Just thought I would put out an update on my numbers
Push-ups 9,130
Sit ups. 9,995
Kicks 8,877
Sparing 210
Hand form 169
Weapon form 200
Km 608.3 (I have taken up biking this year both stationary and peddle bike)
I am feeling real good about this year. I feel the goals I took on are a challenge and I am working towards these goals
What I am more happy about is where I am mentally. I am working hard to keep my mind in the moment. When I am training I am forcing myself to stay in the moment. This concentration is helping me each time I do a form. I am truly starting to find the errors in my stances and in my movements. I am sure there is a lot of things I am not seeing or feeling but I am seeing and feeling many things. This is what I am most liking about where I am at.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Get Comfortable being Uncomfortable
I have had the pleasure and opportunity to meet some incredible people in my life. A few years ago I was fortunate enough to be able to work with a gentleman named Bob Molle. What was great about Bob is he is a natural motivator and is incredible learn from.
Bob was more than just a motivator he has done some exceptional things in his life . A winner of a silver metal in wrestling at the 1984 Olympics. Incredible in itself, but more so that he had surgery on a ruptured disk in his back 21 days before the games started. If that wasn't enough he went on after amateur wrestling to win two Grey cups with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1988 and in 1990. (He was team Captain in 1990).
Bob was always able to lift me up if I was having a down day and I still read his thoughts to this day. He wrote a book that I still keep close to me called "Get Comfortable being Uncomfortable". It is always a motivator for me.
I saw this on his twitter feed the other day and thought it to be relevant for myself.
Friday, March 20, 2015
a lot of questions
Do we live our lives with a desire to do good in the world. I have been thinking about this lately. Is my day focused on making things around me better or focused on my on selfish needs? I constantly have to contemplate this.
We all get busy. We focus on getting up rushing out of the house getting to work. Keeping busy and trying to make our businesses and ourself successful. This can be a very focused and makes us put the blinders on.
Because of this do we forget see what is going on around us. Do we miss holding the door for a lady at the grocery store? Do we forget to tell our kids how proud we are of them? Do we forget to tell the people in our lives how much they mean to us?
I know I think about these things but do I keep it at the front of my mind? I like to think I do but I am not always sure. Could I be doing more to make the world around me better? Do I focus on others as much as I should? I don't really know but it is something I need to constantly evaluate and assess. The world can be better than it is but I have to participate more and ensure I think of others ahead of my own selfish ambitions.
We all get busy. We focus on getting up rushing out of the house getting to work. Keeping busy and trying to make our businesses and ourself successful. This can be a very focused and makes us put the blinders on.
Because of this do we forget see what is going on around us. Do we miss holding the door for a lady at the grocery store? Do we forget to tell our kids how proud we are of them? Do we forget to tell the people in our lives how much they mean to us?
I know I think about these things but do I keep it at the front of my mind? I like to think I do but I am not always sure. Could I be doing more to make the world around me better? Do I focus on others as much as I should? I don't really know but it is something I need to constantly evaluate and assess. The world can be better than it is but I have to participate more and ensure I think of others ahead of my own selfish ambitions.
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Yes I am weird
The tightness in the shoulders. Abs are screaming for a rest. Right knee is not right and may be a sign of bad things to come. Physically drained.
The day starts with sit ups and push-ups. On to the Kwoon for class and after an hour and a half and 350 kicks off to get on the bike and then home to finish off with push ups and sit ups.
It has been most of my life where I knew I was weird and different from other people. It has only been in the last year and a bit being part of I Ho Chuan that I understood this weirdness. Why would some one do this? Seems like a lot of work. But what is the alternative? Mediocrity.
I guess I am embracing my inner weirdness and have found what I have been looking for all my life. It is this weirdness that helps us throw off the "Terminal Normality" that surrounds every day.
Everyone go out and do something epic tomorrow
The day starts with sit ups and push-ups. On to the Kwoon for class and after an hour and a half and 350 kicks off to get on the bike and then home to finish off with push ups and sit ups.
It has been most of my life where I knew I was weird and different from other people. It has only been in the last year and a bit being part of I Ho Chuan that I understood this weirdness. Why would some one do this? Seems like a lot of work. But what is the alternative? Mediocrity.
I guess I am embracing my inner weirdness and have found what I have been looking for all my life. It is this weirdness that helps us throw off the "Terminal Normality" that surrounds every day.
Everyone go out and do something epic tomorrow
Challenges
Challenges hit us from all over the place: work, health, family, financial and many other places. It can be difficult especially when the challenges compound one on another. We can choose to handle these challenges by feeling sorry for ourselves, turtle and ignore the problem or hit them head on and overcome the challenge.
I think a a large part of how one approaches these problems is a product of who we have in our lives. Are we surrounding ourselves with negative and cynical peoples or positive and forward looking people? It is my experience that the more we focus on what type of people we have in our lives then better lives we have. If we have positive people around us we will tend to approach challenges in a positive manner.
Many years ago I looked at how I dealt with challenges and I looked at who I surround yourself with. I changed many of the people in my life. Many were difficult decisions but in hind sight it was right as I found other people to be in my life who were much more positive to my well being and mental state. And I hope I make their live a little better as well.
I think a a large part of how one approaches these problems is a product of who we have in our lives. Are we surrounding ourselves with negative and cynical peoples or positive and forward looking people? It is my experience that the more we focus on what type of people we have in our lives then better lives we have. If we have positive people around us we will tend to approach challenges in a positive manner.
Many years ago I looked at how I dealt with challenges and I looked at who I surround yourself with. I changed many of the people in my life. Many were difficult decisions but in hind sight it was right as I found other people to be in my life who were much more positive to my well being and mental state. And I hope I make their live a little better as well.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Emotional Low
Before I start my blog I have to say it is always a good day when the discussion lasts for 15 minutes on slapping people with a fish
The other day a friend of mine was having an issue. She was feeling down because she felt that her emotions and her spirit were not understood by the people around her. My take on her situation was she was focused on the past with lost opportunities and nervous that the future was not what she wanted it to be. She seemed to be in a dark place. I told her to forget the past and future and concentrate on the now.
To get her to understand I told her to go on a walk and just think about everything going on around her and just focus on that. After that she told me that she enjoyed herself and it had been a long time that she felt enjoyment. She thanked me. I asked her to try that everyday and try and stay in the moment. I hope this helps her get out the the emotional low she is in.
Living in the moment is an easy concept to understand intellectually: being there every moment Is the difficult part.
The other day a friend of mine was having an issue. She was feeling down because she felt that her emotions and her spirit were not understood by the people around her. My take on her situation was she was focused on the past with lost opportunities and nervous that the future was not what she wanted it to be. She seemed to be in a dark place. I told her to forget the past and future and concentrate on the now.
To get her to understand I told her to go on a walk and just think about everything going on around her and just focus on that. After that she told me that she enjoyed herself and it had been a long time that she felt enjoyment. She thanked me. I asked her to try that everyday and try and stay in the moment. I hope this helps her get out the the emotional low she is in.
Living in the moment is an easy concept to understand intellectually: being there every moment Is the difficult part.
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Emotions
This weekend the hockey team I help coach won their first round of playoffs. After the game I talked to the boys about emotions. I explained to them that emotions in sport and in life can be either good or bad. If they take good emotions and channel then correctly they can have a very positive influence. However if they focus on bad or negative emotions it can be very destructive.
I hope someone in the room was able to get something out of this discussion. Understanding this can make the difference between having an average life or having a great life.
I hope someone in the room was able to get something out of this discussion. Understanding this can make the difference between having an average life or having a great life.
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