Reflection and Moving Onward

Hello everyone,

The year of the sheep, my first year in the I Ho Chuan has come to an end. What an incredible year! I look back at myself a year ago and see a completely different person.

Perhaps different is the incorrect term, I'm a new and improved version of myself? That's probably a little more accurate. I have complimented my good habits and qualities while fixing and adjusting other qualities I felt needed to be addressed. The events and experiences that came about will definitely affect and contribute to the rest of my life. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, the opportunities that presented themselves to better myself in every way possible were immense.

I didn't realize what it meant to actually do 50,000 pushups and situps in the year. That is a ton! However, spread out from day to day it is ridiculously easy. Before I knew it I was at 40,000. Insane!

Now another point of note, make sure you actually know what day the new year falls on. For whatever reason I thought the new year was on the 13th. I had planned the rest of my pushups and situps in accordance to that. So when I found out it actually was today, I really needed to push myself. By Sunday I still had 350 to do. I was tempted to just live with it, saving my energy for the 1000 challenge today. Then I gave my head a shake and thought, "how could I get this far and be stopped by a mere few hundred?" So I buckled down and as wisely as I could in the time provided, I blasted them out. 50,000!! Unfortunately, most of my other requirements were not met. I just didn't manage my time well enough. This is something I really look forward to correcting in the year of the monkey.

Being diligent about recording numbers and posting them is a good way to do this, as it keeps your mind engaged and thinking about what you've done during the week. I encourage everyone on the team to utilize the numbers tab on the google+ page. It's a great way to see how everyone is doing and is another source for the team members working out of town to stay motivated an engaged. I know some of us post them in their blogs, I'm not referring to you, you're doing a great job! Thank you for posting them.

I decided to write this blog due to the amount I wanted to talk about this week. I do have a question though. How does everyone feel about the video blogs? I enjoy making them, but feel like I'm not quite able to articulate my thoughts as well as I can with writing. I am just looking for a little bit of feedback. I might swap back and forth between writing and video anyway, I missed writing to be honest.

I am very excited to see what this year brings our way. I'm quite optimistic that it'll at least be as good as last year, if not better.

Until then, take care everyone!