August 30, 2015
This was a post on my Facebook page today. It seems to sum up my Mastery Test journey so well that I felt I should share it:
"One day she finally grasped that unexpected things were always going to happen in life. And with that she realized the only control she had was how she chose to handle them. So she made the decision to survive using courage, humor and grace. She was the queen of her own life and the choice was hers."
Lupytha Hermin
We have been given many opportunities during this Mastery Test that have challenged us on many levels. I've definitely been taken out of my comfort zone: survival trip, tactical training, repelling and spelunking do not appear on my bucket list of things I need to do for my life to be complete. (In truth, I don't really have a bucket list, but I think you know what I mean.) Those things I expected to be challenging. It's the day to day pitfalls, I wasn't prepared for. Or at least not with the frequency with which they arose. I'm beginning, at last, to feel I have a better grip on them. I have to stay focused in the moment, on what I'm doing in the here and now rather than what comes next. Being present is really the only way to live life fully, yet its hard to do. I am not typically a big picture person and in this instance that serves me well. I can manage the parts and the parts will insure that the whole is complete. If I focus on the whole, I'm lost; it's too big and too impossible.
Before I know it, the actual test weekend will be here. The thought of that makes me a bit nervous, excited, scared and relieved. I intend to be strong and confident and courageously face what that weekend brings. I know that the real test has been all that has come before, the big challenges and the small. I'm doing my Mastery Test even as I write this.
Training 8/24-8/30/2015
Push ups: 1,000
Sit ups: 1,000
Running: 6.43 miles
Cycling: 14.2 miles
Classes: 2 Black Belt, 2 private, 2 stick
Mastery Event: Habitat for Humanity
This weeks push ups and sit ups bring my grand totals from April 2015 to the present to: 19,734 push ups
19, 175 sit ups. Since the first of the year: 25,967 push ups and 25,408 sit ups.
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