Day One on the Long Road

I must be honest. I've never really taken anything to completion. I'm very easily bored and have a habit of dropping what I'm doing as soon as I develop the feeling that I have 'learned that which I'm trying to learn'. The thing is, lately I've been wondering.

Am I truly moving on to things of greater interest or am I simply avoiding the possibilitly of failure? Perhaps I should explain more clearly.

If I don't follow something through to completion - then I can't possibly fail. I aquire skills that I can claim are not quite 100% because I never really finished the course/training. If I finish what I start then I will have no excuse for being 'almost perfect'.

I am now practising Kyokushin Budokai. I have an opportunity to take something to completion and already the excuses are creeping in; the gradings have been overly simplified, I'll be leaving the country soon, I'm not spending enough time with my family.

Of course, some of these things are not really excuses. They are serious obstacles that are to be dealt with if I wish to progress. So, here and now I make a pledge to myself: "I will not fail. Nothing and no-one will stop me from achieving my goal; 30 men, 30 fights, no protection."

This diary/blog is the first step in ensuring that I acheive that which I have set out to do. If I do not follow my training programme (seen here) then this is the place where I will make my excuses. Making it public by publishing it at http://www.kyokushinbudokai.org/ is just added motivation. I have no intention of embarrassing myself so, I guess I'll be following my programme closely...

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