Greetings!
Each week at Kuk Sool Pasadena, the Instructors and Employees are required to turn in a Personal Accountability Report. We refer to this report as a "Kaizen". The report is filled with questions about their personal and professional growth, their personal and professional finances, etc. The last question on this report goes something like this:
If a tree stops growing, it dies. What have you done in the last week to ensure your personal growth?
Now don't get me wrong. I am not into staring at yourself in the mirror and giving yourself a pep talk stuff, but I do believe that it is important to step back and look very specifically at what you are doing to move yourself toward your own personal development.
As a Professional Martial Arts Teacher, I am blessed with the opportunity to be creating every day. I help to create new martial artists. I help to create a welcoming and friendly school. I am constantly working to create a better Instructor for my students. And to top it all off, in my spare time, I just like to create! Artwork, swords, knives, landscaping, you name it and I am into it.
I just love to create things!
I have always thought that if I was able to choose a second career, it would be in carpentry. It must be great to step back at the end of each day and look at your creation. That would have to be fulfilling. To be able at the end of each day to point and say, " I made that today". In the technological world that we live in, so many of us never get that satisfaction.
You need this!
I truly believe that we were each born to create. This is how we express ourselves. Now you may not think that you are a creative person, but I would have to challenge you on that. The trick in all of this is that whether you recognize it or not, you are creating every day at every moment.
As a parent you are creating the environment that your family lives in. Is it a good one?
As a boss you are creating the work environment that each of your employees will be subject to. Is it a productive one?
As a spouse you are either building or burdening your marriage. Which one are you doing?
Ok, you get the point. Always be creating. Creating the life you want to live, that you want your children to live, that you want others to live.
Respectfully,
Sa Bum Nym Jason Franklin
P.S. If you know of someone in your life who could benefit from our training, let us know together we can team up to get them started on the road to excellence.
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