Legacy

I am four days and 18 miles into a virtual marathon, the target being 26 miles in 7 days.  This is without a doubt the most running I have even done in a week.  Its hard work but a great way to motivate me to kickstart my 2021 fitness drive.  If I don’t break myself I may enter each month to keep the momentum until the UK comes out of Covid restrictions and I can look at some real events to enter.

I can’t remember how we ended up on the topic, most of my effort goes into moving my legs and breathing and making sure neither stops happening, but he told me how the though of death terrifies him.  I can relate to that feeling as I suspect most people can.  The conversation then moved on to making a difference, leaving a legacy.  As a police office, my friends job makes a real difference every day to peoples lives.  I lack that feeling in my day job.  I don’t expect hospital wings to be named after me, but I would like to be able to look back periodically through my life (why wait until ones death bed when its too late to make adjustments or to really appreciate your achievements) and think..yes, I have given something back.  Helping others can have a massive positive impact on your mental wellbeing.

This is one of the reasons that Kickboxing is such an important part of my life.  It has done so much to support my growth in confidence, but it also allows me to give something back.  To help students achieve their goals.  It gives me a good balance against my day job that by far pays the bills.  I think this is also the reason that the degree course I selected to study this year is psychology with counselling.  It give me another potential opportunity to help people.  In an ideal life I would combine the Kickboxing and the counselling to offer a way to improve someones…Total Wellbeing.  Maybe, just maybe a plan is slowly coming together.

Tonight is the first kickboxing lesson of 2021, and we are back to being 100% online.  A lot of students struggle with this, but we have to keep going and hold on to the fact that there are now vaccines being rolled out…fingers crossed the government does not again over promise and under deliver on this one.

Friday would have been my Dads 78th birthday.  This will be the first one since his death and no doubt another day of reflection.  It will also I hope help keep me motivated to keep improving myself, developing my 6 year plan and executing it.