What’s Your Routine?

It’s 0623 as I write this, and I have completed my morning prayer and meditation, written my goals and planned my day, am writing now and then will get out on my morning knowledge walk.

   Then I’ll come home and do some coffee time with Barb, get some business training in and get into work for my first meeting by 0930.

0600-0900 is my sword sharpening time every day. It’s the block that I train my mind and body and prepare to make it a great day, and also when I write.

  Starting my days this way is one of my most important routines.

But I’ll tell you, it wasn’t always like that. 

   I remember when I used to sleep in as long as I could and then get up stressing and then stress more on the way to work because i had not left enough time to get to work early…

    running late was, at that time, one of my routines.

As is the case in many areas of my life, my new routines serve me much better than my old ones.

But this is because of another one.

   I make it a habit to evaluate my life, my business, my routines and everything in my life regularly.

I do this through a process we call PARI- Plan, Act, Review and Improve.

This routine has helped me make another one of our Blackbelt Leadership principles, CANI (Constant and Neverending Improvement) possible.

   Without my PARI routine, I’m not sure CANI could have ever really happened…

along with reading, studying, focused work, planning and execution, PARI (evaluated effort) is what makes us better every day.

Now to be clear, this doesn’t mean every day is great or even goes our way,but that we have a routine of focusing on what is great and what we need to work at making better every day,.

   It doesn’t mean I do it alone either. I’m grateful for God in my life; I couldn’t do any of it without Him.

And I am grateful for my wife, my team, my mentors and my students.

They all help me as I help them.

But I digress a little.

  What I really wanted to share was the importance of having some great routines; and of evaluating these regularly to make sure they serve you, and your roles and goals towards a happy and successful life.

Routines help create habits.

        And habits create results.

It’s how we develop positive character traits in students at KMMA.

   Our character development program consists of about 8 positive habits that will set students up for success in life.

At first, students get into the routine of earning 5 character stripes for each belt promotion, and competing for medals and trophies at graduation by doing the work.

But eventually, they become habits…

and you and I know that the rewards of positive habits are far greater than the ones the kids are competing for at first.

The real rewards are the habits, choices and behaviors that create a healthy, happy and successful life.

    And that’s not just kid stuff by the way; I’m still doing so today.

 Join us for your 2 week free trial and orientation at KMMA. 

We can help your kids develop the routines and habits you want for them in their lives and, if you like, even help you do the same in yours.

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 a 7th 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.

The Krav MagaMartial Arts Headquarters is in Lutz, FL at 1900 Land O’ Lakes Blvd., 33549. Krav Maga Martial Arts serves Lutz, Land O’ Lakes, Wesley Chapel, and surrounding areas.

See stephendelcastillo.com for more information and to order my book, Developing Your Superpower, Meditations on Mastery, Volume 1.

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