May Thoughts - 2026

In my training, I enjoy pursuing skills like one arm handstands, which take years of practice to learn and are incredibly fun to do once you have them. This particular skill requires loads of flexibility compared to the average person’s abilities, so I spend a lot of time developing the splits, for example, as well.

Showing the training methods and demonstrating the results creates downstream effects of attention and interest in teaching, but none of this - the skills nor the attention - is the purpose of the training.

The purpose comes from something else - the process. Journeying towards a challenge is, well, challenging. It requires something from ourselves above and beyond who we are today. It also requires that we connect with something inside ourselves that is already there, but is too often ignored. Presence and attention to detail.

A relaxed focus that allows us to discard the unnecessary, so that we can focus on one thing. It’s not aggressive. You can’t force it with intensity. Simply get out of your own way. Recognize that everything except what is right in front of you is a distraction. Shiny objects fighting for your energy and diluting your focus down to the point where it becomes inert.

Learn to cultivate this awareness. To realize there is a time for planning, or learning, and a time for doing. That we cannot do everything at once, and attempting to do so is not only futile, but detrimental to our performance. 

Inevitably, this process becomes an allegory for life. How we do anything is how we do everything. What we do in training, our approach and our consistency, becomes a reflection of who we are in life.