The more you move, the deeper you sink…
Sometimes it feels to me like I’m stuck in quicksand.
I’m very busy all the time, but it doesn’t feel like I’m very productive.

I get a lot done every day, but I’m not sure if it is actually advancing me as a person…
Or any of my goals and dreams.

Maybe life is more like sports than we realize.
When we start a new sport, we start at the bottom and have to work our way to the top.
And that normally takes a lot of time and effort.

In the training process there is a lot of repetition.
At the time of training and repetition it may seem and feel boring and unnecessary.
And then on game day you start to realize the value of the training and repetition.

Lets use martial arts as an example.
You start off as a white belt and work your way up to black belt.
To advance from the one belt to the next one needs to go through a grading process to demonstrate that you have mastered everything that you were taught at that level.

Then all of a sudden the the repetitions make sense.
I understand now why in week 3 of this amazing MKE journey we see the extract from Karate Kid where Danial questions Mr Meagi’s teaching methods.

Wax on, wax off!
Wax on, wax off!
Wax on, wax off!

And then Mr Meagi shows Daniel the value of the seemingly unimportant repetition.
Brilliant!
Absolutely brilliant!
So maybe I’m not really stuck in quicksand.

I might just be in the repetition phase in preparation for the next grading or the next tournament.
I guess the only thing left to do, is to keep on keeping on!
Failure will never overtake me. if my determination to succeed is strong enough!