Repetition, Repetition

I attended a training course over the weekend and the instructor told all of us that the key to improvement and to build up speed in what we were doing was to start off slow using proper technique and not to worry about going fast, speed will come as our technique improves. Does this sound familiar? Repeat something a 1000 times perfectly and your body will know it, mess up just once during those reps you will have to start back at the beginning. Does that not also sound familiar? For two days it was repetition, repetition, repetition.

Acts of Kindness Challenge Week

Ok for last week the acts of kindness that I did are as follows;

• Changed the tires on my fathers quad form the aggressive mud tires to a tire that would be easier on the lawn for my mother, for when she wants to use the quad around the yard. 
• Insured the lawn mowers had oil, gas and would start for my mother when she wanted to use them for the first time this year.
• Repaired/fixed arrows that my kids grew out of and gave them to their 7 year old step brother.
• Emptied the garbage can at my desk at work for the janitors x 5
• Opened and held doors for people x 12
• Helped unload bundles of shingles from a persons van.
• Paid the remaining balance owing for some lady at Safeway when her debit card would not work and she did not have enough cash to cover it all.
• This last one I am not sure if it counts but I did get thank you’s for it, but I also enjoyed it. I took both my kids to the gun range on Saturday and in total shot 22 cal. 200 rounds, 9mm 150 rounds, and 45 win mag 25 rounds. I think both my kids have fallen for the 9mm because I couldn’t get them to quite until we ran out of bullets.

Where was I these last couple of days?

For me that is an easy question to answer. I have been at home, sick in bed. I have contracted the worse bought of strep throat that I have ever encountered. I think it was a combination of strep throat/flu that took hold of me threw me around like a rag doll and left me wondering if anyone got the license plate of that truck that just went by. Yesterday was my first day back to classes in Onoway (yes I only missed one class due to being sick) but after only one (short) hour class I was completely exhausted. Great thing now is I am on the road to recovery.

Random Thoughts Part 2

Today as I was starting to write my blog for the week I realized I did not post this blog last week so here it is.
Random Thoughts Part 2

Last week’s blog was a little out there, quite away out in another galaxy I must say. But that just about reflects how this year is going for me.

This weekend is our Annual Pandamonium and I am looking forward to spend a bunch of time with what I consider as my other family. (Insert smiley face you know which one Sihing Donohue) This is an event that has grown over the years with much success, and I believe it will continue to grow into as time passes.

One of my favorite sayings/quotes is;
“The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
This is something I tell adults that say that they are too old or too out of shape to start learning a martial art.