This Saturday's meeting was really great for me. I started to recognize the fact that I am quite fortunate with my day to day schedule. It allows me to go to the kwoon everyday of the week on a regular basis. If I ever feel like I have no time in my life I just need to look at several of the members of our team who work out of town for days, weeks, even months at a time! You are incredibly inspirational! To work so far away from the kwoon and still commit to something as trying and testing as I Ho Chuan is a definite show of character!
With this in mind, I seem to have put the blinders on and focused on almost nothing but kung fu in the past few months. Not that it is a bad thing, but like Sifu Brinker says, it needs to be sustainable. I do have other elements to my life that I may have been neglecting. There is a multitude of preparations I have yet to complete for my motorcycle tour to South America. I have noticed my lack of engagement in this regard and feel like I'm being left out on some details of the trip. Not that I blame my riding companions, of course. I don't expect them to stop and wait just because I am not paying attention. I owe it to them to make more of an effort to involve myself a little more with our trip.
Because of this I am putting a list of what I have going on in my life this year and I'm going to set a priority for each. It can't be all one activity, otherwise there is no balance and a life without balance is not healthy. It will come in time, I am certain of this. See you on the mats!
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