The new challenge

I am writing this during the last hour of 2025 home in bed after watching a satisfying final episode of Stranger Things at a movie theatre.

For me, there was one goal for 2025 and due to time, energy, analysis, money, and a bit of luck, I walked up to the first tee at the course on Bethel University on July 5th in the final round of the world championship. Though my mind at that time was focused on a decision made by someone else months previously that in retrospect makes sense, it is now very satisfying knowing my decisions on what to do along with lessons learned from the previous decade allowed me to get there that day.

I was so mentally and physically exhausted following my final round that less than 100 miles on the return trip, I fell asleep at 2PM in my car after putting gas in it causing me to get a hotel.

There was no after plan and combined with unanticipated stress outside work or the course, my body is more broken down than ever. In the 45 minutes since leaving the theatre, I have experienced pain in over a half dozen different places in my body including my right knee which needs to be replaced in an operation that won't be considered by my doctor until my BMI is significantly lower.

Knowing what to do and more importantly to not do is obvious and I have seen the result of someone who succeeded in doing what needs to be done.

Three hours past the time I normally go to sleep is not the ideal moment to develop a working agenda but waking up a half dozen times (including today) the past 7 weeks with spasms in one of my legs causing me to need crutches to make it to the bathroom is a sign of a problem that needs to be solved.