comfort

I'm going to mix it up a bit this week, not totally by choice though.  My daughter has lacrosse skills training this week at night for 2 1/2 hours, my prime training time, so I won't make my usual training.  I don't mind so much.  She enjoys lacrosse and wants/knows she has to step her game up if she wants more playing time when the season rolls around.  To facilitate this she does her summer skills camp, and will play in her winter leagues when they start.  I'm kinda glad she enjoys sports (she also plays soccer aka football) and competition and am also glad she doesn't mind stepping out of her comfort zone with her friends and joining a league or two where she probably won't know anyone.  

Tomorrow I will go in early and then take a long lunch.  Friday I will take a half day to get my training in and then go relax the rest of the day.  Training will be more fun and sort of new for me this week because of this change.  I will get the chance to roll with people I usually don't see or know since I typically train at night and they during the day.  It will be an opportunity (hopefully) to use some of the technique which I have been practicing on people who might not have seen me attempt them.  To help fill out my arsenal, its been top game, passing and this one sweep (He was standing right next to me at the NY Open, I should have just asked him lol).  His students did invite me to stop in his academy and since I've never minded stepping out of my comfort zone I probably will.  In the past I have managed to get myself to training at Atos in SD, Alliance Marcelo Garcia in NYC, an Alliance gym in Ireland and just about every gym in my area at least once.  

Step out of your comfort zone, work on your weaknesses, try something new.  The fastest way to get comfortable in an uncomfortable situation is to keep putting yourself there,  Sooner or later it will be second nature.