This month marks the passing of my twentieth year of training in Shotokan karate. The following is a short and far from all-encompassing collection of thoughts that surfaced as I reminisced over this past year on where I am now relative to when I started training at the age of 7. Hopefully this will be of some aid to anyone early in their training years or looking for guidance. Feel free to share your thoughts as well! 1. Train hard, train often. A favorite refrain of my late Sensei is to “train hard and train often”. If you truly want…