Upside-down Schedule
These past two weeks have been very tumultuous for my numbers, my schedule, and my kung fu as a whole.
I recently was trained on the night shift at work which means that the "free" hours in my day have completely switched. I thought I would have ample time in the mornings to work on my requirements and find opportunities to practice, but what I didn't expect was how firmly entrenched I was to the rhythm of the day. I thought because I was going to do all my pu/su before work (i.e. before I became physically tired) they would be much easier, but because I have been doing the majority of them in the late evening for over a year now, I have to generate a whole new momentum/motivation. Because I get home so close to midnight I often forget to track my steps before my watch resets for the day. Since I am so tired after work and the hour is so late I forget to review my AOK for the day before I fall asleep.
Typing this out I am realizing now that the pattern in my routine and the structure for how I do my requirements and the foundation on which I build my momentum/motivation is linked very closely to when I am doing them, not just the fact that I was doing them. There is a time component at work here that I wasn't really aware of until I started writing this blog, and now that I am, I can use it as a tool when I am analyzing my progress or setting new goals in the future. Moving forward I need to be extremely mindful about this since my nightshifts are about to be mixed in with daytime shifts meaning the rhythm is going to change almost daily so I won't be able to rely on a set routine; I must rely on and refine my planning and opportunity seizing if I am going to be successful in the Year of the Dragon.
Another thing that has changed is because I am at work in the evenings: I am attending fewer classes than normal, and it has made me appreciate how valuable my class time is. When my schedule allows me to attend I am excited to go to class, and I try to mindfully make the most of my time spent there. Attending multiple classes a week for so long has made me less mindful at times, I can just work on this later, I can save this idea for another time I'm here, ect, I see now that I have allowed mediocrity to wiggle its way into my class time, so although I do still hate having to miss any classes at all, it points out how privileged I am to be able to attend class at all.
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