Work and Questions

I have been working like crazy lately. All in the name of finishing on time. I feel really lucky in my career right now. I have a job, and I have been trusted with more and more responsibility. I am always nervous when I have to work on something new,  but I ask questions to things I don't know and figure things out on my own that I can. 

I would say I have kung fu to thank on how I approach and learn my trade. I am willing to learn and not afraid to ask questions if needed, but it's not just random questions. They are quality questions that helped me better understand what I was doing. 

I do run into some people who will be condescending to me because of my question, but then they said sorry when they heard the whole context. I am showed to that listening to someones question is just as important as asking. Asking the right question could help me figure it out without them ever saying a thing, or saying the question in the right way to convey what I am trying to figure out and learn. Interestingly enough sometimes I still get to learn something new even knowing they did not answer my question yet. So of course I ask it again with better wording, but I still got valuable information; that I did not even know that I wanted.

Sifu Langner

 

Rain

Whenever it rains for me in the beginning I get to have fun and think of where those rain droplets go. I envision them starting high in the sky then falling down as fast as you can. Then hits the side of a building and explores all the unique curves and edges; Cleaning in its path to ground.  Eventually leading to the ground and being soak up buy nearby plants.  Cleaning and providing life all in a fall. 

 Those are my stop to appreciate moments. 

Sifu Langner

Diet

 Diets are a interesting thing. They can be helpful or harmful, if used improperly.  There is diets that I personally would consider a more dangerous way of trying to become healthier and safer ways as well. For me diets were always about losing weight. 

The first time I did it I would not say I learned a lot other than portion control. The second time I lost the weight and it stayed off, but I learned a lot more ways to approach food. First time I was just doing what had to be done and nothing more. it worked, but it did not stick. I gained 40 lbs back. On the second time I learned hope to cope with eating some bad foods, and eating healthier, and working on my will power to not want to eat bad food. The Second time around I learned to make the diet apart of my life. I was not eating so little that I would be always hungry, but I eat with knowing what I am putting in me and fully in control of what I eat. I also developed eating plans to eat food I knew was not good for me. I made the second diet no long a diet but a way of living.

This is where I see what kung fu is and this is what I was thinking about when we were talking about making kung fu apart of your life, and not just a small mission to complete some goals then move on.  The most successful diets I have ever seen were the ones where people assimilated the diet into there lives. It changed the way they lived and I changed too. People who make that diet no longer a diet and a way of a new and healthier lifestyle majority of the time never gained the weight back and continued thriving. I believe Kung fu is the same thing some of the best martial artist I have seen have made kung fu apart of there lives. not just the physical aspects of it, but a lot of the mental and philosophical ways of kung fu as well.

 I have gained some weight, but I was unprepared for the mental strain I was going through, if anything eating was becoming my distraction from what was happening to me. I plan to get both my weight and kung fu back on track. I never thought life could suck so much, but I thank all of you that I talked with. I truly don't know what would have happened if I never did. Thank you

Sifu Langner