Tuesday, 3 September 2024

BTSW Time Commitment and Afterward

Over the course of BTSW, I had the opportunity to be at the Kwoon for approximately 35h total over the Monday - Thursday. I was thankful for this opportunity (and the overtime hours I had accrued at work that let me take this time off so easily), as it was my first BTSW in several years. During this time, I got to take part in lots of projects and different roles. 

I am happy with how several of the projects turned out; I am also happy with being able to say I contributed to improving the Kwoon. The student turn-out was pretty minimal this year, which is unfortunate to say the least, but I am happy that more people showed up for the potato bake. For next year, maybe Ill take the time to promote the actual clean-up week a little better? Needless to say, there was plenty of learning opportunities for me in every corner. 

I am pleased with the leadership opportunities that were provided to me during this week as well. Taking the opportunities to develop my leadership abilities is something that is very important to me; it is one of my greatest sources of imposter syndrome and I will always take the opportunity to hone it. I also learnt the names of most of the lions! Like, their full names. I am trying to use those names more often now too.

On a different note, it feels like I have been getting nothing but bad news and tough personal dilemmas since the conclusion of BTSW. I was considering making this into its own blog, but lets just mush it all together hm? A focus of mine is strength in every form; when faced with constant and consistent bad news, it can be very easy to succumb to the negative emotions that follow. I am trying not to let everything get me bogged down; this is easily the most difficult thing to do during the night, I admit. 

I blogged about mental health in my last blog and don't necessarily want to drain this creek dry, but it gets hard to focus on Kung Fu when everything seems to be going the way I really did not want it to go. I am going to be drastically increasing my physical training soon again, I think. I got into a mind rut where I convinced myself that the harder I pushed myself and the harder I made my heartrate go, the harder I mentally crashed afterwards. As I have been working with my doctor for sometime, I want to slowly ease myself back into actually improving my endurance and physical fitness. 


Numbers (Per Last 7 Days)

Push-Ups: 142, 142, 100, 80, 40, 100, 60

Sit-Ups: 142, 142, 100, 80, 40, 60, 60

AOK: 5 per day

KM: ~14 total

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