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Halfway Through 2022: Reflections and Goals For the Next 6 Months
If you had told me in January.
I don’t usually feel great about reminiscing over the past, but the past 6 months have been crazy.
At the beginning of this year, I’d never competed against a black belt in Jiu-Jitsu. My first match of the year was against a black belt, and one of my first 10 matches was against one of the top-ranked black belts in the world.
We didn’t really “ease” into this year. We got right to it.
After I missed and underperformed at some of the biggest tournaments in the world last fall, I felt really hungry to get out there and showcase my skills as much as possible this year.
I was also really motivated to get to a place where I could Jiu-Jitsu and blog full-time. At the beginning of the year, I was doing a lot of copywriting for clients of about 10 different businesses, in addition to training 2–3 times per day and writing daily on Medium and Quora.
Honestly, I figured that by doing these “non Jiu-Jitsu” gigs I was decreasing the quality of my training and that I was going to struggle in competition until I made the jump into full-time training.
In the end, that didn’t happen.
