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How COMMITTED are You?

After her long run in the park Sarah stopped to catch her breath. It was a little later then she liked to run, and the early Fall had branches from the tall trees casting shadows across the running path. Along with the quickly dimming sky, she was a little troubled. Must start earlier she gasped. All at once she felt a strong pull on her hoodie, and simultaneously felt a powerful hand grabbing her pony tail, yanking her head back violently, and propelling her rearwards.

Sarah COMMITTED instinctively by stepping with the motion, a little offline, and circling her arms around the surprised attackers elbows, locking his grip. Little did he know that Sarah was a 3rd Degree Black Belt in the little known art of HAPKIDO. Even worse, that this special forces style emphasized defense from common attacks, and that the word HAPKIDO itself means,\u201cCoordinated Power Way!\u201d

Instead of a weak, futile resistance from the attack Sarah had automatically coordinated her motion with his powerful pull and her total COMMITMENT to the battle found him off balance, both arms trapped deeply to his elbows and feeling the blunt open handed palm of this beautiful defender deadening his senses quickly.

The last thing he could remember was losing consciousness, and the next thing was a horse, that\u2019s right, \u201cA horse?\u201d He said out loud, looking sideways from the wet grass, spitting out a mouthful of leaves, and sod as the mounted police officer was cuffing him and reading him his rights.

Sarah COMMITTED fully to the energy of the attack, fully stepping with the pull, and fully COMMITTED to restrain her attackers arms, locking both his elbows, as she fully COMMITTED to delivering multiple blows to his jaw, with much the same effect as a knockout punch from a bantamweight boxer.

In self-defense a half hearted technique only serves to infuriate an attacker at best, and is highly ineffective in accomplishing the goal, the only goal of self-defense, staying alive!

In life how often to we lack COMMITMENT to something we feel powerful about. For that matter how often to we COMMIT to anything at all. I can say, \u201cI am COMMITTED to ending world hunger,\u201d and many people do. However, what do I do about it? How effective am I at accomplishing that? Are my words just words that make me \u201cfeel good?\u201d

Action is the only arena where things actually move. Although we\u2019d like to think our way to ending world hunger, in the world of reality, until we COMMIT by taking action, deeply COMMITTED action, nothing occurs. Nothing, nada, zip, null set\u2026nothing!

COMMITMENT sadly is becoming all too rare a commodity. Why? Perhaps it takes too much effort, or our neck is too much on the line, or we fear that we could be wrong, or someone will say we are wrong. Agreed, it is much easier to not COMMIT, and yet someday, somewhere, someone will end world hunger\u2026It might just be you!

COMMIT to something, anything deeply today. COMMIT!

Allen Hughes

Warrior Way Life Defense

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