Practice, practice, practice

I took the morning off to attend a golf event with one of our partners that we’ve worked with for a few years. At this point, they’re more friends than business partners and it was great catching up with them.

They branched out from their day jobs almost 10 years ago and started their own firm and have been crushing it lately. They’re smart and entrepreneurial folks. They talk about how it wasn’t always easy for them. They tried a whole bunch of things that failed and went through a lot of growing pains. But that’s what starting a company is like.

After 4 years of golfing, my game is finally at a great point. It wasn’t easy and there were a lot of painful months and years. At many points, I thought that I would never get even decent at golf. I stuck with it and practiced as much as I could while also building a startup.

I’m glad I did as my game is finally starting to come around. I feel very comfortable on the course nowadays. I can confidently go up to a tee box and the ball is finally starting to go where I want it to. It’s not perfect and golf is a game of imperfection, but I’m no longer a hack on the course.

It’s good to see my years of practice finally paying off. There’ll be more setbacks in the future. That’s golf. But I have a swing for the first time ever. It feels similar to that point at a startup where you start to feel just a tad bit more comfortable that things will work out. It feels great.