A New Beginning

The Year of the horse has ended. It will be another 12 years before the Year of the Horse occurs again. I hope everyone’s journey towards mastery has been one full of learning. Here is to a New Year the Year of the Sheep, and may it be an even better one.

Where am I? What am I doing?

Failure

A failure is not failure if you can learn from it. Take that failure analyze it, come to a conclusion of what has caused it to be a failure, and change what you did or did not do, so that it can becomes a success in the future. A failure is only a failure if you choose not to learn from it.

Where am I? What am I doing?

Priorities

Everyone has things to do, and everyone is busy, some more then others. So we must all choose on what gets done by setting priorities. If something in our lives has a low priority it will most likely be the thing that gets put off to the side to be done later, and the ones that have a high priority will happen right away. Only us as individuals can choose and set what priority each of the things in our lives have. Some times it can become a juggling act, and  we must do the best we can to try to accomplish everything. And there are times when we fail. Those are the times a person must look at and see if things could have been done differently, and if so learn from it. 

Where am I? What am I doing?

Fitness

I've come to the conclusion that when it comes to my training, I haven't placed enough emphasis on fitness. There are many reasons for this but the biggest one is laziness. The type of training that makes you fitter is not enjoyable for me and there is no instant payoff. Weight training, which is very enjoyable for me, gives you that instant feedback in the form of muscle pump. You feel tired but you also have that pump to let you know that you've done a good job. 

A few weeks back, Sifu Brinker asked everyone if we were in the best shape of our lives, and if not, why not? I thought about it and there was no good reason for me not to be. My 40th birthday is tomorrow but I still feel much younger than that. I don't have any physical limitations that prevent me from being in better shape.


I've decided to set a standard for myself where I will keep at least one belt ahead as far as the fitness test goes. So, if I'm a yellow belt, I will challenge myself to be at an orange belt fitness level. This will be one small step for me and maybe just that little bit will make me feel good enough to take it further. If I take a page from the rest of my training, I know that just by taking action, I will increase my engagement and eventually, motivation will follow. 

Cory Smid
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