There are many benefits that the students can get from living a life practicing Martial arts, no questions about that. If we, instructors stop to think how many lives we have changed along the years. Students getting healthier, happier and learning values that they can carry throughout their lives such as respect, integrity, self discipline, leadership and more; so for us, what is success? I came across this quote that to me, talk about the biggest reward a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor can have and maybe, everybody else.
To laugh often and love much;
to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children;
to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others;
to give of one’s self;
to leave the world a bit better, wether by a healthy child,
a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived
– this is to have succeeded.”
Ralf Waldo Emerson
See you on the mat,
Paulo Guillobel
I had a chance in the recent past to interview a billionaire. I asked him if he could explain to me his methodology for gaining so much success. His reply was very similar to this. He told me that he believed that success is measured by the relationships we leave behind, not by the wealth we accumulate. He woke up every morning with relationship building in the front of his mind.
In the end, he attributes the opportunities which gave him his wealth, to the influences of the relationships he built. Without those relationships, he would have never achieved the status he has today.
These are words of wisdom we should all strive to live by.