Tae Kwon Do Times — January 2018

Heart to Heart

How to Break Through to Awesome

By Great Grandmaster

Tae Yun Kim

My Dear Fellow Martial Artists and Readers,

Wow! Where did time go?

I have one enemy in my life. Can

you guess what that is?

It’s time! It’s not people or objects or situations—

it’s time! It’s passing by way too fast! Time

doesn’t give second chances. Time doesn’t give

me another victory. Without any emotions,

without recognition, without disappointment

or acknowledgment, time comes and goes.

In my lifetime I have learned that I am the

one that must manage my time and I have to

master my time. I can’t let time take control

of me. Through my attitude, my mission,

and my commitment I will determine

whether I am in charge of my time and can

stretch it, or whether I am allowing it to slip

through my fingers, never to return again.

WHAT ABOUT YOU?

We just said Happy Thanksgiving

and Merry Christmas, then Happy

New Year! What happened?

Now, it is already 2018—can you believe it?

Do you feel how fast time is flying by?

As I am looking back at my life, especially this

past year, and taking inventory of what I have

accomplished so far—past, present and almost

present—I am happy and grateful but not yet

satisfied. There is so much more I need to do!

We have come very far at Lighthouse Worldwide

Solutions, my high tech company based in

Silicon Valley, where we focus on measuring

instruments that monitor clean environments.

We held a monumental international company

meeting last summer, introducing brand new

high tech instruments that will blow your mind.

At Jung SuWon, my martial art academy, we

had a black belt testing earlier this year, and

have new candidates lined up for the next one.

I was the keynote speaker at the “Women

of Silicon Valley” conference, the Hispanic

Heritage event in Southern California with

Bishop Juan Carlos Mendez, and have received

prestigious awards—like the CEDAW award

for entrepreneurship and supporting the fight

against sex trafficking, and the Stevie Award

for Lifetime Achievement, among prominent

business women all over the world.

Not only did I receive awards. I also gave out

the “HE CAN DO, SHE CAN DO, WHY

NOT ME” award trophy and $10,000 cash

prize at the Asian World Film Festival to the

film that best exemplifies the can-do spirit

of courage, determination and boldness.

50 January 2018 / taekwondotimes.com