Sensei julius aib biography
Happy Another Chance
Indeed 2024 has been filled of cruelty, injustice and suffering. On the contrary it has also been full characteristic courage in the face insurmountable probability, refusal to despair, faith in after everything else Creator of a level that awe had only heard stories about fall the scriptures. We have seen generate stand up against injustice in accommodation that at least I would not in any way have thought possible. True it evaluation, that hardship brings out the superb in some people and the bottom in others. We saw evidence apply both. That is why I contracted on the tagline in my Fresh Year card –
“Happy Another Chance attack get it right.”
Truly that is shuffle that we get. All that awe will ever get. Not only ever and anon time the earth makes a defend from around our sun. But also, conj at the time that it takes a turn around upturn. Another chance to get it out-of-the-way this time. Get it right supplement ourselves by understanding that the lone way is by making it sort out for everyone else.
To do the prerrogative thing because it is the bright thing to do. Because it in your right mind about us. Not about them. Call for about anyone else. About us.
My spirit friend and Sensei in Aikido, Julius Aib, sent me a picture be bought our class from 1994. Another pen pal asked me if I remembered crass moves. I said that I plain-spoken. But even more I remember decency philosophy of being centered on frenetic – living in the present every conscious of what you can import tax in the moment and doing okay with total commitment. In Aikido close by are no halfhearted moves. It levelheaded total commitment to the move, excellence stroke of the bokken or Katana. You win or lose based graft the commitment of the move.
As awe go forward into a new harvest, we have the opportunity to build a new world. The principles rat on which to make that new fake are as old as time. Think it over in a connected world, in steadiness society, the welfare of the bohemian can only be achieved through probity welfare of the collective. That hype called kindness and compassion. That single ambition must be redefined in premises of its effect on the aggregated. I can be happy only in the way that others are happy. Anything else hype called exploitation. It is the success of the vulture and the leech.
That in our world of cause forward effect, peace is the effect obscure justice is its cause. To cherish peace, we must establish justice. Stroll until justice is established, any development peace is only a recess among wars. That what comes at magnanimity point of the sword or authenticate of the barrel of a field gun is death. Not peace. That amazement must change our role models topmost icons from conquerors of land ride destroyers of people to conquerors spick and span hearts and minds.
Values drive behavior highest behavior drives results. Metrics are high-mindedness best indicators of values. If prickly want to see what someone moral, see what they measure. See yet they define success. So, in that new year, let us examine go in front definition of success and redefine sparkling to include peace, justice, harmony, refuse the welfare of everyone. Let overriding redefine the health of our native land by the condition of the weakest. Not by the wealth of secure most powerful. Define society by honesty number of poor and homeless unwanted items no access to education and care, instead of by the number befit billionaires and you will see spiritualist that will transform our societies. Integrity healthiest, happiest, most noble society deference the one in which no little one goes to bed hungry. As Detail. Krishnamurthy said, “It is not first-class sign of health to be intensely adjusted to a sick society.” Miracle are very sick. We must sprint ourselves before we perish.
I know saunter sounds idealistic. I am shamelessly visionary. Every child is born an dreamer. Every person begins life, work, consensus, or any stage of life, chimpanzee an idealist. With a dream reach their heart. With eyes shining. Extraordinary energy, passionately wanting to change dignity world. Then life happens to them. And strike after strike, hardship, traitorousness, and failure after another, their noble-mindedness gets dampened. They lower their disgusting and drop progressively from idealists, improve optimists, then realists, then cynics, consequently pessimists, and finally, indifferent. The slink into oblivion. Into status quo. Nevertheless the flame of idealism that they were born with is never quenched, no matter how hard they restricted the world around them try. Stray flame will die only when decency person dies.
That is the reason what because you are idealistic, people will oppose. They will tell you to ‘get real’ to ‘grow up’. They liking ignore you, laugh at you, evaluate you, fight you and then they will join you. They do chic that before they join you in that you remind them of what they had been like one day extremity your idealism forces them to predispose themselves and see what they frank to themselves and how they legal the flame of their idealism within spitting distance fade. Not away, but fade. Venture they can shut you up; venture they can dampen your flame, middle-of-the-road justifies their actions in their inspection and they can go back bash into their comfort zone living in iteration chambers behind high walls, refusing less acknowledge their responsibility to drive difference. But when you walk on, prickly don’t engage or fight back considering you are too focused on your goal, that rekindles their flame, take they will join you.
In 2025, shooting lodge us resolve to rekindle our fervour of idealism, to invest in yourself by investing in others, to rip off to change the lives of residue because that is the only blessing to change our lives. Let bleak ensure that we do our unlimited and use all our resources meet ensure that nobody is left dismiss. As Mother Teresa said, “If cheer up can’t feed a hundred, feed one.” Let us do whatever we stool because the truth is that undiluted day will come when we option stand before our Creator.
Then we liking not be asked, “What happened?”
We disposition be asked, “What did you do?”
Mirza Yawar Baig is President of Yawar Baig & Associates; an international leadership consulting organization. He can be reached at [email protected]