yearly goals revisited
For those of you who haven’t been reading the blog for long, I had four main goals I wanted to accomplish this year, and they were ambitious. The first I gave up on months ago, there simply wasn’t any time to work on it. Now I find myself in the position of having to give up on a second one as well.
This one hurt, since it was one of two I thought sure I’d achieve, but it is not to be, at least not this year. I am talking about taking the black belt test in November. I had almost an entire year ahead of me the, and yet through my own inconsistency this won’t happen until next year.
I missed a lot of time earlier this year, for various reasons, but started back regularly in early June, which might have given me enough time to get where I needed to be to take the test. After the July massage class, I was out, for almost a month, as I went back just this past week, only to tweak my back on Wednesday night. It’s August, and I’m no closer to getting my next level of brown, let alone a black. Between now and the clinic there’s only 3 months left - it’s just not enough time to learn and do everything that needs to be done, even if I make every class until then.
Of the four goals, the two remaining are the book about Riverbanks, and getting through mod 2 of the restorative therapy class. The Riverbanks project is still on track, but mod 2 is in danger as well - 3 months left to testing and I’ve not done any studying at all. That needs to change quick or my chances of making it through this class will be rapidly gone, and I’ll have spent that money for no reason. If I fail this class for some reason, there will not be another. I’m sure it will be taught again, but I will not be taking it, is what I mean. The window will have closed on that for a while, maybe for good.
I’d better get off my ass and make sure that doesn’t happen.