(un)tangled thoughts

Nigel, Kat and mysel tackeled our June challenge yesterday! I’m so sincerely impressed about what we got done. If anybody would have told me even three days ago I’d do that many push-ups and sit ups in one day I’d have bet my life, I would never be able to do this!  But, we just kept going! The simple sound of my phone ringing and showing me my team is working hard made it seamingly simple to drop down again and again. Thank you so much toudai Kohut for this challenge and thank you to my team! Thanks to you guys I’m reminded once again that the limits are only in my head!

I have recently gone through a phase of not liking my weapon form.  I would practice my hand form in length and in detail, outside, inside and when I'm waiting for my water to boil in the kitchen. While working in the garden I started playing with my spate, inspired by the Kwando and Tiger fork, which I love to watch.  Other times I'm swinging my machete like my broad sword around working in other parts of the yard.  Overall I have been feeling very connected, involved, motivated, and mostly on track but my weapon form did not inspire me, something just didn't click. So one night when I found myself again making up new moves and envisioning next year's weapon form and even thinking of a musical form for the next tiger challenge, I had to stop myself in my tracks and insist on leaving the shiny objects alone and instead figure out why I'm struggling with my weapon form that should get all the attention. I took it apart step by step and asked myself for every part whe...

  This week I feel the pain of not having made a point to blog more timely. I had so many topics I wanted to address, so many things that have happened. Although I shouldn't say I didn't make the time to blog, I did schedule it and definitely started. In fact, I compost three different drafts so I don't forget about them but I did not manage to finish one in time and so I am not only late posting but I also realize I fooled myself when I thought I preserve my flow of thoughts by drafting blogs to finish later. So this one here is a few days old, well a week already and I'm not the same person anymore that wrote many of these things, after all, there have been more than 10,000 new minutes experienced. I wonder now why I didn't just finish it off there. Obviously, back when I was 10,000 minutes younger I thought there was more to share but my new me can't seem to continue the thought process from back then. So I share this as is and as it was true not too long ago...