With the completion of tonight’s gathering of e-mails, I have thirteen hours remaining on my ICC mentorship and six days to get it done. With more contacts to get through and the long holiday weekend coming, I am not at all worried about reaching my target. There is, admittedly, a hint of short-term status creeping up which the activity of finding e-mails and typing them in helps to combat. I also find myself to be in both a reflective mode of what has occurred over the last six months while at the same time pondering my own future. I want to give myself some time to process these thoughts, then I will start to share them a little more beginning Thanksgiving Day and right on to the very end.
The biggest challenge for me will be to keep any of these thoughts from derailing what I have to do. As much as I love sports, I never actually played them outside of a coach-pitch YMCA league in the summer of 1993. I do notice when I am watching how hard it can be for teams in baseball, football, or basketball to maintain their intensity through two to three hours of an entire game. It is, I suppose, only natural for them to let up when they feel they have accomplished their goal. I do not know what keeps athletes going during such times, I do know that I will have to channel that same energy in these final days of the mentorship. I owe that much not just to myself but to the good people at the ICC.