So its time to eat humble pie. Watching the new black belts preform their techniques Saturday night sure brings me back to my own training. I was totally inspired to work harder. You just can't help feeling inspired after watching them put their heart and souls into every move they made.
It seems to me that each year the bar is raised just a little bit higher. The students coming behind these candidates will really have to work to out shine the crew from this year.
Thanks for the great night!
Linda Shipalesky Silent River Kung Fu Stony Plain Alberta Canada
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Motivation
Since motivation seems to be the thing to think about this week I'm going to add to what keeps me going. Before I decided to do another UBBT I talked it over with my husband Randy. we had done UBBT 6 together and had fallen off our goals around the same time. Randy's office relocated and made it almost impossible for him to train at noon. When we reviewed the things that changed around our slide this is what stood out. Without the motivation of a training partner to answer to we both failed. So this time Randy made sure to get the time to have a little longer lunch, we are back training together at noon. Randy is not officially doing UBBT 7, he is right back where he was when we started out last year. We have been really trying to make the training habits of UBBT a life style change we want to incorporate into our daily lives . So far so good.
Linda Shipalesky Silent River Kung Fu , Stony Plain Alberta Canada
Linda Shipalesky Silent River Kung Fu , Stony Plain Alberta Canada
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
I have been blessed
This week I found myself weepy and really feeling sorry for myself. I finally stopped and sat down to evaluate my emotions . I hate feeling like this and beat myself up for crying too easily. It's just too private, I think it opens me up to more hurt. Anyway when I found it slipping into other parts of my life I knew it was time to figure it out.
I have this dog you see who is twelve years old. I was there when he was born. He has been a constant companion through some good and bad times in the last years. I know they say dogs can't smile, but I have had the pleasure of his smiling face greet me each morning for a long time. Age has slowed him down but lately he has developed a cough. I was scared to bring him to the vet but convinced myself that it was probably kennel cough or something like that. When the vet handed me a box of kleenex I knew I was going to hear something I didn't want to. Shilo has lung cancer. She told me to take him home and love him up for as long as I can. Loving him is easy, it's watching him slowly fade that is unbelievable painful. He still has great days but I can see and feel his time running out. So living in the moment is really important with him right now. Dogs just naturally live in the moment and he has taught me a lot about this over the years.
I know he is just a dog and I can't imagine dealing with this with another person. I have been very fortunate to never have been put to the test.
Any way I have decided to forgive myself for my emotional outbursts. I will find the strength somewhere to deal with his last days.
I will try to be the person my dog thinks I am.
Linda Shipalesky Silent River Kung Fu Stony Plain Alberta Canada
I have this dog you see who is twelve years old. I was there when he was born. He has been a constant companion through some good and bad times in the last years. I know they say dogs can't smile, but I have had the pleasure of his smiling face greet me each morning for a long time. Age has slowed him down but lately he has developed a cough. I was scared to bring him to the vet but convinced myself that it was probably kennel cough or something like that. When the vet handed me a box of kleenex I knew I was going to hear something I didn't want to. Shilo has lung cancer. She told me to take him home and love him up for as long as I can. Loving him is easy, it's watching him slowly fade that is unbelievable painful. He still has great days but I can see and feel his time running out. So living in the moment is really important with him right now. Dogs just naturally live in the moment and he has taught me a lot about this over the years.
I know he is just a dog and I can't imagine dealing with this with another person. I have been very fortunate to never have been put to the test.
Any way I have decided to forgive myself for my emotional outbursts. I will find the strength somewhere to deal with his last days.
I will try to be the person my dog thinks I am.
Linda Shipalesky Silent River Kung Fu Stony Plain Alberta Canada
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Walking Fast
Not too bad of a week. I was able to shave about 15 minutes of my daily five km. walk officially today. Since I started tracking my time along with my kms. it has given me a purpose to walk/run faster. so as of today it takes me forty five minutes to walk five km.
On my personal growth performance I realized lately that I am happy to let someone else take over for me. This is not always a good solution when the buck stops with me and I have not taken responsibility properly. I will have to dig deeper to find the courage to say "no" and keep things going in the direction I want them to go. On the positive side I am not scared to take the responsibility for these failures, I just want to learn to avoid them.
While I can't seem to motivate myself to do enough push ups, I figure I make up for it in kms.
Until next time;
Linda Shipalesky, Silent River Kung Fu, Stony Plain Alberta, Canada
On my personal growth performance I realized lately that I am happy to let someone else take over for me. This is not always a good solution when the buck stops with me and I have not taken responsibility properly. I will have to dig deeper to find the courage to say "no" and keep things going in the direction I want them to go. On the positive side I am not scared to take the responsibility for these failures, I just want to learn to avoid them.
While I can't seem to motivate myself to do enough push ups, I figure I make up for it in kms.
Until next time;
Linda Shipalesky, Silent River Kung Fu, Stony Plain Alberta, Canada
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