Fall 2024 Black Belt Cycle

Candidate Journals

King Tiger Tae Kwon Do Black Belt candidates blog daily about their journey: their thoughts and feelings, their struggles and successes; their pain and their encouragement. Follow along on their journey; words of encouragement are always welcome!

slow day

Took kids out to enjoy the mall.  Enjoyed family time afterwards.

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Just not my day today.  CNC machine went down before ending work shift.  Struggling to find new mentee.  First denial in a long time.  Yes I was late.  But wow it just was shocking.  Debating now if my investment is even worth it anymore.  Is it even worth all my sacrifices.  Idk.  Maybe maybe not.  

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Family time

Whole family came to class tonight.  They had a blast.  Took them out for dinner after class.  Hadn’t had family time like this in months.

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Back to class

First class back after a week of recovering.  Feels great to be back training.

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Changing weather temperatures

Finally feeling better.  Hopefully the weather doesn’t keep changing temperatures.  

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Struggles

Congestion and workouts are very hard.  Slow and long breaks from running out of breathe sooner than  expected.  Struggling but still pushing.

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Busy day

Took off today so the wife could get some important things done like open school.  Decided to work on my requirements today.  Numbers look good so far but the day still young.  Maybe this will drive the last little bit of my congestion out.

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8/22/2018

New trainee making good progress at work learning the job.  He a recreational youth basketball coach and I enjoy hearing how he is engaged with the kids on his basketball team.

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Congestion is no fun

First day back to work this week.  Still congested.  Had to train a new worker and trying to talk while congested is hard work.  Made it thru the day but very exhausted.

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Recovering

Feeling a lot better today.  I can actually breathe better.  Starting back up on working out.

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Under the weather

Treater day and today I’ve been congested all day.  Just not feeling well 

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Farewell co worker

Today was the last day for my co worker.  He going back to school.  Hope all goes well for him and I enjoyed our time at work together.

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Missed the kids

Work was awesome. Learned a lot tonight.  Missed the kids by 45 minutes when I got home.  They all fell asleep.

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Awesome day

After a long hard day at work, worked out with the Little’s one.  The 1yr old decided he wanted to assist me during my exercises.  We stretched and did push ups together.

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Friday!

It’s been a long week.  Arms are so sore, very hard to do push ups and burpees.  Manage to get some out for tonight.

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First entry

Been a long day.  Came home early from work to tend to a sick kid.  Worked out with the kids tonight.  Overall been a great day.

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