Birthdays as new years

I decided to take the weekend off this week since it is my birthday and a bit of a mental and physical break would probably do me some good right about now.  Looking back at The Plan since it began April 15, I’m really happy with the amount of training I have been able to put in and the progress I’ve made thus far.  Looking ahead, I’d like to think that come June 27, 2011, I will have finished 2,000 hours of training.  At least.  It’s a bit of a lofty goal seeing as 2,000 hours is what a full-time (40 hours a week) employee does in a year and I’m only counting the hours that I’m literally golfing (breaks don’t count, neither does driving to and fro, workouts, my daily  hour of cognitive exercises nor does reading about or researching golf swings) .  But, if I can get in an average of 32.7 hours a week then I’ll successfully be at 2,000.  To sum it up, I’m going to try and get in six hours a day for five days every week and then about two or three on my sixth day; all of those hours will, by definition of deliberate practice, have to be with full concentration, too.

And this means…  Not a whole lot has changed, but I think it is refreshing and important to step aside and evaluate your progress in life from time to time.  It seems easy to do this around New Year’s, but seeing as I have a June birthday, I might as well take some notes every six months or so to make sure I’m heading in the right direction.  I’m excited to see what 2,000 hours of deliberate practice does to my golf game over the next year and think that 31 years old is going to be a great age to do some golfing!

For now, time to step aside for the next 36 hours, take a mental vacation, eat some cake and perhaps do a bit of yard work if the time allows..