Fix Your Kung Fu, Fix Your Life

All of us will experience periods in our life where we are overwhelmed and underperforming. We scramble around trying to fulfill all our responsibilities and end up dropping multiple balls. Our work/school suffers, and our Kung Fu suffers. 

Typically in this situation, our Kung Fu begins to become a stressor. As our motivation wanes and our training suffers, we feel the cobwebs appearing on our technique and that familiar guilt and resentment begin to build. When we cut back on our training, our efficiency in all endeavours is reduced and our lethargy permeates into other areas of our lives —making it take longer to get things accomplished as our mind becomes more frantic. We convince ourselves that we will return to the training fold when things in our life settle down. The problem is that this becomes an endless cycle that ensures things will never settle down. As fast as we take care of responsibility and the stressors in our lives, others pile up. We must intervene if we want to get off the stress wheel and calm our lives down. Our training is that intervention.

If we stop and take a deep, cleansing breath to see things with clarity, we can regroup, reground, and rebuild. Fixing our Kung Fu will provide the foundation from which we can fix our lives.  We all are only one positive decision away from mastery.

Jeff Brinker