Who Are You?
A series of weekend events led me to this meditation, and I hope that I can share it succinctly and effectively, and that it will be useful to you.
Who are you?
It’s such a loaded question, isn’t it.
You can answer this question in relation to your roles or goals.
Some identify largely based on events of their past; and others with aspirations about their future.
Upon reflection, we can see that all of these responses are valid and true.
Our past, present and future Vision largely identify who I am and who are you.
While I largely believe that our past is most useful only for its lessons, and a measure of how far we have come…
I also realize that our past- where we were born and how we were raised, our environment, events and circumstances, hardships, trials and mistakes- largely influence who we are in this moment, in every moment, and how we think, act and react within it.
My passion on the prior postulate, that the purpose of the past is to learn and move on, comes from my passion about action versus reaction and focusing my focus on that which I can control and away from that (i.e. the past) that I can not.
But it does not mean to diminish those struggling with issues connected to theirs.
These things are real, and have to be deal with. Fortunately there are professionals trained to help people do this.
I am better at helping people identify and act upon what’s important next.
Which somewhat brings me back to my point and meditation.
“Who are you?” is a question based on our roles for sure; for example, I am a husband, father, grandfather, Christian, teacher, leader, author, entrepreneur and, clearly, a philosopher…
But it’s also a question we answer based on where we’ve come from and where we want to go.
At Krav Maga Martial Arts, “we are a Blackbelt School”.
It’s on our wall, and something we communicate early and often to students.
It’s how we cast the Vision, for every student, that they can be a Blackbelt one day!
Not just that they can, but that they will be!
I teach Vision, the 6th Foundational Blackbelt Superpower, so passionately because it changed my life. And continues to do so!
I was a confident and competent leader, teacher and entrepreneur long before I became one.
And the same is true with whatever relative success I have had as a father, husband, friend, author…
in every area of life that I have known a little success, I saw it first and then went to work on making it reality.
I’m sorry where I am preaching to the choir, for I know there are many in my audience far more successful than I that know that what I am sharing is true!
But it’s a great reminder for me, my students, and maybe for you?
So I ask again, post meditation remembering that we get to create our identity by our thoughts, beliefs, Vision and action and, most of all, who we choose to be.
Who are you?
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.
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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