2018

I keep telling myself that today is the day to start but then life happens and it never happens. I’ve been doing this for awhile and I’m trying to find away out of this cycle.

It the last few years I’ve learned to carry on with my back injury but with my new hip pain I’m finding I’m off balance and I cannot find my new way. The holidays are obviously not helpful and as much as I enjoy the time off work, I want to get back to a more sensible routine.

Happy New 2019!!!

Awareness

My project at work has been going pretty good. It is one of the only ones in it's size that was implemented on time and on budget so far. It was hard working of numerous people on the team that led to this. But that does not mean the project was perfect. There were and still are few issues that I scratch my head on how we delivered a project with these issues.

Why wasn't it developed as specced? how come the testers did not find these bugs? why didn't the client find it in their testing? what could have I done differently to make sure there are no bugs in the system?

Just like in a form - there are so many things to pay attention to. Will I ever be able to perform one without any errors? probably not. When paying attention to one aspect of the form, another gets neglected.

But this is why practice is crucial. Keep doing it while thinking of what need to be fixed. This awareness is important for perfecting my forms and for delivering better projects.

Trust

My company mission is to respect, trust, and serve each other and our clients. Earning our customers trust and our peers trust is highly important. Our integrity is a key factor in doing this. Trust is not easy to to earn but pretty easy to break.

Trust is also important with your family. If your kids do not trust you, they might not tell you when they are in trouble. If you don't trust your spouse, well - that is probably the end of that relationship.

In Kung Fu student must trust their instructors. They need to trust that the instructor knows where they are and knows what they need in order to progress.

In all aspects of my life trust is super important. So can you trust me? :-) I sure hope you can!

Sphere of Influence

We all have a specific area of influence. Things we can affect. At home or at work we are able to make an impact on our surrounding. With more practice the area we have impact on is growing.

In Kung Fu, we also have our sphere of influence. If we go beyond it, we lose power. But with practice we can make the sphere bigger.

Action

I have lots of ideas for a blog but every time I start writing something down I stop and realizing I'm not ready to blog about this. This is similar to my experience with many other area of life.

So many thing to do, so many things to learn. How do you figure out what to do and how much to do of it? Learn lots of things but to a certain level or learn one thing and become an expert?

Even in Kung Fu, it is the same thing - learn one weapon and become an expert? focus on all aspects but not have enough time to get really good at any of them?

For me lots of times it leads to planning. Lots of planning. But there is time for action. At least do something so you get better at it...