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From Novice To Master

By Joe Templin · August 21, 2026 · 1 min read

“Practice creates the master.” -Don Miguel Ruiz

As a scrawny asthmatic kid I was physically weak, barely able to do a pushup.

As an early teen, public speaking was paralyzing.

I did both.

I got better and stronger.

By high school I was doing 100 pushups each morning, and by college I was speaking in front of hundreds of people.

And I kept practicing. And I keep practicing.

I am a martial arts Master, 100% because of my decades of practice.

I speak to hundreds of thousands of people or more a year, and I practice every day.

You can practice too, but do you choose to be a novice out of fear of hard work?

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