Random Acts of Kindness for the week so far

Monday

Let elderly get on the bus before me when it was raining x 3

Woke up early to make sure Chelsey was on time

Helped Chelsey find supplies she needed for class

called friend to wish her a happy birthday

Tuesday


Woke up early to make sure Chelsey was on time

Did Chelsey's taxes for her

Brought home supper for Chelsey

Offered up my seat on the train to elderly gentleman

Wednesday

Woke up early to make sure Chelsey was on time (not sure if this is random by the third time)

Made Chelsey supper when she was really tired

Helped Coworker catch the right train home.

And as an act of kindness to myself I did a class of hot yoga and got all stretched out.

Held door for someone

As important as the acts of kindness are there where several opportunities that I missed where at the time I was to in my own head and not being aware.

missed acts:
offering my seat up on the bus to those older then me x2
making breakfast for Chelsey before her early morning classes
And probably a dozen more that I was not even aware of.

Sihing Craig Janzen

engagement

It feels like forever since I last blogged and though it has only been a month, that is an unacceptable amount of time. Engagement is something that I have been really struggling with this year and not blogging has further distanced me with the kwoon and my team. It was easier to stay engaged when I was still in Alberta because I was seeing the team on an almost daily basis. In class I would get encouragement or be pushed when needed and I was able to communicate in person with everyone else. Though I was still reading blogs and mostly kind of keeping up with writing my own it seemed that it wasn't quite as necessary. An incredibly wrong way of thinking about this for two reasons. 

1) the blog is not only to share your experiences but to also act as a journal that you can look back on. It's hard to notice progress sometimes unless you have a reference point and it is even harder to remember the past. To prove this try and remember your day three days ago what did you do and how did you feel chances are your already forgetting a lot of details. 

2) secondly this helped to establish a lazy habit towards journalling that like I said have been struggling with for this year.

So where am I at so far in the year? I'm at a point where I can give up having technically failed a couple of my requirements. Go on living a disconnected life completely unengaged and progressively waste several years of training and the benefits that went along. But I refuse to quit because I am stubborn and I refuse to accept mediocrity because I have higher aspirations for myself. 

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.Mark Twain