Some of the greatest life lessons I’ve learned from my instructors at Yong Studios where I practice TKD. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard precious bits of advice about the art of TKD that so easily carries over to the art of living – about listening, about patience, about determination, about inner balance, and meeting struggle with acceptance and flexibility rather than stiffness and aggression.

A recent valuable quote was something about how your energy travels through your eyes. So wherever your eyes connect – be it an object, a person, whatever – is where your energy shoots out from the core of your being.

I’ve been conscious of this since I heard it last week. It makes me realize how important it is to be present, to be aware of each moment in your life, to spare your energy from being wasted (by focusing and dwelling on negative things) and instead, let it embrace someone you love, a memory that makes you smile, linger through a song that you can’t tire of listening – to melt into that positivity and simply be an expression of all that is beautiful in you and the world you see.