Falling Forward
April 4, 2008Your past doesn’t define your future!
-Bo Sanchez
In one of Bo’s teachings, he said, that in order to succeed, one must learn to fail forward. Meaning, if one must fail, he must learn to stand up and learn from that failure.
I have just realized that in all these years, I have already known this principle. On the physical aspect at least.
Having been an avid practictioner of the Japanese martial arts known as Aikido, I remembered the very first thing they teach the students. How to fall!
Yes! For those who have seen the movies of Steven Segal and yet have experienced or been to an actual Aikido practice, the very first thing you will learn is how to fall safely!
You see, in Aikido, some techniques requires to throw your partner. And if one does not know how to fall properly, just imagine how many injuries he might have. However, if you already know how to fall safely, you can take the fall, not without pain, but with minimal pain and no injuries. In fact, you can then stand righ back up and be ready to thrown down again.
What I failed to realize was, I could apply this principle in life too. Hey! no one can avoid failure in life! The most important thing is, one must learn how to pick himself up again, ready to face the next challenge!
Previous Comments
yeah, and don’t give up!
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for there is always tomorrow 
as Paolo Coelho said “if you fall seven times, stand up the eighth” … hehehe
bad naman ng blogger na yun!
Posted by janus at April 25, 2008, 8:43 pmyeah… and it’s “bloggerS”. there were two of them. They were notified by i.ph already. and one of them already removed the plagiarized article. No apologies from him though *sigh*. and he still has other plagiarized article though, (the information he posted was copied from a forum)
The other one, well.. I think he should say goodbye to i.ph within the week if he won’t delete it.
this is very inspiring john! sakto pala ang pag bloghop ko. 
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Hi, well at least you’ve realized. Congratulations! Heheh… musta?
Posted by Jai at April 5, 2008, 1:42 pm