Hello everyone I just wanted to talk about Pandamonium and what it means to me. For me Pandamonium was always an opportunity to get to live in the moment to the fullest without any interruptions. Also an unique experience to have; and many miracles happen all in 24 hours. Now Pandamonium is still all these things to me, but I realized I never truly understood what Pandamonium was all about. I got lost in myself and my own experiences I forgot to think of why I was participating.
For a Pandamonium day for me it went a little like this. kung fu, event, event, kung fu, event, miracle, new friend, fun, kung fu, food, kung fu, rest, ice, kung fu, charity, kung fu, event, food, laughter, water, pain, almost there, big finish, done. You see I barely even notice the charity, and that is on me.
After when I went to Alabama last year I realized that our Pandamonium was our own little Greensboro project, but with way more resources. We have all theses charity's that we are trying to make a difference in, but for some reason I feel it has become the after thought of the day. Pandamonium happens, we all have a great time, then most of us move on with our lives. With this I think a lot of us including me miss the point of Pandamonium. I personally think I have about 50% of it for sure, but the other half is the charity side that I normally don't think to much about.
This is a huge portion of why the Pandamonium is held in the first place. We are trying to raise awareness and change the lives of the people or animals in our charity's. Inspire others to become passionate about the charity's we support; in return hopefully they inspire others and so on. This whole event is all about Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf Center, Children's Ability Fund, SCARS - Second Chance Animal Rescue Society, Atsikana Pa Ulendo - Malawi Girls on the Move, Healing Hands. All of these charity's have been chosen pacifically, becasue these charity's are actually making a difference with the money that is donated to them.
I still need to learn a lot more about our charity's, but I will say this, this Pandamonium coming up remember to think of the reasons why are you participating? Are you trying to change your self ? Are you trying to make a difference? Or are you trying to learn empathy and passion? Or to inspire and raise awareness? because on Pandamonium day I think all of these thing should happen, but the one most forgotten is the charity. I am partially to blame for that.
So next time you go to the kwoon pick up a Pandamonium sheet and read the reason why we hold Pandamonium and possibly become more involved with just one charity. Then I believe we can make all the difference in the world. Here are all the links to the charity's and I urge you to check them out, because if you ever wanted to be apart of something great; this is definitely one of them. Unfortunately I don't think there is a website for helping hands, but you can still read some of it on the Pandamonium sheets.
http://www.northernlightswildlife.com/
http://www.childrensabilityfund.ca/
http://www.scarscare.org/
http://malawigirlsonthemove.com/
So remember everyone stay extraordinary.
Sifu R. Langner
Sunday, 1 May 2016
Monday, 25 April 2016
Self Reflection
Hello everyone I just want to say I am sorry to you and myself for
not making the effort to make it to classes. I have been making
excuses and letting those excuses do the thinking for me. Some of the
ones I have missed were legit ones, but that's like maybe one or
two. I have missed going to kung fu and my classes.
I have gained weight, and I am not in the best of shape anymore, and I am doing nothing about it. For me I am letting these things control me to much. I personally feel ashamed that I have let myself get like this.
For some who may not know I used to be 310 lbs and then I lost 100 lbs, and now I am around 230lbs. So weight for me has always been a struggle. I worked hard last time to lose all of that weight, but last time I was not injured. so This time around should not be that hard since I know everything I need to do to accomplish it, but I don't do it.
Because of all this I have been feeling a little down, and afraid to go back, becasue I am not as good as I used to be; but who is when they get older. Again these are all just excuses I have been hiding behind and need to stop. These excuses used to be where I was very comfortable for majority of my life.
I know the easy solution is to just start going to kung fu and show up; which it is, but I still hesitate.
I always assume the worst out of myself; I know I am a huge pessimist who is trying to become more optimistic. I realized I am a huge pessimist, when me, Dan, and, Mel were just playing some crib and Mel said "the way things are going we might all win one"(paraphrasing). I instantly said "no that makes us all losers, becasue we did not try and we let each other win one". When that was not the way she met at all. I was being sarcastic, but still I went negative.
I am a person who thinks harshly of himself, and highly of others, and it is a flaw of mine I need to change. I always see the amazing in others lives, and usually nothing in my own. It is not that I am not aware of the good things in my life; I just don't focus on them when I should be doing that.
Anyways enough of my belly aching and I just want to let you all know I will change and this will happen. For one thing I know is that kung fu and the I Ho Chuan has changed my life for the better on more than one occasion and I have faith that it will do it again I just need to put in the effort.
Until next time remember everyone stay extraordinary, and I will take a little of my own quote too.
Sifu R. Langner
I have gained weight, and I am not in the best of shape anymore, and I am doing nothing about it. For me I am letting these things control me to much. I personally feel ashamed that I have let myself get like this.
For some who may not know I used to be 310 lbs and then I lost 100 lbs, and now I am around 230lbs. So weight for me has always been a struggle. I worked hard last time to lose all of that weight, but last time I was not injured. so This time around should not be that hard since I know everything I need to do to accomplish it, but I don't do it.
Because of all this I have been feeling a little down, and afraid to go back, becasue I am not as good as I used to be; but who is when they get older. Again these are all just excuses I have been hiding behind and need to stop. These excuses used to be where I was very comfortable for majority of my life.
I know the easy solution is to just start going to kung fu and show up; which it is, but I still hesitate.
I always assume the worst out of myself; I know I am a huge pessimist who is trying to become more optimistic. I realized I am a huge pessimist, when me, Dan, and, Mel were just playing some crib and Mel said "the way things are going we might all win one"(paraphrasing). I instantly said "no that makes us all losers, becasue we did not try and we let each other win one". When that was not the way she met at all. I was being sarcastic, but still I went negative.
I am a person who thinks harshly of himself, and highly of others, and it is a flaw of mine I need to change. I always see the amazing in others lives, and usually nothing in my own. It is not that I am not aware of the good things in my life; I just don't focus on them when I should be doing that.
Anyways enough of my belly aching and I just want to let you all know I will change and this will happen. For one thing I know is that kung fu and the I Ho Chuan has changed my life for the better on more than one occasion and I have faith that it will do it again I just need to put in the effort.
Until next time remember everyone stay extraordinary, and I will take a little of my own quote too.
Sifu R. Langner
Sunday, 10 April 2016
The Art of Balance
Hello everyone I have been having a little issue with balance in my life right now. When I obtain a "balance" I function pretty well and things tend to go on the up and up for me. Sometimes though I upset the balance I achieved; to strive for the extraordinary. Once I have destroyed my balance I have a hard time getting it back and I start going into my old bad habits that I eliminated when I had balance.
For example before I went to school to become an electrician I had pretty decent balance. I was engaged with my kung fu , I worked, had a good social life, and even some decent down time to rest. To me this was a nice balance.
Once I started school I made the conscious decision to throw off my balance and I stopped doing kung fu almost all together. I was not showing up for classes and not practicing at all. For this action I had done there were consequences. One I became the top student in my class and got 91% on my A.I.T exam. Which I am glad I did focus so much on, becasue this will be my future. Now I have a job working 5 days a week for Canadian power pac; I am pretty happy about this.
But now I am done school and trying to revive my old balance I used to have, but because I upset my balance I awoke my own bad habits that I thought were gone. Procrastination, laziness, eating to much, nervousness, and scared.
For me these things used to be the bread and butter of the type of person I used to be, and for me it took a long time to get rid of these bad traits of myself. Now I am not saying I am full blown like that now, but I saw everyone of these traits of mine creep back up on me.
I know how to get rid of these traits of mine, because I have done it before, but I am still a bit flustered of the situation.
If anything I learned about balance is that it is hard to mastery, but not impossible, it's hard to maintain, but not impossible. Sometimes you have to break the balance to do something amazing, but all I really know is that balance will always be there if you want it to be, so you might not ever need to stop having a balanced life to achieve a goal, but for me I am still figuring it out. Most likely I will be trying to figure it out for the rest for my life and I am okay with that. It just means my life in the future will be hopefully exciting and fun.
Anyways that's my view on the art of balance. So remember everyone stay extraordinary.
Sifu R. Langner
For example before I went to school to become an electrician I had pretty decent balance. I was engaged with my kung fu , I worked, had a good social life, and even some decent down time to rest. To me this was a nice balance.
Once I started school I made the conscious decision to throw off my balance and I stopped doing kung fu almost all together. I was not showing up for classes and not practicing at all. For this action I had done there were consequences. One I became the top student in my class and got 91% on my A.I.T exam. Which I am glad I did focus so much on, becasue this will be my future. Now I have a job working 5 days a week for Canadian power pac; I am pretty happy about this.
But now I am done school and trying to revive my old balance I used to have, but because I upset my balance I awoke my own bad habits that I thought were gone. Procrastination, laziness, eating to much, nervousness, and scared.
For me these things used to be the bread and butter of the type of person I used to be, and for me it took a long time to get rid of these bad traits of myself. Now I am not saying I am full blown like that now, but I saw everyone of these traits of mine creep back up on me.
I know how to get rid of these traits of mine, because I have done it before, but I am still a bit flustered of the situation.
If anything I learned about balance is that it is hard to mastery, but not impossible, it's hard to maintain, but not impossible. Sometimes you have to break the balance to do something amazing, but all I really know is that balance will always be there if you want it to be, so you might not ever need to stop having a balanced life to achieve a goal, but for me I am still figuring it out. Most likely I will be trying to figure it out for the rest for my life and I am okay with that. It just means my life in the future will be hopefully exciting and fun.
Anyways that's my view on the art of balance. So remember everyone stay extraordinary.
Sifu R. Langner
Sunday, 3 April 2016
Sunday, 20 March 2016
Sunday, 6 March 2016
Sunday, 28 February 2016
Going Old School Numbers
Hey everyone I did do a video, but then I was inspired to do some writing. This is a story from my past that helped me realized and appreciate the little miracles in life.
When I was in high school I had this amazing teacher that challenged our class to write to one million. He bet his house, car, and everything he had in the bank; that we could not write to one million in six months. Ho ho what an easy challenge we thought that was (we were all fools). The rules he laid out was we had to write in pen and paper; no computer. Also we had to write in the form of "1,2,3,4....ect". Well that day we all started to write to one million. Much to our surprise in one week we did not get as far as we first originally thought we would. This was a bigger task then we expected. I think we got around 3000 to 3200. Well after 2 more weeks everyone gave up, because they all started to realize just how big one million was.
Now here is were I started to think to myself "they are just not motivated and they have no ambition" So basically I was the only left still writing the numbers to one million. I can say this was not a smart choice on my part, because I wrote them during a lot of my classes. I figured if I wrote about 2000 a day I would achieve my goal.
Okay once I got to 10,000 I thought about giving up, but then my teacher unintentionally challenged me again. He said the last time he asked his class to do this a kid wrote up to 23,000. I was now on a mission to destroy this kids accomplishment. As the numbers began to climb my hand was starting to hurt and cramp up a lot, but I kept writing. I was determined to beat a kid I have never met. Eventually I caught up to the kids numbers, but all I had to do was write a few more numbers and that would be considered as doing "Better" but I had to make sure no one would try and beat me (no mediocrity for me). So I wrote another 10,000 numbers.
Now it has been about 6 months since I started writing to a million. I decided for sure now to throw in the towel my hand was cramping a lot, and I was not paying attention in class. So I went up to my teacher and asked him if he would make a deal with me. Since none of his other students has ever gotten this high before(which I think was around 33, 360). I offered my binder for $50. He thought about it and said okay; what a bitter sweet moment for me. I spent almost 6 months of my life writing numbers thinking I could reach 1,000,000; I carried a 2" binder around with me wherever I went and now it was gone(the binder by the way was pretty thick with paper writing on both side of the sheet).
That day I learned that one million is a very large number; and made $50. So now whenever I think about the challenge of doing 50,000 push ups and sit ups I realize that that number is so much easier to achieve then even just writing to 33,360. No repeating numbers for one ex. 23,333, 23,334, 23,335.... etc. In the end I learned a valuable lesson and if I could go back and do it all over again I would probably still attempt to write to one million. I got to learn something that none of the other people in my class got to learn and made me really appreciate the little miracles in life and I am grateful for that.
Well that's my story and I hope you all enjoyed it. So remember everyone stay extraordinary.
Sifu R. Langner
When I was in high school I had this amazing teacher that challenged our class to write to one million. He bet his house, car, and everything he had in the bank; that we could not write to one million in six months. Ho ho what an easy challenge we thought that was (we were all fools). The rules he laid out was we had to write in pen and paper; no computer. Also we had to write in the form of "1,2,3,4....ect". Well that day we all started to write to one million. Much to our surprise in one week we did not get as far as we first originally thought we would. This was a bigger task then we expected. I think we got around 3000 to 3200. Well after 2 more weeks everyone gave up, because they all started to realize just how big one million was.
Now here is were I started to think to myself "they are just not motivated and they have no ambition" So basically I was the only left still writing the numbers to one million. I can say this was not a smart choice on my part, because I wrote them during a lot of my classes. I figured if I wrote about 2000 a day I would achieve my goal.
Okay once I got to 10,000 I thought about giving up, but then my teacher unintentionally challenged me again. He said the last time he asked his class to do this a kid wrote up to 23,000. I was now on a mission to destroy this kids accomplishment. As the numbers began to climb my hand was starting to hurt and cramp up a lot, but I kept writing. I was determined to beat a kid I have never met. Eventually I caught up to the kids numbers, but all I had to do was write a few more numbers and that would be considered as doing "Better" but I had to make sure no one would try and beat me (no mediocrity for me). So I wrote another 10,000 numbers.
Now it has been about 6 months since I started writing to a million. I decided for sure now to throw in the towel my hand was cramping a lot, and I was not paying attention in class. So I went up to my teacher and asked him if he would make a deal with me. Since none of his other students has ever gotten this high before(which I think was around 33, 360). I offered my binder for $50. He thought about it and said okay; what a bitter sweet moment for me. I spent almost 6 months of my life writing numbers thinking I could reach 1,000,000; I carried a 2" binder around with me wherever I went and now it was gone(the binder by the way was pretty thick with paper writing on both side of the sheet).
That day I learned that one million is a very large number; and made $50. So now whenever I think about the challenge of doing 50,000 push ups and sit ups I realize that that number is so much easier to achieve then even just writing to 33,360. No repeating numbers for one ex. 23,333, 23,334, 23,335.... etc. In the end I learned a valuable lesson and if I could go back and do it all over again I would probably still attempt to write to one million. I got to learn something that none of the other people in my class got to learn and made me really appreciate the little miracles in life and I am grateful for that.
Well that's my story and I hope you all enjoyed it. So remember everyone stay extraordinary.
Sifu R. Langner
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