04/14/2026
I haven’t touched my dragon staff in over a month. Life got in the way, and then I lost discipline.
Part of why I haven’t practiced was because I didn’t want to feel like I was starting over, like I had lost my ability to flow with precision.
Ironically, pushing everything to later could only hurt me more than if I had just started now.
So today, I decided to bring my dragon staff out, and even if I knew I would probably feel rusty, I still chose to push myself.
And in the midst of practice, I let go of perfection. I remembered that it wasn’t that serious, and that only through practice could I come back to a routine, becoming better one day at a time.
This practice session not only brought me back to the present moment, but also led me to “create” a new move, something I can now continue to practice.
The lesson I got today was that oftentimes, when something feels difficult to achieve, it is not only easier than the story we’ve told ourselves, but we also discover outcomes we would have never come across if we hadn’t given ourselves that push.
Push yourself, and you will see that the weight keeping you still was never that heavy after all.
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