Success!

   Well I have completed my push up and sit up goal. 50 000 of each in six months was the goal and completing it has at times seemed impossible. When I started the year in perfect health the goal seemed to be easy, 360 of each every day seemed to be a very doable goal. I started working towards the the goal a month prior to the year start date in order to get my push up and sit up reps higher so the goal would be even more attainable. Everything was going great I was even a little ahead and then I injured my knee to the point I couldn't  completely straighten it. Any jarring motion like a push up, sit up or really any of the yearly physical goals only seemed to make things worse. Nothing seemed to make it better and the medical community seemed to be clueless, which only added to my frustration. Time and again I would see a doctor only to be given no new information. That got to the point I would procrastinate even seeing a doctor because I felt it was just a complete wast of time anyway. It was very frustrating sitting back and watching all my hard work to that point go to waste. Feeling my bodies strength and skill deteriorate every day was a very hopeless feeling and the frustration was at times overwhelming. Finally I found a doctor due to the help of Sihing Chevanka, a I Ho Chuan teem mate, and that doctor seemed to have a clue what was going on. He give me a list of exercises to help my situation and I did them in place of any other thing for a while. Finally I got to the point I could resume my training.

   It was at this point I went and had a discussion with Sifu Brinker about my Goals. I wanted to change my approach in order to facilitate my new situation. At that point I remember feeling like none of my goals were attainable anymore. It felt like we were already at the halfway mark for the year and I had already failed. During the discussion we did the math and he made me realize that we were still a month and a half away from the halfway point. There was still a glimmer of hope at least for my push and sit up goal. At that point I still needed to do about 20 000 of each in order to reach the goal. I decided to strive for that goal without even doing the math to see what I needed to average on a daily basis. I knew  that the numbers I would be facing would seem almost impossible so I decided not to try to face the impossible only to strive for my max numbers every day and to try to make it happen through will power alone. I remember a brief conversation I had with Sifu Rybak where she asked me how many I had to do a day and she suggested that the number would perhaps be 300 a day. I replied that I didn't know how many a day I would have to do but I had to do 360 a day prior to my injury so after loosing a month my daily number would have to be a lot more then that. To this day I don't know how many were necessary and I don't really want to know.

   So far this year I have failed many things but I am happy to be able to say that the push up and sit up goal is not amongst them. I does not matter how many times you fail at something, failure only adds to the joy of the final success at the end. Unless you fold it in and call it quits. Then all that failure only reflects wasted time and a future that seems hopeless. One of the goals I had on my list at the start of the year was future success in any of the goals I failed in. This on the other hand reflects a future full of challenge and future success.

   Many of you are really struggling this year in many diverse ways. I feel your pain and hope this blog has a positive impact on your year. Don't give in to mediocrity and don't give in to the voice that tells you that you bit off more then you can chew.The path to success is filled with countless and immeasurable failure. Those that give in live in a world of continuos mediocrity and failure. Those that don't live on the path to mastery filled with impossible success and unlikely goals, a place where you are never done walking and those around you shake their heads and say your insane, But they will never taste what impossible taste like because they are stuck with the dull metallic taste of mediocrity.

Im not too sure where I go from here, which goal to focus in on but I do know this. Impossible success Tastes like the birth of a new unlikely, impossible goal. Their will be much failure in the adventure to obtain that goal but in the end I will preserver, adapt and overcome my goals and once again be victorious in tasting the impossible. I hope to see the rest of you at the dinner table of mastery and I will save you a spot.

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