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Desire
Dec 10, 2011 5:07:29 GMT -5
Post by powerof0ne on Dec 10, 2011 5:07:29 GMT -5
As an instructor, I get excited when my students get excited. When I see that desire that they want to learn, I want to teach them as much as I can. However, I see that "desire" end up being premature with most and goes away after a few months... I suppose I need to be more patient, and wait much longer before I get excited. I have some great students, ones that put in the work but like any other dojo, I also have some that just come a few times, and then I don't see them for almost a month. I suppose this is the greatest motivator as an instructor, having a student with the desire that puts in the effort. My question is, do any of you instructors have any suggestions on how to encourage the desire and actual wanting to put forth the effort? I know, that is the million dollar question, if any of us truly knew the answer to that, we'd all have huge dojo . Osu!
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Post by senshido on Dec 10, 2011 13:18:47 GMT -5
It's the same as every dojo on the planet I guess. There are loads of people who want to say "I do karate" but not so many that want to put on the effort to be good I'm afraid I've yet to find the magic formula to keep everyone keen. I'm sending a letter out to all my students soon to straighten out some issues. I will let you know how this goes
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GJEC
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Desire
Dec 10, 2011 13:34:06 GMT -5
Post by GJEC on Dec 10, 2011 13:34:06 GMT -5
It's got to come from within.
I used to spend 80% of my time trying to get the lazy 20% up to scratch then I realised I wasn't helping them. The reason they needed pushing was because all their life somebody had got them organised and they were happy to let that happen.
Now I spend my time on the ones who turn up and try hard. They're the important ones.
Gary
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Desire
Dec 10, 2011 14:11:12 GMT -5
Post by powerof0ne on Dec 10, 2011 14:11:12 GMT -5
It's the same as every dojo on the planet I guess. There are loads of people who want to say "I do karate" but not so many that want to put on the effort to be good I'm afraid I've yet to find the magic formula to keep everyone keen. I'm sending a letter out to all my students soon to straighten out some issues. I will let you know how this goes I tried to have "dojo meetings" to straighten out some issues but the ones that I needed to straighten out issues with weren't there...I tried this three times and gave up. I'm curious to see how sending out letters will work out, I may go the same route. Osu!
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