The training

Preparation is the Mother of skill. Understanding is the father of ability. We all love to win, but who likes to train? With all the variations of those quotes that I have used over the years so many times and in so many ways. I still act and genuinely feel that my own advice is fresh meat that I bite into as if it were freshly slaughtered new meat in order to survive. In fact, I’m like a rabid wolf nibbling at reality when it comes to what counts. I called this article the training because reality is mostly preparation, and actual action compared to that training isn’t much compared to the training it takes to take genuinely winning actions.

I remember the “Rocky” movies (yes, the “Rocky” movies with Sylvester Stallone), every last one of them, including the “Creed” movies so far. Most of the movies, as you will astutely note, are not about the fight, most of those movies are about the preparation, the training, and the drama, actually very little about winning when you really think about it realistically. So, that brings me to a point: The reality that is won and succeeds largely depends on your preparation to handle it. Think of a singer like Susan Boyle, as a better example than the example in the movie “Rocky”: She went through at least thirty years of preparation, singing in her bathroom mirror and in little halls and training sessions, and a few moments in a great show of victorious. That’s my point, miracles do happen, I believe in them and all, but they require preparation to be valid and they work in a genuine sense that is lasting, or the miracle is just genuine “flash in the pan” luck without that substance to make it last if the miracle happens successfully.

In fact, we must evolve, grow, and prepare to make a miracle work for us genuinely and permanently. The real failure in life is depends in luck and miracles from the beginning without preparation or understanding of what is happening. To fully appreciate and understand anything without doubt or fear, we must train. As Yoda essentially said in “Star Wars Episode Five: The Empire Strikes Back”: It’s not about trying, just doing it. In the sense that I am writing about, that is reality. The person who relies on luck and miracles without preparation essentially tries, even if successful, and doesn’t and just relies on a lucky break or “miraculous” prayer to succeed without knowledge or awareness. The prepared person always does it, especially when he really succeeds, and if he fails, it is a slip and not a fall, only to succeed later through a better awareness of what he needs and wants to do. So, essentially, to truly win without question and with repeatable results, we must genuinely train and desire, or winning means nothing more than a “flash in the pan” like that lucky three-point shot in a basketball game from the middle of the game. the court that it is is not easily repeatable because it is a “miracle buzzer”. In this sense, there is no trying, just doing, too. Reality is formation, and our genuine actions and results in it are the championship game, always.