Budo, Blogs, & Poems
Those of you who have follow my blogs on a regular basis, and have perhaps seen the evolution of my earlier websites, will know that I have been seeking to deliver my messages in a new way: what I call the Way of the Business Artist.
The common theme of my blog draws on lessons from Japanese history and culture, sometimes dating back hundreds of years, as well as more recent experiences from everyday life.
Clearly there are many ways to express oneself, and I have used prose, video and audio to bring these subjects to life.
Now I have gone one step further. Teaming up with one of my old Aikido students, Hugh Purser, who now lives in England, we have combined the prose of my blogs with calligraphy and poetry. We call this A New Recipe for Ideas.
We share in common a conviction that all of this ancient Asian wisdom somehow has immense practical application and relevance for us in business in the modern world.
Great works are born of collaboration. It is proverbial that two heads are better than one.
I met Hugh Purser in the late 1980s, when he was working at the Rothschild & Sons
Japan Office. Hugh visited my Aikido dojo, which he discovered through
one of my books on Ki and Aikido, and we became instant friends. Hugh
began studying both Aikido and Shodo with me, and his interest and
involvement has deepened over the years.
We believe the combination, as well as being artistically interesting, provides a powerful medium to
reinforce the underlying lessons which each subject seeks to put across. We hope you enjoy them.
You can download the entire set in a single file by clicking here.
Download Budo Blogs and Poems _all in one document_
Or you click on the link on the links below to preview each one.
Download Attitude of Gratitude
Download Powerful Perseverance
Download Hitting Is Not Striking
Download The Wave of Opportunity
These files are available now as previews.
You will find that each of these files can be viewed on line, but for the moment cannot be printed or copied. We apologize for the inconvenience, as we are planning to release these sometime soon in either poster or book form.
However, we would very much appreciate your comments, which will help us to develop A New Recipe for Ideas into a series covering a range of topics.
Very Best Regards,
William Reed & Hugh Purser
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