I am looking forward to our annual family vacation this year as I do every year. It is a tremendous opportunity to recharge and to spend quality time with family and friends.
There were many times when I was working in the coporate world a few years ago that I passed on the opportunity of vacations. There was never a "good time" to be away from work, there was always "the most important" project for the company, there was tremendous corporate pressures, time away was often viewed as letting the corporation down, the time before and returning from vacations were loaded with catch up, etc...... As you can tell, I am not a big fan of the corporate world and all of the things that go along with being an employee in this setting.
Things are very different for us the past few years and vacations are my most favorite time of the year. This year for me will be a little different, in a good way. My vacation will have 2 hours every morning planned for kung fu training. I will be keeping up my daily requirements for push ups, sit ups, pull ups, and stretching. I will also be spending an hour each day on forms practice, which I will be recording daily and blogging when I can, and some time running, swimming, biking, etc. I have great support from my family as they are very active and will participate along with me for some of the training. I will also be reading the book suggested by Sifu Brinker "Peace is Every Step". Last Saturday at our UBBT something Sifu Brinker said made great sense as there should be no excuses for not training. "If you do not have enough time in the day for your training set your alarm clock to go off earlier." I may not have the exact words, but it was something like that.
See you all in two weeks, enjoy your training.
Allan Gamble
Student Member
Silent River Kung Fu, Stony Plain, Alberta
There were many times when I was working in the coporate world a few years ago that I passed on the opportunity of vacations. There was never a "good time" to be away from work, there was always "the most important" project for the company, there was tremendous corporate pressures, time away was often viewed as letting the corporation down, the time before and returning from vacations were loaded with catch up, etc...... As you can tell, I am not a big fan of the corporate world and all of the things that go along with being an employee in this setting.
Things are very different for us the past few years and vacations are my most favorite time of the year. This year for me will be a little different, in a good way. My vacation will have 2 hours every morning planned for kung fu training. I will be keeping up my daily requirements for push ups, sit ups, pull ups, and stretching. I will also be spending an hour each day on forms practice, which I will be recording daily and blogging when I can, and some time running, swimming, biking, etc. I have great support from my family as they are very active and will participate along with me for some of the training. I will also be reading the book suggested by Sifu Brinker "Peace is Every Step". Last Saturday at our UBBT something Sifu Brinker said made great sense as there should be no excuses for not training. "If you do not have enough time in the day for your training set your alarm clock to go off earlier." I may not have the exact words, but it was something like that.
See you all in two weeks, enjoy your training.
Allan Gamble
Student Member
Silent River Kung Fu, Stony Plain, Alberta
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