For the past week, I must admit that I have been dropping the ball when it comes to an online presence. As Sifu Rybak pointed out in her most recent post, I haven’t been active on kwoon talk for almost a week. This implicates the idea that I may not be training, but I have been training. I have been training mindfully, but in a bubble, alone. This means that no one knows what I’m doing. They don’t know if I start to slack. They can’t even be inspired by my training. I realize that this is not a quality of a leader. A leader has to take consistent action, inspire others, and most importantly be a presence. You can’t be a leader from the shadows. I realize now that being a leader has been my biggest struggle this year. Leadership starts with blogging, by letting people know what your current status is in your training. This is one of the many benefits of blogging that I have missed out on in the past couple weeks. Blogging about my journey has been a struggle for me this whole year and I plan on changing that. I am going to blog twice a week approaching the Chinese new year.  

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