Friday, January 18, 2013

Scott Sonnon ? Blog Archive ? Superior to your former self

January 17, 2013 ? 1:20 pm

Despite what people may misunderstand from the victories I?ve had in martial art (or the much more extensive losses I?ve had as a child), I have never had any intention of being better than my opponents, only in becoming a better version of myself.

Championships have never held allure to be the best; never wanted to be better than others. Thrusting myself into competitive resistance at the highest levels I could sustain, I intended to produce MY best - as in better than I?ve ever done to hold my peace, remain calm and clear, smooth and steady, in the most difficult artificial circumstances I could find: martial arts.

Martial art is merely a metaphor - a controlled environment where you are able to pressure test your emotional control and mental focus through physical stress. I train in the same way for fitness: focusing on how fast I can recover to proper technique while challenging my nervous system with ever-expanding complexity. I practice my yoga in this way: finding my way to exhale into deeper levels of internal resistance and allow myself to surrender my fears and excessive force. I honor my nutrition this way: eating to increase my emotional control, mental focus and physical capacity to absorb, adapt and defuse stress. And I use my writing and speaking for the same purpose: If I can become a better version of myself, I can better serve others.

Any resistance I experience in life happens for this specific purpose: my macro of the micro I practice rolling on the mat. Only when I can expand my martial art, fitness, yoga, nutrition, writing and speaking into a lifestyle, do I truly engage the full capacity of these vehicles as means of self-transformation.

As Hemingway wrote, ?There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.? Today, be more noble than you were yesterday. Be more you than you?ve ever previously risked sharing with the world. When you stop trying to find solutions OVER others and start considering how to create solutions FOR others, you realize you?re the solution you?ve been seeking, and we can share that message with everyone we touch.

very respectfully,
Scott Sonnon
www.facebook.com/scottsonnon

Source: http://www.rmaxinternational.com/flowcoach/?p=1361

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