If someone offered you a job in which you would make good money to sit around, drink coffee (or whatever) and surf the net for 8 hours a day, you would take it, right? It's like money for nothing.
I had such a job and I walked away from it. I now have a job where I am busy all day - so much so that I can't even log onto f.net for a few minutes. There are plenty of problems, a fair amount of stress, and no end in sight.
I love it!
I am only a week and a half into the new job and I have already done more here than I did in the entire (almost) two years at the previous job. Am I crazy? Yeah, but I am loving it. So what the hell.
I have been fencing well in the club recently - I even beat Chuck twice last Thursday night. His quote to me - "You sure were a lot more fun to fence when you didn't have a plan." (He was being facetious, of course.) My recent entries in this blog have stressed the importance of having a plan when I step off the En Guarde line. I have been working on that intently. When I follow this advice, things go far better than when I don't. Confidence does not come from a meta-physical belief in self or having a positive attitude. Those things help, of course, but true confidence comes from knowing what to do and knowing how to do it.
I have a local tournament coming up on Saturday. It is drawing some good folks. It's a B1 with the potential to go to a B2. I will be putting all this to the test there.
05-07-2008 05:35 PM 