Accountability

A little under three months remain before we hit the end of another lunar year. When the Year of the Rat begins on January 25th, another year of mastery begins with my new I Ho Chuan team.

The coming year’s team will be comprised of a few rookies, a few veterans, and a few people who wish to challenge for their black belt. My advice to all of them is the same. You have to understand the reason behind each and every requirement before you will be able to truly apply yourself to the process. Furthermore, you need to complete every requirement - to the letter - if you want to maximize the benefit of the process. If you already understand the reasoning behind every requirement, applying yourself to them is much easier because you will see them as tools to help you achieve your goals as opposed to just hoops that your instructor has asked you to jump through.

A big part of success is found in accountability. We tend to be more successful at keeping our promises if those promises are tied to the success of a team and are publicly scrutinized. It is much ore difficult to ignore mediocrity when you are held, or hold yourself, accountable to measured results and expectations.

Everybody has goals and dreams. Almost any goal is attainable if it is broken down to incremental improvements. One step or three thousand kilometres - the magnitude of the distance is less relevant than the direction you are headed.

“Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements.” - Sri Mulyani Indrawati (b. 1962)