Lessons Learned and Relearned

When you spend as much time away from class and from training as I have, you realize that you end up repeating lessons that you learned previously but forgot over time. 

Case in point: I submitted my personal requirements to Sifu Brinker and his feedback made me smile. A few of my goals were set up in a way that made me focus on a weekly requirement instead of an overall goal. Focusing on achieving a weekly effort sets you up for failure as soon as life hits and you miss a week. If you you focus on incremental effort to achieve a large number, you can let life do it's worst to you and you can still maintain your pace. 

This is something that I had learned already from my first I Ho Chuan year; however, I had forgotten it. They say, "If you don't use it, you lose it". I know this to be true. I know that I am going to repeat a lot of lessons over the next while but I am embracing it and hopefully I will drill it into myself that much further this time around.  

Here are my revised personal requirements:

1) 25,000 Kicks - this is to build my basics back up and beyond where I have been in he past.
2) 260 hours of music production - this was similar to a requirement that I had last year. This year I have broken it down a bit so that I'm not focused on the end goal so much as just putting in the time consistently. I love music and it's important for me to take the time to do this for myself.

3) Vegetarian for a month - I'm going to go vegetarian for a month, continuously. I've seen the example of others in the area and I'm curious to see if it will benefit me at all.

4) 52 date nights -  for Mel, my fiancee, and I, it's important to have time together when we can unplug and spend quality time together. This requirement will build some structure in the relationship so that we always make time for ourselves.

All of the above will be logged and I will report the progress along with my other requirements.