Clearing Away the Funk

I have been off for the past few days. Not as in off work but rather just kind of out of my normal flow. I think a variety of forces were working together in this conspiracy. I pulled a hamstring in my martial arts class on Monday, this prevented me from running for a couple of days. So I was off my routine. Then at my class I have been getting information from different people that is not all together consistent, or correct. So I was building up some stress on to how to best deal with this situation. My work has been a bit more intense lately and that has also added to my flow being a bit stifled. At heart, I am a problem solver. I am not the sort of person you come to if you just want someone to listen.

So I looked at the issues and mostly they are stemming from my martial arts training. I feel a bit off, nothing wrong with that on occasion. There are ebbs and flows in all aspects of life. This is just a bit of an ebb. However, what to do about the contradiction in training? Can be problem really. I think I will respectfully thank the person for any input and weigh it against what I know. Of course, I will do things their way while I am training with them for that time period. The bottom line, I train for self defense purposes, not to look pretty. I can evaluate information pretty well in this realm. So I won't stress the inconsistencies, I will just take the information weigh it and then throw out what is not useful to the main goal, self defense. I may look stupid to those who keep telling me the same thing but I am beyond caring too much about those sorts of things. I also don't care much about belts. So the big problem is solved. I will break it down into a flow chart in my mind.

1. Does it work/ is it effective? Y/N if N dump if Y keep

As to work, the stress generated is a bit out of my control. Yet, we are in control of how much we allow things to have an impact on us. I hadn't run since Monday, that was part of the problem. I ran today and was able to melt off some stress and for the first time since Monday I felt fine. So the problem with work is the problem we all face, deadlines, work flow, and balancing life outside of work. I just need to stop and do some exercise when I feel things building up a bit. OK, problem solved.

Right now I feel 150% better than I did on Tuesday. Sometimes we get in a funk, we just have to realize we are there and why we are there. After that cleaning the thing up usually isn't too tough.