Part 2: Fighting

Action and winning are brothers. The worst of head-on attacks is often better than the most sophisticated defense. Never permit your opponent to take control. Do not defend when you can attack. Counterpunching is for boxers, and counterpunchers most often lose. The great champions of the world take control. The great generals attack first, and atta

The aggressive pattern develops in people who were in such distress that they feared they would die, but made it through by willing themselves to survive. Instead of leaving, looking to others for help, or simply enduring, they turned inside to their own resources, to their own will and strength, and fought their way through.

try to take a step back and remember why you are fighting. You are fighting for what is right and fair, not because you need the conflict to survive.

I can’t make a real need matter to me by listening to the story, visiting the website, collecting information, or wearing the bracelet about it. I need to pick the fight myself, to call it out just like I called Dale out. Then, most important of all, I need to run barefoot toward it. But I want to go barefoot because it’s holy ground; I want to be

Flight. Escaping is the same as avoiding. The conflict is not dealt with, and the situation remains the same.

But today, the warrior finds herself in a uniquely perplexing situation, especially in relationship to her home culture and the ways of her own people. She may even find herself at odds with the very people and culture that she is called to protect.

We now experience the daily need to defend our self-concepts rather than our bodies. Our major struggles end up being with our own inner fears, insecurities, and destructive behavior patterns, and not with outside forces.