lag time

My wife Tania and I began golf lessons this spring and had our second one this past Saturday. I had been taught how to play at the age of seven and despite a twenty year break from the sport discovered I had pretty good body memory. This is the first training Tania has had but she learned how to figure skate starting at age three and completed that whole program over fifteen years. She is thus very athletic and has had the experience of mastering a sport from the ground up.

Our golf pro Cam has been teaching us drills. Golf has been coming back for me pretty quickly and I've gotten bored with them. But Tania is very disciplined and just does the drills.

For Tania, the ball is not yet going straight and up, but all over the place. Even so, Cam is very pleased with how she is mastering each component of the golf swing and stance. So even though the results are not there yet, she is in the process of mastering this very complex sport.

There is a lag between practicing something and the results showing up. It is possible and likely to be doing very well at something and assuming that I'm not doing well just because the results have not shown up yet. We all have to be prepared to have patience, discipline and joy during the lag.