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NUMBER ONE EXCUSE (I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME)
7/13/2002 8:16:00 AM EST
MASTER MOYER'S QUESTION TO STUDENTS?
Why haven’t I seen you this last week?
ANSWER FROM STUDENT OR PARENT:
Master, I don’t have enough time!
This seems to be the new number one excuse for prospective students and
existing students to not take classes. What with today’s two working parents,
multitudes of extra curricular activities and the computer they can spend
hours with, it seems true. Or is it?
This is the 168 hours a week talks. It’s my job to help you to become a
success in life through the martial arts. To help you reach your goals,
including Black Belt, I need you to get to classes or bring your children to
classes. If you don’t have time! This doesn’t mean you can’t; it means we
maybe need to look at our time management skills. Coming twice a week is
important. So let’s talk about the 168-hour week. Seven days 24 hours a day
is the week.
If the student sleeps ten hours per night, that leaves 98 hours. If they go
to school five days a week for six hours a day, 68 hours are left. If they do
two hours of homework per school night 58 hours remain. Take one hour a day
for chores and 51 hours are left. Waste two hours a day on TV and you have 37
hours. Take out four hours for Martial arts and travel to and from class
leaves 33 hours for other activities-hanging with friends, hobbies, movies,
other sports, etc. That’s just shy of a full time job!
I would like every student to accept this assignment, Take two pieces of
paper. With one of them, draw 168 squares - seven columns of 24. This
represents your week by the hour. During the week, fill in what you do each
hour. With the second sheet of paper, write out your goals in priority order
1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. At the end of the week write the number of hours you
spent on each goal? Most of you will be surprised to learn how many hours you
are spending on low priority items like TV and Internet Surfing. You will
also find you aren’t spending time on your top items. One of two things has
to happen: Either you adjust your hours to your priorities or you rearrange
your priorities. Most people really don’t want TV or Internet Surfing to be there
top priority. By this time students and parents should see the picture.
I would like you and parents if necessary to take the home calendar, the one
the family uses to write their important dates on. I want you to write out
your martial arts class schedule and your practice times at home for the next
three months. Do this as a family. Then bring in a copy of your calendar for
our files. I would like to have everyone’s by March 30th. Please just give
these to your Chief Instructors and they will see that I get the results. I
want all of you to become Black Belts. Remember that a Black Belt is a White
Belt that didn’t quit.
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