Martial Arts Classes La Crosse, WI – Martial Arts Visualization for Success – During our Martial Arts Leadership Conference, we talked about the importance of visualization and how doing it will increase one’s success. Proper visualization is important for mapping out what a person wants. Watch this video for tips on Martial Arts Visualization.

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Nicklaus’ Martial Arts America provides martial arts classes with their martial arts schools in La Crosse, WI and Onalaska, WI area. They provide character & leadership training for kids, teens, and adults as well as fitness, stress relief, and strength training. Check them out at

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1007 East Ave South, La Crosse, WI 54601

and website www.LacrosseKarate.com

Martial Arts Classes La Crosse, WI – Samurai Sword Day. Find out more info on this special event. Remember to register in the office with your instructor.

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Nicklaus’ Martial Arts America provides martial arts classes with their martial arts schools in La Crosse, WI and Onalaska, WI area. They provide character & leadership training for kids, teens, and adults as well as fitness, stress relief, and strength training. Check them out at

Google Places
1007 East Ave South, La Crosse, WI 54601

and website www.LacrosseKarate.com

Last time we discussed how to set goals and how this helps us with staying consistent and disciplined towards meeting them.

Now the next secret…How to Critically Look at your Goals!

Setting goals is the first step to achieving what you want in life. Setting goals is also the 1st step in becoming a successful Black Belt. Continue to think about your plan for achieving this goal. People who don’t set goals usually achieve what they’ve set out to achieve-not much! Even if these people are hard working and intelligent, they are missing the most important step for success throughout their lives, knowing what they want in life and having a burning desire to achieve it. It may sound like I’m saying that all we have to do to set a goal is say “My goal is ______!” and that’s all there is to it. It would be nice if it were that simple.

In order to make it easier to set goals children should follow the SMART guidelines:

S= Specific
M= Measurable
A= Attainable
R= Realistic
T= Time (there must be a timeline)

Learning to set goals correctly, the SMART way, is going to make it much easier to stick with your goals and it will give you the strength to change your behavior for the better and stick with it! Following the SMART guidelines when you create your goals will increase your odds for success. Doing what it takes to reach your goals, day after day, and learning how to continue your new habits throughout your life is essential in building self-discipline.

William Cornell
Your Family’s Martial Arts Life Skills Mentor
Nicklaus’ Martial Arts America

P.S. It’s important to consider what you want to accomplish or become as a result of your martial arts program. Leaders are not born they are made and every good leader needs to learn how to develop into the type of person who is always prepared to do their best and become an example for others to follow. When your instructor invites you to participate in Leadership Training or the Black Belt Club you will see your child’s excitement level increase. It’s important to think about what your family’s future goals are in our martial arts program. We encourage you to share them with us in order that we can help you accomplish them.
“If you aim at nothing, you will surely hit it.”

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Nicklaus’ Martial Arts America provides karate classes and martial arts classes with their karate schools in La Crosse, WI and Onalaska, WI area. They provide character & leadership training for kids, teens, and adults as well as fitness, stress relief, and strength training. Check them out at 1007 East Ave S, La Crosse, WI 54601 and website www.LacrosseKarate.com

In our last piece to you we discussed the First Secret to Self-Discipline. The first step to being a self-disciplined person is being consistent and the best way to be consistent is to know what you want and set a plan by which you can get it.

Now the next secret…How to Set Goals!

First, start thinking about your goals with a long term point of view, then break them down into smaller term goals. For example, if you want to lose 30 pounds in the next year, you want to break that larger goal down into smaller goals like 1 pound per week or 5 pounds in a month. It is usually helpful to write each major goal down on a sheet of paper or a 3×5 card and then break each larger goal down into smaller goals.

Remember to make sure that the goals that you set for yourself are truly the goals that drive you and will make you sacrifice even when things become difficult.

Remember also that in order to become a Black Belt in the martial arts and a leader you should consistently set and work on your goals.

Fred Nicklaus
Your Family’s Martial Arts Life Skills Mentor
6th Degree Master Black Belt Instructor & Owner

P.S. PARENTS: Help your kids to set goals. That’s right, YOU must help them set their goals such as Black Belt. After all, it would be tough for them to follow through without your support. Teach them how to follow through. It’s difficult for kids to realize the importance of working towards an important goal, not giving up, and seeing it through to its completion. Your support and direction in helping your children set their goals and continue to work towards them will have an overwhelmingly positive effect on their development towards being happy, successful adults.

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Nicklaus’ Martial Arts America provides karate classes and martial arts classes with their karate schools in La Crosse, WI and Onalaska, WI area. They provide character & leadership training for kids, teens, and adults as well as fitness, stress relief, and strength training. Check them out at 1007 East Ave S, La Crosse, WI 54601 and website www.LacrosseKarate.com

I’d like to tell you a secret about Self-Discipline. You are already improving your level of self-discipline. How do I know this? It’s because you are coming to Karate class regularly. Coming to class consistently and doing your best is the 1st step in becoming a successful Black Belt and leader in martial arts and in life.

You see, the first step to developing self-discipline is consistency. Whatever the activity- sports, school, work, and relationships, being consistent is the only way to develop self-discipline.

Consistency, however, is not easy. Consider the following examples:

• After signing up at a health club, the average time people train is FIVE WEEKS!
• National dropout rates from college freshman to sophomore year is 32%
• The average time at one job is 3.2 years.

There are many more examples, some more alarming than these. Why do we have so much trouble “sticking with it?” What can we do to make sure that we see our dreams through?

It’s important to realize that self-discipline helps us to fulfill our goals. In the above cases, the reason the people dropped out, stopped working out, or quit their job most likely was because they weren’t deeply committed. In all likelihood there was no driving force to keep them working when things became difficult. Continue to develop your self-discipline and allow it to help you go on when things become difficult.

Remember: In order to develop self-discipline you must be consistent in your actions. Giving yourself the opportunity to develop your self-discipline will also allow you to be more effective in realizing your goals.

Special Note: We all believe in having goals and striving to accomplish those goals. Know this. In order for anything to become a reality we must be committed and passionate about it. A committed, passionate goal is known as a Core Desire. You must know what your core desires are. When you are clear about your core desires then and only then can you unleash the power of your Conquering Force to make your most important goals (core desires) become reality.

In upcoming readings about goals remind yourself about core desires and conquering force and apply these ideas to your continued growth and success.

Best,

Fred Nicklaus
Your Family’s Martial Arts Life Skills Mentor
6th Degree Master Black Belt Instructor & Owner

Nicklaus’ Martial Arts America provides karate classes and martial arts classes with their karate schools in La Crosse, WI and Onalaska, WI area. They provide character & leadership training for kids, teens, and adults as well as fitness, stress relief, and strength training. Check them out at 1007 East Ave S, La Crosse, WI 54601 and website www.LacrosseKarate.com

Bowing in Martial Arts Classes for Adults & Kids in Martial Arts Classes in La Crosse, Wi

The bow is a simple sign of respect and humility. In martial arts classes and at martial arts schools, the bow is demonstrated and used in a number of different situations to show respect and purpose in a kid’s or an adult’s training.

At Nicklaus’ Martial Arts America, students and parents bow as they enter the karate school as a sign of respect and as a way to prepare one’s mind for classes. The philosophy is a child or an adult has to leave what he/she has done before class or is doing after class at the front door. That way kids, teens, and adults alike can have a productive and beneficial class.

From there, students utilize the bow in a number of different situations and areas. One, is bowing as a student enters/leaves the martial arts training floor. The bow on/off the training floor is to show respect to all the learning that karate students do on the floor. Hours upon hours of learning, growing, and working are spent on the martial arts mat, so showing respect as one enters/leaves the mat is important.

Bowing is also a very important for showing respect when working with other people. The most obvious way is bowing between a martial arts instructor and student. The bow is a sign of mutual respect and thanks between instructor and student. The martial arts instructor is thankful for a student who is learning and listening, and the student is thankful for an instructor who teaches with patience, guidance, and care.

Bowing with fellow students doubles as a way for students to show respect in addition to promising the utmost focus and control in working with the other student so that both martial arts students can work well and challenge each other without hurting the other person or distracting the other person.

Finally, at Nicklaus’ Martial Arts America, kids bow to parents before martial arts classes start as a way to show respect for all that parents do for the kids. The instructors make it a point to explain that bowing to parents before classes is important because without parents, the kids would not be in class.

Look on our blog for more info about classes and other things at the martial arts school.

Best,

Fred Nicklaus
Your Family’s Martial Arts Life Skills Mentor
6th Degree Master Black Belt Instructor & Owner

Nicklaus’ Martial Arts America provides karate classes and martial arts classes with their karate schools in La Crosse, WI and Onalaska, WI area. They provide character & leadership training for kids, teens, and adults as well as fitness, stress relief, and strength training. Check them out at 1007 East Ave S, La Crosse, WI 54601 and website www.LacrosseKarate.com