{"id":845,"date":"2014-04-22T06:03:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T13:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orangefroglogistics.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2014-04-21T18:19:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T01:19:25","slug":"just-relax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orangefroglogistics.com\/blog\/just-relax","title":{"rendered":"Just relax…"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yes, we can talk about meditation, deep breath, yoga and other East-inspired practices to calm down and get through any potentially perceived tense situation. Like anything else, it takes repetition, some kind of a process, to reach a certain level of mastery. My years of training, both in my schools\/universities and in sports, have helped me get more and more confident about the arts I was (and still am) studying. Confidence, however, keeps getting challenged, and it is a good thing because one gets to constantly learn. As I just passed yet another test to now be called a Sensei in martial arts, I am digging into more history, and philosophies, to support and refine this discipline.<\/p>\n
Planning a project, grappling with its logistics, taking its milestones down to the minute, if not the second, requires some method. One may not be better than another one: like anything, it takes practice, and an appreciation for and understanding of what calm looks like under pressure. As Japanese swordsman Musashi<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0philosophy and tactics are dissected in his book of five rings<\/em><\/a>, also interpreted by Stephen Kaufman<\/a>, how one handles the operational phase of what has been planned reveals the training s\/he has gone through (where training combines education and experience). \u201cMasters plan for contingency even when it appears that they are only improvising\u201d: simple.<\/p>\n