no swing advice from me—I don’t know the first thing about golf, and more importantly, I don’t know nearly enough about where you’re at. So a question or a request, as you like.

What you’re going through right now, plateauing at a level you’re not satisfied with, uncertainty as to the cause of the problem (I’m saying this on the basis of reading in the 10,000 countdown section that you think it might be mental, which presumably is a change in perspective), and corresponding uncertainty about how to make progress, is probably one of the most important reasons for people to either never start out on a project of self-invention like you’re undertaking or to quit while they’re in its early stages.

So as a long-time reader and sporadic commenter, it’d be interesting to read the regular and more or less unfiltered day-to-day ways you’re dealing with your situation. I can imagine (though here, too, I admit that I don’t know your situation) that it’s tempting to want to post a more complete narrative. “Here’s the problem. Here’s how I solved it. It was hard work, but it was worth it, etc.” But the day-to-day grind probably isn’t this neat, and it’d be great to see how you make it through that grind, including giving up in frustration for a day or two to work on other stuff, the doubt, the rays of hope, the false start, and so on.

Keep on keeping on.