Year of the dragon in a nutshell

As this years UBBT is beginning to wrap up I find myself looking back at this year. It was tough one where I was thrown a couple curve balls like moving out of the province, finding out about the torn cartilage in my knee, having my kung fu bag and weapons stolen, and probably some other things. The biggest one was moving and being away from the kwoon. Without the structure of classes my my self discipline towards my training went pretty quickly. On top of that I was not keeping up with my blogging and am still not great at it. This further isolated me from the kwoon and my fellow teammates.  These are things that I really have to work and have to make my self more accountable for.

Another thing I realized this year is that keeping track of numbers in a purely digital form doesn't work at least for me. I thought having set up a spreadsheet that was accesible from my computer, my phone, my ipad, or basically any device with internet would make it so that I was alway up to date and seeing the numbers would have me always aware of them and keeping them up to date. I never made it effortless effort which is really what would have kept the numbers up to date. Another problem is that in a purely digital form I am able to detach myself and skip updating my numbers. In my case it would have been better to keep a hard copy and transfer the numbers weekly to see my running totals.

Finally one of my biggest hurdle which was self made, the snooze button. Instead of getting up and starting my day off with pushups it is usually a mad scramble out the door to get to work, school, or insert destination on time. Not only does this mean that I am not doing my kung fu but that I am also not properly nourishing myself. It is my goal for the next year to eliminate the snooze button from my habit and wake up and get out of bed.

It wasn't all negative for this year. I did keep my commitment to go on two dates with Chelsey a month, something that can be tough given the amount I work and my schedule mixed with her schedule and amount of homework. Another Success was that I am now actively learning a new language. One of my classes is mandarin. I also rebuilt a relationship with my cousin who I haven't talked to in more then two years.

Sihing Craig Janzen