#Storm April 25
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April 2026 will take a slightly different approach to the 30-Day Challenge. Each day of the month, I’ll be participating in the 30-Day Tai Chi Coach4aday Challenge. What will be different this time is that my daily posts won’t be limited to that day’s exercises—I want the freedom to share more spontaneous and wide-ranging thoughts along the way.
I will still include the focus of each day’s Tai Chi routine, but much of what I write may explore topics far removed from exercise. Just as Tai Chi is designed to improve flexibility, I hope my writing reflects that same sense of openness and adaptability each day. For Day 25 my thoughts are on lessons a STORM teaches us.
“Tai Chi” 30 Day Challenge
Searching online for a 30-Day program brought me face to face with lots of options but I have chosen a plan led by Dr Alan Potts PT. You can download the schedule I am utilizing at this link.
It looks like this
Challenge Guidelines
- View the daily video and mirror what you see.
- Complete all 30 daily exercises
Day 25-Tai Chi For Better Sleep
Alan’s Day 25 lesson can be viewed below
April 25th-Storm
Currently North Carolina is in the midst of a drought. It has been almost two weeks since any significant rain has occurred in my region of the state. Eventually that will end and it might involve being resolved with a STORM.
One life lesson I seem to have mastered is being early—or at least punctual. That habit often paid off, especially at work, where arriving early meant I could park close to the entrance. Back in 2014, that same routine ended up paying an unexpected dividend when a storm rolled through.
On this particular Friday over a decade ago I was faced with running the 50 feet from my office door to my car during a terrible storm. My colleagues who arrived later in the day faced journeys double or triple that distance. The storm included torrential rain and hail. Nestled inside my car I watched my colleagues turn into drowned rats who had to navigate the longer distance. Umbrellas did not provide them defense against the wind, rain, and hail. My habit to start my day early paid off in mitigating some of the impact of the storm.
There was a secondary lesson on this encounter with bad weather. Driving east home out of the storm the sun began to set in the west and revealed a wonderful rainbow. It made me think that sometimes in life we don’t realize that old adage.
“That no storm can outlast the sun”.
When we start a journey in the midst of a storm, we need to remind ourselves if we persist, we will eventually see a rainbow. Located below is the one I saw back in 2014.
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