Random

   For the first time, I am unsure of what to blog about so I am making this up as I go. Normally I have an idea that has been festering in my brain for the week that I look forward to putting in a blog. This week, not so much. Not that I don't have anything going on, quite the opposite, it's just a time of the year that I like to review what I have ( or haven't ) accomplished. Am I ready for winter? Am I ready for the mountain of work the next 2 months at work bring ( inventory and tire season )? Was there anything important that I still needed to do before mother nature and father time forces me to wait till next year? And so on........

   When we bow in before every class, I do my best to turn off the outside noise and ONLY think of the here and now of what we are doing. When we are in a I Ho Chuan Saturday meeting, I try to focus on the conversation at hand and not the pile of things still needed to be done out "there". I failed at this in yesterdays meeting. My mind was everywhere else and not where it should have been and it was annoying me to no end. Normally I like to throw in a little into the conversation but yesterday all I had in my head was white noise. I haven't been mentally tired like this in a long time. I am finding it really difficult to really care about the outcome of my decisions. Not good.

   This got to thinking about the grading coming up for the Black Belt candidates. I can only imagine what is going on in their world right now. Makes all my excuses and imaginary distractions seem awfully trivial. Time to reboot, re-evaluate, and refocus my wants and actual needs.

   I want to thank Mr Sollinger for making me think about that. He has asked a favor of me for his grading, I accepted of course, in fact, I feel very honored that he asked. Then it hit me, that is less than 2 months away!!!! I felt a shock of panic blast through me. Here I thought we would have all the time in the world to work on this, WRONG!! At best, I can free up 3 or 4 Saturdays to work on this with him. Not good enough, I can do better for him. This is a monumental day coming up for him, I need to be available at any time to help him prepare. So Dan, thank you for helping me out of my fog, time for me to go practice my moves. You pick the time and place, I will move heaven and earth to be there for you. DO NOT HESITATE, I mean it.



  This random blog actually was very helpful, I think the fog is lifting, thank you Master Brinker for making these mandatory. I can see why this is so important.