Intent with intensity = heart

Love love love this!  What I like is how they work together. Intensity is just busyness with out intent. I can become intense but what good does that do me if I can't funnel that intensity toward the intent of what I'm doing?  This is just "noise" combined with busyness fooling me that I'm doing the right things.  What I need to be doing is getting into the right mindset first then applying the intensity to deliver the desired results.  Sometimes easier said than done but also easily doable as long as I'm in the right mindset or simply in the right moment. 

My dad used to tell me that I needed to increase my intensity when he watched me play hockey as a kid.  I knew what he was talking about but I couldn't apply it becuase I couldn't understand it at that time.  I thought my skill alone would carry me to higher and higher levels, it didn't. What was most noticable to coaches, scouts and parents were the players that played with "heart" or played with a high level of intensity. They stood out on the ice, they got noticed becuase they were always involved in the play.   They simply played in the moment more often and longer than the rest of the players on the ice. 

I've only started to understand this because I believe I'm ready.  My mind is open and I'm understanding what Sifu Brinker talked about at last Thursday's class.  The challenge will be to consistently apply it.  However he gave us the tools, "where am I and what am I doing"?

Mr. Repay