People should invest in their physical and mental health more as they unanimously work together.

I’ve been forcing myself to walk 10,000 steps or more every day. The first couple days I did felt awful. I’m not gonna lie. 

It was kind of hard because I was like “oh my gosh, this takes so much time”. Or “ man, I feel a little bit winded just from walking”. It was honestly embarrassing and I was irrationally scared to admit that. 

“Being weak is nothing to be ashamed of. Staying weak is”. 

Why was I embarrassed to be honest with myself and other others? I’ve even had this quote as my background picture of my profile for years. Maybe, I was just projecting that I was ashamed and didn’t want to admit it.

Now I find myself randomly walking around the house in circles without realizing it. What I’m trying to say is it doesn’t feel like a chore anymore it’s just something that’s a part of my life now. 

I found i’m becoming more creative with my thoughts. I’m sure this also has to do with me not working nearly as much (this is why you should also invest in your mental health and make sure you are mentally good. I most definitely was not).

Walking a lot makes it so I can’t easily distract my brain with something easy like, sitting on the couch and consuming TV and not getting anything out of it.

I also found it’s relatively easy to walk and study Japanese on my phone. Or passively study by listening to Japanese music by trying to actively listen for words I know. You can do this really easily while walking.

Since I can remember, I’ve been pretty sedentary.
 
Yes, I worked out and did acrobatics, but I never really focused on the fundamentals like walking or even having a consistent workout routine.

For example, I would go lift or go flip around, then sit down and do nothing. Didn’t focus on my diet at all. Just ate a bunch of junk food. Sure, I ate chicken and sometimes some vegetables but I never ate well consistently. (this is something I’m really working on in man, It is difficult).

It’s probably why I never improved as fast as a lot of my peers with my acrobatics. 

It took me about four years to learn how to backflip. Partially, because I was terrified of them, but I was so physically unfit that when I was 13 or 14 I had around a 2 inch vertical. Could’ve jumped higher If when I simply just was more active. 

I was always kind of embarrassed that most people learned things much faster than me but I was always proud of myself when I successfully did a new move or something.

Now that I’m focusing more on my total well-being, I believe I’m going to get much better at acrobatics and grow on this platform more.

I’m really proud of this video that I made because I didn’t do any acrobatics for around four months and I didn’t workout consistently for at least three years.

This video shows my starting point of 2025. I was so happy doing these moves, even though they are all relatively basic and almost anyone could learn these in a few months if they put their mind into it.

It showed all of my work that I did wasn’t for nothing even though my journey has not been efficient.

Now that I have more free time and I have no excuses to not be the best I can possibly can.

I will become great.