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	<title><![CDATA[Four Weeks to First Kyu]]></title>
	<body><![CDATA[Today marks the beginning of the four-week countdown to my first kyu exam on March 9. I spent the afternoon training with friends :D , and the evening discussing training strategies, among other things, over dinner.

I’ve been training with my exam in mind for a good while, but the date has seemed safely distant, off in the future sometime. I haven’t been too concerned with things that aren’t smooth, or for that matter that I hardly know it all, because it felt like there was a lot of time left. No worries. I’ve been dealing with a funky nerve in my neck and arm, fighting various colds  and coughs, :yuck:  and trying to get my first book finished and published. Just show up and train, there’s no rush… But now suddenly it doesn’t feel like I have much time at all! :crazy:  This is the time to snap out of that “whenever” thinking, and instead begin to bring a good bit more attention, precision, and fullness to everything. Now. 

I have technique notes written down here and there, and a few scribbles about things I need to work on. :confused:  I will feel more secure once I have them in one place, with a clear list of the things I really need help with. 

But first, I promised I would finish another blog post, about counting to 31 in Japanese. So that’s next, and then getting all my notes together in one place. Ready? Acck! Go!]]></body>
	<date>02-11-2013</date>
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