The End Draws Near

I should have known, but it was still a bit of a shock when Sifu Brinker announced that there are only 8 weeks left of the UBBT 6. Eight weeks!? Wow! Where did the last year go? I rushed home and got all my numbers together to see where I stood in my own personal requirements. Some are good, some great, and some...well, not so great, and some...absolutely terrible.

I am behind in my pushups, but it is not yet a lost cause. I should still be able to catch up. I'm not as far along with my biking/walking as I thought I was. I actually thought for sure that I was finished and going just that "extra km". Not so, but I am close. I shouldn't have any trouble reaching my 2,000km goal.

I plan to finish my 300 repetitions of kempo this week. I am only 13 reps away. I feel that I made this requirement a bit too easy, and it didn't really take a whole lot of effort to reach 300. I plan to continue to do kempo right up through the next 8 weeks.

I have completed 8 written assignments about my personal accomplishments. I guess I need to get busy and accomplish something else in the next 2 months. But what.....? As far as my written assignments on heroes, I am only 1/2 done. I love to write, so once I choose my heroes, it won't be tough to do the written part. I just need to sit down and ponder on the heroes in my life and who has made a large influence on this personal journey of mine, or in the lives of others.

I am quite pleased with the acts of kindness. I think of this every day and it isn't hard at all to reach out to others at least 3 times a day. I know that my community is much more aware of doing acts of kindness now than they were before I first started this assignment. People at church and work talk about it all the time. Service plays a large part in my church community and people are constantly doing things to help others.

I am happy to say that I have completed my requirement of meditating for 30 minutes a week. Once I got into a routine of doing at least 5 minutes of meditation every night before bed, it became easy to reach 30 minutes a week. I believe strongly that meditation is a very important part of my daily health.

I haven't memorized my poem yet, but I have found one that I want to focus on. It shouldn't take too much to memorize it.

My big downfalls are sparring and Ju jitzu. I only have 2 hours of ju jitzu which is a long ways from 30. And 23 rounds of sparring is even further away from my goal of 300. So it all comes down to do or die. Or...die doing, in order to finish all my requirements in the next 8 weeks. I don't want to give up or give in. Even if I know I will never complete a particular requirement, I will still work on it and get as close to my goal as I can. I have never been a quiter, and I don't intend to be one now.