“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
Seneca
“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.”
Jonathan Huie
Rich Geib’s 2025 New Year’s Resolutions
What should I do? Where to go? How to live?
- Find my USTA tennis “new normal.”
- Mentor younger players new to higher levels of play is the point of 2025. Be open to losing while competing, and thereby manage your current NTRP ranking. Go “27 wins” and “13 losses” in 2025.
- Enjoy the tennis and camaraderie. Do not focus overly much on winning by itself: you have more important goals.
- Mentor younger players new to higher levels of play is the point of 2025. Be open to losing while competing, and thereby manage your current NTRP ranking. Go “27 wins” and “13 losses” in 2025.
- Take care of a bunch of minor medical issues.
- Skin tag, colonoscopy, blood work; maybe PT for sports. Just get long put-off stuff done.
- You are paying so much for health insurance. Why not use it? Don’t be that idiot that never goes to the doctor.
- Skin tag, colonoscopy, blood work; maybe PT for sports. Just get long put-off stuff done.
- Build on Graphic Editing, Now Move to Video Editing.
- You bought and got good again with Paint Shop Pro. Now get a Pinnacle video editing software from Corel and get brushed up on that, too.
- You used to all this plenty before you had kids. Now that your kids are on the way out, bring these tools back into your life. They can be useful and creative, if time consuming.
- You bought and got good again with Paint Shop Pro. Now get a Pinnacle video editing software from Corel and get brushed up on that, too.
- Continue to Find That Sweet Spot for Workouts.
- Your doctor said, “Cross training is the key to remaining uninjured as you age.” So keep up the tennis, pool, gym, and road bike workouts. Not too much with any one sport, but always be doing one of them: taken all together, this is a lot.
- And remember to selectively employ full rest days. Rest is golden. Rest is recovery.
- Sometimes less is more. Usually it is. Experience tells you this, Richard.
- Nobody questions your discipline in working out. But how about your wisdom in listening to your body in your workouts?
- Your body is always communicating to you. Are you listening, Richard?
- And remember to selectively employ full rest days. Rest is golden. Rest is recovery.
- Also remember to perform regularly your kata and heavy bag work in the garage, in addition to dry fire practice.
- It can be a little boring, but it is important.
- Your doctor said, “Cross training is the key to remaining uninjured as you age.” So keep up the tennis, pool, gym, and road bike workouts. Not too much with any one sport, but always be doing one of them: taken all together, this is a lot.
- Clean All Your Media and Have Files Organized
- You let things go over the past few years and have gigabytes on your phone over several years. Get it all backed up and organized.
Here is the reading lineup at this time:
- “El Colonel No Tiene Le Escriba” por Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- “I Cheerfully Refuse,” by Leif Enger
- DID READ
- “Our Fight: A Memoir,” by Ronda Rousey
- “Ficciones,” por Jorge Luis Borges
- “Gangster Hunters,” by John Oller
Watch the following movies —
- “The Order”
- DID WATCH
- “Life After Fighting”
- “Judgement at Nuremberg”
- DID WATCH
- “Anora”
- “Gladiator II”
- DID WATCH