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It's great to have purposeful dreams and goals to stive for, and the those of us that have been with the system awhile appreciate the engergetic support. However make sure you have a strategic game plan that will best allow you to accomplish those goals. What can you start doing today that can allow you to follow through with those dreams. Be patient as well, it may not happen over night, just keep the eye on the prize!
you were right to think you should network a bit first. that being said, you have to look out for number one, if you know what i mean. making a big move, especially to a big city, has to be well planned. you need several back up plans as well. start by setting a time frame in which you'd like to be there. you can work towards that time frame and it will help keep things in perspective. there have been several people that have made moves to train at a moon. seek these people out for some guidance. what you want is totally achievable. you just gotta make it happen :)
I know that Jose Aldo was from he slums of Brazil and was sleeping in the gym every night and look what he became.. If you want to succeed you'll succeed... You just have to want it as much as you want to breathe. Hell my dad came to this country with 0 money 0 people he knew. Nothing. He went from train to train sleeping in he engineers private cart to make it here. He wanted a better life so h did it. If you want I bad enough leave this weekend. Hitchhike to L.A. if you have to and sleep in front of Eddies 10p gym if that what it takes to learn from him. He'll see how dedicated you are and will probably so annoyed with how persistent you he'll teach you. Stay after a 10 p class and ask questions. And it doesn't have to be Eddie ... Im sure all 10p schools are run by great guys who obviously know more about JJ then you could imagine. But if your hellbent on Eddie and L.A. Nothing is stopping you. You need to as this post is titled "Throw yourself to the Wolves" and not just by sendin a long messays to Eddie on his forum he'll look over. I'm sure he gets 100's of those. Put yourself out there. What youre talking about isnt for eveyone its a battle moving to somewhere you dont know, finding work... All in pursuit of a dream , it wouldn't be .. But if you wHere's something hat might inspire you and make you make that step... Not just a letter to Eddie but a step toward getting on a bus this weekend... Hutchhiking this weekend ... Doing whatever it takes to make your dream possible no matter how uncomfortable it is or how much It will suck, no one is going to hand you anything ever.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pGNtWTxQ6cc
Uhhhh.. That one is motivating for self growth... I meant to send this one about putting yourself out there and "throwing yourself to the wolves" and the pain that comes along with it http://youtube.com/watch?v=-L1stBkpWBc
Sorry for typos forget that iPhone auto corrects and words change and sometimes don't appear
good luck. I believe in you man
All the best mate, as others said baby steps. Each day/week/month have a goal that will have you one step closer than the day/week/month before. All the best.
Get a job driving truck. Then you get to drive around all day cranking sweet tunes and thinking about last night's matches. I too fall somewhere on the spectrum. It works for me, kinda at least.
Of course it took years of getting fired and beat up before I found jiu jitsu and everything started to work. I actually started training after seeing Eddie in High Times. Good luck man. If you come up to Edmonton I could get you working in about 5 minutes.
Or fortmacmurry... Starting wage at Tim hortons is like 22 an hour... You just have to not mind living on frozen tundra