June 29 - Week 25

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 Picture of the week: Team offsite overlooking the pond at Central Park Boathouse Row




Overall:

A fulfilling week blending professional milestones, personal travel, golf progress, and leisure. Enjoyed reconnecting with colleagues and family while appreciating simple pleasures like music, film, and gardening.


Takeaways from the Week:

• Enjoying app controlling gardening watering in Brookline

Behavioral Takeaways:

Consistency pays off: regular health routines, golf practice, and social engagements built momentum. Flexibility helped handle setbacks like the Frick visit. Mindfulness enriched daily experiences.

NOTES:

Work:

Conducted a Health and Wealth roundtable at TIAA fostering cross-disciplinary ideas on health and wealth; attended Harvard Healthcare Policy Leadership Council.

Home:

• Stayed in NYC apartment

• My correctly sized Zegna shoes are fitting and wearing well

Health & Fitness:

• Regularly taking statins

Music:

• Listened to Gangotri songs

Writing etc:

• Drafted opening remarks for Health and Wealth Roundtable

Social:

• Lunch with Vivek

Sports: Am playing really well after Wisconsin trip

• Drives working

• Second shot working

• Bunker working

• Chip shots working

• Putts: getting used to not having a caddie

Travel Plans:

• Stayed in NYC apartment

Entertainment:

• Missed Frick Museum since they would not store my suitcase

• Saw Sagara Sangamam movie

• Listened to Gangotri songs

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