Every swing, stride, and rep starts somewhere.
In RELEVANCE, my upcoming book, I frame life in three arcs:
- Rooting — finding your footing, building strength from the ground up. (birth to 30)
- Rising — growing into your rhythm, trusting your craft and movement. (30 to 60)
- Reaching — stretching toward mastery, giving back, refining the motion. (60 until death)
A picture worth 1000 words
This photo from Saturday’s comp at The Richmond Golf Club captures it perfectly.
- Me up front — the 66 year old reacher.
- Iain Sawyers in the middle — the mid-life riser.
- Max Dawson behind — the younger rooter.
Three golfers, three stages, one shared love of the game.
Three Planes of Movement
Our bodies move in three planes — frontal, sagittal, and transverse — each one essential for balance, power, and rotation. Gary Gray, known as the father of functional movement, first gave us this concept.
It’s a reminder that good movement is three-dimensional.
In sport and in life, injury often happens when we get stuck in one plane — when we move forward but not sideways, or twist without grounding.
The Relevance Tree
And here’s where it all connects — the movement of the body, the growth of the mind, the people who make it matter.
Yesterday, Cathy, Nick Lloyd, and I stood beneath the Relevance Tree during a playing lesson.
(See more on Nick and his coaching development programs here: Dear Harvey: Fractal IV – The Circles of Teaching)
That same tree has become a symbol for this whole project: deep roots, steady rise, constant reach.
Because in the end, relevance isn’t found in a single motion — it’s the rhythm between all three.
Stay rooted. Keep rising. Never stop reaching.
And Make it a Great Monday!
