Kissing the Earth

Last weekend we were hiking in Jasper National Park. I have gone there dozens of times and will go dozens more and still will be amazed by the beauty it has to offer. While walking up a path at Mt. Edith Cavell, I took my time, taking in everything I could from my surroundings. This gave me the thought of practicing mindful stepping. Softly stepping with control and really being aware of the ground underneath my feet. I actually found this to be more of a workout too, as I needed to walk with control, placing my foot down then transferring weight.

I had a great time! I was glad I could take take this as an opportunity to apply concepts learned in kung fu and apply them to other aspects if life. This including something as simple as walking in a beautiful mountain range on a warm sunny day.

Take care everyone.

Head in the Game

Hello everyone,

Time to catch up on things. I have been going through my head lately what I could have done differently to avoid getting laid off. Did I not work hard enough? Absolutely. Looking back, I find I was quite mediocre in my day to day job activities. I was never present in the moment and watched the clock a lot. I definitely could have been more active in my job and may have actually still had a job as an electrician right now.

I try not to think about that though. I know for a fact that there is nothing I can do about it now but learn from it, and learn I sure have! Losing my job was the pebble that started an avalanche. I now am working in a job where the hours vary from day to day, depending on what the task is and how much you can get done. So if I just doddle around, I will be there longer, I won't go home as soon and it certainly doesn't look good for me from the management's point of view.

I am getting a great lesson in  becoming and remaining self motivated, certainly something I need to be when starting my own company.

Take care everyone!

Refocus

I am once again acknowledging the fact that my day to day training regiment has been pretty lacking as of late. I'm just going to leave it at that now, I don't need to keep saying it over and over again. Instead, this time I will relate my thoughts on why this has happened (mostly anyway) and what I'm doing to address and correct it.

This year I decided to reduce my number posting from each day to once a week, believing that it would be easier to just tally it up when I get a chance at the end of the week. This has not worked obviously, as weekly turned into bi-weekly which turned into monthly into nothing... You get the point.

So I asked myself, why isn't this working? I think it's pretty clear now that I have had time to analyze it. When I posted my numbers daily, I was holding myself accountable for everyday engagement by putting it out there for everyone to see. If my numbers were lower than I wanted on a particular day, I was immediately held accountable and had to correct it right away. This also motivated others to post more frequently and kept everyone in the loop.

So how am I going to correct it? I found a method of recording that works for me to streamline everything and make it easier to get into a routine. Typically I was writing my numbers in a book and then tallying it up at the end of the day. This time I built a simple spreadsheet on google sheets with the dates and requirements on my phone that I can update during the day with relative ease and simply copy and paste everything onto a numbers post just before bed. I haven't actually done this yet, but I've been testing it out the past few days to see how it all should work. I guess we'll find out tonight now won't we?

I do need to say though that if I'm travelling and unable to access the internet I won't be posting for those days, at least not immediately. I guess that goes without saying obviously. I just find that if I disclose as much as I can to everyone I won't feel as guilty when the time comes. This doesn't happen very often, but in case I miss a post that's most likely the reason why.

It's handy that it is the beginning of the month, it's easier to start anew this way, in my opinion anyway. If I can get myself motivated to refocus, I can start motivating those around me. Lead by example!

Take care everyone!