I had a conversation with Guy today.

Last night for the first time I realized that disc golf was my job.

Not just realized.

I said ok.

I believed it.

I knew it.

Maybe I had spent this whole year inadvertently working towards that notion.

Making disc golf my job.

For years it has been my hobby.

Feather after Feather after Feather.

Things that move the needle.

Drips that drop that dopamine.

But this hasn't been my hobby for a long time.

I crafted it into my profession.

Manifested the things I wanted to do.

Inaction was usually where I find my deepest regrets in all that.

Things can be solved with a little more effort and determination.

When I got into disc golf, it became this all consuming calling for me.

A faith for where I must go.

This hobby that gave me a distraction from everything else.

The thing that became an excuse why I couldn't be a part of something else.

I've been pretty lucky to have the career in disc golf that I have had.

But I've never treated it like a job.

Sure I've worked hard. 

But for the most part this has always been fun.

Until it wasn't.

Perhaps that is what has been eating away at me the past couple of years.

Regret for the things I didn't treat like a job.

The times I knew I should have taken better control.

I'm nearing the end of this blog for 2025.

I've reflected on many of those thoughts long enough.

Many of you tell me you read every one.

That mean's a lot.

Just being there to listen to me figure myself out.

At some point I have to let some of the regret and mistakes go.

Although I'm sure I'll find new ways to revisit them and remind myself.

So it goes.

This is the job.

When we announced Prodigy I published this on our wholesale portal.

The 2025 Mint Discs Brand Guide

Nearly everything new we would eventually release with Prodigy and MVP in 2025 was there in some way.

Mega Soft

Color Glow

The Pickle

Party

Flex became Soft

Attempts to classify our plastics and their modifiers better.

I laid it out all there for those able to find it.

The only thing I didn't put out there was Queso Soft.

That release just sort of happened organically.

One day we just had some cheese.

Soon, we'll be in 2026.

I need to have next year's Brand Guide ready.

I'm going to make a commitment to do something like this Color Guide for every release now too.

I feel a calling to tell our story better.

Focus on the concepts that we dreamed would be our job.

The Serial Number.

The Details.

The Colors.

The Artists.

The Team.

The Discs.

Austin Texas.

I'm almost done for tonight.

This next part is my way out of this blog.

Enough of the reflection and ego soothing.

Next week we reach for another chip.

Yeah it's another double dip.

New Years day we eat some Pizza.

Find out if it's worth a swipe of your Visa.