Dr. Addicott to the rescue

I am in a university program right now and Dr. Addicott, although not the most exciting lecturer around, has become one my favorite professors. He has a really special way of teaching some incredibly important, yet intangible aspects of the job that have proven to be helpful to both me and my clients. Not to sound cheesy or anything, but I didn't quite appreciate just how important positive feedback was until I went through one of Dr. Addicott's exercises that is designed to demonstrate how powerful it can be.

I go into all that because of a revelation I had on the track today. I am being way too negative about my Pose progress. Dr. Addicott would be appalled if I was even a quarter as hard on my clients as I am being on myself when it comes to learning Pose. So I have decided to adapt the aforementioned exercise that Dr. Addicott designed, and focus on the positive. (In the original exercise, you're not allowed to say anything negative about your progress in learning this particular difficult-to-learn skill. I might want to make the occasional critical comment.)

So, I can do the Pony with my arms totally relaxed without my even thinking about it. I can stand in the Pose stance for 25 seconds really easily. I can run short distances without any pain in my shins. These are all improvements.

Today I did some drills at the track in American Samoa. It's so weathered, that it looks black from a distance, but I realized that it was actually a red all-weather track at some point. The track is super torn up, but so is just about everything else around here, when it comes to public facilities of any kind. I will post pictures sometime this week.