Monday, May 28, 2018

Lesson Learned

"One of the best lessons in life is to Master how to remain calm"  Bruce Lee

One of the constant themes in our training is to remain calm.  We are taught this in Knife defense, we are taught this in sparing.  A calm body and mind allows us to be at a heightened level of consciousness.

One of my business mentors would always tell me that as emotions when up, intellect went down.   I found myself in that situation on Friday.  I was letting the emotions get in the way and was not recognizing that I was allowing myself to let this happen.  Unable to resolve the situation, I took a step back realized what was happening, then went back at the problem.  The emotion gone and a calm body and mind.  I was then able to resolve the situation based on intellect rather than emotion.

Another lesson learned.

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

5 years and many memories

We are in the middle of a home renovation.  As most people know this gives you a good chance to rid yourself of stuff that you are no longer using or stuff you have accumulated over the years.

What I feel great about is we have been able to give things to neighbors and friends so they can put these items to use.  One of the coolest things we have been able to do is with our old kitchen cabinets.  They were old but had good bones.  We found and elderly couple on a fixed income that needed to put cabinets in their kitchen.  We were able to help them out by giving away the cabinets and had a three way win.  They got some cabinets that they desperately needed and couldn't afford, we were able to get rid of the cabinets with less effort that we could have expended and the cabinets will not go to a land fill. 

The other thing that was cool (I rarely get rid of things) is my wife found 3 old pair of my hiking boots that I had worn out (over the last 5 years) and had not disposed of them.  We talked out the many miles, the many countries and the many memories that those boots have taken me. 


Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Travel Plans

I have been spend a lot of time over the last month looking at my business and personal travel over the next year or so.  It is going to be busy.  One of the trips I am about 85% sure I will be doing is going to Nicaragua to help build some school rooms.  I don't have it completely done yet.  The best part about this will be that my younger son wants to come as well.  I have never traveled alone with him out side of Canada so I am very excited.  Seeing how people live in other Countries makes us look deep inside ourselves and contemplate our own existence.  At least it does for me.

I am also planning a trip in March with my older son.  We are going to go to Guatemala and climb a few volcanoes.  When I mentioned the trip too him he got real excited.  A few days in the high altitudes and a few days scuba diving will be grand.

Between all of this there will be many trips to Grande Prairie and to Fort McMurray, but hey not every trip is on a beautiful beach or a steamy jungle.






Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Lost mind

This past monday morning, I woke up and was not in a good spot.  Not sure why but mostly just pressure with many issues I am dealing with at work.

After getting into work things went down hill in a hurry with trying to fix some things then the network went down so we couldn't bill customers.  Then I had to fire an employee for an egregious thing they did in the work place.  That was all before noon.

The afternoon didn't go much better.  At the end of the day all I could think about was going home sitting outside and having a few pops.  But I didn't do that.  That would not change the day I was having.

I really didn't want to go train as my mind was everywhere and not where I wanted it to be. 

What I did was get to the Kwoon.  As soon as I got on the mats my mind got back to being in the moment almost instantly.  I was focused on what I was doing.  Training was the focus.  After two hours on the mats I had a sense of relief.  The focus on the issues I was dealing with were gone.  I worked hard and was tired, but I was back in the moment, where I always want too be.