renos and stuff

This week was renovations and clean up at the kwoon and I was more involved this year than any others. It was a great experience, I got to know people that I hardly ever talk to. My girls had a great time running around the place doing odd jobs and goofing around with their Sifus and instructors, there are some awesome people at Silent River and I'm glad my kids have the opportunity to have them as role models. It was also pretty great to be part of the reason that Silent River is looking amazing right now. The week off of kung fu has not been great for keeping up my motivation. Going to class and being around like minded people is a big motivator.
So on a completley different note I was thinking about how what people expect from you is related to what they are capable of. Like someone who can only do 1 pushup is going to be pretty impressed with someone who can do 50....but if someone has never done a pushup they have no appreciation of how hard it can be to get up to doing 50 pushups. Or if someone you work with does a half baked job of what they do, they won't really mind if you do a half baked job too. I think that I would like to set my standards higher and stop being ok with mediocre effort from people, no matter what it is.