Random Thoughts From My Couch

Things I've changed this year; An oven can be used for cooking things. Who knew? I buy alot less microwaveable things. I listen to my body and find out what it needs instead of ignoring it. I don't shop when I'm in a hurry, it causes me to be rude to people. I don't give up when things get hard, I set my boundaries and work to push past them, setting the bar a bit higher as I progress. I'm not as nervous to speak up and try things. Things I need to work on; Creating smaller, more sustainable goals. Work past the nerves so I can do public performances. I know you are supposed to keep going when you mess up but I freeze completely. LOGGING - Total epic fail this year. Practicing at home, I have a hard time motivating myself to practice at home, I find a billion other things to do. Knowing that I'm like that, maybe I'll look into the YMCA down the street for next winter, that way when the roads are to icy for me to go to Stony, I can do a class there so I'm at least doing something. Things I said I'd do but I didn't; Go to San Sao. I really was going to start this class but it was getting too much to travel to Stony so many days a week. Blog when I missed class, I stopped doing this because I started missing alot of classes during the winter, always because of road conditions. Things I want to change with next years team; COMMUNICATION. I want to stress the importance of this. If you can't commit to something, don't. It drove me crazy this year to have to keep having to start over again with dragon dance basics because we kept having different people all the time. I also found it frustrating planning my schedule around practices and ending up not having enough people and finding out everyone went camping. Well, I could've gone camping too. This is the same with everything else, including the renovation projects, tiling, Pandamonium, etc. If you say you're going to be there, be there. By just not showing up, you leave all the work to everyone else. The hardest things I've done this year; Blogging, I'm a very private person. Asking for help, I never do that. Forms Seminar, Bootcamp, organized a demo, doing my form in front of the class, leading warmups, speaking up when I disagreed with things and failing and starting over many many times. Sorry for the long rambling blog post. If you are still reading this, you must be bored. :)