Bruce Lee Inspiration

I just read the above motivational quote and I’m glad I read it. Things are fast changing for me as I prepare for another adventure. Life and my lifestyle will change very soon! All for the best I hope. Anyways, I am very pressed at the moment and this quote is awesome because it tells me that I am acting in a way that is inline with Bruce’s philosophy on living a fulfilling life.

Here is the quote:

“Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-and-a half minutes per mile]. So this morning he said to me “We’re going to go five.” I said, “Bruce, I can’t go five. I’m a helluva lot older than you are, and I can’t do five.” He said, “When we get to three, we’ll shift gears and it’s only two more and you’ll do it.” I said “Okay, hell, I’ll go for it.” So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I’m okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. I’m tired, my heart’s pounding, I can’t go any more and so I say to him, “Bruce if I run any more,” –and we’re still running-”if I run any more I’m liable to have a heart attack and die.” He said, “Then die.” It made me so mad that I went the full five miles. Afterward I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, “Why did you say that?” He said, “Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

A man must constantly exceed his level! Time to be a man!

Now to a huge list of things that I have to do within 2 weeks:

transfer business email forwarding
UPS shipper account company testing trial period
update FAQ
find customer support staff
book flight up north
book flight to china
sell car
find new roommate
clean house
buy new laptop
buy new luggage case (maybe also buy one of those traveler backpacks)
optometrist appointments
acting classes
get visas
martial arts training
teaching lessons
buy new camera lens
buy new phone (thinking unlocked iphone)