This is the time of winter when golf progress is pretty much at a stand still because of the weather, but it’s been several weeks, so I thought I ‘d talk about some of the other things I’m working on. Since I started this journey, I’ve always known from day one that fitness and weight loss would be critical.  And truthfully, I’ve struggled. I’ve made gains in the area of fitness that always seem to turn into ups and downs as I improve things and then have down periods like winter or during injuries.  Then, I’m forced to climb the mountain again and regain that lost progress.  I’ve also had trouble losing weight like I want. All until recently, anyway.  Things have really started to fall into place for me over the last few weeks.  As I approach two years at this, I think I finally learned enough to begin to put the pieces together.  I’ve tried many things that haven’t worked, but each setback has forced me to learn something. Currently, I’m down about

A new day dawns.  OK, it’s technically a new year that I’m talking about, but you get my drift. I never like New Year’s resolutions, because usually they’re empty and if you’re going to resolve to improve your life, there’s no good reason to wait until the beginning of a new year.  Do it now! In my case, I had a two week vacation over the Christmas holiday with nothing planned except normal family stuff.  It gave me a lot of time to think about what I want to accomplish this year. After reflecting on the past couple of years, it became clear that I need to improve upon what I’m doing because I’m not making the progress that I’d like (though I have made progress). First off, I need a plan for each area of my life I’m going to improve.  A look at my to-do list and some nudging by The Happy Rock tells me that I neglected creation of a diet plan for quite a while.  I have come to realize that

Improving one’s golf game and maintaining it at a desired level is much like bailing out a sinking boat.  Stop practicing and playing (bailing water) and the boat sinks straight to the bottom.  Since my untimely knee injury in August, my golf game settled down to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Today, I got hold of a robot submarine to scout the condition of my wreck down in the murky deep.  I headed out to the course this afternoon to see where I stand.  I had no intention of keeping score.  I just wanted to play through some holes and hit balls from a variety of situations to see where I’m at. Before I went out, I hit 60 or 70 balls on the range to warm up and try and find my tempo.  I did a little better than I expected.  I took several steps backward from where I was at when I got hurt, but all the things I was working on in August started to come back to me. All in