Correction

This week I had a couple chances to practice mastery, particularly the aspect regarding correcting and improving myself.

First off, I was preparing supper with our food processor and decided it was a good idea to use our blender plunger to push the food down, while it was still on... You can imagine the outcome. SMASH! It could have been much worse, the only thing that broke was the processor blade stem, but without this piece, the processor is now useless. For the first while I was quite angry with myself, who wouldn't be? What compelled me to believe that it would actually work? What was I thinking?? I eventually calmed down, realizing that there is nothing I can do about it. Everyone has a brain-fart once in a while and I am just fortunate it was only the food processor that was lost. Lesson learned, move on.

The next lesson was being patient with myself installing drywall. Just so you all know, I am terrible at it, so I probably wouldn't be the best person to call to help sheet your house. I was compelled to finally take the plunge and do some drywall work for my job. We are short staffed, but the projects must go on. I started to laugh, something that seems so simple and rudimentary was incredibly hard to do, it is not like I was putting up full sheets either. I became flustered, it was not pretty and it took a LONG time to do. However, you can't be perfect on your first try, do your best and learn from the experience so you may have better quality next time.

I realized that these experiences are not unlike what it is to learn kung fu. For example, the quality of your kicks as a white or yellow belt is no where near the same as a blue or brown belt. With experience and practice, you get better and your confidence rises. Only with consistent practice will you learn the lesson. Let's just hope I will not need to continue the practice of putting random objects in a blender to learn that it does not work that way..


Goal count for this year:
Distance 957.7/1609 km
Acts of Kindness 286/1000 acts
Long Hua Jian 219/1000 reps
Lao Gar 219/1000 reps
Meditation 321/1500 minutes
Journal 79/355 days
Situps 11180/50000 reps
Pushups 11180/50000 reps
Sparring 253/1000 rounds
Books Finished 3/20 books