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    Grind or Grace: Fighters, Mentors, Entrepreneurs. 10 Jiu-Jitsu Principles for Stress-Free Success
    Grind or Grace: Fighters, Mentors, Entrepreneurs. 10 Jiu-Jitsu Principles for Stress-Free Success
    Grind or Grace: Fighters, Mentors, Entrepreneurs. 10 Jiu-Jitsu Principles for Stress-Free Success
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    Grind or Grace: Fighters, Mentors, Entrepreneurs. 10 Jiu-Jitsu Principles for Stress-Free Success

    By T.D. Abe

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    Worn out trying to fix relationships that don't work? Burnt out from the demands of a career that is taking you nowhere? Exhausted from struggling to survive the world's relentless pounding? In this book, T.D. Abe unlocks the secrets on how you can find your life's purpose and experience true success with ten essential keys found in the unexpected art of Jiu-Jitsu. 

    Grind or Grace is a Christian self-help, motivation book that will equip you to face set-backs and difficult challenges practically and effectively. The book gives you life-changing insights on top athletes' mindsets, valuable business practices of the world's most celebrated entrepreneurs, and dynamic coaching habits that are redefining how the game is played. The code that you will discover in Grind or Grace has been used by the most influential individuals in their pursuit of happiness and personal development, which in turn have resulted to lasting success that have impacted their generation.

    This book will help you find your God-given unique ability, and in embracing it, you will become more confident to move in a higher level than ever before. It will help you accomplish the dreams you have always wanted to do, and even possess the things that you never thought you could have, without compromising your inner peace. Grind or Grace talks about ten counterintuitive ways that the author has learned from practicing Jiu-Jitsu that will give you stress-free success, ten irrefutable principles on how even the smallest guy can take down the his giant opponents in life. This book is a must read for counsellors, ministers, business people, consultants, and trainers. 

    "What the world thinks is a weakness is the very thing that will propel you to greater heights, the secret to conquering insurmountable challenges, and living out the life you've always worked hard for but never achieved."

    Some Chapters chapters Includeinclude:
    - If you're forcing it you're doing it wrong
    - Commit to the grace
    - To be mature is to be basic
    - Set your mind free: Be like a water
    - Position before submission
    - It's not always about winning

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherT.D. Abe
    Release dateMay 20, 2018
    ISBN9781386289241
    Grind or Grace: Fighters, Mentors, Entrepreneurs. 10 Jiu-Jitsu Principles for Stress-Free Success
    Author

    T.D. Abe

    T.D. Abe is an author, athlete, and investor. At seven years old, he got involved in martial arts (Karate, Taekwondo, and Jiu-Jitsu), immersing himself in its timeless principles for more than twenty years. T.D. Abe completed his bible studies and has served and led several ministries.  His goal is to simplify biblical principles and teach the essence and true power of graceful living. He incorporates spiritual truths into practical experience, helping people reach their highest potential and achieve stress-free success. T.D. Abe enjoys a good documentary series, watching out for funny cloud formations and loudly singing along with the radio, even if he always gets the lyrics wrong.

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      Grind or Grace - T.D. Abe

      Introduction

      IT’S LIKE DROWNING in a deep blue ocean. Not knowing where to go and how to swim. This is how beginners describe their experience in their first Jiu-Jitsu sparring match. Everybody can put up a fight. Anyone can learn how to throw a punch or kick up a storm where you are being beaten and you need to survive. However, even the strongest, most vigorous fighter can be rendered powerless when someone takes them to the ground.

      This is the world of ground game, and life is, in a deeper sense, a ground game that most of us want to win in. To do this, you need to throw away everything that you thought would take you to the top. What used to be the norm is now impractical, and brute force and haste is the express way to failure. There is a better way, the Jiu-Jitsu way, the way of gentleness.

      What the world thinks is your weakness is the very thing that will propel you to greater heights. This is the secret to conquer the insurmountable challenges and to live out the life you’ve always worked hard for, but never achieved. In this book, I am going to share ten counterintuitive ways I have learned from practicing the art of Jiu-Jitsu that will give you stress-free success, ten proven principles on how even the smallest guy can take down the giant opponents in life. This is the book for fighters, mentors, and entrepreneurs with dreams bigger than themselves. This is the book for you.

      Part 1

      The Gentle Way

      Chapter 1

      If You’re Forcing It, You’re Doing It Wrong

      IF YOU’RE USING STRENGTH, you’re doing it wrong. If you feel like –Man, it’s so physical, you’re doing it wrong, completely throw it away... Everything must be done with timing, leverage, finesse, energy efficiency, street applicability... If you’re not training in that way, you’re not doing Jiu-Jitsu. You’re doing something else.–Javier Vazquez

      MY SISTER, WHO WORKS at a hospital, once told me a story about one of their patients. The man had been in a coma for several days. He was in such a terrible condition that they decided to insert a breathing tube down his throat, which was connected to a machine called a ventilator. You might happen to know what a ventilator is, but if you don’t, a ventilator is the contraption that pumps oxygen into the lungs, helping the patient to breathe better. One night while my sister was doing her rounds, the man on the ventilator suddenly woke up. He had been in a coma for so long that he didn’t know what was happening. Understandably, the man panicked, not just because he was not aware of what was taking place, but more so because he could not breathe. Now, if you were that guy, what would you do?

      If you are forcing it, you are doing it wrong, my Jiu-Jitsu coach would tell me this whenever I ask him if I’m getting a particular technique right. At first, I didn’t understand what this meant. What’s the use of going through strength and conditioning training if I will not be able to physically force my opponent into submission? Overpowering my sparring partner seems to be working for me, so why should I change my game plan?

      The problem with this strategy is that even if it will seem to work at first, your opponents will eventually adapt and evolve. They will learn how to escape your attacks to the point that you can’t just overpower them anymore. Ultimately, the result would be a stalemate, because everybody at your level of performance has already reached the peak of your present skill. And, until you learn how to correct crucial elements of your game, you will never reach the other side. This is the invisible barrier which separates you from your next level of learning.

      In life, we always pride ourselves as being the first one, the senior, The Original. Whatever it is that we have been through, we have all experienced this. We were happy to be where we are, up until a co-worker who has been in the company for only a few years was suddenly promoted before you. You have been working for your company for so long that you can even remember the time when only your company’s building stood in your area. Now, you can’t even find your office building in the jungle of infrastructure projects surrounding your location. You were the one who trained this person. You taught him all the shortcuts. You showed him the ropes and all the tricks on how to work more efficiently in this company. Suddenly, this person is your boss. What in the world happened? Maybe you didn’t experience this at work, but this scenario happens all the time— at school, at business, even at your own home. You might not be trying to compare yourself with others, but you still feel a sense of inequality. This feeling is normal. It’s the way our inner self tells us that it’s time to move up.

      The word Jiu-Jitsu means the gentle way or the soft way. It’s interesting to note that this form of martial art is also known as the gentle way, considering that its goal is to make the opponent surrender in a fight. After meditating on this thought for several months, I felt that something changed inside of me. I am not trying to hurt my sparring partner anymore. I sense myself slowly growing stronger as I kept practicing. Compare that to my first few months of training, when I was exhausted and out of breath, struggling to survive two minutes on the mat. I was not even trying to fight at all. I was at the mercy of my sparring partner because I let him control the fight. I was just looking at the clock, praying for the fight to be over soon, or else tap out, because I couldn’t keep up anymore.

      In my mind, I thought that the only reason why this guy beat me is because of my lack of cardio conditioning, so every day I ran the treadmill for forty-five minutes to get ready for my fights. Guess what? I had the same results. When the timer got down to two minutes, my lungs started giving up on me, and I began to hear a familiar voice shouting to me from the sidelines, If you’re forcing it, you’re doing wrong!  As I continued to train over the next few months, I would repeat to myself while I was sparring, Gentle. You are gentle, and I would see my sparring

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