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Missing Blogs

Since I started my new job I have found it really difficult to set aside time to blog. It's not that I don't have anything to blog about, in fact I have too many blogs that I want to write, cataloging progressions and insights in my training, recounting events of the Tiger challenge, and of the events that I have had to miss like the parade, details of my progress on repairing a relationship, talking about how kung fu threads through different aspects of what I do at my job, exploring ideas brought up in team meetings, discussing progress in my weapon form. My brain is too full of all the things I need to remember I want to write about so it's harder and harder to start thinking of new ideas to explore because it feels like I don't have the mental space as these same ideas spin around and around in my brain, instead of getting them out and into writing.  The problem hasn't been that I'm not thinking about these things, I realize I'm thinking in the pattern o...

IHC Numbers - May

Like I mentioned last night many of my numbers have taken a hit this month due to the chaos of starting a new job, getting sick, the smoke, and wisdom tooth pain; each week I would tell myself that I wasn't too far behind, that I would catch up next week, and inevitable each week had something new to throw at me.  I think a big part of the problems I'm having come from trying to bend my old routine to fit my new reality instead of adapting it to fit, so going forward I'm going to try some new things including setting aside 10 minutes everyday to take care of my non physical stuff (blogging/logging numbers/personal requirements/etc.) I also want to try blogging (voice to text) on my one long stretch of highway driving. (this was my plan from the start of my new job, but I hurt my throat quite bad at the start so I never got the chance to test if it will work or not) I am also going to try to be extremely mindful about how I am "catching up" on things. I want to fo...