Hello candidates, instructors, masters, parents, and the guy at the bagel shop,
I wanted to add a journal entry to show that grammer and speelling has little to do with being a black belt. I have been really enjoying reading your journals (yes, we really do read them). Some nights it's a toss up between your journals and cat videos, but here we are. For my Harrisburg guys, great improvement on quantity and going deeper then, "Its a normal day, I wrote up, brushed my teeth, went to school and did some requirements," to now adding some substance, some meat and potatos, some nitty gritty, and, yeah, you get the picture.
As you have noticed, we are leaving January and entering the shortest month of the year (except its leap year, so its a day longer). The night testing and hopefully not the overnight testing, will be here soon. It's time push through the soreness, the chilliness (for those who actually run outside), the sickness, and the aches and pain. The harder things you do in life have the greatest meaning. My dad had this saying, The more it hurts now, the better it feels later. He was far from a motivational speaker, just a really tough dude that I did not cross.....much. We live in a softer world, but when you do hard things, you stand out and people notice, as well as you will notice. So, hop off the waaambulance, drop the dingdongs, and get this thing done!!! Become hard like woodpecker lips, because the last easy day was yesterday. 53 day left, GET SOME
Foster