Ten o’clock on a
Saturday night and I fall into bed exhausted.
Surely I will fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. Wrong!
I fall into bed alright but instantly my mind starts racing. The end of March on my mind, the date to have
version 1 of our weapons forms ready. Yikes! So instead of sleep I found myself trying to
visualize just what I could do with this weapon. Trying not to wake Darcy by flopping around
with a pretend bokken and scared that by morning I wasn’t going to remember
these cool midnight thoughts, I got up and stumbled in the dark for a piece of
paper and an pen and scribbled what I was sure was true brilliance!
Well morning
came and as I tried to decipher my own writing and grabbed my bokken, things
didn’t flow and work together quite as well as they did in the middle of the
night. Okay, back to square one, that’s
alright, it’s a process.
Not that I can
afford to or like losing sleep, but deadlines work for me. Having a date set puts intentions and plans
into motion and gets things done. Knowing
that I have a team that is holding me accountable helps light the fire a little
hotter. I believe in order for goals to
be successful a date or deadline is needed.
Any open ended plan gives room for excuses and kills motivation; making
plans, goals and intentions easy to put to the side for later or permanently.
Most of this year’s
team are returning from past years and know that this is just the beginning. The expectation isn’t to have this perfected
and final product but rather the opportunity to show that we are following
through with our commitments and are engaged with what we have set out to do
this year. With a team this
size each having their own unique, imaginative and possible ideas, I look
forward to seeing each one of the roosters version 1, especially those frying
pans!
Alana Regier
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