Taking On Another Project
Am I finally losing the plot?
There’s something I’ve been wanting to talk about here for several weeks but it was under wraps until my coach Leigh was back from his three month stint teaching Jiu Jitsu in the Bahamas.
While there he was offered a three year contract to open and coach at a new gym, starting in September. He asked if any of his coaches wanted to take over his gym here or he’d be closing up at the end of the year.
Desperately not wanting to lose the gym but knowing I couldn’t run it alone, I asked if two of the other coaches would join me in a collaborative effort to keep the gym open. They agreed and Leigh accepted.
There are still a lot of details to iron out and it’s possible it never actually happens but I’m excited to see if the three of us can make it work. The other two coaches will take on the majority of the coaching, I will cover them when needed, we’ll keep our current MMA coach and I’ll continue to run the Sunday open mat.
Open Projects
Online cooking course
E-commerce website
YouTube channel
Part time job
Bus conversion
Writing newsletters, blogs & magazine features
Trying to stay fit & healthy
Running a Jiu Jitsu gym
Just felt I didn’t have enough going on in my life already and how hard can running a gym be? 😏
Cooking Course
Spent the better part of two days filming and cooking for the Curries & Stews video but for some reason, even though my iPhone syncs to the cloud and I have almost a TB of space left there, it kept saying storage was full and wouldn’t film. With all the food prepped and ready I had to do the best I could with my Sony ZV-1 and my old iPhone 11 but I don’t have enough footage for the video and will need to do it all again.
Have spent a huge amount of time going through my iCloud account deleting photos and footage to free up space and I’m not done yet.
Bus Conversion
Feel like I’ve worked quite a bit on the bus this week but still nothing very photo worthy yet. More cleaning and painting the cab area and specifically the dashboard. Discovered a pretty huge and quite skittery spider lives in the corner of the dash. At this point, why bother evicting? He’ll probably be dead by the time I actually need him out.
The Grapple Travel Show
Finished the main edit so now only the intro and outro to film and add. Really need to be in the right mood for filming that, plus I’m trying to get a bit more done on the bus first and also need the right weather conditions.
Next Week…
Kind of weather dependent but if dry and still then I’ll film the intro and outro for the show.
If wet and/or windy then I’ll film more cooking for the course.
Waiting on a couple of craft supplies but if they arrive in time I want to make the journal prototype.
Hoping my hips allow me to get back to training. I rarely take more than one week off for anything.
Hope your body and mind are both holding up and allowing you to do what you want to do. Have a great week!
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PLANT BASED STUFF
Cooking Course - Restaurant Quality Plant Based Meals at Home
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JIU JITSU STUFF
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