During this episode, we’re going to be taking a look at the difference between two mindsets. Each one should be a part of the overall journey of our progress towards Mastery, but one of them can become a trap that not only keeps us chained to lower levels of development, but which also sets us

During this episode, we’re going to explore the differences between instructors, teachers, and mentors, with a specific focus on the latter. More importantly, we’ll be taking a look at the elements of a good mentor…for you… …and an important piece of the puzzle that even the most serious students miss when it comes to learning

In this episode, we’ll be exploring the timeless lessons that have been passed down by warriors and enlightened masters proven to produce (at a minimum) above-average results. But, while most prefer to focus on only the positive, “feel-good” parts of the plan… …we’ll also be looking at the habits or “inhibitors” that have been discovered

In the business world, there’s a concept called ROI or “return on investment”. This includes the benefits of what we get for putting in the time, effort, and resources along with the accomplishment of the goal. In the martial arts and self-defense realm, this is the black belt or skills necessary to make ourselves and

If you’ve been around in the martial arts and self-defense realms for any significant length of time, then you’re sure to have run into several different personality-types, both in the form of well meaning students, “outsider” naysayers (you know, the “that doesn’t work” crowd) – those who are willing to even get verbally or physically

In the Ninja’s Mikkyo esoteric ‘mind science’ study, there are are more than a few symbols used to convey everything from energies, to actualized human potentials, to processes and interactions between these things. Some of these can seem fairly obvious, or at least easily grasped when you learn about them, others have meanings far beyond

If you’ve been studying, or at least interested in the full system of self-protection and life-mastery known an Ninjutsu (and not like those merely focused on the unarmed combat with some weapons thrown in and calling it ‘Ninjutsu’, then you’ve most likely heard of the Ninja’s power and success principle known as SANMITSU – ‘the

If we’re serious about training to be as prepared as possible for the worst and most unthinkable situations, we need to be very clear about both what that situation could be like – what will be going on inside what I call “the bubble” – and – what we’ll need to do within the context

One of the concepts that anyone who’s been around the art of Ninjutsu for any significant length of time has heard of is that of fudo-shin (‘Immoveable heart’), which itself is also embodied by the character, Fudo-Myo ‘Immoveable Light King/Queen’, in the Ninja’s Mikkyo esoteric mind-science study of enlightened potential. Any one of the hardest