I'm getting used to our new dojo space. We've started the new year off with a bang: 11 new students in our adult white belt course — a record! We also launched our Little Dragons program over the weekend, with more than 20 kids — and their parents — coming to the dojo for a trial class.
I'm excited to see such rapid growth. Even our yoga classes are finally gaining some traction! At the same time, though, as the Chief Instructor at the dojo, I suddenly find myself agonizing over a thousand minute details that I'd never really considered before: traffic flow inside the dojo, fingerprints on the windows, the number of pens and clipboards at the front desk, the cleanliness of the bathrooms, the current thermostat setting...
I can't possibly handle all the details myself. While I know that organization is the key, I'm also learning all about letting go, and I'm relying more and more on my capable staff to take charge, and to get things done. It's a great lesson for me — really!
Letting go, trusting others, not obsessing too much, being open and flexible, missing self-imposed deadlines, letting some things break, being okay with imperfection, going with the flow, enjoying the process and not just the product — THIS is my Ultimate Black Belt Test. And it feels as though I'm a White Belt all over again.
This is a test full of lessons you would think that as a veteran Black Belt, I would have learned a long time ago! I think I'll share these points with my new crop of White Belts...
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