!@#$%&* Mediocrity!

Can’t seem to eliminate mediocrity all together. When I concentrate on one thing, attempting mastery, something else lets mediocrity in. It’s like juggling; only one thing can be at the peak while the others are lower.

The test of my shoulders didn’t go as well as I would have liked. Even though I only used 2 pound free weights, lifting them 200 times in one day resulted in pain, and not the good kind. Fortunately, nothing as bad as has happened in the past. It’s no wonder that pushups (body weight) is so hard on them if they don’t even handle 2 pounds well. 50 in a day seems to work them so that they feel it but not cause me pain… so far. Time will tell if it’s the same with more consistency in doing them.

I now have a bit of space set up at the farm for training, heavy bag and all. Bought the bag… hmm… probably about a year ago, but only now had a place big enough to put it in. I’m looking forward to using it this weekend while I’m there getting other things done. Maybe I can finally get my kicks improving a bit more. After all, kicking a bag feels very different from kicking the air.

Now that the beta version of the forms is out of the way I feel like I can devote more time to both hand and weapon forms. So, the hand form numbers should start picking up now.

Still haven’t been drawing. Maybe instead of a goal of once a week I should have just said I want to do the “100 head challenge”. After all, I want to do that challenge anyway.

I keep forgetting to track my Random Acts of Kindness. Some get remembered but not all.

Meditation isn’t where I would like it to be. There were certain things I wanted to do with meditation that I haven’t done, at least not consistently. There have been a few more moments of contemplation that have been very nice to have the opportunity to do.

Pushups/Equivalent: 627

Situps: 4834

Weapon form: 202

Hand Form: 15

RAoK: 89

Sparring: 241

Kilometers: 257

Blogging: 14

Drawing: 0

Meditation: 9

Great Coat project: nothing further

One on Ones: 6