Staying on the up and up

The majority of the men in my family play golf and or baseball, I hate baseball but I’ll save that for another blog. Outside of our Y chromosomes, golf is the common denominator in my family. We all learned to play from our fathers except me because I dont have one,  so I didn’t start to play until I joined the golf team in high school and once I did that my I had help from all the men in my family to learn the game. I struggled at first but soon took to like a real Beltran Man as if the gifts of my grandfather had been passed down through his genes.

The point that I might trying to get at is, while I was learning to play my family alway had these little pieces of advice that I found related to more than just golf. One in particular was about confidence and how easy it is to lose your confidence after a bad round of golf, that the real challenge was being able to stay confident. They told me that they had no doubt that I would be able to learn how to play because that was the easy part, the hard part they said would be maintaining a level of confidence that would allow me to have a good round of golf one after another.

The way I applied that to the rest of my life and designing in particular was learning how to would be the easy part of being a designer, but maintaining a level of confidence and inspiration would be the hard part. And in recent months that has proved to be the case I have the techniques and the know how locked inside me, but maintaining the inspiration and the confidence to get it out has proved to be the hardest thing I’ve had to to this quarter thus far.