Axioms for Life

Q: What are you working on Today?

A: Getting Better

Q: How Long are You Going to Be Doing That ?

A: As long as it takes.

Get Better: Don’t Say Things, Do Things, Watch Things, or Eat Things that make you Weak

Get Better: You are the collection of your habits. Form good habits. Break bad habits.

Get Better: Do nothing inconsiderately or without a purpose.

Get Better: Devote yourself to the perfection of whatever you pursue. How you do everything, is How you do everything.

Get Better: Joy is Vulnerability. Happiness is an illusion. Don’t Be a Pussy

Get Better: Rage, Vengeance, Anger, Loss, Regret - they are all tremendous motivators… they really clear the mind.

Get Better: Own Every Mistake - No Excuses. You can only get better if you focus on Your mistakes.

Get Better: Eating things that taste like shit is how you build warrior spirit — Eat Your Broccoli

Get Better: You are not your accomplishments. You are you. The only way to improve outcomes is to be 100% honest about the effort you put in.

Get Better: Everything that happens in life is training. The good stuff is training. The bad stuff is training. You shouldn’t resent the bad things people do to you - they are helping you get stronger, it is training. Everything is training. Focus on Gratitude - Not Resentment

Get Better: The longer - The longer. The longer you let something go - the longer it takes to fix it.

Control Your Emotions: Don’t give into sadness. Anger is More Useful than Despair.

Control Your Emotions: Only Get Angry when You want to be Angry

Control Your Emotions: People don’t really do things to you. People do the things they do in front of you. Don’t React.

Control Your Emotions: Without Fear, there can be no Courage.

Control Your Emotions: Happiness = Reality - Expectations.

Control Your Emotions: Love is the most dangerous emotion of all. It can produce all the other negative emotions - jealousy, shame, grief, - when it is not returned in the same quality or quantity. Only women, children, and dogs get loved unconditionally.

Focus on the Mission: True victory is to force the enemy to acknowledge they were wrong to oppose you in the first place… to force them to acknowledge your greatness.

Focus on the Mission: Be kind to people - even when they don’t deserve it. Don’t be a cunt. But Don’t Kill them with Kindness — Torture them with Success.

Focus on the Mission:

Suffer - Learn - Teach - Fight - Die

Axioms for Grappling (Wrestling, BJJ, and Judo)

Attack in Transition***

Position over Points

Tactics over Technique

Lead the Dance - Force Reactions

Fight the Position - Not the Person