Participation & Engagment

With today being the lunar new year I'm taking a brief looking back on last year.  When I mean brief I do mean brief as there isn't anything I can do about last year.  When I create business reviews for my clients I limit the review on past years business to no more than 15% of my total time.  I'm much more focused on the year in front of my clients than what's behind them.  I can't change the past for my clients so why spend so much time dweling on it? We're focused on what we can do together and the plan for the upcoming year.  Guess what's needed for the plan to succeed?  Yup everyone has to participate and live up to thier commitments that we've made to each other. 

My lack of partcipation with my training and more importantly my team was abysmal.  Because I wasn't participating on a regular basis I started to feel myself pull away and dis engage for long periods of time.  I'd gotten to the point that I was a hairs breath away from throwing in the towel on my Kung Fu journey.  It's hard to admit that becuase Kung Fu has become such a posative part of my life for almost twelve years and yet I was ready to walk away.

When I look back, I can clearly see that most important thing I needed to do was participate more.  I gave myself so many excuses to justify that Kung Fu wasn't for me anymore.  The more I told myself this the more I fell backwards and disengaged even more.  

That's the key to most everything isn't it, partcipating?  Showing up and and taking part with like minded individuals is all I need to stay the course and see the benefits of my Kung Fu.  I just need to make sure that I'm participating but I see it as a key part, no the most important part to staying engaged.  

Mr. Repay