Jake's Blog Post Wednesday 3/26/14

This week, I am going to talk about our leadership roles in the community outside of the dojo. As many of you know, we are taught to promote non-bullying and be the examples of well rounded individuals. I wanted to bring light to the fact that we are also the role models and examples of good people outside the dojo, in regular life to our friends, family, and others. And being these role models, we can improve our friends, family, etc just by being the examples we are taught to be. If you haven't heard the saying, "If you hang around skunks, you stink," it means if you spend time with people who have "bad" behavior, you'll rub off on some of it and reflect that behavior. From another perspective, if you do the opposite of that phrase and hang around people with good behavior, that behavior will rub off on you. To us, we are the people with good behavior and if we spend time with people who could use better behavior, they could be improved simply by spending time with us. Think about it, if I made it seem confusing I apologize, try reading it over again.