The First Swim of The Year

I had my first swim of the year on Sunday and my second on Monday. Putting aside exceptional situations, whenever I needed a reset or to approach something anew, I always reverted to thoughts of the fundamentals.

Sunday was no different. Standing in front of the pool, I did not have a panic attack, but I did wonder if I could still swim. After all, it had been over three months since I had. What evidence was there that I could still swim, that my body would remember how. When I played golf, my mind would think of feeling the good tempo in my swing. On Sunday, the thought in my head was, "Feel the water."

Feeling the water was my way of jumping back in and focusing on something I wanted to commit to muscle memory as I ramped up my reacquaintance with being in the foreign environment of water.

On Sunday, I was happy to feel the water at any point of my catch and pull. On Monday, though, I wanted to feel the water the whole way through. Also, on Monday, I wanted to ensure I was getting good body rotation while swimming at a slow stroke rate - not just so I had good dynamics but also to give my core a workout ;-)

Strategy, or decision-making as I like to call it, is one of those things that people don't imagine they do every day, though they do. That said, some decisions are more weighty than others. Amid those weighty decisions, it is helpful to go back to a few fundamentals and relax in the water as you reacquaint yourself with somewhere that you feel "out of water."

In upcoming blogs, I will discuss the fundamentals of making decisions: principles, processes, tools, expectations, etc. I look forward to writing these blogs, and I look forward to any thoughts you may have on the subject of making decisions.