Important question.

How do i keep on improving?
Self improvement should always be studied throughout our life each day. If you want to be up there with the best, you better start improving.

If you want to get in the best shape of your life you need to start exercising for health and lifestyle improvement. Just remember, improvement is just another word for self growth. We must always keep growing to be successful in whatever we chose to do whether it’s our career choice or healthy lifestyle, we have to keep on growing.

Will Smith the famous musician/actor stood in front of a packed crowd at an awards ceremony and stated, i want everyone to listen closely. I’m giving you the keys to life right now! The keys to life is running and reading.
He goes on to say that first running. When you are out running and you start to get a little tierd, then there is that little voice in your head that’s shouts i’m so tierd right now i think my lungs are about to burst! I don’t think i can take this any more, there’s no way i could possibly continue!

He states that if you learn to not quit when that little voice comes into your head when you are out running, you will also start to bring that never quit attitude into your life. Especially when things in life gets tough and obstacles are thrown in your way.

Next he mentions Reading, the reason why reading is so important is there have been millions and millions of people who have lived before all of us. There is no new problem that you can have, from parenting to loving life. He then finsishes off by saying all of these problems that are out there that you are experiencing right know have already been solved in books written by people who lived before us.

I personally thought that he hit the nail on the head with this speech. Basically in a nut shell he is saying that exercise is more than just keeping fit. If you do it right, it will be the transformation of your approach on life, and that is exactly my approach with my martial fitness lifestyle.

Before you start getting to overwhelmed, the key is to improve in small gradual steps. This way they become more reachable and achieivable to get the ball rolling, plus you will be able to raise the bar everytime to complete each step of achieving your goals.

Just remember, you can’t skip vital steps, it’s all the pieces of the puzzle put together to become successful in whatever you do. It is like having the importance of foundations to a building, it needs to be stable and strong otherwise it will simply fall down when the weather gets tough just like in our lives.

Take action right now and decide what you need to improve on, write out achievable goal steps and start improving!

Be Well

Richard Huntley

Investing in you has different forms.

One being you spend money to get the best personal tuition from other people to help you.

A great example of this would be through my martial arts path so far, I have invested my money in training with some of the greatest martial artists that ever lived.

Do you really need to? It really does depend how successful you want to be. For me I want to excel in anything what I do and to do so I believe you have to invest and learn from successful people.

The next investment is time.

Without investing time, I don’t care who you have been taught by you will still not reach anywhere near the level than if you invest a lot of time into something.

I’ve spent countless hours training in martial arts and fitness, but if I want to be up there with the best I have to put the time in.

The above is different ways to invest in yourself, but now I will show you what you really need to invest in to live an enjoyable life.

Investing in your Health benefits

Here is 4 quick benefits

1. Live a longer life to spend more time with you grand children.

2. Live a happier life and do exactly what you want to do.

3. Travel the world and see interesting places and meet new people.

4. Do the simple things like go for a countryside walk with your partner.

Investing in your protection

All of the above with investing in your health is a must to living an enjoyable healthy lifestyle, but at the same time people tend to forget that if you do not know how to look after yourself it can all be taken away from you in the worst-case scenario.

Attending a self-defence course is one great way to have an insight and gain some knowledge on how to defend yourself and your loved ones in different situations.

The key is to find a good instructor, and like I mentioned before put the time in practicing what you learn. It may just save your life!

Here are a few different types of investment sources.
Books, manuals, audio, videos, seminars, classes, and private tuition.

So remember! There is only one of you, so start looking after yourself.

All the best

Richard Huntley

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In this short video i let you into a great tip i learnt which lot’s of my martial art mentors have taught me over the years of training.

It’s the power of Vision training!

The great thing is, this concept can be taken into any part of your life from getting fit to getting the career you’ve always wanted.

It’s what i would call the first step towards success.

Enjoy

Richard

What are the barriers? Negative Thoughts, self-doubt, fear, Self-comfort. All of this leads to procrastination.

The main focus is don’t let things get to you; it needs to be the martial way of thinking, having mind over matter. There actually is never anything the matter, only when you allow it to become one. Inner mindset strength is what you need. That’s what you call real strength. You see, it’s not about being able to lifts the heaviest weight and do the most reps even though that can be a good achievement for some people but more about having the mind over matter approach in our lives that we know we are able to control your self in what we do.

When becoming good at something you have to break down the barriers for the success you come your way. I know that when I was learning a new technique in martial arts, especially the big throwing techniques, you would see other people do it and I used to think to myself, there’s no way I’m going to be able to do that. The barriers popped up with me saying to myself, those guys are higher belts or they are a lot stronger than me. The problem with that kind of thinking is it holds you back from achieving anything. Yes okay maybe I am not going to be able to do a spectacular throw like some of the top players out straight away, but heck am I going to try? Yes I am! Once I started to bring those type of thoughts into my mindset I was doing those throws that were in front of my eyes watching other people do it, to in no time I was throwing over people with effective technique and throwing a lot heavier people than myself. So I had to ask myself, had I changed? Physically no, mentally yes. I just thought about the situations differently and let the mind over matter approach come into play.

Is it easy to become great in certain areas of your choice? From my experience and lot’s of people who are successful in their field I know the answer is no it’s not that easy. If it were that easy everyone would be great at the fields. But the inspiring thing is, can you become great and even better the best in what you do? Yes you can, and you will with putting in all the right action steps to succeed such as time, effort, sacrifices, passion, love, and tenacity. Those are just a handful but can take you through the door of success. All of this is the ingredient for your success. First just like I did, you need to break down the barriers and go get what you really want.

We seem to put limits on what we can actually achieve. The first thing that we need to do before even achieving anything, is start to get out of their every day comfort zones. Comfort zones are the things that we find easy to do. It would be easy for me just to stick writing one article every month or so to update my website, and yes that would be very comfortable. But am I growing as a person and stretching myself? No not at all. So let’s feed the world my knowledge once a week, now that’s an improvement. There is no growth and self-improvement in getting comfortable. So when you feel the barriers of comfort around you creeping in I want you to break them all down and go into the discomfort. Before you know it, the things were discomforting to you originally become nice and comfortable. The next stage is to continue on breaking down the limits that you tell yourself and what you hear from other people you can’t do. You can do it, and you will.

Are you comfortable right now? Break down those barriers!

Be Well

Richard Huntley

Keeping motivated is one of the most difficult things people find in today’s world.

Why you might ask…

Well I am sure there are a lot of reasons for this which different people have for giving up on things so easy when the going gets a little tough.

I have always been told that grow is found in discomfort. Meaning when things get a bit tough all it comes down to a test to see to give up or to carry on to strive forward to what you want to achieve in life.

People tend to get unmotivated because mainly when the distractions step into their lives.

The question is how do i get motivated and more important, how do i stay motivated. I’m very sure that you have witnessed this first hand or seen other people act in this way of not managing to keep their motivation once started. One of the best examples i can give for this would be weight loss. I see lot’s of people go up and down with their weight like a yoyo diet, because the actual problem is they seem to lose lot’s of weight for a special occasion and they feel on top of the world and great about themselves, but then about 6 weeks later the pounds start piling back on. I’m sure most people reading this has seen this time and time again.

I truly believe that people who set goals achieve more because they know exactly what they want. I especially believe you need goals when bringing exercise in your lives when keeping your body and mind in shape, which the martial fitness routines and plans provide. It is also a great way to measure your successes in fitness throughout the year, as it show’s you where you started to where you want to be then actually achieving it.
“You need to have a set destination where you are heading for otherwise you will be forever going around in circles.”

One of the most important tips i can give with setting your own personal goals in your lives is to make sure that they are achievable goals. What we don’t want is to write down we are going to swim the British channel a week from today. Always start small and raise the bar. A start to achieving the swim across the British channel for England to France would be set a number of lengths to do in a local swimming pool. You see what i mean? Then we start to hit progress and this leads to… yes you guessed it, motivation! This is one of the keys to success.

The good part about having goals would be that you can keep adding to them when wanting to achieve more. So make sure you keep raising that bar of success and you will discover a whole new you.

Remember to set your own personal goals and make sure that you write them down. When doing this it tells plus helps you with what you have set out to do and accomplish from the start.
So now we understand a bit about your personal goals with the lifestyle aims, but now moving on to something which I would have to say is one of the most important things which will take you to the top in lots of aspects of life.

So what is it?

Three words….

Believe in yourself!

Believing in yourself and your ability is so important, so throw away all those negative thoughts that creeps into your mind which are keeping you at a job you don’t like or stopping you from achieving something you have always dreamed of doing. Trust me it is holding you back from gaining such big things in life and once you master this belief in yourself everything will start to fall into place and you will start to live your life how you want to be.

So get writing and believing!

All the best

Richard Huntley

One of the most common answers why people find it hard to commit them selves to do exercises is because they say that they simply do not have enough time.

Before we go any further, the first thing you need to understand it that we cannot change time. The good news is there are 24 hours in a day for everyone so we all have the same equal sharing of time on this spinning planet. It doesn’t matter if you how powerful and great you may be we all have the same amount of time.

With time understanding that good quality results come your way when you put the time in for whatever it is you are doing exactly.

An example I can personally share with you would be when I wanted to become a good quality competitor in the martial art of Jujutsu and be able to handle my own against some of the top ranked competitors in Jujutsu. Now I did understand that it was going to take time to become a good all round Jujutsu player, but to be good I needed to train as much and even more than the other competitors to even have a chance. With a lot of time training physically and mentally on the mats it nearly became that I actually lived on my training mats.

When certain classes had finished and all the students had gone home I would continue my training practicing things I had learnt and certain things I had to work on. You need to remember this is what i did for my job, training and teaching the art of Jujutsu for my living.

After putting a lot of time on the training mats, including self belief that I was creating the same chance as all of the other competitors out there and not forgetting carrying on practicing when everyone else would be getting tucked up ready for bed it came to the point when it all paid off and I got the opportunity to compete from Great Britain. What a great feeling it was to have that chance and I will never forget it as it helped me in more ways than just practicing Jujutsu it gave me the true understanding of importance of the value of time and how to make it work for you, not forgetting opening alot of other doors for me in life.

How to put it into practice?

What I am not asking anyone to do is throw themselves into lots of hours of exercise per week because most of all you will soon lose the interest in what you are doing and it will become more of a chore than a fun positive transformation.

I strongly recommend to people who want to learn and live an enjoyable fit and rewarding lifestyle to include picking 2 days per week and 20-30 minutes on those days. When doing this you will surely reap the benefits of your time put in.

One of the most importnat lessons i once learned that it’s what you do with the time that counts. People can spend over an hour running through routines to do, but you can really cut that time in half an get just the same results not even more if you know what to do.

To help guide you through this process you want to make sure that you are making the most of your time, and my book “it’s all about you” has a great selection of my own personalised RH Martial Fitness routines to help you keep motivated while exercising and also you do not run out of ideas. Whether it is with a partner or by yourself I think you need to check it out. My ebook downloadable version of “it’s all about you!” is out now at only £8.99 you will get over 140 pages of instructionals. This is a great to get started and introduced the RH Martial Fitness system.

So remember there is 24 hours in day for everyone all over the world, so what’s the wait? Get going and have a fit and enjoyable lifestyle.

Till next time…

Richard

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