Keep track, keeping score and continuous improvement

I’ve been playing golf for over 20 years now. Let me qualify that because in reality I’ve only been swing a club and hit balls for the past 19 years, I started actually playing the sport of golf this year. It’s only when you start keeping a scorecard that you are actually playing golf. By doing so you get the real appreciation on how you are doing and hopefully improving.

This revelation occurred just this past Sunday. For the past eight years my wife has picked up the sport of golf.  Her and three  long time friends took lessons and began to play each Sunday morning. For the past four years I been the spare if one of the foursome couldn’t make it. I didn’t keep score since I was just a filler. The past two years, as people moved and changed careers, I became a regular on the tour. This Sunday morning as I stared down the long par 5 I actually felt that this 465 yard was manageable. The distance hasn’t changed since we started playing the course but on this day I visualized my 230 yard drive, my 160 yard fairway shot then my chip and putt, and I said I could do this; well it was 2 chip shots and 2 putts; it was a boogie not a birdie. Keeping track made all the difference.

Keep your Health, while you got it.

In another time my age would be considered old. Not to say that I am young, I think I’m middle-aged. My mother-in-law and father-in-law are in their 80′s and they are still very active. My mother-in-law takes week long bike trips that cover 75 km a day, my father-in-law still works as a human resources consultant. They are both physcial and mental well and contributing socially. What once was old is now middle-age and seniors are as active now as ever. The boomer generation is living longer and contributing more than ever.

When it comes to old-age we all hope to get there, the alternative is unattractive. And we want to retain both our physcial and mental health. We expect it, just as we expected to go to university, start a professional career, buy a house, raise a family and see them start their own education and begin their careers as well. And as we get older the last thing we want is to suffer ill health and become a burden to our family and society. But as I said we all will eventually get there, it is just a question of when?

Staying healthy is a goal for all of us. Stay young at heart, that is, keep it pumping. Stay mentally active, keep learning new things. It really is that simple.

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