Day One: How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterwards

I may have mentioned something about getting surgery on my foot and assuming I would bleed everywhere. You can imagine my disappointment when this turned out to be the case - plus a mixture of leaving my car keys in town when my car was on the Shore and the anesthetic having fully worn off meant that going to work seemed like too much of a challenge. Good thing TBT has nothing to do with work....

Fitness: Today has been a rest day from the gym

Aikido: I meant to participate in both the Fundamentals and Advanced classes this evening but protocol dictates it's rude to knowingly bleed on the tatami. Instead I went and watched, as Senesi says this is still meaningful as observing the techniques can be very helpful. Sempai Alicia also gave me the Cheng Hsin Winter news letter, many things in it I quite enjoyed (especially the bits about Consciousness, Awareness, Integrity and Motivation), the below was quite poignant.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.

Kinda like a public blog about self transformation...?  Aside from that I have my Kagami Biraki for Aikido on Saturday and it's important I attend and contribute. Fortunately my grade have chosen jo work so I was able to use the jo to hobble about the dojo and we went through our demo. Simply attending our important calander dates is part of my dedication to Aikido and fortunately even being physically incapacitated I can still maintain my attendance.

Derby: No skating today. Also, the reason I got the surgery on my foot was so my skates would stop killing my feet and I could put more rink hours in without increasing pain issues.

Diet: I was kinda napping from 6.30am till 3pm due to feeling like utter crap and varying levels of pain and itchiness that kept me effectively hobbled so I've only had cake and dinner today. I wanted to eat better to assist healing (like how I ate six meals a day after my bike accident, I recovered pretty quick) but utter fail on that account. I rightly feel bad about this because it will have compromised my 'rest day' from the gym and not helped my recovery at all.

Sleep: Napping all day is not ideal but considering the situation I don't feel like I've missed out, but neither do I feel like I achieved what I wanted. Over sleeping left me lethargic (or it might have been the surgery) but I think if I had kept myself awake and busy from 10am today might have played out better. And now it's past 11pm - I should have gone to bed 20 minutes ago...

So not the roaring success I had hoped to start off with but I am physically compromised at the moment. I was getting agitated thinking about the TBT but not actioning it - and part of successfully achieving my goals will be incorporating times such as these where I can't push all the boundaries at once.