Stop Hiding and shine!!

The new year is well and truly up and running.I keep hearing in the news usually Sky News which prides itself on repeating the same news every 15 minutes. That this is going to be a tough year but so far its just like any other year.Why do the news reporters love negative news? They thrive on it!
January is normally a quiet month in the gym world but this year it has started with a bang, are people sticking two fingers up to those negative reporters?
We have big planes for the real combat system, we are starting a new advanced master class in April which we intend to make very powerful, hard but powerful and most definitely life changing.
The gradings are going well and we are getting some quality people into our system, standards are high but that's how we like it.
I think maybe we should make this a year where we stand up for ourselves and don't be afraid to say how good we really are. I meet people all the time who are amazing, they have fantastic stories to tell but for some reason they just don't see it, why is that?
With this in mind I would like to share one of my favourite quotes with you. Nelson Mandela used this in one of his awesome speeches but it was actually written by Marianne Williamson.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us most.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous. talented and famous? Actually who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people wont feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within is. Its not just in some of us, its in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

I think that says it all really so lets shine!!!!