The Followthrough

In golf they say that your followthrough doesn't matter, that it is everything that you do before you hit the ball that matters. Life is a little bit different.

In life there really isn't a followthrough, there isn't really a before and after. In golf the idea is to hit the ball, everything that comes after that is just a result. In life, you live out your result. It doesn't just stop, there isn't a conclusion, just whatever comes next. 

I used to be in pretty good shape. When I moved from Santa Barbara to here I weighed 185. I remember thinking then that I had a long way to go to get where I wanted; I look back on that now and wish that I could be so lucky as to have such aspirations. 

I look at where I was and the goals that I had for myself, and see that I kind of gave up. I came up with other goals, realized that I wasn't in a bad place, and moved on. I didn't follow through though, and I fell down a lot further than I wanted to.

I find myself now heartily determined to claw myself back to where I was, and further. 

So in life we may not have goals as clear as hitting a golf ball, but we do have waypoints. Goals that are met and then simultaneously re-established. Well I have set a few for myself and I am determined to be well on my way.