I no longer had the sport that had come to define a good portion of my identity for 17+ years. When work started up after a few months off, I did not return to the routines of an athlete. It was that quick. I occasionally found the energy to workout (maybe a few times a month) and an adult soccer league to pass the time. But I did not find it satisfying.

It seems like everyone has at least one goal to get fitter, healthier, smarter, better, etc. In Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke calls these -ER Goals, (all the above aims ending in -ER). She points out the key difficulty lies not in choosing the goal, or even in the knowledge of how to achieve it, but in the "executing all the little decisions along the way to our goals."