It's been just about 6 months since we've started UBBT 8 and I've been thinking about how I'm doing. This comes after one of my team mates posted about her numbers and asked how the rest of us are doing with ours. That got me thinking about just how my progress is going.
If I look solely at my numbers, according to my calculations I am behind. However, that is a one dimensional answer. I am behind on my numbers and I've been working on quality of technique. My squat thrusts have improved greatly and so has my core and might as well toss in my leg strength and my forms for improving as well. Even though my numbers are behind, I'm not stagnating, I am moving forward, just slower (in numbers) than anticipated.
My mandate for UBBT 8 is to live my 5 passions in life and to live my life in balance. More accurately to find out what balance is in my life and to live life from there. The aforementioned has been going quite well as none of my passions have been left in the dust, all are alive and well. For the first time in my life I can say that life is both grand and balanced. Of course there is always room for improvement and it's a process.
The one area that's leaping forward is my glass art and yes, I have UBBT goals set for it. My glass art is on the verge of rocket launch because I have found my niche and it's also in a market (a big one to boot) where I have no competition: I am it. Plus there's hints of "spidering" to other markets because my work is that unique. Part of me is thrilled, excited and jumping for joy while the other part is wanting to run and hide from the big scary monster. Why the run and hide?? Well in the past my pattern has been workaholic-to-burnout and that is the big scary monster that I want to run and hide from. However I do believe that this time I have a "plan with a weapon" and that "plan with a weapon" is UBBT 8. Through UBBT 8 I am developing both my martial and glass arts WHILE keeping my life in balance. Easier said than done and there have been bumps along the way.
As I see it, the whole purpose of a goal is not necessarily to achieve it, but to work towards it because once the goal is achieved and the event celebrated, now what? More and bigger goals get set. I believe it's the forward, continuous, and conscious process that is the paramount, not the actual achievement of the goal.
So where am I? Behind and ahead, below and above, but more importantly, right where I'm meant to be.
Sherri Donohue
Silent River Kung Fu, Stony Plain, Alberta
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