Sometimes it can be hard to chart the progress I make in learning things. A blog seemed a good place to be able to look back, see my progress, and note where I can improve. It's about the things I want to cultivate: Tai Chi, Qi Gong, tea, meditation, my love of music, and knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and nutrition.
Tai Chi, Qi Gong, tea, TCM...what is it about this stuff?
- First off, they all make me feel good. They are easy to appreciate from the start.
- The first time I did Qi Gong, I couldn't believe how great I felt.
- I love the dependable lift that tea gives me no matter what the situation, from rainy day blues to big-time heartbreak to just-one-more-hour-and-I'll-have-this-done.
- TCM has literally saved my life (another story for another day).
- To me,Tai Chi is the "everything onion" - limitless delicious layers.
I read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success a few years back - and one of the things that stayed with me is his concept of 10,000 hours of concentrated effort to gain mastery of something. That's a lot of hours, but as it's said, The journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step.
The joy of 1,000 miles? Maybe it looks like this:
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