Martial Arts Struggle
I’ve mentioned before that 2020 was a pretty good year for martial arts. Over the course of the summer I got back into JKD, started tai chi, and then got back into wing chun. Summer was easy of course. I had all the time in the world so I had no trouble getting to class. Then I settled into a pretty good schedule once work started back up in September. I went to a wing chun class and a tai chi class during the week followed by JKD on Saturday. I kept this up through about March of this year, then it started to unravel.
Once work started back up I struggled a little with getting everything done. Wake up in the morning, get ready, go to work, go to the gym, go back to work, go to class, go home, get everything ready, go to bed, wake up and do it all again. While I was managing to squeeze everything in I didn’t really have enough free time to do much of anything and I definitely wasn’t getting enough sleep.
Everything started to fall apart in March. Two things happened. First my wing chun class changed times. I was already leaving a little early to make sure I caught the bus and couldn’t really justify missing so much of the class with the later start time. Second I started cooking my lunches and dinners. I wasn’t seeing the results I wanted at the gym and figured subpar diet was the most likely culprit. This added a ton of extra stuff to do after work. The way my schedule was I could still swing tai chi but wing chun was kind of off the table even when the schedule went back to normal.
Fast forward to now and my schedule is much worse and now I can’t usually get to tai chi class either. I’m usually only able to go to weekend JKD class right now. So I went from getting to plenty of classes to almost none. I’m still cooking my own food, I’m back at the gym, and I can get much more sleep now so I’m in a good place physically, but it’s hard not to miss the classes I was going to for the better part of a year.
It seems as I get older I struggle more and more to balance having a job with doing the things that I would like to be able to do. How does everyone else manage to balance their personal and professional lives? Or is it just common knowledge nobody can and I missed the memo? Leave me a comment down below.
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