Every martial art has tenets that represent the morals that are passed down throughout the life of the art. So what are your tenets for running your club? Having a set ethos for your brand and club doesn't just help you, but it can also help other instructors, students, kids, and parents understand why you do what you do. As of 8th October 2024, there were 3563 martial arts clubs in the UK alone, so what makes you stand out from the crowd?

The Importance of Having Club Tenets

Tenets represent the ethics and or morals that we believe should be passed onto the next generation, and martial art clubs often teach children. Lots of martial arts already have these tenets built into the art itself, but what good is a word if a child doesn't understand it? By having club tenets that are maybe different and more inclusive than the ones that are included in your art of choice.

How Can Business Tenets Help You?

Picture this, you've got a class full of children, some annoy the others while some stay to themselves, how do you prepare these young ones for the future ahead with only 4 or 6 tenets? This is where your own club's tenets can come in handy and can help cover what the art is missing or what your students need.

One great example of using tenets inside of your lessons is, for example, let's say there's a lot of cheating going on between the exercises you do, so you can introduce the tenet of honesty into your lessons to encourage kids to be honest about what they're doing.

Show, Don't Just Tell!

It's been proven over the years of study that one of the best ways for kids to learn is to observe, do, and get feedback. It's this loop that helps strengthen what's.

What To Do With These Tenets!

Now you have some tenets in mind, but do you know what to do? Well, in this section, we're going to give you some ways that you can use your martial arts club's tenets to your advantage!

Add To The Arts Tenets!

Some martial arts already have some tenets; however, not all of these arts have all of the best ones. For example ITF Taekwondo has:

• Integrity
• Curitosy
• Indomitable Spirit
• Self-Control
• Persaveriance

However, isn't honesty, acceptance, Confidence, Empathy, self-discipline, Curiosity, kindness and many more also just as important? This gives you a chance to expand on the tenets that your art already covers and gives people the skills and qualities that they'll need.

Reinforce Tenets Through Classes!

The best way to use tenets is through your classes, maybe every time something happens that goes against one of the tenets, you can remind them that they should show the tenet. You can also do this by living as an example; if you yourself show the tenets, then it becomes clearer to the kids that they should show them.

I hope this blog helps you understand the importance of having your own personal and business tenets, and I hope that you start to show them and push for them inside your classes and your own life.

Life isn't a game! There is no respawning or buying back your friends; it all comes down to a marathon that has been given the name "life". On average, in the UK, people spend around 52 - 260 hours per year playing video games. Imagine if we all spent a fraction of the time we do playing video games working towards our dreams. It's great to have a break every now and again, although many self-improvement enthusiasts will say "no breaks because it's grind season," but that's just not how humans work.

When thinking about what we want to do and how amazing we would feel once we complete our goals and dreams, we want we feel amazing, but then fail to get there. This is what is known as goal-oriented thinking, and it's a common trap most people fall for. While it's not inherently bad to have a goal that you want, it can harm your progress if you only see the goal and not the process.

What Is Stopping You?

When you ask people what's stopping them, they tend to hide behind their past as a large reason as to why they can't push themself to and while I respect that you have no control over the past and what it may have inflicted upon you (both the good and the bad) it is at the end of the day your responsibility.

No matter what your past is or what mental conditions you may have, you must remind yourself that you are at your core a human. Why is that important, you ask? Because of the phenomenon known as the indomitable human spirit, humans have come back from anything thrown at us, from devastation to surviving in the wilderness. Humans' ability to learn new things is remarkable, there is no limit to what we can do. So the next time someone asks you what's stopping you, give them an honest answer that includes how you're planning to solve the issues that you've raised.

The Importance of Tracking Habits

I want you to be honest here: how many of you track your habits daily? People quite often can get lost in the strum of life, days can seem to blend into one another, and we can often feel like we aren't getting anywhere. One method that you can use to not only keep track of what you do but also to help you understand what you spend your time on.

Many people who do habit tracking only track the habits they want to do, but you should also track the habits that you want to stop. This way, you can track not only the habits that take your time away, but also the habits that you want to keep. This can also help you identify what led to those habits, and then you can implement things to help increase the friction towards the habits you don't want to do and decrease the friction for the habits you do want to do.

Find an Accountability Partner

Relying on just yourself to get everything done can not only be hard but exhausting, forcing yourself to do the tiny things that build up on a daily basis can become tiring, and that's why finding someone to just remind you why your doing things can be a great way to increase your chances of getting things done. An accountability partner is someone who takes it upon themselves to remind you that you have things to do, not in a mean way, they just simply remind you with questions like "I thought you were going to do [something] today?" It's these tiny questions that can help a person remember why they're doing something and what their working towards.

Remember to take it at Your Own Pace

If there's a common theme throughout the self-improvement industry, it's the "grind mindset". You have to just do everything because tomorrow isn't guaranteed, and it's not, but that doesn't mean that we should burn ourselves out doing everything a person online says because that defeats the purpose of "self"-improvement. When trying to discover yourself and implement and improve parts of your life, you should take it at your own pace, where all driving on the same motorway of life, just some of us are in the slow lane while others like to be in the fast lane. Remember that rest is also a part of the self-development cycle.

Understand The Value of Every Moment

What makes something valuable? It's a mixture of how useful something can be and how rare it is. Do you know how rare it is for you to be you? It's about 1 in 400 Trillion! Therefore, everyone has some inherent value, and that value is built upon our most crucial resource: time. Every single moment that you have every second of your day is something that may never happen again, with each moment leading to the next one in a web of possibility and probability. Make sure to cherish every moment, including the bad, as each moment has something to teach.

I hope that after reading this, you now have something that you wish to implement into your own life, whether it's to take life at your own pace or to start tracking your habits. Just remember to take it one step at a time and that you've got this.

Stay disciplined, stay strong, and I'll see you next time!