Sustainability

This week I spent most my days at home battling a cold. Normally I would continue to work through it, but considering I work close with seniors I was sent home to deal with it. This has never happened to me before in my working career. A couple of months ago I wrote a post about the importance of washing my hands, how it is critical to maintaining good health. I have been consistent with this practice and yet I still am susceptible to getting sick. (Who isn't?)

This made me think about other factors that might be affecting my health. There is a saying that it is possible to have too much of a good thing. I believe this week has been a reminder to me to train in a more sustainable fashion. I work, I train, I sleep. This is the majority of my day to day. When it comes to my life between work and Kung Fu, I give myself little time to rest. I am always on the move, this eventually takes a toll on the body.

I am not expressing that it is unhealthy to train. It is how you go about it. Kung Fu is 90% mental. In order to make my practice more sustainable and worth while, I need to embrace the more mental side of the art. I still need to practice in order to get the correct body memory, but to truly understand and progress I need to dig deep into what I am learning and why I am learning it.

My numbers will not falter, I will still maintain my momentum. I simply feel there is a better to attain my goals.