Effortless Effort

My goal today was to complete all my training/requirements without actually setting aside any time to do so. I wanted to go about my day as usual and just fit my training in wherever I could. Having been at the I Ho Chuan for over six months now, it's sad for me to say that today was the first time that I have actually tried this. 

I discovered two things with this approach:
1) Mentally, it's a lot easier to train this way. I never really felt like I was actually training. Doing 20 kicks here and 30 situps there never really made me feel burdened. Also, I don't have to adjust my lifestyle as much as I thought to get in all my requirements. Fitting them in here and there lets you make use of time that would have otherwise been wasted and they're not a hindrance to the rest of my daily activities.
2) I waste a lot of time.

One thing I should add is that, being a Sunday, I had a whole day off to complete my requirements and I didn't have a whole lot going on to begin with. Doing this on a weekday would be different as I would have 8 or more hours at work and I'm a lot more limited with what I can do at work versus what I can do at home. Still, the principle is the same. 

To a lot of you, this is probably old news, especially if you've been in the I Ho Chuan before. But I'm really happy with the way that today went for me. My numbers were good and hopefully I can build on this to work on changing my habits so that this type of day is the rule and not the exception.

Cory Smid
http://kungfucory.blogspot.ca/