Final numbers for Dragon Year

 I'll admit, some of these numbers are rough estimates.  I have been training/practicing but I just kind of abandoned keeping track of exact numbers around the end of November.  It just, didn't seem like a priority and it was kind of getting in the way of me JUST DOING THE THING.

This year I'm going to basically follow the same  program as the IHC, but with a few tweaks: 

-I'm not going to keep track of my kms or my acts of kindness.  I think the last couple of years have proved that those requirements are not an issue for me.  

-I will journal at least weekly, but not publicly.  There are lots of things that I need journaling to do for me, and I can't necessarily expend the mental effort making them kung fu related or fit for public consumption.  

-I will be focusing less on reaching a seemingly unobtainable and highly intimidating goal for push ups and sit ups, and more on keeping track of my consistency. I know that the point of the big number is to force us to try and chip away at it every day, but this method seems to have the opposite effect on my ADHD brain. 

-Instead of working on perfecting 2 forms, I'm going back to work on my basics: my kicks, punches, stances, and basic weapons moves.  I kinda feel that going onto the IHC team as a white belt was a bit of a leap, and there was a lot of stuff that we covered that was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay above my skill level, and I've kind of neglected just doing figure 8s with a stick, in favor of creating a form for a Bat'leth.  Time to go back to basics.




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