It’s Running Right

I took my truck to get worked on recently.

     It hadn’t been running right, so I took it in for an oil change, tune-up and diagnostic.

The competent mechanics at Veteran’s Ford figured out what was going on and got it taken care of.

So, this morning, I was having my regular coffee time with Barbara and she asked me how it was running.

     I said, “great, I think.”

She though it was funny that I said “I think”….

   and that led to today’s meditation.

I realized that I said that because it wasn’t anything particularly great that made it great.

   It was just the absence of anything wrong.

When the truck was missing, skipping and even sometimes almost stalling, I knew exactly how it was.

   But now that it was running right, there was nothing particularly note-worthy…

Isn’t that interesting?

   And how often do we do the same in life?

I guess it’s similar to what I was saying in last week’s blog about not taking all of our many blessings for granted.

Some times we have a harder time explaining what is right than when something is wrong.

  When things are just going along without incident, we can miss the fact that our life is “running right”.

Don’t get me wrong, setting and getting goals and other small victories along the way are fun and exciting in a different way too.

But sometimes we just need to be grateful for all the people, places and things that just do what they’re supposed to do.

So I’m gonna answer my wife’s question again, publicly, here:

“My truck is running awesome! It starts every time I ask it to, and gets me where I want to go. She accelerates when I push the pedal- she is a 5.0 you know. 🙂 and she’s not shaking, sputtering or stopping any more. She’s a great truck and she runs great too.

   I love my truck! And I love you too.”

Prepare To Live; Empower To Lead!

Grand Master Stephen J. Del Castillo
Founding Master Instructor, Krav Maga Martial Arts
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About Grandmaster Stephen J. Del Castillo: Grandmaster Del Castillo is the founding Master Instructor of Krav Maga Martial Arts and has been empowering lives in Pasco and Hillsborough Counties since October of 2000. He is an 8th degree Blackbelt, MBA, author, mentor and success coach, a US Army Veteran and a proud father and grandfather. He is married to Ms. Barbara Del Castillo who helps him run the school. Grand Master Del Castillo began his training in the early 80’s and has high level blackbelts in Tae Kwon Do, Karate, Premier Martial Arts and Krav Maga Martial Arts as well as experience in kickboxing, Jeet Kune Do and Jiujitsu. He has high level instructor certifications from BBSI, IKMF, and KMG and has been featured in numerous Martial Arts publications and also Success magazine. He was a competitive sport karate and American Kickboxing instructor until he enlisted in the US Army where he served in the 82nd Airborne Division, where he won an Army Green to Gold scholarship and proceeded to ROTC and the University of Tampa. He was commissioned in 1992 and went on to serve in Germany with the 3rd Infantry Division and then in several other posts in the US until he left military service to pursue his dream of creating KMMA in 2000.  Today I continue to train, learn, sow and grow under the mentorship of World Champion Grandmaster Jeff Smith, who regularly visits the academy to help sow into my teams and students as well.

The Krav MagaMartial Arts Headquarters is in Lutz, FL at 1900 Land O’ Lakes BLVD and now our new location in 8836 US 19, Port Richey! Krav Maga Martial Arts serves Lutz, Land O’ Lakes, Wesley Chapel, Port Richey and surrounding areas.

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