Category: progress

No more errors

August 7, 2007 | 2 comments

My wife and I played mixed doubles in a local tennis tournament this past weekend. We had a great time and I learned a valuable lesson about not giving into error. While playing in the finals for the consolation round,

Always an open door

July 29, 2007 | No comments yet

“When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” ~ Alexander Graham Bell

My fear is gone

May 5, 2007 | 7 comments

The most amazing transformation has happened in my tennis playing this week. In my blog last Monday, I logged the death knell of my lifelong fear of not being able to successfully do anything sports related. Well, the payoff this

Keep your eye on the ball

April 30, 2007 | 4 comments

We did it! My USTA team placed number one in our division this weekend, and the whole gang is excited about advancing to districts competition a month from now. Hooray! As any of my regular readers know, winning the highest

Don’t take on another’s resentment

April 24, 2007 | 7 comments

I made the most fascinating discovery last week about not letting another’s resentment become my resentment. On my USTA tennis team, one player who signed-up last December, abruptly quit after the second team practice and joined another team in another