Mean people: One-third of the reason I’m not around judo much any more

Every now and then, I run into people from judo who say,

“Hey, we never see you around any more? Why is that? What happened to you?”

I wrote this years ago for a project on the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation, and our Country Manager for Strong Mind Studios, our company in Chile, came across it recently. (If you read Spanish, check it out.)

Nothing happened to me. I do run a practice or a clinic now and then, but it is true I am not nearly involved as much as I used to be.

There are actually three reasons I’m not around judo these days. One is that I choose to be more selective about the people I am around. My lovely daughter, Ronda, made this comment about earning quite a bit of money.

There are really only two things money can buy you that really matter to me.

One is the freedom to choose how you spend your time and the other is the freedom to choose who you spend it with.”

While money may expand that freedom, I think most of us have more of those freedoms than we take advantage of. I’ve decided to make better choices. The post below gives one of the three reasons I’m not around judo organizations in particular.

By the way, if I haven’t seen you lately, I may think that you, personally, are awesome. There are two other reasons I’m not around judo much lately, so, hopefully, I’ll get a chance to post about those soon.