Changing

In my education (I am talking about education not school) over my life I have learned that to make permanent  change you need to do something within 48 hours of learning something new and then do it at least 21 times to make it a permanent change in your life.  (Although it takes more than 21 times for the more difficult things).  I have this is true in business, relationships, sports and in personal improvement.

I have been debriefing boot camp this morning.  I have a large bruise on my right shine, a bruise on my upper left bicep, extremely sore shoulders and finding it tough to bend.  In my mind last night on the drive home I thought why do I do this to myself.  This morning with sober thought and a good night sleep I came to an answer.  I want to improve myself.  And having working on myself over the years the real permanent change has been due to implementing hard changes and working on them constantly.

I am not where I want to be as a person or a martial artist but as long as I work on it each day I am achieving what I want to accomplish:  to become better than I was yesterday.

I appreciate all the effort that all the Sifu's and participants put into boot camp as it made it an incredible day in my life,


Mr. Sand

Nice days of summer

I spent the day today doing a lot of things.  I was able to go and run in the morning with my dogs. By the way puppies don't understand forward. It was a warm run but so awesome being in the bush and listening to and seeing the creatures.  Nature is the pressure release valve for me.

I then spent the better part of the day getting the trailer together before we take off to jasper for a couple of  weeks. I am looking forward to morning runs and afternoons paddling in the local lakes. A day in the mountains beats, well almost anything.

In the evening we spent some time soaking in the pool. Warm relaxing except when the kids are splashing you. All in all a great day.

The evening is calm as I write this on the deck. I do like this time of year in canada. Too bad it only lasts for a few weeks each year.


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Heading off on Vacation in a few days

I will be headed out on vacation shortly but wanted to put an update on my progress.  I am still having issues with my right hamstring and the advice I have been given is to keep stretching to try and lengthen it.  I will continue to do that but so far from January I have seen a little progress but not much.

Of the personal goals I set for myself I am at 1 of 4 and expect to get another one complete while I am on vacation


Numbers

PU 25,210 out of 50,000
Sit ups 25,430 out of 50,000
Long 494 out of 1,000
Stick 1 and 2  560 out of 1,000
Sparing 345 out of 1,000
KM 1,096 out of 1,600
AOK 430 out of 1,000






Mr Sand

Future goals

An interesting day for me.  My older boy  is finished high school and he is on his next part of his journey in life.  He left on a trip for Cuba on Friday and I broke down saying good by to him.  I think it was because he is now on the path to his future and where that will take him.

 I know he has goals and wants to create something for him in life I am excited to see what he can accomplish.

Good day in the Kwoon 250 pu 280 sit ups 22 reps long 25 reps of stick 1 and 2.  10 km 4 AOK  I think a very  positive I Ho Chian meeting and the evening with my dogs

When I hear about other peoples struggles it inspires me because as a community when it is brought out in the open we can all help.




Mr Sand

Where am I at

I am a month away from the mid term point of I Ho Chuan Year of the Horse.  I have been asking myself am I accomplishing the things that I wanted to accomplish.

In looking at my log I am at or near where I should be on all my numbers except for Sparring.  I am going to resolve that by getting to more San Shau classes.

With my personal goals I have hit one of them.  One of my goals was to reconnect with 5 people from my past.  I have been successful with this.

Two of my other goals I expect to get done by the end of August. 

I still have to memorize Mastery, I am planning on working on this over the next three months to get this accomplished.

I am feeling better about my weapon form and my hand form.  My biggest hurdles are I have are to stay calm, breath and to lengthen out my stances.  If anyone sees me not lengthening out my stances feel free to throw something at me as a reminder.

I am feeling good about where I am at but know I still have a long way to go.  I am no longer focused on the over all numbers but am focusing on improving on something every day.


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Mr Sand