Busy Busy August

A busy August following the eventful week!

The project that I am entrustred to started full swing and I worked like a bee...relentlessly working from 8.00AM to 10.00PM on every weekdays! On top of that I had signed up for the Nationals Tournament for Taekwondo! What an experience!

For a long time, I had not in the shoes of a fighter in Taekwondo. The discipline of training and bond of friendships created from the trainings has been absent for years...It was really a pleasure to re-experience all these. Thank you Soo Ee, Jianfa, Jun Hong and Cai Ling. Thank you my lovely wife, who encouraged, supported and cheered for me, MUACKS!

It's also been an experience to be in shoes of player, trusting the coach who sits in a corner watching, observing, analysing and advising what's the best move to use. Thank you Jun Ming for the time and confidence in me. Altho we did not win the match, I am sure you gained wonderful experience as well. Hope I did not let you down.

Through the preparation and the tournament, I learnt alot about myself. Games are often a reflections of behavior...And I am not quite happy with my behavior. I learnt that even though I had improved myself, being more disciplined, less procastination in making decisions and taking action, I found I only put in 99% of my effort.

Come to look back, I really do have the skill, strength, knowledge, experience to win this tournament, yet I only won the 1st round. I lack of that 1% desire and commitment to win. Probably I went into the match without setting my intention right. I just wanted to enjoy the matches and to have fun training.

I even go through the tournament with only minor bruises on my insteps. Maybe kick too hard, *Hahaha*. Hopefully my opponents had recovered blocking those kicks...Well played boyz.

Well, back to the lesson...Lacking that 1% I learnt is like playing football. It took effort to have successfully overcome obstacles and tackles from the midfielders and defenders and I am about to kick the ball into the net to score, I just had fun dribbling and pass the ball back to the goalkeeper. Maybe I had fun but the end result is still NO score!

I am glad and grateful to have the metaphysical to learn from this situation and put in the extra 1% in my life. Hope by sharing, I have inspired you to put in 1 more percent in your life!