My dad used to say to me, “Son, Take the bridle off.” He’d say too, “Whatever happens son, you’ve got to get up, wipe that blood from the corner of your mouth, and get back in the ring.” “No fear,” he’d say. Of course, he was right. He was a great man. He taught me a lot. How to be a man. To always come from a place of power. My power. And that real men have empathy for everyone. Yes. Everyone.

Once amassed, your power must be hyper-focused. Sunzi writes of “The strike of a hawk at the killing snap.” Thoroughly prepared to unleash her power, the hawk is hyper-focused, fast and lethal. With a commanding view chosen for scanning surrounding terrain, telescope-like vision, the hawk plunges steeply downward, wings partially closed at speeds that can exceed 120 mph, all 4 talons fully extended, on contact the talons of her contracting foot driven into the body of her prey.