Hey Family, how is your week? I hope it has been going well. I am writing this from Ohio as I am out visiting some friends and family with my daughter Jaya. Though I am technically on vacation, I have been working 2-4 hour days on getting things together for Enter Shaolin’s improvements and success. 🙂
While thinking about what to write for this week’s update, I came across a video that is a great inspiration. I get people all the time in their 30’s asking if it is too late for them to start training. I laugh because 1. I started my training at 32 1/2 years of age and I am so glad I didn’t think it was too late for me or Enter Shaolin wouldn’t exist and I’d still be feeling incomplete. Boo, right!? 2. Why is it so many people think their life is over in their 30’s? I mean where the heck is this lie coming from?
Whether you are thirty something or ninety something you are not old. You are only old if you’ve given up on learning and growing. It’s when you decide to stop doing these things is when you have become old, you have become that old dog that can’t learn new tricks. It’s not age that makes you old or young, it’s your mentality. Which is why you can meet a young person that sounds like some grumpy ‘old’ man and why you can find an elder in their 80’s plus whose eyes and cheeks light up just like newborn babe!
To me your life is really just beginning at 30, well at least your adult life that is. 😉 And when we look at people throughout history who have done amazing things, plenty of them didn’t make it big or do anything major with their life until they were in their 30’s and many beyond that.
I also believe you should always be learning and growing, because seriously what’s the point of living if you aren’t growing? To grow you have to learn, you have to breakthrough limiting beliefs, you have to push yourself to be more at any age and especially when you are in your 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and so on, so you are motivated to live!
As long as you have breath, there’s still more in you. Do you really want to go to your grave not using all your stuff? Not using the gifts and talents you have been blessed with? Not giving yourself or this life all you got?
I hope after watching this video with a special guy by the name of Deshun Wang, that if there was any seeds of doubt that it’s never too late to get started on your dreams, goals and passions, that after watching this your doubt is squashed.
It’s people like Deshun and so many other inspirations I’ve been blessed with learning about over the past several years, that drive me to know despite so many giving up on living that the passion and fire inside of me to be more and do more is not in vain. Heck, I’m just getting started!
Without further ado…
Watch Be The Fiercest by Deshun Wang:
Isn’t brother Dashun amazing? And guess what? He’s not anything more special than you or me…
You have all kinds of awesomeness in you, the question is are you using all your stuff and if not are you going to start doing so now? Let me know in the comments what you have done to defy the world’s made up age restrictions, and…
If you never started defying the made up limitations of age, what are you going to do now that you know age is just a number?
I’m looking forward to hearing from you in the comments soon! 🙂
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P.S.S. Remember, no one can keep you from success except yourself
Great message and motivation for many people, I’m sure!!!
Thank you Jason, I hope so. Even though I know these things, it’s always great to be reminded of them and to see others express these ideas in their own words through their experiences.
I never started training until I was thirty either! Age is never something I ever considered to be limiting; only a person’s perception of life and themselves can create the limiting barriers that keep them shackled. Carry yourself forward like the shackles aren’t there, I say….because they aren’t! ????
That’s awesome Jason, so glad you also do not allow or even consider age to limit you, because if you did, well you wouldn’t be here!
That’s so true that the shackles are only there if we allow them to be there. So many people put themselves into unnecessary bondage and will even bite your head off if you suggest they could just stop crucifying themselves. LOL But alas we just have to be the change we wish to see in others. The ones that want to wake up will. Blessings brother! 🙂
I am now 58, now just starting my new adventure with Enter Shaolin. You are right on the money Jamie! Love you guys, and haven’t even met you in person yet. Love Sifu Phu Ngo teaching style, pass on my thanks to Sifu Phu for his time and effort, he is a great teacher. Hope to meet you guys one of these days.
Martin Mathews
Congratulations Martin on being 58 years young and starting your Kung Fu journey, we are honored to have you a part of our family brother! Love you too brother and we hope to meet you one day as well! 🙂 Blessings!
Great article.
Thank you a lot for this and the movie clip You aded.
That is 100% true. Only one person can stop himself\herself from achieving a goal.
Thank brother Dariusz, I am glad you enjoyed it too! 🙂
Hey, Jamie! That was a brilliant newsletter! As you know, I’m 61 and joined Enter Shaolin last winter. Maybe I’m not the most brilliant student, but I love Ngo Dac Na and I sure feel that I’m achieving what I want to achieve.
I’m doing so many things, I just took up drawing and singing (me???? drawing and singing – you must be joking!!!) to get me over the hot summer here in Spain. Come the cooler weather, I’ll be exercising again much more and loving it.
Please tell people again and again what you’ve written in this newsletter, so many just don’t believe that we can do Kung Fu ALWAYS and BE OUR BEST!
Love, Antje
Hey Antje! So awesome to see you back in the comments love! 🙂
You are a most brilliant student because you do not let what most people would use as excuses deter you from your goals and passion for life. That makes you BRILLIANT!
I love how when you have to slow down on one thing, you find other new exciting things to fill the time. It’s truly never too late and I love that you are taking up singing and drawing! These are great tools to expand your mind, consciousness, creativity and soul!
Yes, I will keep not only saying it but being an example of it and it’s so awesome to know I have a sister in Spain 61 years young doing the same. Please keep shining your light, Antje! Kung Fu is indeed everything and in everything we do.
Love you too!
Yes, we are on the same page with this and I hope many, many others will join who “think” they are “too old” or don’t have the confidence to start a discipline of self-defense.
For all those and especially women who want to start, I will say now what made me sign up with Enter Shaolin:
You see, there are many courses on Wing Tsun and other disciplines on offer on the internet and I’ve looked at all of them. So why Enter Shaolin?
I had watched all your videos that are for free on YouTube and then I suddenly noticed: “This is for me!” I saw Sifu Phu moving so “slowly” and efficiently, so rooted and concentrated and he is fast! Very fast! So fast indeed that often the video camera can’t show it! I think I can learn that. Slow movements first, then faster and faster, no “big fighting” gestures.
And then I also thought: “What if?” In the most unlikely event of me having to defend myself physically, there is one thing I can be almost certain. If I hurt an opponent, I will get into trouble with the police here in Spain. No doubt about that. Here anybody who does self-defence is considered to have hands that are weapons.
Yep, but what if nobody sees what I’m doing? Those small efficient, piercing movements that Sifu Phu shows are the solution! People generally only “remember” shouting and big movements if there is an upset in a crowd or so. So almost invisible moves seem to be the solution! What people/police don’t see or hardly see … Of course, I realize that this needs a lot of training until it appears as smooth as Sifu Phu shows, but hey! I will learn that. I’m determined.
Then came the first set-back. The summer heat in Spain without air condition. Oh, I had to slow down, but I still did quite a lot of exercises that came through in the weekly newsletter simply sitting down. Just moving the arms properly. From shoulder to elbow to wrist and flick! Takes a while to get that into muscle memory.
And so I got over the hot months, a few exercises, a bit of drawing, a bit of singing and now it’s cooler again and I feel that I haven’t wasted the hot sommer months completely.
Thank you all for being there and please assure people who are timid or think they are too old, they can all do what Sifu Phu teaches.
Love to all!
Oh wow!!! Thank you so much sister for sharing why you signed up. This is sure to help those who are wondering if Enter Shaolin is for them. 🙂
That’s very interesting about Spain, so do they not want you to defend yourself if you are being attacked? I really hope there is a loop hole besides out quick piercing motions. I think you are definitely right though our type of fighting does not make a scene it’s about getting in and out as fast as possible when being attacked.
I love your determination and I know with your persistence you will get to where you want to be! Great suggestions about how many of the movements can be practiced with your wrists sitting down. There’s really no excuses for not getting some training in. <3
Thank you for sharing how you have worked around heat and so much more, you are in inspiration! I will mark this post as a great reference point to share with others, so they can not just read my words but yours as well love!
Blessings!
awesome video about Dashun Wang..although he’s 80 he looks like no where near ready to fold. I love his energy, and I appreciate you sharing this inspirational video.
Hey Gil, you are welcome brother. I also love his energy! He is awesome and clearly has way more to give as do we all! 🙂