Most people my age (38) have seen the movie Karate Kid ( I know there is a new one coming out, I'm sure I'll see that too). In the beginning of the training Daniel LaRusso (the "kid") is being forced to wax the cars, paint the fence and other seemingly mundane home improvement projects. Well later in the movie the "kid" snaps and starts screaming that he was there to learn karate and not and star in "This Old House." Miyagi (karate master) shows him that each movement he did, painting the house, waxing the cars, were really karate moves all along.
That is a long way to go (hoping it connected at all) to illustrate my point of tonight's blog. Unless I literally cannot get to a computer, I'm going to write something every night as a form of discipline and mental calisthenics. Not sure what I'm training for, I'll let things unfold.
This reminds me of a book I read several years ago called, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long Term Fulfillment. At the end of the book the edict is, "when you get to the top of the mountain, keep climbing." To me that means, keep growing, keep moving, keep learning, keep contributing.
One of the things that this recession has taught me is that sometimes, to keep climbing, you have to change mountains. I'm doing that now.
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