Stay SMART
Stay SMART
Setting goals is the first step to achieving what you want in life. People who don’t set goals are also going to achieve what they’ve set out to achieve – nothing!
Even if these people are hard working and intelligent, they are missing the most important step for success throughout their lives – setting goals. It may sound like I’m saying that all we have to do to set a goal is say “My goal is _____!” and that’s all there is to it. Don’t we wish that were true!
In order to make an impact, we must set goals in such a way that we can achieve them, and then work hard towards attaining them.
To make it easier to set goals, they should follow the SMART Guidelines:
S=Specific.
M=Measurable
A=Attainable
R=Realistic
T=Time (there must be a timeline)
Learning to set goals correctly, the SMART way, is going to make it a hundred times easier to stick with your goals and will give you the strength to change your behaviour for the better – and stick with it!
Following the SMART guidelines when you create your goals will increase your odds for success. Doing what it takes to reach your goals, day after day, and learning how to continue your new habits throughout your life is essential in building discipline.
Goal achievement is at the very core of every one of my children’s martial arts classes…
Give me a call or email me , and I will let you know how I can help you and your children achieve
goals, step by step, and change your life for the better through my self empowering martial arts training programmes.
Regards
Sifu Tony Child
Total Martial Arts
Better than lifting weights?
Better than lifting weights?
When it comes to increasing your strength, flexibility, and agility, our Muay Thai Kickboxing programme has what it takes!
In here, you will get a great workout, a lot of movement mixed with some explosive strength training workouts.
Have you ever seen a Muay Thai athlete move?
Come in and watch or take part in just ONE of our Kickboxing classes and you will see exactly what I mean!
Give us a call on 07765202363 and arrange a time to come and see what it’s all about.
Until Later,
Sifu Tony Child
Total Martial Arts
martial arts classes: what are you paying for
Taking Martial Arts Classes?
What you think you are paying for
- Learning how to kick and punch
What you are also getting
- A life coach
- A mentor
- Inspiration
- Motivation
- A group of friends
- Stress relief
- Self-belief and a ‘can do attitude’
- A personal trainer and nutrition specialist
- Someone who encourages you and your children to have respect, discipline, self-control, patience, listening skills, loyalty etc.
- Being held accountable for your actions
- Being encouraged to set and achieve goals
- The physical skills and courage to stand up to bullies
- Knowledge, wisdom, quality training equipment and facilities, a safe place to train
- An instructor team with many years of experience dedicated to helping you achieve your goals.
Do you still think it’s expensive to learn how to punch and kick?
Would a Doctor, lawyer, psychologist, dentist, chef, mechanic, shop owner etc. offer all of the above for free in addition to the service they charge for?
Phone us on 07765202363
Or e-mail tmaswindon@gmail.com
"So, I was at the bar when this guy..."
“So, I was at the bar when this guy…”
Ever hear a story start out that way? I have… I’ve heard some end well, and some end poorly.
One of my friends from school had a bad story that started out this way… It ended with a bloody nose, black eye, and him needing 14 stitches in the back of his head.
He got off easy. Here’s Mike’s story.
The problem started over a girl… Mike was at the bar ordering a drink when he saw this attractive young lady next to him.
Naturally, he started talking to her when all-of-a-sudden her boyfriend showed up. Usually this would be a simple misunderstanding, but not tonight.
He tried talking to the guy, but it was too late, the JUICED-UP JUGGERNAUT heard enough and swung a punch at him.
Mike was unaware and didn’t have his hands up and was knocked back against the bar… Almost unconscious, he swings back, hitting nothing but air, while the boyfriend PUNCHED him a few more times.
He fell, hit his head on the bar and was knocked out.
Luckily for Mike, the bouncers jumped in and took the jealous boyfriend away.
Mike trains at our academy now… he tells me he wishes he learned our Kickboxing and self defence system a LONG TIME AGO! 
Give me a call on 07765202363 to book a 1 to 1 introduction session with one of our instructors. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sifu Tony Child
Total Martial Arts
1 missing ingredient...
1 missing ingredient…
How Will You Leave Your Signature?
How Will You Leave Your Signature?
Doesn’t everyone want to do something in their lifetime for which they will be remembered? Don’t you want a sense of permanence? Wouldn’t you like the world to know you “were there?” If the answer was “no,” why would there be passports or pictures or yearbooks or gravestones?
I believe you were designed for action and achievement. When your actions are aligned with your higher purpose, you will possess boundless energy and enthusiasm. Your challenge is not often in the pursuit of leaving your signature, but in the development of the courage to decide where to leave it in the first place. Here are three steps that will help you:
How To Leave Your Signature Behind
Step 1: Create Your Vision
Every mark on history starts with a vision. In the case of the Arena at Pula, an Emperor had a vision thousands of years into the future. The only difference between him and you was perhaps the size of his vision.
What do you want to be remembered for? Until you ask this question, there is little chance of doing something great. Once you have answered this question, however, you have set a vision that can be the vehicle to put you on the path in the direction you need to go.
Set goals.
Step 2: Define Your Mission
Did you ever get in the car, turn the key and not know where you were going? Although that might sound crazy, it is no crazier than waking every day with the same dreams and no map to get there. Once you understand what it is you want, you will need definitive plans on exactly how to get there. This step makes sure that you write the list that aligns with your vision.
Make a plan of what you will need to do in order to achieve those goals.
Step 3: Chip Away Every Day
In order to leave something behind of note, you will have to take consistent action. This step is not only most critical, but the one that stops most people. Once you are in the car, have turned the key and have directions, your actions are the small presses on the gas pedal which will give you forward momentum. Taking small steps each day in the direction of your vision and mission will eventually get you there. The key in Step 3 is to just keep “chipping away.”
Work towards your goals consistently every day.
Motivation
You were designed to be great. You have limitless potential. You can choose to scratch the surface of history and do something iconic. My suggestion is that you scratch hard, scratch often and make that scratch across time as deep as possible so that the world will be unable to ignore your “signature.”
Don’t know where to start? A great place to get the motivation and direction you might be looking for is at Total Martial Arts.
Sifu Tony Child
Total Martial Arts
C-A-N-I
10 Ways To Change Your STINKING Thinking
10 Ways To Change Your STINKING Thinking
- Instead of thinking your problem is too tough, think about how to solve it.
- Instead of thinking your situation is bad, think about how to improve it.
- Instead of thinking you are not talented enough, think about how to be better.
- Instead of thinking you don’t have enough, think about how to get what you want.
- Instead of thinking you don’t know enough, think about how to find out.
- Instead of thinking you are out of shape, think about how to shape up.
- Instead of thinking about what you can’t do, think about what you can.
- Instead of thinking about what you don’t want, think about what you do.
- Instead of thinking your life should be easier, think about how to be more awesome.
- Instead of thinking your troubles are someone else’s fault, think about accepting responsibility.
Look at both sides of each sentence. Read the “Instead of,” until the comma. Does that person sound like someone you know?
Now read the “think about,” until the period. Does that sound like a person you would like to become?
The question is: Which way do you think?
The best news is that it is all under your control! In the end, your success (or lack thereof) will be a product of how you think…Cogito ergo sum. Control how you think, that will control how you act. Control how you act, that will control how you get.
The more you think positively, the better you will get at it. You have to find the time to do it. It you don’t think you have time, make time! I wish I could say it as poetically, but I will let Thoreau handle that:
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
Earl Nightingale once said, “You become what you think about most of the time.” If that is true, don’t waste your time thinking life should be easier, invest your time thinking about ways to be more valuable.
Food for thought!
Sifu Tony Child
Total Martial Arts
Like a Samurai...
Dont make these 3 mistakes
#2. No Team or Support System
You’re a product of your environment and the people you surround yourself with… so why not surround yourself with the best?
Sifu Tony Child
Total Martial Arts