine, perfect, proper and exact has been learned by us and our embarrassment gives this learned nature the ability to hold us back from fully committing to life.  How often do we not do things that feel good, feel right and we know we would love because of the possibility of embarrassment?   Our own anxiety of being embarrassed is a learned ailment as well. We place on ourselves great obstructions in our lives.   How much fun of life is lost because of an image we believe we need to uphold?  There are things that we know would bring nothing but joy and pleasure to our lives.  There are times that we stop those things from existing in our reality because we train ourselves to live without them, to be embarrassed by the act or actions, and place the difficulty of shame in our own lives because of our self-taught embarrassment that would not stand if we did not learn or train ourselves to be embarrassed in the first place.  We stop ourselves from doing whatever it is because we hold ourselves back.  We become our own back leg holding us back.   We become our own pain, our own struggle.  We need to realize that we are the cause of our own embarrassment so that we can move to the realization that we will be the cause of that impediment being removed. 

Learn to stop holding yourself back because of misguided, irrational and unfounded notions of reality.  Remove the impediments you’ve placed in your life.  Relax and let go so that you are able to realize what shape you want your life to be.   Then all you have to do is just go and make the shape.

 

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.  

 

 

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If You Want to Ask Appropriate Questions: Go Do the Form Properly Under the Scrutiny of the Scientific Method

There are no stupid questions; however, there are completely misinformed practitioners that have been taught properly however negate to practice what they have been taught.  One of two things have a tendency to come up from the misinformed that should know better: they either come up with completely irrelevant questions, or they continue to venture with their misunderstandings and produce a completely off product.  What has a propensity to get in the way of positive progress is hubris.  Hubris is associated with hyperbolic egotism or sureness.  Hubris often designates a deficit in commerce with actuality and an overestimation of one’s own skill and aptitude, actions, or competences.  There is a necessity in the practice of Tai Chi Chuan to objectively observe one’s self and one’s environment so that they are able to properly question the nature of happenings.  Proper questions accompanied with rational introspection and objective observations are critical in proper practice and study of Tai Chi Chuan in hopes of leading to suitable suppositions that when are adequately tested will lead to well developed, and sound, models and principles.  Here is a tip on asking proper questions: make sure to have an accurate observation first, suggest a tangible reasoning, test that reasoning and then challenge the outcome; after which ask your question(s) based on your findings, and also with your questions bring rational possible answers.  Now to do this well you must first accurately understand of what it is you are questioning.  So base your questions from reasonable and sensible observations.  Use your form practice like a laboratory and apply the Scientific Method to your approach in your study of the martial arts.  Form ideas and questions; not so that you are always proven right, more so, so that you grow sound skills and clean developed accounts in which to continue your study.  Properly do your form and formulate ideas and questions not for the fame or skill; do it for the research and knowledge, so that later you will be able to give accurate accounts and hopefully add substantially to the knowledge base of awareness and understanding.

So, first be the objective observer.  Be able to note without skewed vision what is actually happening and going on with the environment of which you are a part.  Use all of your senses to develop an accurate account of what is going on around you.  Clearly and cleanly witness what is happening and what has happened.  Attend mindfully and without bias.  Absorb fully what is to be accounted.  Do not allow your hubris to taint the material and maters of your observations.  In being an objective observer you will be able to study unsoiled data.  After you have apposite records, note them and ask questions.  Ask the What, Why, and How of the situation(s) you witnessed. Inquire about what it is, why it is and how it was developed, and how it effects of what it is a part.  Do your research, do your form.  Really dig into the background of what it is you wish to understand.  Note the current and past conceptions of what it is you have noted. Research, do your form, and then research more, objectively so that you become familiar with all of the relevant and unbiased data gathered.  After this is done then you are ready to construct a hypothesis.

A hypothesis is a tentative postulation prepared in order to extract and test its coherent or pragmatic significances.  Suppositions of ideas of what might, could, should, or not happen given the relevant and impartial data gathered.  Generating sound hypothesizes is a great way to begin to study what one has observed.  Actually studying involves testing hypothesizes in differing environments and situations.  Majorly what is necessary is a control setting so that there will be a standard of which against a measurement can be taken.  That control is the form done properly, cleanly following the instruction given and taught by your instructor without deviation.

After proper testing has taken place, examine your information and develop a deduction.  Post your deductions; properly communicate your results to your peers.   Tell the people around you what you believe you have found and what questions you may have because of the study you did.  This is going to allow for outside feedback from the community.  Being able to allow your information to be scrutinized and picked apart is critical.  Are you able to take criticism and judgment; are you able to rebut without insulting or being insulted?  Are you able to see your validity and faults without wavering emotion?  Are you able to observe and start the process over again to either refine or move forward in your research and development without hesitation or haste? 

So, unfolding the metaphor of this post; be able to critically study yourself and the situations of which you are a part.  In the practice of doing the solo form of whatever Tai Chi Chuan system you do, or whatever you do by yourself, make sure to have the purpose of learning how to study and develop the skill and capability to honestly and analytically study yourself without shame, without embarrassment and without hubris so that you can gain the skill of objectively interacting with your environment.

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.  

 

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Check Yourself: Be a Good Partner

One of the concepts that I consistently promote when doing any type of partner work is the idea of giving only what you are willing to receive.  This is something that I have come to find people easily place directly on the physical attributes of partner work.  And that’s a good thing, don’t get me wrong.  Understanding how much to give in the physical realm is of the utmost importance when doing partner work in Tai Chi Chuan, or any martial art for that matter.  Knowing the level at which one should drill, practice and play is extremely beneficial in the development of proper and appropriate skill.  The root of my message when telling people to only give what they are willing to receive is: listen to your partner, understand yourself, and how you and your actions effect the environment of which you are a part.   A more specific account of the message of this article is: be mad at yourself not your partner if your partner doesn’t want to work with you.  So often partner work is unproductive because one or more persons in the partnership either have no interest or lose interest in actually listening to what the other(s) want to gain from the relationship/partnership. 

Now before I get into two of the most common reasons for a of lack of caring for being with/working with a partner, I want to bring up a common fault that seems to be something that drives partnerships into deeper negative holes than it actually helps.  What people are commonly told is that when they have a problem with a partnership/relationship is that they and their partner are not communicating.  I believe that to always be a false statement.  What and how it should be stated if one wants to focus on the word communication is they the problems that have are bred from what is being communicated.   We as conscious being are always communicating and receiving communiqué.  Communication is to convey information, the problems we commonly face in relationships/partnerships happen because there is a lack of understanding, not because communication isn’t happening.  I have come to find that once people start working on gaining better understanding of what others want and of what they actually want; communication between parties becomes less strained.  So point, stop working on communicating for the sake of communication possibly not happening.  Communication is always happening.  Start working on the messages we convey.  Start understanding that communication is made of many pieces: messages and messaging, sender, receiver, situation, context, relevance and understanding.

So, back to it; two of the most common reasons for a lack of caring are that one party is ignorant and/or the other party feels ignored.  In Tai Chi Chuan partner work there are many fun martial applications that can be learned.  A large reason for partner work is to gain an understanding of the concepts that had been previously thought.  One of those concepts is gaining awareness of and being able to control one’s environment in a positive manor.  The concept of environmental awareness contain the models of you aid in creating the environment, and the sum of your past acts dictate the present and future of your environment.  When looking at and/or through a strained relationship, first look at and/or through yourself.  Have you actually been listening to your partner and doing what they want to do and not just what you want to do?  Have you spoken up and stated to the other parties that you believe you have not been given equal part and play, and have specific examples of why you believe it so?  Do you put as much effort into the partnership/relationship as you expect from the others of which you are a part?  Do you hold yourself to the same standards you hold the rest of your team?  Do you often ask others for their thoughts and fact-based opinions and change yourself and ways accordingly?  Are you as fervent in bringing practical solutions as you are at bringing up problems?   These are all question you need to ask of yourself, note the answers and properly adjust to what you want.  Maybe you really don’t care about the other(s) so understanding them honestly does not matter to you, in which case you need to understand what type of environment you are creating.  Maybe you actually do care about what is going on; however, you keep a closed mouth and never voice your feelings or opinions on matters properly and appropriately.  Maybe you think you don’t care; however, you really do.  Maybe you think you do care because it is what you have been educated to think is proper and right; what you should think, feel and do, however the actual fact is that you don’t care and you want out because the partnership is a waste of your time.  Our actual wants don’t always line up with what we are taught we need.  You need to know why you are compelled to stay in a situation and if you really want to be in that situation; and then act accordingly.

So, moral of the story: Be the partner you want to work with and partner with those that show they want to be a positive and productive partner with and for you.

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.  

 

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