What I Would Tell Someone Just Starting to Build Their Own Routine
The Question I Get From Younger Friends A few people I know are a year or two out of school, living on their own for the first time, trying to figure out how to structure a day that nobody is structuring for them anymore. They ask some version of the same question: how do you […]
The Small Habit That Changes How the Whole Day Goes
It Is Never the Big Thing Most people assume a good day comes from getting the big things right: the workout, the meeting, the plan you spent all weekend building. In my experience it is almost never that. The big things get attention because they are visible. The small thing that actually sets the tone […]
The Baseball Shortcut That Actually Works (and the One That Wastes Your Time)
A Question About Getting Better Faster Anyone who has spent real time in a batting cage knows the feeling. You take fifty swings, you are tired, and you have no idea if you are better than when you started. I grew up playing baseball, and I spent a lot of hours chasing the feeling of […]
What the First Ninety Days of Taking Golf Seriously Actually Look Like
Before You Pick up a Club Most people decide to get serious about golf after a round that embarrassed them. That was me. I had played casually for years, the kind of golf where you laugh off a bad hole and move on. At some point I decided I wanted to actually get better instead […]
The Workout Belief I Finally Let Go Of
Chasing Soreness For a long time, I measured a good workout by how wrecked I felt the next day. If my legs weren’t shaking on the stairs or my shoulders weren’t locked up, I figured I hadn’t done enough. I’d add extra sets, skip rest days, and tell myself that discomfort was proof of progress. […]